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Speaker 1: Cameron Serrella wented the season under a degree of pressure,

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Speaker 1: probably self imposed, probably pressure on himself. Made he was

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Speaker 1: He was fantastic. He's proven himself as the coach.

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Speaker 2: Every thought he was the worst defensive team last year.

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Speaker 2: Shot to the top of the defensive sharts and for

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Speaker 2: probably should have gone on to win. He changed the

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Speaker 2: style in terms of he went after let's say, character

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Speaker 2: as opposed to sort of talent and size. I thought,

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Speaker 2: running the ball into halfbacks. But then some of the

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Speaker 2: skill that he can transfer across and south the outside

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Speaker 2: that I thought he was terrific. But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: Their halves need more experience in big games because a

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Speaker 3: Yesterday in that second half.

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Speaker 2: They had a howling win behind their back, and all

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Speaker 2: they needed to do in that second half when things

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Speaker 2: times forced Manly to come off their trial one more

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Speaker 2: then give away a penalty, kick out, charge down and

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Speaker 2: big game experience, I think there's a few different changes

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Speaker 3: Going to win that.

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Speaker 1: You're right, there were little moments in that second half

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Speaker 1: That's aggression, just billing over an ill disciplined.

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Speaker 2: So Manly, we're never going to get out of there

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Speaker 2: and end with that wind in their face. The only

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Speaker 2: couple of occasions, I think it's a different result.

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Speaker 1: Right the Knights. Like last season, the best football come

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Speaker 1: at the back end of the year. But I think

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Speaker 1: Into the finals, but still haven't been able to really

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Speaker 2: I don't go back as far as you, but I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what exc Calen Ponger. That is the best

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Speaker 2: individual performance from a losing team in the final I

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Speaker 1: Been phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: He was Yeah, he was all forms of Superman for

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Speaker 2: the Knights on the weekend was he was tremendous. And

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Speaker 2: A half like I think, look, Cogger's probably got, you know,

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Speaker 2: the fundamentals of the other half. It could be that

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Speaker 2: ConTroll in seven kick and create and provide space. But

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Speaker 3: But they need.

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Speaker 2: Someone to compliment Kaylan with the footwork, the speed, the

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Speaker 2: enough more athleticism in around that spine ball plan that

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Speaker 3: B Yeah, I'll tell you what. When plan it works

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Speaker 1: That's right, it's so good, you know, off the big

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Speaker 3: That's the thing that we don't have any insight too. Right.

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Speaker 2: they need to find what out there, what their best

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Speaker 1: Some of the selections were unusual, like this year. You

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Speaker 2: I get why we critique coaches for chopping and changing,

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Speaker 2: there's the seven jersey, it's yours. Six weeks later you change, Well,

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Speaker 1: For Dylan Lucas was the best place. Kal was the

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Speaker 1: And Nathan he hasn't already or before, he certainly has

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Speaker 3: When the best was there another realm for him to enter.

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Speaker 1: I don't maybe what you know, but when you sit there,

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Speaker 2: One thing I will say about Nathan is he understands

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Speaker 2: talk was Angus Crichton dominated him. His first tackle on

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Speaker 3: Like it was a his performance.

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Speaker 2: Physically was, but his spirit and sort of ability to

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Speaker 1: And look at it when I say this, I'm not

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Speaker 3: Just you watch it closely. There's issues there.

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Speaker 2: He does go to grab a ball at one stage

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Speaker 2: But from the surface level he didn't give any indication.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beautifully balanced spine. I mean clear is the centerpiece.

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Speaker 2: He went up a level two millin like it's been

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Speaker 1: First half over the oak Milk, Newcastle, Hexham shout out

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Speaker 2: Origin Decider at Suncourt. Twenty seconds, second player of the game.

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Speaker 2: He's running the football. And then on the weekend, what's

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Speaker 2: If there's one thing you try and stop with Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: But the bigger the game, the more monster runs. He

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Speaker 1: You're right, early on he sets his compass. I'm going

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Speaker 2: Well, winning is king and consistency is the thing that

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Speaker 1: Got interviewed Nathan Clear at the start of the year

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Speaker 2: That's why we spoke about this before. Paramatter should have

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Speaker 2: Judged what went wrong in that Grand Final because Penrith

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Speaker 2: It's not trigger at all. It's it's team first. It's

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Speaker 2: Every year every team decides they want to win the trophy, right,

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Speaker 2: We spoke about the dogs stuffing up the kicking game

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Speaker 2: There was the scrum play here, everything set to the

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Speaker 1: It's a blind pass.

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Speaker 2: If anyone's going to break up the game, it had

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Speaker 2: The fact is they had a big breeze in front

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Speaker 2: They had to come up with something. On the fifth play,

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Speaker 1: I said this on the Sunday Night Show. He's a

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Speaker 3: What happens if you lost two boots?

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Speaker 3: I thought, what did you make of them?

