WEBVTT - Round 11 Takeaways 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:10.120 Cub another Magic Ground outstanding. Explain that's my type around. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.800 I love it, Coop, You're born in Brisbane. It's I 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.360 love Brisbane from what I like. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.320 Did you get received well? Did you mate? 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.120 I get received, I get well received by Queensland people, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.440 and it mate that it's you go out there. I look, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.640 I'm going to say here, live in Sydney, born in 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.040 brother Hunter Valley in Newcastle. I think I think Brisbane 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.960 now is the number one city in Australia. I just 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.479 think everything that I like doing is in Brisbane. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.240 You've really taken to this titan shipholdership and everything Queensland 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.440 love everything else. I can't argue with him. Maybe you 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.760 might be supporting Queensland the Origin series next week. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.040 Why not costume for friendship with my brothers for a 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.000 couple of years. My gold medal, I've got to save 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.120 my gold medal for Magic Ground goes to the warriors 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.360 off the field, on the field, for people that aren't there, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.200 Like everywhere you go, there's why supporters, some of the locals, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.680 but a lot of them that have traveled over from 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.440 New Zealand. They had the pop up store in Queen Street. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.480 I think they were getting fined ten thousand dollars a 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.119 day because it's not supposed to do it. The NRL 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.440 said they were paying the ten thousand dollars fine a 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.280 day and making one hundred thousand dollars for merchandise every day. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.080 There's just a community that follows the Warriors wherever you go, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.280 like it could be in Melbourne, could be in Sitney 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.760 at one of the local venues, but definitely at Magic Ground. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.039 Not only is their brand and the atmosphere created like 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:34.399 absolutely very entertaining they are. They're not sneaky anymore. Actually 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.760 they are sitting there as very much a premiership threat. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.319 They're not sneaky. They are starting. If the Penrith Panthers 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.880 weren't so good and consistent, there would be a lot 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.440 more noise about the Warriors. Like I'm going to give them. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.680 They are very close to premiership favorites next to the Panthers. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.680 Totally agree with the support they had at the ground. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.520 It was like a Warrior's home game. It was just 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.600 electrifying the support behind them and often made it was 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.880 such a brutal performance they put on. They saved those 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.559 sort of performances very often for Brisbane. There's a great 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.640 history between those two clubs. The first title, the first 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.400 Warriors match ever was Warriors versus the Broncos, and you've 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.360 seen over the years it's just been some great games. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.160 They've really turned it on against the Broncos and that 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.560 was one of them. Us talking to Patti Carrigan last night, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.440 they made he was seriously not They did it. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.200 To the Storm and they played them a few weeks ago, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.919 like savagely got stuck into them. And if you talk 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.839 about the Warriors as a football team, yeah, good completion, right, 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.480 good defense, like they're doing all the basics better than most. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.040 Like they're suffocating teams and in this position they don't 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.560 want to be. But then when you look at like 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.600 their physicality Jackson Ford and Fisher Harris and Aaron Clark 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.560 were tremendous yesterday, like they were so so good, and 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.000 then you mix that in with their halves playing career 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.560 best football, and then you're throwing their outside backs two 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.800 picky lesli doing their thing, like when they get up 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.560 and about, they're really good. They're well balanced for the 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.600 twenty twenty sixth version of the game. The leadership of 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.040 Fisher Harris, I think is a big part of what's 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.840 happened over there, and huge praise for website. This is 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.760 an Australian coach who's got the New Zealand spirit, like 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.000 just bubbling along more than any other sort of coach 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.679 that's been able to do it for the Warriors, like 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.200 their care factor, their intensity, like when they score a trial, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:29.799 it's like it's a party. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:30.359 For awesome mate. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.320 After the game there was basically a concert like whatever 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.400 they're doing, keep doing it and they might be a 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:37.560 chance to lift on the trophy. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.040 We're going to talk about Origin about about ten minutes time, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.120 but we've got to give individuals and teams their duds 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.800 on magic ground. The big talking point coming out of 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.640 it the one, you know, sour note for the wisest 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.000 ten Aboard feel so much feel for Tenor they've got 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:00.960 to big decision to maker in Metcalf. I don't know 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.640 what the situation, whether he waved the cooling off period 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.440 of the moment, but i'd say for Dragon, I mean, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.520 it's a great coup for the Dragons, but there'd be 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.560 some Dragons supporter sitting in there at the moment, probably 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:10.320 a little nervous. