Speaker 1: Michael, carry on here with Brent Reied and ready all
Speaker 1: right mate.
Speaker 2: I'm not a great frame of mind making. Why would
Speaker 2: you rub it in like that anyway?
Speaker 1: Were here to talk about talk about Chippy, about Lucky Galvin.
Speaker 2: We just move on the game too, and forget about
Speaker 2: game one.
Speaker 1: I don't think you want to be I don't you
Speaker 1: want to move on to game twos?
Speaker 2: Some we should talk about Locky. We haven't splaken enough about.
Speaker 1: Origin Origin first, like it was a couple of takeaways,
Speaker 1: right what you got first of What were your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the actual game?
Speaker 2: Thought it was a bang average game, ordinary game. Too
Speaker 2: many penalties. I think it was what fifteen penalties? I
Speaker 2: mean that's too many in Origin game. Some of the
Speaker 2: rubbish was getting penalized. It was that stuff normally gets
Speaker 2: let let go in Origin and it was mistake. I
Speaker 2: thought was it twenty one eras? So you know it
Speaker 2: was a combination of It was just very stop start,
Speaker 2: no flow, and I don't think it was. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a great Origin game.
Speaker 1: Well Joey John said it wasn't a genuine.
Speaker 2: It was like a club game.
Speaker 1: What do you think I thought it was poor. I
Speaker 1: thought we had the best Origin that we've potentially ever seen.
Speaker 1: Game three last year and to an action physical had everything,
Speaker 1: and then this one was one of the worst Origin games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't great.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: Regardless the Blues particularly, I thought the Blues were quite
Speaker 1: physical in that first half and completely dominated the first half.
Speaker 1: They asked a few opportunities. We're talking about one of
Speaker 1: the biggest wings New South Wales I've ever had in Queensland.
Speaker 1: I think they just didn't get some of those timings right.
Speaker 1: But from the line New South Wales were in complete control.
Speaker 1: They outmuscled Queensland and then Queensland just had a whole
Speaker 1: lot of nothing.
Speaker 2: Pains me to say it, Mick, but I agree with you.
Speaker 2: They just did what they had to do. New said, well,
Speaker 2: it was pretty simple. They're just stampede stampeded coins in
Speaker 2: through the middle of the field with pain hers and
Speaker 2: isao I mean anythink clearly and Mitch moses they just
Speaker 2: had to do their job. They didn't have to do
Speaker 2: an exceptional just do the job, kick the ball well,
Speaker 2: take advantage of the opportunities when they came. But both
Speaker 2: those blokes were six seven out of ten, but they
Speaker 2: didn't need to be eight Nines because the forward pack
Speaker 2: was so dominant. They just paying hash ridiculous performance. He's
Speaker 2: opening spell well, I think he read it eighty odd meters,
Speaker 2: a few off floods, a few tackle breaks and Queens
Speaker 2: had no answer. It was very disappointing.
Speaker 1: It's so rare to say such a comprehensive winn. And
Speaker 1: as you said, the cars were fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing special.
Speaker 1: The sin bin just before halftime more than your thoughts.
Speaker 2: I had no problem with it. I think he he
Speaker 2: initially was going for the ball, realized he wasn't going
Speaker 2: to get near it, and it turned into a tackle
Speaker 2: in the air and it prevented Xavier coach probably scoring
Speaker 2: a trimem and Xavier catches that score was nine times
Speaker 2: out of ten, so I'm sure you'll go the other way.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a sin bin because he's
Speaker 1: getting penalties have been short for not having a risk.
Speaker 2: Why can't he stand the ground and stop him scoring?
Speaker 1: Because he attempted to get the ball.
Speaker 2: Just what he did.
Speaker 1: I just think that.
Speaker 2: Do you think you tackle him in the air?
Speaker 1: Not really? I think it was a contest.
Speaker 2: Are you fair income?
Speaker 1: I think it was a contest.
Speaker 2: Are you a giebra?
Speaker 1: I think it was a contest.
Speaker 2: How do you contest by grabbing him around the chest?
Speaker 1: Contest the ball because they sort of just jostled. That is,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a syn being.
Speaker 2: So you don't think you tackle him in the air.
Speaker 2: Not really, not really, that's not over Take your blue
Speaker 2: blue or blue hat, or over your you've got on
Speaker 2: your blue single. That's not believing blue. Take whatever blue
Speaker 2: you got on, and sure look at it through objective.
Speaker 1: I I don't think it was a synbit. No, I
Speaker 1: would have been quite comfortable for it not to have
Speaker 1: been a sinnbit. Look, it didn't matter because you guys
Speaker 1: about ten players and you win a one.
