1 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: One of the things that really stood out for me 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: this round was how far many of the young players 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: have improved this season. I will cover as as we 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: start to go through the side, but made the locomotive 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: Penrith still powering along. So the moment they got I 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: think fourth spot incredible. 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: Two eighty Melbourne favorites. 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: Penrith are into four bucks, raided six bucks, Dogs at 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: six bucks and after that the next line is the 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: Sharks at twenty three dollars. 11 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: So it really starts. 12 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: I think the Broncas are gone from nine to one 13 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: twenty six to one. 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 2: Talk about that in a second. 15 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: But on the weekend, out of those top four contenders, 16 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: the big you know, the big four, who was the best? 17 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: Who you think was the best performing too? 18 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 3: Other dogs were. 19 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 4: I lought the dogs because there was a bit of 20 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 4: pressure around can they play in wet weather? Yep, And 21 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 4: I thought it was a bit of a mystery the 22 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 4: wet weather form because defensively they got their lines speed, 23 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 4: they've got smaller bodies move around and if you hold 24 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 4: the ball, kick well and the fenwell and wet weather, 25 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 4: you should win. So they've got the game style to 26 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 4: do it, but they execute it perfectly. The King game 27 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 4: through Burnt was great. Defensively, they just outworked the opposition 28 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 4: and there was a bit of swagger and arrogance about 29 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 4: their performance about how dare you question we can't playing 30 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 4: the wet I'll show you exactly what. 31 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: Really impressed men coops is given the fact that we're 32 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: talking that they've been struggling in the wet I half 33 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: expected this game they'd just pull everything in a little bit, 34 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: but they actually didn't. They kept they kept advancing the 35 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: football take tone with their short ball playing, but it 36 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: was more controlled. It was a more disciplined ball movement. 37 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 4: We spoke about anything the Tigers where they're short passing 38 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 4: in wet weather didn't suit them against the Tigers, but 39 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 4: that didn't dig intok out their execution the short passing right, 40 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 4: So what they did, I think they didn't change their 41 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 4: game plan. They just doubled down on executing the past 42 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 4: and some of their hands in. 43 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: Wet conditions was Jacob krat very very good. 44 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, Burton and Galvin were both impressive. Impressive in their 45 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: kick combination for totally different reasons. I'm I've never seen 46 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: a bloke hit a ball like Burton. Yes, I mean 47 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: Ricky went I remember Ricky coming in Coops when he 48 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: came in in the late eighties and he revolutionized like 49 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: you know, left to right passes and the long torpedoes. 50 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: He was something else, this bloke. I've never seen anyone 51 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 1: hit a ball like it. 52 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 4: They've got good balance because you know that Burton can 53 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 4: launch from the yardage and have that long kicking dominance, 54 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 4: and what Galvin can do with a short form of it. 55 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 4: Like their ability just to play the right play at 56 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 4: the right time. I really, I'm really impressed with what 57 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 4: Burn's done this year, his best year by a country. 58 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 4: More like he is knocking on the door of the 59 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 4: Rep Jersey with number six every time he keeps playing 60 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 4: like this kick here that is one of the best 61 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 4: I've ever seen. 62 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 2: Justin Burton Coops. You're so right. 63 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: He's improvement in the last twolve months in that six jersey. 64 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: When he went to last year, when he first started 65 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: there as a full time six, you could see that 66 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: the number on his jersey waved heavily on him. 67 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 2: He was thinking, you know, do I steer aside? What 68 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: do I do? And he built his game going. 69 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Forward bit by bit. Look up, if I like what 70 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: I see I'm going to attack him if I don't 71 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: going to give it to villiamy early. But you can 72 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: see from there he's just built his game and at 73 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: the moment he's firing. 74 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 4: Yeah. And he also knows when to use his strengths 75 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 4: around him, like you got Bronze and Cherry kickout and 76 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 4: the thing that Galvin's bought is he knows when to 77 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 4: get the ball to right at. 78 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 3: The right time. 79 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 2: Yeah. 80 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 4: So now he's got Preston Crichton on the right, you 81 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 4: got kickout and Cherry on left, and those halves are 82 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 4: doing a good job. And Bailey Hayward starting at number 83 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 4: nine read money on the badge. It almost seems like 84 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 4: that's the way it's going to operate for the rest 85 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 4: of the season. 