Speaker 1: Better than the legal better than lego coops, the two
Speaker 1: eliminated terms. The Dog's best story of the season. Uh
Speaker 1: Cameron Serrella wented the season under a degree of pressure,
Speaker 1: probably self imposed, probably pressure on himself. Made he was
Speaker 1: He was fantastic. He's proven himself as the coach.
Speaker 2: Every thought he was the worst defensive team last year.
Speaker 2: Shot to the top of the defensive sharts and for
Speaker 2: the majority of that game where the dominant team and
Speaker 2: probably should have gone on to win. He changed the
Speaker 2: style in terms of he went after let's say, character
Speaker 2: and workers and guys who could tackle, move, be effective
Speaker 2: as opposed to sort of talent and size. I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, there are a couple of I thought Kickout
Speaker 2: was tremendous. Like I thought, he's balanced between intimidation defensively
Speaker 2: running the ball into halfbacks. But then some of the
Speaker 2: skill that he can transfer across and south the outside
Speaker 2: that I thought he was terrific. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: Their halves need more experience in big games because a
Speaker 2: couple of their decisions cost them big time.
Speaker 3: Yesterday in that second half.
Speaker 2: They had a howling win behind their back, and all
Speaker 2: they needed to do in that second half when things
Speaker 2: got a bit crazy. Was kick earlier a couple of
Speaker 2: times forced Manly to come off their trial one more
Speaker 2: then give away a penalty, kick out, charge down and
Speaker 2: a couple of errors that allowed those two tries to
Speaker 2: Manly to win it. If they had a few more
Speaker 2: big game experience, I think there's a few different changes
Speaker 2: they probably.
Speaker 3: Going to win that.
Speaker 1: You're right, there were little moments in that second half
Speaker 1: I see, like Josh Current to push that time to
Speaker 1: the ground, your field positions like to give that away.
Speaker 1: That's aggression, just billing over an ill disciplined.
Speaker 2: So Manly, we're never going to get out of there
Speaker 2: and end with that wind in their face. The only
Speaker 2: way they were going to get out was through errors
Speaker 2: and penalties from the Dogs, and that last play like
Speaker 2: a trick like that was the only way they're going
Speaker 2: to get out. If burn had had kicked earlier a
Speaker 2: couple of occasions, I think it's a different result.
Speaker 1: Right the Knights. Like last season, the best football come
Speaker 1: at the back end of the year. But I think
Speaker 1: it's time for the Knights. It's time to take that
Speaker 1: next step.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, crept.
Speaker 1: Into the finals, but still haven't been able to really
Speaker 1: establish themselves as a finals team, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I don't go back as far as you, but I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what exc Calen Ponger. That is the best
Speaker 2: individual performance from a losing team in the final I
Speaker 2: have seen.
Speaker 1: Been phenomenal.
Speaker 3: He was so good.
Speaker 2: He was Yeah, he was all forms of Superman for
Speaker 2: the Knights on the weekend was he was tremendous. And
Speaker 2: if they're going to do that next step, he needs
Speaker 2: a bit to help.
Speaker 3: They need they need.
Speaker 2: A half like I think, look, Cogger's probably got, you know,
Speaker 2: the fundamentals of the other half. It could be that
Speaker 2: ConTroll in seven kick and create and provide space. But
Speaker 2: they need someone else that's a little bit not as
Speaker 2: dynamic as Kailyn because there's no one else around.
Speaker 3: But they need.
Speaker 2: Someone to compliment Kaylan with the footwork, the speed, the
Speaker 2: break in the lines. Just something he can help on
Speaker 2: the other side of the rock, because if Kaitlin doesn't
Speaker 2: do it, and Bradman Best doesn't do it, there's not
Speaker 2: enough more athleticism in around that spine ball plan that
Speaker 2: can create that plan.
Speaker 3: B Yeah, I'll tell you what. When plan it works
Speaker 3: with Kaylen.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's so good, you know, off the big
Speaker 1: off season coming up capwise too, I mean off the field,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to do. That.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that we don't have any insight too. Right.