Speaker 2: Embarrassing comments.
Speaker 1: So let's throw forward to Game two Queensland. We're picking
Speaker 1: stick where Queenslanders. This is such rubbish your Queenslanders are
Speaker 1: you not?
Speaker 2: Queenslanders are good and I believe we're queens But you
Speaker 2: don't pick and stick when you lose. When you're coming
Speaker 2: off a losing series and you lose, then you don't
Speaker 2: pick and stick. This is where you boke. Don't get it.
Speaker 1: So we get it, We don't any of it, and
Speaker 1: we've won.
Speaker 2: The changes for the games you earn lowty through winning.
Speaker 2: So when you lose, picking stick goes out of the window,
Speaker 2: talking about who might come in well, and then we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the sort of I imagine Corey Horse has
Speaker 2: got to commemorate a bit of fire and brimstone in
Speaker 2: the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: How he wasn't in there in the first place?
Speaker 2: Was I imagine maybe trently Ero gets gets chopped. Maybe
Speaker 2: you start by Firmer on edge, I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: muming this one over. Maybe start by Firmer on edge
Speaker 2: because ruben Cot is not with an edge player. And
Speaker 2: then I would stick with Daily because I think he's
Speaker 2: earned that. But I think you make it very clear.
Speaker 1: If you've lost serious, he's won.
Speaker 2: A lot of serious. I think you make it very
Speaker 2: clear he's a captain. I think you make it very
Speaker 2: clear if they lose this next game, see the power
Speaker 2: starting again. So this is it. It's make or breakdown.
Speaker 1: Let's rewind a little bit. I don't know how they
Speaker 1: didn't have Corey Horse Brown their side to begin with.
Speaker 1: And I would also have Jaden Sewer.
Speaker 2: Because Ben yeah the starting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd probably I'm happy to start with Bow and
Speaker 1: have Sewer off the bench. I think there's just that
Speaker 1: bench was horrific from Queensland just offered nothing, and that
Speaker 1: was always the concern. You look at that New South
Speaker 1: Wales bench and there was you guys that had spark
Speaker 1: and were changed potentially changed the game, and even Max
Speaker 1: King came on with some leg speed and did a
Speaker 1: really good job. Right that That Queensland bench was horrid.
Speaker 1: So I saw a horse brut straight into mine. I
Speaker 1: think Cobbo probably needs to be in as well with
Speaker 1: a bit of spark. Valentine Holmes, I don't think you
Speaker 1: should have been in there. And the other one I'd
Speaker 1: be picking Danggaguy. I had Valentine Holmes. I've got no
Speaker 1: issue with the way gag guy has been playing for
Speaker 1: the Newcastle Knights.
Speaker 2: But you're not though, you're picking Cobbo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I toys keeps his spot right, so i'd
Speaker 1: pick No. I don't think so, No, Ben Hunt's not
Speaker 1: back because I had that great one too.
Speaker 2: Kurt Man on the bench and potentially start the game
Speaker 2: with Kurt Man.
Speaker 1: So we're talking here now, we're talking three.
Speaker 2: Four at least three. Yeah, you know, well they got
Speaker 2: the school on flattered them, they got belted so and
Speaker 2: I think Harry had a Really it's hard for Harry, right,
Speaker 2: he had one game in six weeks or something, but
Speaker 2: he's traditionally played his best norriage and I think when
Speaker 2: Ben Hunts maybe started the game or I he's coming
Speaker 2: after twenty minutes, So I don't mind the idea kirk
Speaker 2: Man played in hooker.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's played everywhere. He's played everywhere.
Speaker 1: I haven't played a lot of hooker for the.
Speaker 2: Ruben collar with kurk Man, they start the game with
Speaker 2: them and hooker, bring Harry on after twenty the game over.
Speaker 2: Queen's in one all Perth.
Speaker 1: I think you got to start with Billy. I think
Speaker 1: you got to start with Eden. I like the way
Speaker 1: did There was a couple of.
Speaker 2: Hooker in half so you get me to daily Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you're putting him.
Speaker 1: After that performance. Wow, you know, I think the whole
Speaker 1: spine will riffic for Queensland. The one six seven nine,
Speaker 1: which well I thought coming into the game, where where
Speaker 1: you thought they might have had that hope was around
Speaker 1: those guys. But it aside from cam Munster, the other
Speaker 1: three players have been poor at club Land this year.
Speaker 1: Calen hasn't reached any great heights. DCE, you know, has
Speaker 1: that his most inconsistent year ever. Right, and then you've
Speaker 1: got Harry Grant who, as you said, hasn't played a
Speaker 1: lot of footy at the moment.