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.080 I'm not worried about next year for the Warriors. I 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.280 feel like this could be their year the Warriors, and 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.240 Metcalfe is very much still a Warrior and he's very 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.680 much a big part of their plan. Give Tomato Martin 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.479 a huge rape off the bench Tanner boy down that 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.279 has been playing some really good football and you thought, maybe, 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.680 you know, maybe they're going to lose a little bit. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.040 But Tomatow Martin cold off the bench, came in and 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:37.159 played really well, really really well. So for them to 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.320 play a big final and potentially a Grand Final, they 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.200 need Harris Ta Vita, Tomato Martin and fire around. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:45.680 Yeah. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.200 Just think they just keep it as is. Whatever's happening 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.880 with Luke metcalf Andrew Webster has this ability to bring 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.920 people in. I'm not sure what's going on there, but 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:57.800 he is definitely a Warrior for the rest of the 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:58.839 year and they. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.320 Need him and he needs and I think yesterday when 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.440 he went off Tanner Boyd, I think what showed when 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.080 when Chanell and Tomorrow took over is it's the system 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.880 that's working correct. It's not it's the system. The system 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.320 is so good. Well done to the Cowboys too. I 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.160 thought the Cowboys tremendous. No tom did no toam Moila. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.160 They had down to twelve on two occasions and they 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.520 just won it through defensive discipline and grit. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.880 It is the best performance under Todd Payton. But that's 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.240 how good it was. To the point though, as you said, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.680 twenty minute period defending with twelve Roosters struggled in that 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.520 period of time. That's a sign of a really good 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.279 team when you can stop the opposition from scoring multiple points. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.040 And the other part to it, if you look at 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.240 what happened to them the last week against the Eels, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.440 they capitulated in the last five minutes I think it was, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.160 and the game against the Roosters was dead set a 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.640 ding dong the last fifteen minutes. The ball was in play, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.240 there was fatigue everywhere, and I was sitting there watching it. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.800 I thought, oh, what the Cowboys did last week. I 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.320 think they're going to fall over here. It's going to 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.680 be an error, there's going to be a mistackle Tedesco, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:07.000 someone's going to do something. But the actual Cowboys got bigger, faster, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.280 stronger in that period. Ruben Cotter was sensational. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.280 Sensational, You'd think it was like Origin time he had. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.200 The Queensland jersey on North Queensland one drink Water with 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.920 no Diddon was the guy that went to and Clifford 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.560 for someone that was built up, it was Sam Walker 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.599 versus Clifford. He was good. Like if it was a 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.040 points battle, he wins that. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.680 That's well, that's what I thought. I mean, we're going 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.240 to talk, as he said the origin a second. But 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.520 if it was as build as a heavyweight clash of 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.360 the Seven Jersey, they forgot the points. He got the 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.839 points playing tough, kicking well, playing the best football of 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:41.279 his career. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.279 And the Todd Payton. I think we've spoken about this 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.720 about the Cowboys. When they show you how good they are, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.159 we all believe. And then when they show how bad 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.000 they are, like they have a couple of times manly 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.240 and there's a couple of other games that eels. Maybe 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.400 you just think, oh jeez, jeez. I hope from here 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.280 on in for a Cowboys fan they can continue going 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.360 the right way because they are built a little bit 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.440 like the Warriors. They've got a big mobile pack, some 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.479 creative halves. And when Purdue and Chester to get going 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.320 with drink water is at heart to. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.679 Stop, very very hard to stop. I thought the Melbourne 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.320 storm we said last week it could be a little 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.680 bit pendeuth about him from last year. I thought that 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.000 they were I thought the spine were outstanding, the connection 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.640 they had working combination. I thought the scoreline flooded them slightly. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.280 There were number of errors, but you're seeing a team 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:28.840 on the climb. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.040 Do you think Storm can play finals from here? 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.000 I actually think they will. I think they they will. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.280 They are penri two point zero. There were six seven 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.040 losses in a row. Normally, when you give the advantage 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.720 like that to the rest of the competition, you're going to 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.320 struggle to get back. But then not too many wins 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.120 outside the eight and I think they have had a 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.440 shift in the last two weeks because their spine cool 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.680 Munster Sewer and Jerome Hughes more like space players, like 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.880 fullback instincts. Because of their history. I think their success 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.760 for the last couple of years been around that promoting 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.560 the ball east west. But because Harry Grant is now 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.840 identifying the rock speed he's running more than north south 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.520 and east west, it's forcing Hughes and Monster and Seer 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.920 have been more direct, so they are definitely concentrating their 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.560 attack around Harry Grant more and itself. I think they've 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.120 found the version they should play and they will win 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.600 more games than lose for the remainder of the year 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.000 and they will finish in a final. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.920 This Origin period's crucial oftentimes in this Origin you blokes 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.920 over the years have been able to absorb a loss 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.920 or two after a good start, but it's going to 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:35.680 be crucial well, a. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.400 Bit like Penrith last year. They can't give up too 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.880 many games from here on out. So the you know, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.040 the the option that they've had of rest in Munster 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.160 Grant at different stages, they probably won't have to do 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.120 that this year. But they were good. I think the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:58.160 other team is Manly. Yeah, whatever it is, it's so good. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.079 Like Ola Kawau is the best backgroar in the competition. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.240 Now he's playing Origin. We'll talk about it soon, but 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.400 I thought like for the first couple of weeks, it's 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.040 not x'es and o's with a new interim coach. It's 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.719 a bit about like inspiration, creating good environment and these 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.160 guys are happy. But now it's starting to come through, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.640 like its performance based and where the Manly Seagulls were 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.079 at in the first three rounds to what they are 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.440 now you've been around a bit longer than me, but 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.680 that is the best turnaround I've seen from a team 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.600 that's changed coaches to what they're doing now. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.920 And I'll say this, I think that Karen for and 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.840 I think would give some credit to infant Seabolt, like 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.600 you don't put it this way. I think there's some 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.599 coaches that are good to follow behind. I'm going to 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.559 talk straight, honestly, honesty. I think Steves has the propensity 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.120 to overcoach. However, he does educate his player as well. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:56.880 He's a good guy to come in. I think Karan's 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.160 has gone in and he's cleared their heads, put some 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:00.839 little of his own touches on. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.720 Saying that the science has been thereby Seabold and the 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.920 education and then four and being sort of inexperienced just 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.360 a footy player, brings in that cultural piece that says, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.120 you know, let's let's boulders. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.360 He's tinkering with a little bit. He's given belief. He's 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:21.760 just simplified roles and the young fullback Clayton mate. He 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.120 he was one of the one of the players of 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.080 magic ground and touching. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.520 In terms of four and like sign that contract because 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.760 like it's undeniable that he can't. He can. He has 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.199 to be the coach like performance is king. He has 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.440 to be. But is what is it like six wins 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.440 first seven or something like that. They say, you don't 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:41.880 know coagu two, you've lost three in a row. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.240 And that's the thing, Like if you'd asked me at 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.719 the start of it, I was like you, I love 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.280 Kieran and you see him around the building him like 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.160 and my feeling to him was, Kieran, be careful for you. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.000 They're gonna make You're gonna have You're gonna have a 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.880 honeymoon period. You're gonna win three or four in a row. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:04.080 But I've now I was the belief. Okay, get them going, 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.120 go get him the finals. Then just take a step 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.240 back for a bit. But watching him now, just how 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.560 he's got them going and you know how they're playing it, 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.920 it's very hard to step away from once you. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.880 And the other thing is how they speak about him 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.880 like Jamal fog Brooks Alakada joke, TIVOIV. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:20.880 Very easy you mean to respect. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.680 And there's no turbo in his side either like we 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.160 all thought. Mainly's hopes or rely on turbo. He hasn't 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.440 been there and Jared Foren has been the guy that's 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:32.480 brought it all together. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.839 Dolphins too. Before we talk Origon, I want to talk 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.840 about the Dolphins as soon aside that he is now 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.880 starting to realize their top four potential. I love Max 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:45.000 Plath as a player. Mate. You can see he's yeah, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.640 I've said before, his real hound dog gets after the game, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.280 very similar to the way his old man played. And 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.720 I just thought on the weekend getting two tries, he 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.320 was in the mix for Origin and I'd say Billy 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.440 would have been watching him. Come on, show me how 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.040 much you want to play? And it was the best 0:11:59.040 --> 0:11:59.680 game of his career. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.200 Max Platt Donna here we've spoken about in terms of 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.880 his ball playing. That spine. I know Nick Arima's out 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:10.520 for a little bit, but that spine of car Tower, Yeah, Hammer, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:15.000 Marshall King adds something when he comes on. Cart just 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.640 keeps getting better. But he learns, He learns fast. He 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.560 just learns. You know. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.400 In the next couple, like there's a title, you can 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:23.120 see it, can't you? 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:29.360 With maxsil King, Hammer Cart, it's all there. That is 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.200 your Premiership spine for the Dolphins. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.960 Now quick, just before we talk Origon of course, after 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.560 we did the podcast, laugh the Ivan Cleary announced I 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.280 haven't stepping away eighteen months. I was really shocked at 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.319 first because I thought it was going to be the 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.280 end of this season. Eighteen months. You know, I get it. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:47.559 It was interesting on the show last night, Nathan referenced 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.080 his mum, Beck, and it just made so much, so 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.320 much sense. I mean, we always at the coaches and 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.600 we go the pressure there under, but mate the families 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.600 as well. You think Ivan, you know Beck went through 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.720 It was Ivan as a player, her brother, her family's 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.160 always been in the regular league. Then all of a 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:06.839 sudden you're getting into coaching, and then all of a 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.440 sudden your son. I can imagine Beck would be going 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:17.079 please between now and the end of next year, boy, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.079 he's going to have some big offers. It's going to 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.960 be hard to leave two million dollars on the table. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.280 I don't know all that well, like I've said, in 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.959 different stages, and I would have liked to be in 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.040 coached by that's my sense, survive and clear. Some coaches 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.920 do press conferences, some coaches talking riddles, and you don't 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.040 know where you sit. I think I believe everything that 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.560 I haven't says like I think it's like it's authentic, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.480 and sometimes when you're a former player, the best way 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.000 to summarize it is that I would have liked not 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:49.920 changing who I was coached by, but she's I would 0:13:49.920 --> 0:14:00.320 have liked to work under the even origin. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.760 Okay, as we're about to talk about these sides. Last night, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.079 I was with one of the leading players in the league. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.839 He plays through the middle. I'm not going to say 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.320 who it was, but he said nothing controversial. But he 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.040 did say to him, he said, the speed of the 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.400 game in twenty twenty six, he said, his next level. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.240 He said, the fatigue they just come and he said, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.480 it's nothing like I've experienced. He said, to give you 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.960 an idea, he said, the speed of the game through 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.120 the middle. He said, you find yourself isolated so much more. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.880 Over the course of the weekend. In the game he played, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.720 he made over fifty tackles, most of which were one 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.360 on one tackles. And you can see the way that 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.200 these Origin teams have been picked. They are catering for 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.320 a lightning fast tempo in this one. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.320 Would you think it's going to be lightning I do do. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.200 I just don't think they can they can whel. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.040 This back, Yeah, because it's almost dangerous as a coach 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.840 and selectors to go, oh, this is the way we 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.280 think it's going to be played and if it isn't. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.040 There's definitely a sense of that with a new South 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:04.680 Wales team, Yo, Murray Bradley, versatile, mobile, long minutes. You 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.040 feel like they're sort of set up that way. But 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.960 it's a little bit risky too because historically the referee 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.240 has always put the whistle in the pocket for us. Yeah, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.240 so I don't I don't think it's gonna I personally 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.320 don't think it's going to be the forty to thirty 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.640 four school on that we've seen. It will be a 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.520 slog at some stage, but there will be more fatigue 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.280 and origin than ever before that. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.080 That's entire and that's saying something because you look at 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.640 the new South Wales side. You know up front, Yeah, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.960 you've got Fanila Blake, who's good on his foot and 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.920 well done to Advam Fanila Blake. Boy's gonna add an 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.560 extra en element to the new South Wales pack. But 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.560 you've got Mitch Barnett, you got Hudson Young. It's a 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.680 fast moving pack and the bench, I mean the bench 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.240 is sort of catches me by surprise a little bit. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:48.920 It's an unusual looking bench. But the more I look 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.360 at it, the more again, will he's catering for a 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.640 fast for a fast temper? 