86 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: We had that feeling all the back end of this 87 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: year that that was going to be inevitable. 88 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: You felt that. 89 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: You felt it with Galvin and Toby, and you felt 90 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: it with Bailey Haywood and read Marney. Look talking about 91 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: young players, we said there's going to be a theme 92 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: a little bit here about how young players are even emerging. 93 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: And when we talk about Penrith here, Blast Lungey has 94 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: he's just improving rapidly out of sight in how he 95 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: forms combination with Nathan, but also just a few things 96 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: on the weekend Coop I hadn't seen from him, because 97 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: when you think of Blaze, you think of him first 98 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: and foremost a runner. But there are a few little moments, 99 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: like it was the first try he does like a 100 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: just a really nice little pump fake, which is the 101 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: domain of the experienced playmaker, Like you know, I mean, 102 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a beautiful bit of playmaker. 103 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 3: Where do you reckon he's got that from? 104 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: Well, I reckon the blake alongside he might be showing 105 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: a few tricks an extra. 106 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 4: So at training, when you're running sort of your left 107 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 4: edge versus your right edge, you always pick up what 108 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 4: your position half does or in your team because you 109 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 4: trained against the other side. And there's no doubt that 110 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 4: when Blaze the lung is on the left edge, you know, 111 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 4: defending against Nathan on the right, he can see all 112 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 4: these tricks coming looking in to play out double pump fake, 113 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 4: the old fake, long play short. There's just a lot 114 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 4: of things and creeping into his game that I can 115 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 4: categorically say he never had before. He rides to Penrith, 116 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 4: no doubt, and then learning by Osmoses of around Nathan 117 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 4: and seeing the art of ballplane. 118 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: He's kept that athleticism. 119 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 4: In that running game, but he's adding these lot of 120 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 4: little spices of nuance that you can only learn by 121 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 4: practicing and seeing someone else do it. 122 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: It looks like he looks comfortable in that system now. 123 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: And I can understand when he first went in how 124 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: difficult they would have been, because we stated a few 125 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: times on this the Penrith attack is very complex one. 126 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: There's lots of moving parts and you've got and a 127 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: lot of it is an exact science, and I can 128 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: only imagine him going in there firstly, and he's like, honestly, 129 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: his eyes were roll in the back of his head. 130 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: He's trying to learn this system and trying to learn 131 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: this in a lot of way, a new position at 132 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: this new level. But he looks he just looks tremendous. 133 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: And even on the weekend Coops, a number of times 134 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: Nathan got caught in the last and earlier in the 135 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: season that response that he was given to blaze and 136 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: he struggled with the other night against new cars. He 137 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: took numerous occasions he took the sixth tackle and just 138 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: put the ball where it needed you go. 139 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 4: And they have bought him in case McLean have brought 140 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 4: a point of difference in the Pernit attack because now Nathan, 141 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 4: who would have probably leant towards Martin to or Edward's 142 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 4: on the right, he's now leaning to the left because 143 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 4: he's knows you've got this young excitement, enthusiasm that can 144 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 4: add a spark on Nathan. 145 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: He set up a try before halftime he his Newcastle 146 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: which he sunk into the line almost identical light to 147 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: last week and you just see that there. People watching 148 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: go well, what's the difference here? But to understand the 149 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: subtlety that half second delay, well, it just creates that space. 150 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 2: Done. 151 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 4: I think it's cogger that turns in on the runner. 152 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 4: And we always talk about get into your target defender 153 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 4: and stopping. The reason why we say it gets your 154 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: target fender and square up is when you square up, 155 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 4: the player will lean in and it almost catapults everyone 156 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 4: else to lean in. When you don't square up, you 157 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 4: run across. It allows the defender slide off and get 158 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 4: into that tackle. Do you think they can go on 159 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: with it? Do you think pen. 160 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: I have I would have Penrith and Melbourne AZUK will favorites. 