Speaker 2: He's been good though, he's.
Speaker 1: Been good, but hasn't played a lot of footy over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Right, and then you've got
Speaker 1: Monster who's had a good year. So I think with
Speaker 1: Queensland for the first time in a long time, club
Speaker 1: form has flowed into the Origin arena. And you know,
Speaker 1: Lindsay collins Off hasn't played a lot of forty, hasn't
Speaker 1: really made a debt for the Ruses.
Speaker 2: So if you decide to keep daily, I think you're
Speaker 2: going to make it very clear to him daily sort
Speaker 2: your future out. Okay, you got two weeks, three weeks
Speaker 2: finalize this rubbish that he's been going on with for
Speaker 2: weeks and weeks at the time, we all know he's.
Speaker 1: He's not distracted by it.
Speaker 2: Well he's not, as he played well since he hasn't.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's a I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's just I don't know if it's father time
Speaker 1: ready or it's.
Speaker 2: In the rubbish, just make a decision.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think he's distracted.
Speaker 2: He's the captain of the state.
Speaker 1: I will say about this when he came on and
Speaker 1: I know he's playing due half, but there was a
Speaker 1: couple of times you found himself at first or second receiver.
Speaker 1: He dug deep into the line and created something that
Speaker 1: wasn't there for Queensland, you know. So I just think.
Speaker 2: She's spearing Chair Evans.
Speaker 1: It's not alone. There's a film getting rid of, so.
Speaker 2: He won't be happy when NFL Fantasy.
Speaker 1: He's had a good run Queenslander.
Speaker 2: It's a big calls. It's his biggest decision, Billy. I
Speaker 2: think of all the decisions he's got to make, that's
Speaker 2: the biggest call. Once he's gone, go on, you move on.
Speaker 2: So it's a huge call for him. He's got to
Speaker 2: come out this weekend, play well for Manly, play well
Speaker 2: next week. And you know, you never know with injuries
Speaker 2: either you don't declare it now because maybe he didn't
Speaker 2: get injured the next four and then you got to
Speaker 2: stick with Dally anyway. But it's a huge call like
Speaker 2: that has done so much for the stage. So long
Speaker 2: as you skip up who's your captain then, Harry, Well, you're.
Speaker 1: Going to start him off the bench. So Carrigan wasn't
Speaker 1: great last night. No, I'm not sure that's.
Speaker 2: Your problem, kp. He wasn't great either. We're have an
Speaker 2: awesome record in Perth recording per horrific.
Speaker 1: Three nil Baby, here we come round thirteen Brady starts
Speaker 1: with Dragons Knights, your man Caleb Ponne will see if
Speaker 1: he backs up, and what sort of performing tea players.
Speaker 1: But I'm really intrigued by the two most frustrating, inconsistent,
Speaker 1: hard to get to read sides for this year or
Speaker 1: for Manly it's been a while Manly VI the Broncos terrible?
Speaker 1: How do they win? No tom Travoyvage, No Jake Travoyvage,
Speaker 1: No Takiaho, who's been really good for him in a
Speaker 1: position that's been weak in terms of Manly as good
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, and no Swash Still for the Broncos.
Speaker 1: You mentioned daily Cherry Evans and what he needs to
Speaker 1: do to keep his Queensland Jersey. What do you make
Speaker 1: of this game, Brookie?
Speaker 2: I reckon the Broncos probably get home by version of
Speaker 2: the fact you have no Tommy, no Jake and they're
Speaker 2: so short with their middles manly. But it's hard to
Speaker 2: pick because as you said, they've been all over the shop.
Speaker 2: Two sides have been hugely inconsistent. I mean Bristol when
Speaker 2: they're on, we've seen them belt the Roosters, they've belted
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs and they've lost games they should win and
Speaker 2: mainly have been much the same. Right two weeks ago
Speaker 2: they go to Towns will and win. Then it turn
Speaker 2: out against Parramatta and they play awfully. So it's a
Speaker 2: really hard game to pick. But I just think mainly
Speaker 2: got so many out at the moment that I just
Speaker 2: think Brisbane might have the wood on them.
Speaker 1: Who's been the most the more disappointing this year I
Speaker 1: think probably Brisbane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know they've been obviously with Madge coming in,
Speaker 2: I think there was this expectation that they would turn
Speaker 2: it on under Madge. Just hasn't happened. As I said,
Speaker 2: there's been weeks they've looked unbelievable so good, and there's
Speaker 2: been weeks have a diabolical you know, so I think.
Speaker 2: But it's a split hair between them. They've both been
Speaker 2: all over the shop. Tip well, I think Brisbane will win.