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Speaker 1: I thought, emotionally, I thought they left in the barriers.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, we use that analogy of a heavyweight

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Speaker 2: hitching the nose in your eyes water. It was almost

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Speaker 2: like that, Like Fisher, Harris and Leota. It's like they

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Speaker 2: got together before the game said this is our last

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Speaker 2: roll together. Yep, let's do this, and just walked out

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Speaker 1: Floor before we have a look at the first set

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Speaker 1: it was twenty two nil. You actually his first run

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I get that.

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Speaker 3: What is Spencer that?

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Speaker 2: Like his performances in Origin were they were devastating off

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Speaker 3: But hindsight's of.

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Speaker 1: Course, we saw the Bulldogs the way they started really physical,

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Speaker 1: where's the pressure? And I mean that when I sit

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Speaker 2: That play freaking Watch that again. Watch the position to do,

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Speaker 2: I think they just spotted something and the Rooster's defense

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Speaker 3: It pops the balloon a first thing like that.

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Speaker 2: But I thought they did well to get back in

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Speaker 1: Just run the frond the ball. That's right.

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Speaker 2: Set them their compass more north south because they use

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Speaker 1: too much in a set of seats.

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Speaker 3: What do you make of Niko.

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Speaker 1: You can see he's down, down in confidence. Well, we'll look.

441
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Speaker 1: I'll say this, it's your group. Put Nathan Cleary in there,

442
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: and I don't know how much impact Nathan would have

443
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Speaker 1: had given the fact that they were just smashed in

444
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 1: the artist battle.

445
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nice direct play for the first try

446
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,680
Speaker 2: the ball on Telly. Think his mindset was right there.

447
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 2: But this is the toughest competition in the world. Nothing

448
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 2: given to you. So my advice is to Nicko's keep going. Yeah,

449
00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 2: don't balk now, this is a huge kind of test.

450
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 2: You know what, Nico, go watch some monster clips, Go

451
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,199
Speaker 2: watch him North South early in the game. Nico, go

452
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 2: to dummy half and run the football on the second

453
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 2: set of six or something. Just go to the contest,

454
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 2: be physical and that should straighten him up and go

455
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 2: to the content he just needs to be more aggressive.

456
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 2: I'd sit him, double down on aggression and keep going

457
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 2: so true.

458
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 1: I'd sit him and trendle down and say, Tricky, I

459
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: want you to run the show. I want you with

460
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 1: the true shot caller, Nika. I want you to play

461
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: in the halves like a fullback. That's what I want

462
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: you to do. I want you to play your fullback

463
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: game and just run the football. I want you to relax,

464
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 1: float around the field. And I think that would leave

465
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Speaker 1: he had a lot of pressure in the build up

466
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Speaker 1: to the game in his own mind.

467
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Speaker 2: One little thing where you can say, if the Sharks

468
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: kick off, the halfback always sort of goes the wing defensively.

469
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Speaker 2: If that media kickoff, Nico, you go park yourself at

470
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Speaker 2: your normal position, fly down there and.

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Speaker 3: Make it tackle. Yeah, just like a bit like Nathan

472
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 3: did with his sore shoulder.

473
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Speaker 2: Just fly down in front of the line and get

474
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Speaker 2: in a aggressive mindset, and on your first kick return

475
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 2: instead of dishes off.

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Speaker 3: To one of the outside backs.

477
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Speaker 1: Have we Goops, let's talk about next week. Arli Aunt's

478
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 1: I love that both games. Darliance tasting back to the

479
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: early nineties when early nineties, when they had the major,

480
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: seventy four people would descend from all over Australia to

481
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: go there.

482
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 2: It need a big crowd for the Sharks Scows. I

483
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 2: think the Bruces Marely would be big.

484
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, yeah, I think so. Sharks Cowboys. Where do

485
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 1: the Cowboys sit? Coops?

486
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,479
Speaker 2: Oh they were so good again on the weekend. But

487
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 2: we've said this a thousand times. I could not sit

488
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 2: here honestly and say I know what the Cowboys going

489
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 2: to do on the weekend.

490
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Speaker 3: But I will say this.

491
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Speaker 2: I think what I liked from the weekend of the

492
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Speaker 2: Cowboys is when there was a moment the Cowboys players

493
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: were there. I thought Carle felt at a tremendous game.

494
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 2: US intercept try off Kalin. If that goes the other way,

495
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 2: Newcastle score, He's tapped back for ultimately the match winner

496
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,959
Speaker 2: for Cotta to score. There's just a couple of moments

497
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 2: sort of feel like the Cowboys players are putting their

498
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 2: jersey in the picture. And I think this comes down

499
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 2: the styles of Sharks for the Cowboys, because they both

500
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 2: play a very similar style. If they want to go

501
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 2: east west too quick, then I think the opposition might

502
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 2: get a chance. So the one thing that Cowboys have

503
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 2: over the Sharks at the moment is the cowboy's spine.