Speaker 2: It's easy for us to say, look, get a half
Speaker 2: or whatever, but they've obviously got some issues there. But
Speaker 2: if they are to take that next step, I think
Speaker 2: they need to find what out there, what their best
Speaker 2: spine is. I think Cogga's the obvious one, but there
Speaker 2: needs to be someone else that steps up that can
Speaker 2: compliment that.
Speaker 1: Some of the selections were unusual, like this year. You
Speaker 1: know that they just chopped and changed with the spine,
Speaker 1: which made it very hard to form combinations and the
Speaker 1: core of the side, including I thought the Phoenix Crosslan
Speaker 1: was having a storm of a year in dummy halfs
Speaker 1: and then suddenly plucked out of there and put in seven.
Speaker 2: I get why we critique coaches for chopping and changing,
Speaker 2: but also put it back on the players. No one
Speaker 2: stands up and grabs it. There's an opportunity there, Yep,
Speaker 2: there's the seven jersey, it's yours. Six weeks later you change, Well,
Speaker 2: something happened that play didn't grabbed that opportunity and then
Speaker 2: I get it. So maybe the carrot was there to
Speaker 2: be dangled and no one really took it.
Speaker 1: For Dylan Lucas was the best place. Kal was the
Speaker 1: best player. I thought he was. He was terrific.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very good.
Speaker 1: Dependth and the storm week one, how good? Well, how good?
Speaker 1: Honestly man so good. Before we talk about na Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I thought his performance was fantastic, very selfless performance because
Speaker 1: he had Jerome Lewy in career best form, Nathan coming back,
Speaker 1: and so I think in his own mind, I think
Speaker 1: you thought, well, you know, I don't need to be
Speaker 1: out there trying to create with my passing game still
Speaker 1: a little bit of it, but it was his running game.
Speaker 1: It's the best running performance from Isaiah of just about soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the word you use was selfless. And
Speaker 2: even the Melbourne Storm like that on the weekend, when
Speaker 2: one of your gun players is on play your role,
Speaker 2: let that person go and then when you get an
Speaker 2: opportunity you might be able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, in terms of Isaiah, they always say that
Speaker 2: he's the distributor and the connector. Well, they just played
Speaker 2: the power game and punched the roosters first and they're
Speaker 2: on the back foot from where we go, and he
Speaker 2: just went with it. While Nathan was kicking, Jerome Leui
Speaker 2: was dancing and running the selfless team first mentality of
Speaker 2: both Penrith and Melbourne on the weekend with their spine
Speaker 2: players was pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: And Nathan he hasn't already or before, he certainly has
Speaker 1: entered that next realm.
Speaker 3: When the best was there another realm for him to enter.
Speaker 1: I don't maybe what you know, but when you sit there,
Speaker 1: oftentimes people say, right, who's the best?
Speaker 2: Ever?
Speaker 1: They go It was a Joey was a Wally is
Speaker 1: a JT you know. But Cameron Smith of course now
Speaker 1: he's in that discussion.
Speaker 2: One thing I will say about Nathan is he understands
Speaker 2: his influence and impact for a guy that had a
Speaker 2: left shoulder injury, who's coming up against and all the
Speaker 2: talk was Angus Crichton dominated him. His first tackle on
Speaker 2: Lindsey Collins, he didn't go to the wing, he went
Speaker 2: straight to his normal position, whacked him with the left shower,
Speaker 2: then went into Angus the next time that basically said
Speaker 2: to the roosters will try and target me, I'm going
Speaker 2: to come at you first and told the rest of
Speaker 2: his teammates said, hey, listen, we're going to dominate this way,
Speaker 2: and if I'm going to tell you to do it,
Speaker 2: follow me time.
Speaker 3: Like it was a his performance.
Speaker 2: Physically was, but his spirit and sort of ability to
Speaker 2: tell everyone else what's happening it was pretty impressive as well.
Speaker 1: And look at it when I say this, I'm not
Speaker 1: insinuating players are soft, but there are some players that
Speaker 1: just can't quite play with injury. And then you got
Speaker 1: a bloke by Nathan and other players you could just compartmentalize,
Speaker 1: can get out there and play a few times in
Speaker 1: the game like Crean is doing. Oh surely you know
Speaker 1: that we ran ran the charge down fell on a
Speaker 1: loose ball. I'm thinking made Yeah, I was half expecting
Speaker 1: it up and hold it.