161 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 4: Let's say Penrith finished fourth and they play anyone who 162 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 4: finishes fourth out Camberrall like, you give them a chance 163 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 4: of winning, don't you. And if they win that first 164 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 4: week and go straight to a prelim, it doesn't matter 165 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 4: who comes through that door, they're a big chance to 166 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 4: make another creand final coops. 167 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: Isaiah is a big one. One thing Penrith is very 168 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: good at is that the club doesn't leak information, so 169 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: at the moment, no one is No one really knows 170 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: how serious Isaiah shoulder is at the moment. And just 171 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: the way it landed, it looked awk good. I just 172 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: I just have the sense it's a little bit more serious. 173 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: Everyone thinks we're not talking. It doesn't matter who Penrith 174 00:07:53,280 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: play first week of the finals. I'm backing them. Melbourne 175 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: the way they've just suddenly adjusted their football with out 176 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: Jerome and you can see that Harry has become the 177 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: centerpiece of their football team and Jesus playing good football. 178 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: He's playing half back. 179 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 4: Yep, I like two parts to it. It was a 180 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 4: couple of weeks against the Roosters, No Papa naws and 181 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 4: no Munster and Hughes goes down in that game. All 182 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 4: he basically said, like everyone just piling on the ruck 183 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 4: when it's a blown rock. He becomes support runners, not 184 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 4: ball players. And he's set up the victory with that performance. 185 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 4: And then it was obvious from word go the other 186 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 4: night that he was out and running like he didn't 187 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 4: wait for the game to get fatigue. He got out 188 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 4: and he's being crafty about it. And we've seen the 189 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 4: Silver and telling the Silver overplay their hand at Dumby Huff. 190 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 4: Harry Grant is one of the few that doesn't overplay 191 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 4: his hand, like sometimes he bounds out left and right. 192 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 4: But what it does it encourages Tyrone, wish Art and 193 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 4: Monster to become ball runners as opposed to sitting back 194 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 4: and waiting for the long pass. Once he moves, both 195 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 4: those halves go from I'm not worried about the outside, 196 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 4: I'm now running into a hole. 197 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 3: And once Stefano King, once there's a little bit. 198 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 4: Of rock Spoon is by far the best to take 199 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 4: advantage of Harry Grant. 200 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: And Coop talking to Harry Grant, you know, and number 201 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: nine and how that how that role has evolved and 202 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: continues to evolve. It's worth while saying this to give 203 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: the history of that position, the dummy half, the hooker position. 204 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: To give the history was the sole role of the 205 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: dummy half was to win the scrum, get the food 206 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: across and win the scrum. That's what they were just 207 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: sixties seventies, sixty seventies and into the eighties, right into 208 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: the eighties. My first off season at Newcastle Knights, which 209 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: is nineteen eighty nine, is that the hooker was still 210 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: competing for the ball. They practice scrums, competing for the head, get. 211 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 3: In a scrumb and now you competed in a couple. 212 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 2: Well, it's funny coups. 213 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: Because what happened was I still remember going into that 214 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: ninety nine season, eighty nine preseason and Aliment Marn come 215 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: forward and said, right, we're going to change something. Right 216 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: from now on, our dummy halves are going to be 217 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: moving dummy halves because your role for the hook and 218 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: the old days and dummy half was just fire us 219 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: off the ground, don't stand, just straight off the ground 220 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: and let the ball go. Bennie a Lies changed anything, 221 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: and suddenly they started to go rodo, let's get the 222 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: nine operating as a moving dummy half. 223 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 2: And what we're going to do, We're going to double down. 224 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 2: We're actually going. 225 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: To turn our halves, a number of our halves into hookers. 226 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 3: Benny was the original Benny. 227 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 2: He was the original in my opinion. 228 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: He was the first one to really sort of be 229 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: getting out of dummy half and playing because Warren Ryan 230 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 1: says he was our half pack. He and Blocker with 231 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: their half packs because they had Gary Freeman and McNeil 232 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: who were more runners and tenacious competitors. 233 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 4: And then off the back of benn Is some halfbacks 234 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 4: were being picked at number nine in Repfootble right because 235 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 4: they wanted that creativity and crafty. 