504
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 3: He's playing really.

505
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: Good foot, He's playing really good She's all I did.

506
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 3: He He's not east the west, straight up and down.

507
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: Good idea, right, make it? But what you will people

508
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: with North Corners Land and you know Dairy Farmers Stadium

509
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: up there? What about? What about this right? Waiting for

510
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,640
Speaker 1: a statue Cale phelp? How much he's done for the club? Everything?

511
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: Statue of him putting that ball down the Grand Final?

512
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: You like it?

513
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 3: Yeah? I like it. He's probably already got one at

514
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 3: home of himself.

515
00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 1: Maybe he does. You've heard he for wins. Who wins

516
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: that game? Sharks, Cowboys for their reckon.

517
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,919
Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys are probably the favorite here. I

518
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm out of my mind saying this,

519
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 2: but I'm going to go to Sharks and the favorite.

520
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 2: I'm going to say Sharks. I'm going to say Craig

521
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 2: Fitzgibbon has them breathing fire. And I'm going to double

522
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 2: down on Nicker. I'm going to I'm going to double

523
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 2: down and doubling down otherwise it's going to be a

524
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 2: huge off season.

525
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 3: So sis given Sharks and Nico. They lose this again.

526
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 1: There'll be eight finals games in a row. I think Sharks,

527
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: I'm backing to get it right. It's really funny. Both

528
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: of these sides, I think will be the most difficult

529
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,120
Speaker 1: size you to read on the season, and both sides

530
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: very quite often a great performance is followed by a

531
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: blood shirt and vice versa.

532
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like the poor performance makes them focus

533
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 2: in on the simple things that make them.

534
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 3: A good footy dear. Yeah, and I think the Sharks.

535
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: I think the Sharks mainly Roosters going to be a terrific game.

536
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 3: What are you thinking?

537
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: I think mainly how do they win? Do you put

538
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: me on the spot here? I do like Manly. I

539
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: like what I thought. Homoli was very good yesterday, very

540
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: very strong. Tom. I reckon he'll be closer to one.

541
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: It will be closer the experience of d C. I

542
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 1: like Manly.

543
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if Mainly are to win, you've got

544
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 2: to sort of The Roosters give away penalties, they turn

545
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 2: over the ball at different stages, so like Jerry Evans

546
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 2: struck against the Dogs, when they get an opportunity, I

547
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 2: think they need to strike And I don't think it's

548
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: through the middle. I think it's some of their lateral

549
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 2: movement and their speed involved. And Tom needs to be thereabout.

550
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 2: He needs to be taking some flies off other people,

551
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. If the Roosters did to win well,

552
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 2: I think the return of hard Graves I think is back.

553
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 1: Oh.

554
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 3: I think that's where it sits.

555
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: Ya know.

556
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: They can't be caught behind the start again.

557
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 2: You'd imagine he moved straight into starting front row and

558
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: potentially his last game for the Roosters.

559
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 3: There should be a lot of.

560
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: Likepression and physicality to start of the game.

561
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, just on me. I wonder how how good books

562
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: he felt after the game. Luke Brooks, he should have

563
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: just been he'd have been buzzing to get that first

564
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: finals game and get up the win and play the

565
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: way he did.

566
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: And he had some nice touches early on, like he

567
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: ran the ball and you know, defensively was on. But

568
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: when they stood up at the back end like the dogs,

569
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 2: I thought, frontload a lot of energy and they're fatigue

570
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 2: just started creeping in where it probably shouldn't have and

571
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: it cost them at the wrong time. And you've got

572
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: to tip your cap to Cherry Evans scored one basically

573
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 2: set up the match.

574
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: Winner, finished with what do you think? What do you

575
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: think of must awful? I'm getting mistaken with Tom Selleck

576
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: in the street all the time. That's awful there it is.

577
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 3: That is a revolting wink.

578
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: And look that's my good side too, that's the good.

579
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: Signally sorry for Trisha every morning.

580
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 3: If that's the good side.

581
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: I could look at miss Off all day. Yeah, I'm

582
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: down the beach club, right, it gets weird. I go

583
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: down to the local. I sit there sometimes and I'm

584
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: having a bet. And then on the other side, Maddey

585
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: John Shall come on and I'm just look at it

586
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: and they look at this play. All the blokes, the

587
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: old boys stand there go. Mate, unbelievable. God is so busy.

588
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 3: You know.

589
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: We've told me, look, you're on the TV. I don't

590
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: tell much to replace.

591
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 3: Maybe the last time is your house. There was ninety

592
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 3: seven Grand Final on replay too.

593
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: It was mate, was like shrine.

594
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 2: You made me bow in the presence of greatness to

595
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 2: the jersey and the ring and everything too.

596
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: We're playing Oasis. It's full tilt. And then Trisha come

597
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: outside and told me, told me to turn off album

598
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: sisters grow on the cubs

599
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: Mhm