Speaker 3: Just you watch it closely. There's issues there.
Speaker 2: He does go to grab a ball at one stage
Speaker 2: pull it back, he does go to fall and rolls,
Speaker 2: so there's a couple of things that he's very much aware.
Speaker 2: But from the surface level he didn't give any indication.
Speaker 2: But there's still an injury because there was a couple
Speaker 2: of times where the ball was loose, they didn't actually
Speaker 2: extend to grab it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, beautifully balanced spine. I mean clear is the centerpiece.
Speaker 1: You've got to dill in there would who can play
Speaker 1: like an extra forward, who just basically confustantly great.
Speaker 2: He went up a level two millin like it's been
Speaker 2: a big if him with Origin. Played rep foot at
Speaker 2: the back end of last year and he had that
Speaker 2: leg injury, but he was he was great, Like there
Speaker 2: was something in the water out at Penrith for that.
Speaker 1: First half over the oak Milk, Newcastle, Hexham shout out
Speaker 1: of the hexam hornets the storm.
Speaker 3: On the other side.
Speaker 2: You talk about the impact of Cleary, there's a couple
Speaker 2: of things in terms of Monsters in his career. When
Speaker 2: he's dialed in, he runs the ball early in contests.
Speaker 2: In his Big Origin debut, this is when he did
Speaker 2: first run early in the contest. Cameron Monster doesn't wait
Speaker 2: for the game, he goes to him. This was his
Speaker 2: debut in seventeen. Look at the time here Game three
Speaker 2: Origin Decider at Suncourt. Twenty seconds, second player of the game.
Speaker 2: He's running the football. And then on the weekend, what's
Speaker 2: months to do? Gets in the dummy art with a
Speaker 2: minute less than two minutes. He uses up Big Nelson
Speaker 2: and runs the footage.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If there's one thing you try and stop with Melbourne,
Speaker 2: you have to stop their harves from running the football.
Speaker 2: But the bigger the game, the more monster runs. He
Speaker 2: had seventeen cars on the weekend. Wow, seventeen carriage.
Speaker 1: You're right, early on he sets his compass. I'm going
Speaker 1: to run the football. Just that's my tip. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm going to do. You know it was coops. You know,
Speaker 1: I was sitting there watching the game yesterday. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: on Saturday, the Melbourne storm and look at the fourth crowd.
Speaker 1: I went, I went to Melbourne. It's run. That organization
Speaker 1: has done an incredible job. I remember going to Melbourne
Speaker 1: for the first time in the early nineties. Rugby league
Speaker 1: had no presence. It was almost like this foreign game.
Speaker 1: And now the way that they've sold the game to
Speaker 1: the Melbourne public, the way the Melbourne public have got
Speaker 1: behind your club was amazing. And the Ears they just
Speaker 1: don't they just don't subside. I mean the area has
Speaker 1: got He had the Lazo naughty Nick how E when
Speaker 1: they win the Company ninety nine under Chris Anderson. Then
Speaker 1: you got the Kronk English Smith slay up Bellamy era
Speaker 1: and now the next year again is Hughes, Munster, Grant, Pappenhausen,
Speaker 1: Bellamire remains. But to be able to stay on top
Speaker 1: all the time every time when you blokes retired Coops,
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, so this is really it's going
Speaker 1: to be a really testing time for Melbourne. How are
Speaker 1: they going to go if suddenly they start to slip
Speaker 1: down to the mid table, will they still get support
Speaker 1: in Melbourne? They're showing no signs of going back.
Speaker 2: Well, winning is king and consistency is the thing that
Speaker 2: underpins Melbourne Storm for Craig's tenure anyway, So he is
Speaker 2: the key to all that, is the consistent part of
Speaker 2: all that. And I'll tell you what, like Penrith through
Speaker 2: the first puncher made a statement in the first half
Speaker 2: twenty four nilm and what Melbourne responded with the next
Speaker 2: day was like, okay, well these two teams are on collision.