236 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: The creativity, it was never a requirement of dummy half. 237 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: And then after Bennie had the Walters brothers, so Steve 238 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: Walter's right. So Steve was very different to Bennie. And 239 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: the fact that Box said was all about power, get 240 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: out in his strength and he had a very strong 241 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: running game. 242 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 2: His brother Carod was different to Steve. 243 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: Again, Kroen, if I had to comparing to anyone, I'd say, 244 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: like he wasn't as expressed as Damian Cook. 245 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 2: But like this isn't. 246 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 3: Telling me that Kared was a beach printerer, ran on really. 247 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: Good unbelieve on sand. But this is what he did. 248 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: He would get out and because Alf and his brother 249 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: keV played flat whenever Kard would get the ball and 250 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: get up and go, they. 251 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 2: Just turned into ball runners. 252 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: Like we was saying before about Harry Rant. 253 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 4: But the speed at which Keren got out was a 254 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 4: point of difference, right he was Benny at the time 255 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 4: would come out with a little bit of craft and deception. 256 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 4: It'd be like David Cook when he went, he went, 257 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 4: he went, and everyone else had to follow. 258 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 2: And then you had Danny Verdiris. 259 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: Now when you talk about guys, Danny come to Newcastle 260 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: at the Australians cool boy as a talented young playmaker 261 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: who just got weighed down by the responsibility having to push. 262 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: He was seven, he was a seven. As a seven 263 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 1: or a six. They tried, you know what, They tried 264 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: to play him everywhere. They tried him in the centers, 265 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: they tried him at full back, they put him at 266 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: thirteen for a little bit. He could never find his spot. 267 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: And we went into a semifinal once and we had 268 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: a lot of injuries and Malcolm really said, let's just 269 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: throw the young bloke in there, see what he does. 270 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: And he found his position because get out of down 271 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: half of play, but he didn't have to steer the 272 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: side around around the part. 273 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: And then Cameron Smith took it to another level and. 274 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: Then you'll meet camera like you know, a view blokes 275 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: and thinking about it was coops. I can imagine that 276 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: when you transitioned into being a halfback, to have a 277 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: nine alongside you who'll get out and play a little 278 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: bit half itself. What a difference it makes. 279 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 4: I think if we're sort of giving advice to any 280 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 4: young dummy half coming through and watching clips of Badius 281 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,439 Speaker 4: and Smith, the one consistent thing they do is they. 282 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 3: Hold the ball in two hands. 283 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. 284 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, you hold the ball in two hands and think 285 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 4: it's a magic wand and defenders stop. Like when camera 286 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 4: Smith used to cut out and throw a pass or 287 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 4: a kick the paws and deception. He had stop defenders 288 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 4: and that was the opportunity. But he couldn't stop if 289 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 4: he had it in one hand. He stopped because he 290 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 4: put it out there and people looked at it and 291 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 4: they froze. And that was the pass that he threw. 292 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: All the kick that he did on Harry, you know, 293 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: talking about how Melbourne have centralized their attack, and it 294 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: was really interesting watching the other night. It was their 295 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: best night performance. I've had people say to me, he's 296 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: always to about night performance. Day night football is very 297 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: very different. It's a different style of football you play. 298 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: And the adjustment Melbourne made the other night, you know, 299 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: with not having your own there, the way they went 300 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: back to really centralizing and the more momentum created, the 301 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: straighter that they play. I think this is a really 302 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: good example where it suddenly gets on the front and 303 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: you see him just perhaps drill through the middle, all 304 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: through the middle, back through the middle, everything gets going 305 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: through the middle. We're in the speed of the ruck, 306 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: fast play of the ball. 307 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: Don't worry. The more momentum we've got, the straight we're 308 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: going to just keep playing. 309 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 4: And it's a good sign if you're a Storm fan 310 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 4: because playing the Broncos historically, I know this through Craig Bellamy, 311 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 4: it gets. 312 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 3: To this time. 313 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, he wants to start ironing out the creases and 314 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 4: start playing their best football. 