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 1: Brisbane too Brisbane as well, either of these sides with
Speaker 1: any mainly I wrote a couple of weeks ago they
Speaker 1: are the most frustrating side in the NRL, and but
Speaker 1: they're closely followed by the Broncos. I think in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, these sides good and their best and what
Speaker 1: where we think where I think they could both get to.
Speaker 1: I think Brisbane should have been a top four side,
Speaker 1: and I had mainly probably a fifth or six finish.
Speaker 2: I mean, the point is the comps part from the
Speaker 2: top three so tired, isn't it.
Speaker 1: They're so far off where they need to get to.
Speaker 1: Both sides I.
Speaker 2: Just keep waiting for I just got this feeling at
Speaker 2: some point is just going to click for Brisbane. But
Speaker 2: just I think it every week and it doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: At some point it gets too late, right and obviously
Speaker 2: all the rumblings coming out of there about players being unhappy,
Speaker 2: and you know when you lose, that stuff becomes those
Speaker 2: noise get louder and louder, and it becomes more of
Speaker 2: a distraction and then becomes even harder to turn your
Speaker 2: season around. So they're in this sort of death sparrel
Speaker 2: at the moment, Brisbane need to get themselves out of it.
Speaker 1: Big news really in Sport Confidential around Dom Young's future.
Speaker 1: That story is now on Code Sports and the Daily Telegraph.
Speaker 1: He'll be at the Nights before June thirty.
Speaker 2: This is your baby, Mick. Yeah, obviously this has been
Speaker 2: on again, off again, on again, off again. Looks like
Speaker 2: it's on again and I think it was always going
Speaker 2: to happen because the Roofs were happy letting go in
Speaker 2: Newcastle wanted him so he'd be handy signing for the Knights.
Speaker 2: They looked reasonably good last week. The Nights stick Dom
Speaker 2: Young in that team and he's scored a lot of
Speaker 2: tries in his air in his previous life, so handy,
Speaker 2: handy pickup.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Nights long term? Like
Speaker 1: the criticism around them has been their predictability with the football,
Speaker 1: their inability to score points. But if you've got a
Speaker 1: back line in twenty twenty six of Ponger, Marzu Young,
Speaker 1: maybe Gag Guy Best Sharp Brown, surely there's points there.
Speaker 2: Would say though, Mick. You look at the Queensland back
Speaker 2: line and the other Wednesday Night and Origin great looking
Speaker 2: back line, but their four pack got smashed and they
Speaker 2: got they got hammered. So it's all well and good
Speaker 2: having a brilliant back line. If you look at that
Speaker 2: forward pack that losing le O Thompson, we've seen that
Speaker 2: four pack, Heather in turn, all those guys. So unless
Speaker 2: they signed some forwards, it doesn't matter how good their
Speaker 2: back line is. They're going to battle.
Speaker 1: Let's stick with the positive that back line. That back
Speaker 1: line brings spark compared to what's been in the last
Speaker 1: two seasons.
Speaker 2: We've seen sharps, dynamic right and crowd something out and nothing.
Speaker 2: Dylan Brown has been a bit off a power, but
Speaker 2: he's got Historically he's been a really really good part player.
Speaker 2: Caitln has been a bit off, but we know what
Speaker 2: Caitln can do. You know you said it, Dom Young,
Speaker 2: a try score, Bradmon best and an Ogian player. The
Speaker 2: back line is probably you could argue it's as good
Speaker 2: as any background on the Colm next year when Dylan
Speaker 2: Brown arrives. So there's points, but you've got forwards. Man,
Speaker 2: you know you've got to have middles. Jacob Sophia can't
Speaker 2: do it on his own. We've seen that. I agree,
Speaker 2: So they need to go shopping. I don't think they've
Speaker 2: got any money left.
Speaker 1: They make it a little bit because they've been in
Speaker 1: the market, not at the top end, but they've been
Speaker 1: in the market for Polu. They missed fin Now that
Speaker 1: went to from the Dragon to the Bulldogs next year,
Speaker 1: so they have been in the market for a middle
Speaker 1: because I had the Lea Thompson money right like that
Speaker 1: they wanted to keep and they haven't replaced him, so
Speaker 1: they'd be there's just no middles out there. Speaking of signings,
Speaker 1: Locky Gavin Bulldog ends up at the Dogs next well.
Speaker 2: Play spoke about this enough.
Speaker 1: Ah, you've been all over it. Chances are that he
Speaker 1: makes his Candy debut against Paramatta on the King's Birthday,
Speaker 1: so there'll be fifty thousand plus for that game. Is
Speaker 1: it a State of AUSTRALI I'm assuming it is. I
Speaker 1: can't remember if it's there. I think it is actually
Speaker 1: fifty thousand plus there, so another bumper crowd for a
Speaker 1: Bulldog's game.