Speaker 2: Cause I really liked what Melbourne in that second half
Speaker 2: really shut down the Sharks, suffocate them and their best
Speaker 2: players a bit like Isaiao, Cleary and Leui. When Munster
Speaker 2: was on, they let him go. Then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden the game shifted. Harry Grant scores three try starts
Speaker 2: getting the craft, so they stepped back and then Jerome
Speaker 2: Hughes come up with a couple of big players, so
Speaker 2: they are a team first mentality spine. A lot of
Speaker 2: teams could learn a lot of lessons from away their
Speaker 2: spine operation.
Speaker 1: Got interviewed Nathan Clear at the start of the year
Speaker 1: the podcast and he said a turning point for that
Speaker 1: playing group was when they're beaten by Melbourne in the
Speaker 1: Grand Final. He said when they went back and had
Speaker 1: a look at the tape, he said it was clear
Speaker 1: to them that they were completely bullied. He said Melbourne
Speaker 1: played like men, were playing like boys. He said, they
Speaker 1: completely bullied us, and he said we made a decision
Speaker 1: right there, no one will bully this again. In fact,
Speaker 1: we're going to bully team. So that's when they started
Speaker 1: to get a bit of criticism for pushing it, but
Speaker 1: that was them establishing them solt of saying this is
Speaker 1: what we're about. No one will stand over us, and.
Speaker 2: That's why we spoke about this before. Paramatter should have
Speaker 2: done exactly the same thing when they lost to Penrith,
Speaker 2: but they didn't. They started going backwards and played the
Speaker 2: spoon ball and if the Broncos don't fix up their issues.
Speaker 3: They should have.
Speaker 2: Judged what went wrong in that Grand Final because Penrith
Speaker 2: did it. And they've gone like that since Melbourne of
Speaker 2: whenever they've lost one have worked out what went wrong
Speaker 2: and they've addressed it and gone that way. And that's
Speaker 2: where the separation in the ladder.
Speaker 1: Yes, it'll be interesting that they meet each other in
Speaker 1: the Grand Final. It's almost full for you. And what's
Speaker 1: remarkable about both those clubs is we seen with the
Speaker 1: Broncos how tricky success can be. Coops. All the adulation,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: It's not trigger at all. It's it's team first. It's
Speaker 2: whatever helps the team trick better.
Speaker 1: Not trigging for you with your personally grigging. I get
Speaker 1: that for some people. You know, every year it wasn't
Speaker 1: trigging for me. Too much success every year success, stop talking,
Speaker 1: stop laughing.
Speaker 2: Every year every team decides they want to win the trophy, right,
Speaker 2: every decision you make at the training pack on the
Speaker 2: field should be based on that team lifting that not
Speaker 2: what can you get out.
Speaker 3: Of the whole situation?
Speaker 1: Sounds easy? Sounds yeah, manly that that particular playing group.
Speaker 1: I think that's their greatest win one of those games,
Speaker 1: not their greatest performance, but what they what they're up against,
Speaker 1: the whole crowd against them, and for most of the game,
Speaker 1: Dogs had the whip hand, And I think it's the
Speaker 1: sort of game that the belief can give you a
Speaker 1: lot of momentum going through the rest of the final series.
Speaker 1: Tom Travoievich early in the game Coups, I thought, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be able to get through this job.
Speaker 1: And you know, talking about that playing group, one of
Speaker 1: their greatest performances for Tom, not one of his greatest performances,
Speaker 1: but I think one of his most important ones, given
Speaker 1: the fact that he was nowhere near one hundred percent fit.
Speaker 1: He was really struggling. But when they knewed it turned
Speaker 1: it on.
Speaker 2: When Crichton scored that try, you could see wanted to
Speaker 2: extend that arm rolled over. He was obviously in pain.
Speaker 2: Got another injection and more padding in at halftime. But
Speaker 2: someone like him, it's like the presence, right, the presence
Speaker 2: of Tom you have to respect, so you're going to
Speaker 2: mark him up defensively no matter what. And I loved
Speaker 2: what Cherry Evans and Brooks did. They used him up
Speaker 2: as a bit of a bait or a bit of
Speaker 2: a decoy, and ultimately they had to come up with players.