315 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 3: And they didn't finish it. 316 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 4: They didn't go round, They just went through the front 317 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 4: door and Harry Grant became the best player, So they 318 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 4: are sharpening their sword for September because of the way 319 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 4: they're starting to fine tune their performances. 320 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: There's a little bit of train spot of stuff and 321 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: it comes off Harry play here will shot in a second. 322 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: But at the moment I think that there's We've seen 323 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: it with Melbourne, but I've seen one or two other 324 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: teams do it very very like the clever teams that 325 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: are using a little loophole in the rules that I 326 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: think has to be adjusted in some way, shape or form. 327 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: And that's that's the kick for the man to the corner. Now, 328 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: now we tarry the other night right and at first 329 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: you go, oh, what was he thinking there? Well, okay, 330 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: what's happening now? Is there about they're exploiting this loophole 331 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: where when you kick it to one of your best 332 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: loopers like Xavier, no one's going to outjump Xavier Coats. 333 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: If that's pinpoint, he goes up, he catches the all 334 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: above the defender. The defender can't hitting walls in the air. 335 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: For a couple examples on the weekend, right, Wilt you 336 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: know this is this is just a loophole that the 337 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: clever players are starting to exploit like they're one on 338 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: the tig Wilton on the weekend like that. That cannot 339 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: be a penalty try. 340 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 4: So the ball goes up here, wildon gets it. Both 341 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 4: team players competing and coaches will say this. Coaches will say, 342 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 4: if you're a winger in that position, you're Tyrrell slant. 343 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 4: I'm pretty certain that flagging and saying if you can't 344 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 4: catch it, you do not let the opposition catch it. 345 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 2: Yep. 346 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 4: Right, So what needs to happen here is the game 347 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 4: needs to adjust its rules to the point that as 348 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 4: long as the player is not in a dangerous position, 349 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 4: it's okay. Because if right now, if you all got 350 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 4: the Xavier Coats mark, no woman there to say anyone 351 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 4: else who is super athletic in the air, and I'm 352 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 4: a half back, I'm kicking it in the end goal. 353 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 4: I put it at the highest point over a Brian 354 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 4: or a small winger, and if he cannot physically get 355 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 4: his hands up to it, he's got two options. One 356 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 4: knock the ball out or two tackle the person in 357 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 4: the air. 358 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: That's right, and it's a penalty try. 359 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: Because us when you put the ball in the air, 360 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: it was a fifty to fifty contest. Now, if you 361 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: put it in the right spot and they get their 362 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: timing right, it's seventy five percent the attack way right. 363 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: The defender has almost been it's so much of his 364 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: power to refuse that has been taken away. 365 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 2: And you know Xavier goes up. 366 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the timing. You're waiting for his for 367 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: his heat feet to hit the ground so he can 368 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: tackle him again. 369 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 2: Otherwise, yeah, you hit him in the air and a penalty. 370 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 2: Try it. 371 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 4: Just it's an easy fix. As long as the player 372 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 4: is not in a dangerous. 373 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 3: Position, it's okay. That's his hard. 374 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 2: Broncos, Oh, incredible. 375 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: That was That was thirty second two expensive interceptez the 376 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: Troy intercept. 377 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 4: Scored by the way, and they were up for it. 378 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 4: Many the Broncos were up for the contest in the 379 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 4: first twenty odd minutes like they were ready to go, 380 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 4: and in the space of a thirty second turnaround, this 381 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 4: season just went up. 382 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: So what do you think of So they're saying Ezra 383 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: and so and Colbo at least six weeks they're sensing 384 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 1: seuason over. It's going to think mathematics going to get close. 385 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: Renow hoping to be back for the Finals right. 386 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 3: Up, So he's four weeks. 387 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 4: Even then, with his history of hamstring injuries, he's going 388 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 4: to be slightly off his extreme best because he would 389 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,239 Speaker 4: be afraid not to tear it again right out. 390 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: Well, okay, we talked about Melbourne have lost Jerome and 391 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: they adjusted their football. How do Broncos adjust their football? 392 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 4: Ben Hunt goes to seven. I wouldn't move Billy Walters. 