Speaker 2: I think he's great signing for them. I think they
Speaker 2: have said all seasons. I think their spines lacked star
Speaker 2: power and he's got the potential to be an absolute
Speaker 2: superstar in this game, so you stick him in that spine.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if your start straight away. I think
Speaker 2: he'll come off the bench initially. But he's going to
Speaker 2: add something to them, there's no doubt about that. And
Speaker 2: obviously playing against Paramatta, it's very fitting because Para thought
Speaker 2: they had him as late as Friday night, they thought
Speaker 2: they had a deal done with Lochlan Locklan govern his
Speaker 2: camp for him to go there this year, and obviously
Speaker 2: over the weekend the landscape change, he went to the Bulldog,
Speaker 2: so sort of fitting he's up against Paramatta. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he's great. I think he's a great signing
Speaker 2: for the Dogs that.
Speaker 1: Is at a course stadium with fifty zers people that
Speaker 1: does a burden gaalvint combination work.
Speaker 2: I think they'll make it work. The smart football is
Speaker 2: and his cam Serrella is a really really smart coach,
Speaker 2: so they'll find a way to make it work. Your
Speaker 2: concerns over it, no.
Speaker 1: Not really, because I think people are blinded by Lucky
Speaker 1: gall and size and because he's a big body. Traditionally
Speaker 1: that's not a halfback, right. But you know, we know
Speaker 1: that one of the issues that the Tigers was how
Speaker 1: much he wanted his hands on the ball and how
Speaker 1: much he wanted to take control. Well that's what a
Speaker 1: seven does. So I don't I don't think from that
Speaker 1: point of view it's gonna because Matt Burton can't run
Speaker 1: the team, right, We've seen that that's not his strength.
Speaker 1: His strength is when he's running and freed up to
Speaker 1: run and kick and that sort of stuff. Right, So
Speaker 1: I think Lockie can run aside. But you know, lots
Speaker 1: of pressure, lots of expectation, and never before have we
Speaker 1: seen the team coming first half back gets cut essentially
Speaker 1: in poort Toby Sexton. But yeah, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: to play out here. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: all eyes on Locky Galvin and on Monday Week.
Speaker 2: I think everyone talks about the thing with Lockey Avns's
Speaker 2: footy IQ Mick and everyone who talked to about him
Speaker 2: say he's a footy head, got great footy IQ. So
Speaker 2: I mean, if he's that smart, I'm sure he can
Speaker 2: pick up playing half back. I don't think it'll be
Speaker 2: a problem for him. It might take a bit of
Speaker 2: time though to fit into that system. But September when
Speaker 2: and they'll be in the finals. I would imagine, let's
Speaker 2: they collapse, but they'll be in the finals and by
Speaker 2: September September he should be hitting his straps and they're
Speaker 2: going to be dangerous.
Speaker 1: What does this mean for the Tigers? Ready, they got
Speaker 1: Heath Mason playing in the harves this week. They think
Speaker 1: he's going to be their their long term solution there.
Speaker 1: But what do you make of the Galvin news from
Speaker 1: the Tiger's point of view?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, obviously Laso fun who's been in the
Speaker 2: wings waiting for a while now. Mick should have had some
Speaker 2: injury problems hammys and thumb injuries and they've kept him out.
Speaker 2: I think he's had another week and that's why. Obviously
Speaker 2: Mason gets first crack. But he's been here mark for
Speaker 2: big things for a long time now, a bit of
Speaker 2: a teenage prodigy, so he seems like he's next in line,
Speaker 2: i'd imagine. But you know, there's obviously been rooms around
Speaker 2: Adam Reynolds, and I'm sure they're out in the marketplace
Speaker 2: scouring what's out there. But farre who seems the obvious one.
Speaker 1: Interesting in Nadan Dowey in the harves this week. He's
Speaker 1: probably an option for him as well. But they're start
Speaker 1: with Heath and I think you know this is Jerome's
Speaker 1: time now right to step up and really guide this
Speaker 1: side and take on you know, he wanted to carry
Speaker 1: the burden of being the main man and he gets
Speaker 1: that opportunity now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at times this year he's shown he
Speaker 2: can be that man. I don't think he's been great
Speaker 2: this year, Jerome. I think he's been good without being great.
Speaker 2: But obviously the Galvin situation he was in the center
Speaker 2: of all that. Now the Galvin situations removed frees him
Speaker 2: to just be the man, as you said, and he'll
Speaker 2: dictate where they finished this season.