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.320 Yeah, I think when you look at New South Wales, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.560 I sort of look at from the opposition's point of view. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.200 What would I be worried about? And to the points 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.960 you said, but you know the back row of Hudson 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.920 Young and O, like with Nathan Clear and Moses, there 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.760 are two different back rolls. Like Hudson Young is early ball, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.640 annoyingly good fist, fans steps and hard to tackle, or 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.280 is the other bloke like he's Oh my goodness, Yeah, 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.680 he's like a He's like a block of units, like 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.080 an offload step and run over the top of you 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:24.840 in the same play. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.000 What do you think about Coler being named on the wing? 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.400 I mean, I'm over the moon for him to be picked. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.760 Fantastic talent, but he is playing week to week in 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.800 the centers and it's very easy to say, well he 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.680 can play centers, can play wing, but there aren't there's nuances. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.160 There's difference in as far as defensive responsibilities and whatnot. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.520 Yeah, I think, yeah, Cola is like, he's a good 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.840 player and probably deserves his opportunity. One thing I do 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.560 sort of like is that coler and are not the 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.440 tallest wingers. Maybe there's something there, particularly for Selwyn Cobbo 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.840 to take advantage of. But I tell you what, you 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.720 can't deny that new South Wales team Tedesco again, you 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.680 just can't deny him, Like, yeah, even if if Edwards 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:09.960 was a fullback, you and I are probably going to 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.359 get you know what, it's fair spot on, Like it 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:13.720 couldn't have been a wrong decision. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.240 It's going to be It's going to be a big 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:20.480 week for he for ted Esco, Cleary and Yale and 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.680 Moses to work out that combination. You know, when there's 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.119 opportunity through the middle, sometimes I get the feeling they 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:27.959 might need another ball out there, you know what I mean. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.040 They like to play that game. Catoni, Well, Donny gets 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.400 an opportunity in the center's big blow with La Troll, 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.840 Mitchell bean out, Stephen Crichton gets to start. Some people 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.399 have been surprised, not in the best of form, picking 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:48.160 absolutely big game performer. Anything else there could I am 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.000 surprised Jackson Ford surprise, Jackson is going to start. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.800 I would have thought that as well. I think Brayley 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.200 and Robson in there. I think Robson gets it because 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.800 if this is a quick rush, then tackle four and 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.040 five is always the quickest rock of the set. That 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.880 combination of him and Tedesco that's been the Rooster's blueprint 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.960 when they won football is when there's a quick play 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.359 the boy, it's Robson run Tedesco, the salt Port player. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.359 So I think that might be part of their game plan. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.760 Casey McLain too, Yeah, Casey McLain. So there starts well 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.960 done and well under Dylan Lucas. He's on the extended 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.760 bench number twenty. But mate haste suspend on the up 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:27.960 and up in the last eighteen months. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.639 So there's there's three players in New South Wales with 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.560 the eligibility rules that come in Faneel Blake, Bradley and MacLean. 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:36.280 Or Victor was a bowlder. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.879 Yeah, but you can like it's it's trying to predict 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:41.920 how the game is going to be played. That mobile 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.440 physical who could play long minutes, make one on one tackles, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:49.240 Like your intel reconnaissance person said, I don't know who 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:49.600 that was. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:50.840 I don't know who was. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.439 Actually I don't know about them after the game played 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.440 in the middle made fifty tackles. I don't know who. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:57.320 I don't know either. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.959 Actually I'm giving nothing Queensland team. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.720 I even ask a question which we probably can't answer here. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.320 But when you talk about billboards and attractions and ratings, 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.600 I wonder what the NRLL think about no Rece Walsh. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:14.600 From a billboard point. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.880 You know what I mean? You get what I mean there? 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.040 Yeah, I do, because it would have been called it 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.600 Nathan versus Reese. But for every ree I Razio Kaylin Ponger, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.640 of course, yeah, I mean like like he is in 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.720 He's won a DAIM and he's been a very good 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.080 player that's had some injury questions at different stages. But 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.240 what he is doing right now under Justin Holbrook, I 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.000 would say is better than what he did was doing 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.080 his dallim. Yeah, he caught fly for a ten week 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:46.359 period and had forty million Dellian points. But he is 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.040 doing everything at the moment. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:55.080 He's so invested. Cooper yesterday against against the Titans, he 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:59.080