393 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 4: I think he's doing okay at nine. He's got a 394 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 4: point of difference. So there can someone come off the 395 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 4: bench do a tag team number nine effort there. I 396 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 4: don't know who's on their list in terms of their 397 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 4: depth chart, but I feel like if you've got Reyese 398 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 4: Walsh and you've got Ben Hunt, you almost need like a. 399 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 3: Young athletic excitement number six. 400 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 4: Even if he hasn't played, even if he's inexperienced. I 401 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 4: feel like with Ben Hunt getting back to that a 402 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 4: bit like the Nathan Cleary system. Let Ben Hunt play 403 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 4: both sides of the field and let two athletic guys 404 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 4: take advantage of what Ben Hunt does. 405 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 2: I agree Coups, I totally agree with you. 406 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: I think if they try to play just a watered 407 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: down version of how they're playing that we're tempting play now, 408 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: it's not going to work for. 409 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 4: I wouldn't move Catony Stags. I wouldn't move any of 410 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 4: their outside back. They need to find it's pretty hard 411 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 4: to do. But I don't know what their depth chart is. 412 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 4: But someone that is fast with footwork maybe an experience, 413 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 4: but give them attunity and a lot of responsibility goes on. 414 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 4: Ben and Patrick Carrigan comes the ball playing thirteen more 415 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 4: often now. 416 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: Like yeah, I agree with the coops. I think if 417 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: when it's for a really young, fast athletic six, who 418 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: it is, I'm not sure what match does. I think 419 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: that's the way to go and allow band to look 420 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 1: after the bread and butter pushing around the park and 421 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: recent he just try to open the field up a 422 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: little bit. 423 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 3: And are they are they done? The Bronx. 424 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: I want to see them this week. I mean, the 425 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: temptation is to go. 426 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 3: It's easy to say yeah, but. 427 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: I want to see them this week. Sometimes you just 428 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: it's so strange, coops. Sometimes you just you look and 429 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: there's injuries in a side and you say, my god, 430 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: that's the worst thing can happen. But suddenly the change 431 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 1: of formula just does something to spark. I mean a 432 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: couple of the players who have been playing within themselves 433 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: might look at that injury and go and be sitting 434 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: there going, well, unless I elevate myself, we're gone. 435 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,719 Speaker 2: It might just put a fire and a feel the 436 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 2: feel the blokes I. 437 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 4: Want to I'm really looking forward to seeing how Ress 438 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 4: Walsh goes because there's a that says that he needs 439 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 4: to tone down his performances. That's when everyone was in 440 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 4: the team and get it right right. But now it's 441 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 4: almost like, Okay, Reese, you've been trying to get your 442 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 4: best football and get that right balance. This team needs 443 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 4: you to get it right right now. Now go for it. 444 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 4: Go out there and play like you're about to be 445 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 4: the dominant player. But I need you to be nine 446 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 4: times out of ten getting that pass on the money, 447 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 4: because if he starts missing the mark and going completely 448 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 4: a well, there's no chance. But I feel like someone 449 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 4: with Reese walshing their team who can get it perfectly. 450 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 4: If he catches five for a month here, you then 451 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 4: going Toeah, maybe the Broncos have something. 452 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's the key in the cony. 453 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: What about talking about fullback sketching fight to Desco is 454 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: this Tedesco's final, So yeah. 455 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 3: I think it is. 456 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 4: I think like his ability to continue improve and he 457 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 4: gets two hundred meters a game and he sketch. 458 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 1: Up, sets up two tries, ball playing. 459 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 4: Ye breaks, tackle, support, play prototype, fallback that gets it 460 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 4: done at both ends of the field. I think he's 461 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 4: a Dallian favorite and I think he wins it. And 462 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 4: this is off the back of he had a great 463 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 4: year last year, missed it by a point to Jerome Hughes, 464 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 4: and that was off the back of criticism the year before. 465 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 4: Now he is arguably the dally M winner, but he's 466 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 4: still not the best fullback in the competition because you've 467 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 4: got Dylan Edwards doing this thing. 468 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,360 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but he's at a hell of a year. 469 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: It's talking about like young players on the improve. We'll 470 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: talking about Hugo in a second. You really impressed me 471 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: on the weekend, Hugre Sammy Walker coops. When we young 472 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: players with great instincts which developed in the backyard, when 473 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: they go into like an NRL or this sort of 474 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: level of football and they're giving they're given a football 475 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: education and taught structure, it can actually feel like a 476 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: straight jacket at first but eventually he's going to make 477 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: it them a better player. And you're seeing that now 478 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: with Sam. It's like instinct and education coming together. 