Speaker 2: We spoke about the dogs stuffing up the kicking game
Speaker 2: and giving them mainly an opportunity. If mainly were to
Speaker 2: capitalize with that win in front of them, they had
Speaker 2: to Whenever they got one chance, they had to take it.
Speaker 2: And they got two chances on the weekend and they
Speaker 2: took it. It's because Brooks and Cherry Evans were great.
Speaker 2: There was the scrum play here, everything set to the
Speaker 2: right hand side. They get their first opportunity, and that
Speaker 2: is a brilliant play for a guy that's played two
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty games, not played finals match ball.
Speaker 1: It's a blind pass.
Speaker 3: Isn't a hell of a pass? Yeah? Yes, And if
Speaker 3: anyone was going to break.
Speaker 1: Open the game, that's a great shot.
Speaker 2: If anyone's going to break up the game, it had
Speaker 2: to be Cherry Evans. His second half was enormous, that
Speaker 2: scrum play, and then the other one was the coler try.
Speaker 2: The fact is they had a big breeze in front
Speaker 2: of them and they weren't going to kick themselves to victory.
Speaker 2: They had to come up with something. On the fifth play,
Speaker 2: he runs a ball risk first reward with that offload
Speaker 2: and then this is basically the try that wins in
Speaker 2: the match. So Gola was speakers on the outside of
Speaker 2: sexton and that's try time. But I love they had
Speaker 2: two opportunities. Cherry Evans involved in both and they struck.
Speaker 2: And Turbo plays a big part in here, cooked, underdone,
Speaker 2: sore shoulder. But their gun players, when they needed it,
Speaker 2: stood up.
Speaker 1: I said this on the Sunday Night Show. He's a
Speaker 1: bit of a fun fact for you, is that back
Speaker 1: in the nineteenth in the seventies, well up until about
Speaker 1: nine to eighty one eighty two, that's no try because
Speaker 1: you could not score a try with one boot. If
Speaker 1: you lost a boot, there was no try. You had
Speaker 1: to score a try in full uniform.
Speaker 3: What happens if you lost two boots?
Speaker 1: No try, no tie. We don't talk cowboys shortly roosters.
Speaker 3: I thought, what did you make of them?
Speaker 1: I thought, emotionally, I thought they left in the barriers.
Speaker 1: That's you know. And lotentimes people will say to you,
Speaker 1: sports psychologists will get there and say, you know, before games,
Speaker 1: you just got to keep yourself nice and calm, well balanced.
Speaker 1: I disagree.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, we use that analogy of a heavyweight
Speaker 2: boxer and you pumped up, you walk out in the
Speaker 2: ring and then one on the just throws a jab,
Speaker 2: hitching the nose in your eyes water. It was almost
Speaker 2: like that, Like Fisher, Harris and Leota. It's like they
Speaker 2: got together before the game said this is our last
Speaker 2: roll together. Yep, let's do this, and just walked out
Speaker 2: there and threw the first bunch and it put them
Speaker 2: on the back.
Speaker 1: Floor before we have a look at the first set
Speaker 1: of six. Easy to say in hindsight, but at the time,
Speaker 1: I know Spencer comes off the bench regularly. But Spencer
Speaker 1: really he spoke through the week with a lot of
Speaker 1: intent and given the fact that finals it's so essential
Speaker 1: to be up emotionally, I thought he should have started
Speaker 1: to match him and to match those the lead and
Speaker 1: Fisher Harris, and to not get on the field until
Speaker 1: it was twenty two nil. You actually his first run
Speaker 1: he looked quite deflated. Yeah, you can imagine him. He's
Speaker 1: pumped and he watching out try, try, Try.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I get that.
Speaker 2: But then sort of leading into the game, you're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: how can we win this?
Speaker 3: What is Spencer that?
Speaker 2: Like his performances in Origin were they were devastating off
Speaker 2: the bench. Maybe the concept was that, you know, if
Speaker 2: you can hold that game tight and Spencer comes out,
Speaker 2: starts skittling defenders, gives a little bit of momentum.
Speaker 3: But hindsight's of.
Speaker 1: Course, we saw the Bulldogs the way they started really physical,
Speaker 1: really up from emotionally. They're probably the Rooster's first set defensively,
Speaker 1: and defense is what it's what it's all about, you know,
Speaker 1: because when you're when you measure intent and desperation by
Speaker 1: the energy you exert in defense. See like for me,
Speaker 1: they're lacking aggression here, but this is the big one.
Speaker 1: So they hit, they make their way to halfway. It's
Speaker 1: a good set. But loure this Nathan Cleary, come on,
Speaker 1: where's the pressure? And I mean that when I sit
Speaker 1: watching the game, there I went Roosters were in trouble.
Speaker 2: That play freaking Watch that again. Watch the position to do,
Speaker 2: Watch the position of doing edwards, because I think they've
Speaker 2: actually spotted something here in the Rooster's sort of last
Speaker 2: play defense. He's sitting here, he's ready to run. He
Speaker 2: is ready to run. That's the first set of a
Speaker 2: big game. You're normally going to kick and chase he's
Speaker 2: in a position to run here. He's only going to
Speaker 2: play at the back or inside Limb Martin. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I think they just spotted something and the Rooster's defense
Speaker 2: and went for it.
Speaker 3: So pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: There Sharks where they're disappointing. Yeh know, there was the kickoff,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, those things can happen.
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to number one defend that
Speaker 1: error and number two forget about it and get on
Speaker 1: with the game.
Speaker 3: It pops the balloon a first thing like that.
Speaker 2: But I thought they did well to get back in
Speaker 2: and that tried just before halftime.
Speaker 1: Melbourne's dominance in the first half, it was hard to
Speaker 1: believe it was fourteen ten. Yeah, but what do you
Speaker 1: make of their footy? I thought their football there was
Speaker 1: a lack of decisiveness. And we said about this a
Speaker 1: lot about the Sharks. Sharks play their best football when
Speaker 1: they play direct, nice and north south power based aggression.
Speaker 1: And you said before about Munster. If you want to
Speaker 1: play a certain way, you've got to start. You've got
Speaker 1: to set your compass right. Munster, he's a runner of
Speaker 1: the football. He wants to play that way. First touches,
Speaker 1: he runs. So let's talk about the Sharks. Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: got to play north south. Want you have a look at
Speaker 1: the this set. This is one of the first sets
Speaker 1: they have. So you get a tap, tell a kite, nice,
Speaker 1: nice and straight.
Speaker 3: It's pretty nice.
Speaker 1: That's very nice. Now, but this, you know, and you're
Speaker 1: starting to get sideways. So next play again, first receiver
Speaker 1: plays across. Then they come back into the middle with
Speaker 1: nick a another first receiver play and they end up
Speaker 1: making Look this next play they go again and have
Speaker 1: another play and they make some meterage. But my problem
Speaker 1: is coops for me just set their compass wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing there I pick up on that is
Speaker 2: a lot of first receiver play at particularly early in
Speaker 2: a big game. The line speed or you know that
Speaker 2: the opposition get involved and defensively pushes that first receiver sideways,
Speaker 2: and if it's a half, it's first receiver most likely
Speaker 2: not going to run. Therefore that advantage line gets taken
Speaker 2: away a bit. It's probably why Isa does a lot
Speaker 2: of first receiver stuff because if that line speed comes up,
Speaker 2: he can.
Speaker 1: Just run the frond the ball. That's right.
Speaker 2: Set them their compass more north south because they use
Speaker 2: their He's got to skill that not too many other
Speaker 2: people have. But when you put it half up to
Speaker 2: touch the ball off the first receiver to get momentum,
Speaker 2: that line speed can really stifle them.
Speaker 3: And you know three off.
Speaker 1: One of the things we've said about the Sharks is
Speaker 1: do less. That's a perfect example of trying to do
Speaker 1: too much in a set of seats.
Speaker 3: What do you make of Niko.
Speaker 1: You can see he's down, down in confidence. Well, we'll look.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, it's your group. Put Nathan Cleary in there,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how much impact Nathan would have
Speaker 1: had given the fact that they were just smashed in
Speaker 1: the artist battle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nice direct play for the first try
Speaker 2: the ball on Telly. Think his mindset was right there.
Speaker 2: But this is the toughest competition in the world. Nothing
Speaker 2: given to you. So my advice is to Nicko's keep going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't balk now, this is a huge kind of test.
Speaker 2: You know what, Nico, go watch some monster clips, Go
Speaker 2: watch him North South early in the game. Nico, go
Speaker 2: to dummy half and run the football on the second
Speaker 2: set of six or something. Just go to the contest,
Speaker 2: be physical and that should straighten him up and go
Speaker 2: to the content he just needs to be more aggressive.
Speaker 2: I'd sit him, double down on aggression and keep going
Speaker 2: so true.
Speaker 1: I'd sit him and trendle down and say, Tricky, I
Speaker 1: want you to run the show. I want you with
Speaker 1: the true shot caller, Nika. I want you to play
Speaker 1: in the halves like a fullback. That's what I want
Speaker 1: you to do. I want you to play your fullback
Speaker 1: game and just run the football. I want you to relax,
Speaker 1: float around the field. And I think that would leave
Speaker 1: he had a lot of pressure in the build up
Speaker 1: to the game in his own mind.
Speaker 2: One little thing where you can say, if the Sharks
Speaker 2: kick off, the halfback always sort of goes the wing defensively.
Speaker 2: If that media kickoff, Nico, you go park yourself at
Speaker 2: your normal position, fly down there and.
Speaker 3: Make it tackle. Yeah, just like a bit like Nathan
Speaker 3: did with his sore shoulder.
Speaker 2: Just fly down in front of the line and get
Speaker 2: in a aggressive mindset, and on your first kick return
Speaker 2: instead of dishes off.
Speaker 3: To one of the outside backs.
Speaker 1: Have we Goops, let's talk about next week. Arli Aunt's
Speaker 1: I love that both games. Darliance tasting back to the
Speaker 1: early nineties when early nineties, when they had the major,
Speaker 1: seventy four people would descend from all over Australia to
Speaker 1: go there.
Speaker 2: It need a big crowd for the Sharks Scows. I
Speaker 2: think the Bruces Marely would be big.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, yeah, I think so. Sharks Cowboys. Where do
Speaker 1: the Cowboys sit? Coops?
Speaker 2: Oh they were so good again on the weekend. But
Speaker 2: we've said this a thousand times. I could not sit
Speaker 2: here honestly and say I know what the Cowboys going
Speaker 2: to do on the weekend.
Speaker 3: But I will say this.
Speaker 2: I think what I liked from the weekend of the
Speaker 2: Cowboys is when there was a moment the Cowboys players
Speaker 2: were there. I thought Carle felt at a tremendous game.
Speaker 2: US intercept try off Kalin. If that goes the other way,
Speaker 2: Newcastle score, He's tapped back for ultimately the match winner
Speaker 2: for Cotta to score. There's just a couple of moments
Speaker 2: sort of feel like the Cowboys players are putting their
Speaker 2: jersey in the picture. And I think this comes down
Speaker 2: the styles of Sharks for the Cowboys, because they both
Speaker 2: play a very similar style. If they want to go
Speaker 2: east west too quick, then I think the opposition might
Speaker 2: get a chance. So the one thing that Cowboys have
Speaker 2: over the Sharks at the moment is the cowboy's spine.
Speaker 3: He's playing really.
Speaker 1: Good foot, He's playing really good She's all I did.
Speaker 3: He He's not east the west, straight up and down.
Speaker 1: Good idea, right, make it? But what you will people
Speaker 1: with North Corners Land and you know Dairy Farmers Stadium
Speaker 1: up there? What about? What about this right? Waiting for
Speaker 1: a statue Cale phelp? How much he's done for the club? Everything?
Speaker 1: Statue of him putting that ball down the Grand Final?
Speaker 1: You like it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I like it. He's probably already got one at
Speaker 3: home of himself.
Speaker 1: Maybe he does. You've heard he for wins. Who wins
Speaker 1: that game? Sharks, Cowboys for their reckon.
Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys are probably the favorite here. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm out of my mind saying this,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to go to Sharks and the favorite.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say Sharks. I'm going to say Craig
Speaker 2: Fitzgibbon has them breathing fire. And I'm going to double
Speaker 2: down on Nicker. I'm going to I'm going to double
Speaker 2: down and doubling down otherwise it's going to be a
Speaker 2: huge off season.
Speaker 3: So sis given Sharks and Nico. They lose this again.
Speaker 1: There'll be eight finals games in a row. I think Sharks,
Speaker 1: I'm backing to get it right. It's really funny. Both
Speaker 1: of these sides, I think will be the most difficult
Speaker 1: size you to read on the season, and both sides
Speaker 1: very quite often a great performance is followed by a
Speaker 1: blood shirt and vice versa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like the poor performance makes them focus
Speaker 2: in on the simple things that make them.
Speaker 3: A good footy dear. Yeah, and I think the Sharks.
Speaker 1: I think the Sharks mainly Roosters going to be a terrific game.
Speaker 3: What are you thinking?
Speaker 1: I think mainly how do they win? Do you put
Speaker 1: me on the spot here? I do like Manly. I
Speaker 1: like what I thought. Homoli was very good yesterday, very
Speaker 1: very strong. Tom. I reckon he'll be closer to one.
Speaker 1: It will be closer the experience of d C. I
Speaker 1: like Manly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if Mainly are to win, you've got
Speaker 2: to sort of The Roosters give away penalties, they turn
Speaker 2: over the ball at different stages, so like Jerry Evans
Speaker 2: struck against the Dogs, when they get an opportunity, I
Speaker 2: think they need to strike And I don't think it's
Speaker 2: through the middle. I think it's some of their lateral
Speaker 2: movement and their speed involved. And Tom needs to be thereabout.
Speaker 2: He needs to be taking some flies off other people,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. If the Roosters did to win well,
Speaker 2: I think the return of hard Graves I think is back.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I think that's where it sits.
Speaker 1: Ya know.
Speaker 3: They can't be caught behind the start again.
Speaker 2: You'd imagine he moved straight into starting front row and
Speaker 2: potentially his last game for the Roosters.
Speaker 3: There should be a lot of.
Speaker 2: Likepression and physicality to start of the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just on me. I wonder how how good books
Speaker 1: he felt after the game. Luke Brooks, he should have
Speaker 1: just been he'd have been buzzing to get that first
Speaker 1: finals game and get up the win and play the
Speaker 1: way he did.
Speaker 2: And he had some nice touches early on, like he
Speaker 2: ran the ball and you know, defensively was on. But
Speaker 2: when they stood up at the back end like the dogs,
Speaker 2: I thought, frontload a lot of energy and they're fatigue
Speaker 2: just started creeping in where it probably shouldn't have and
Speaker 2: it cost them at the wrong time. And you've got
Speaker 2: to tip your cap to Cherry Evans scored one basically
Speaker 2: set up the match.
Speaker 1: Winner, finished with what do you think? What do you
Speaker 1: think of must awful? I'm getting mistaken with Tom Selleck
Speaker 1: in the street all the time. That's awful there it is.
Speaker 3: That is a revolting wink.
Speaker 1: And look that's my good side too, that's the good.
Speaker 2: Signally sorry for Trisha every morning.
Speaker 3: If that's the good side.
Speaker 1: I could look at miss Off all day. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: down the beach club, right, it gets weird. I go
Speaker 1: down to the local. I sit there sometimes and I'm
Speaker 1: having a bet. And then on the other side, Maddey
Speaker 1: John Shall come on and I'm just look at it
Speaker 1: and they look at this play. All the blokes, the
Speaker 1: old boys stand there go. Mate, unbelievable. God is so busy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: We've told me, look, you're on the TV. I don't
Speaker 1: tell much to replace.
Speaker 3: Maybe the last time is your house. There was ninety
Speaker 3: seven Grand Final on replay too.
Speaker 1: It was mate, was like shrine.
Speaker 2: You made me bow in the presence of greatness to
Speaker 2: the jersey and the ring and everything too.
Speaker 1: We're playing Oasis. It's full tilt. And then Trisha come
Speaker 1: outside and told me, told me to turn off album
Speaker 1: sisters grow on the cubs
Speaker 3: Mhm