479 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 4: I think the number one thing when Sam arrived at 480 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 4: the Roosters was that is generational talent for a halfback 481 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 4: the chip and chase the long passes. But he had 482 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 4: to fill up some of the foundation stuff that if 483 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 4: the game is twelve more with five minutes ago, he 484 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 4: had to learn that craft. But his performance on the 485 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 4: weekend said this about Cameron Smith holding the ball in 486 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 4: two hands. Sam Walker buys time with his movements. He 487 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 4: runs across the field and waits for a winger to 488 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 4: come up, and he throws a ball over the top. 489 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 4: He looks inside for someone bounces back out the right, 490 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 4: and that's created space. When he does that short kicking game. 491 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 4: What most halves do is they run across the field 492 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 4: and kick. He steps off his foot, lets the defense 493 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 4: come up, so then kicks it back through a hole. 494 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 4: He buys an extra second of time for his decisions 495 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 4: by doing some cool, funky things. 496 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: I've really seen a blake who just will trust himself 497 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: to get it right eventually, because you'll see him sometimes 498 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: just look like he's mandering down coulder sacks and he'll 499 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: turn around and go the other way. How I'm not 500 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: much there, Hang on, Oh, that's where the ball's got 501 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: to get, you know. 502 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 2: Do I throw it or do I kick it? 503 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: And he'll just come up with the right option. 504 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 4: And the problem when he runs into a coulder sack, 505 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 4: he feels like this is the next development is he 506 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 4: feels like he has to come up with a player 507 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 4: that coulder sack. 508 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 3: No, you don't just throw it to someone else to 509 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 3: take the tackle. 510 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: Impressed by Hugo, Yeah, yeah, smart kid. 511 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 4: I'll tell you what the I think it was the 512 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 4: mark the Wongan there to us a second try. Straight 513 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 4: ballplane arrow direct created the three on two for Tedesco. 514 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:35,360 Speaker 2: Good. 515 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 4: But there's enough signs of that kid understands footy and 516 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 4: he's learning pretty quickly. And if he can use his 517 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 4: strengths and compliment what Sam does and stay in the 518 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 4: game when Sam's doing his thing, I think that's a 519 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 4: good thing. 520 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 1: I really like the fact you can see he's got 521 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: really strong fundaments as far as his skill and awareness concerned. 522 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: One is the one you said we went up early 523 00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: and he sunk in like Nathan didn't sunk. 524 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 2: Wait there, let it go. 525 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: But other times than that first half coups, he's getting 526 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: the ball and he's going, well, the ball's got to 527 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: get there quick and just go ping. And it was 528 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,239 Speaker 1: getting like twenty meters passes that were hitting guys just 529 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: perfectly in the right spot. Right. I finally to round 530 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: it off, you young guys on the up and up 531 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: ethan strange man. Beautiful, beautiful left sided player. They tell me, 532 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 1: they tell me the other side of the fields is 533 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: his preference. But that's left foot right. I know that's right. 534 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: He must light the left foot away. I don't know, 535 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: but that's what Ricky has said, that the right side 536 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: is his preference. But Ricky said after the game, so 537 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,719 Speaker 1: you know, this kid should be selected for the ashes 538 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 1: to go away. There's a lot of spots there. But 539 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 1: I would love to see him get a start. 540 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 4: I think he might be the extra half if it 541 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 4: makes sense, like the player number twenty three or something. 542 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 4: He's just got a determination and a grit that you're like, 543 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 4: you know what, if you've got this type of courage 544 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 4: for contact, want to compete on every play. But you 545 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 4: can teach him the tricks like you can just teach 546 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 4: half backs that kind of stuff. I liked that he 547 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 4: came up against Cherry Evans and he didn't finess his football. 548 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 4: He went, Okay, Cherry, you're an older half back. You 549 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 4: got some question marks in your defense. I'm going to 550 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 4: run the ball. I'm going to see if you can 551 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 4: take me. He scored three trials like it was even. 552 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 4: Turbot came off sideways the art of playing straight director 553 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 4: as a first receiver got over the advantage line quickly 554 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 4: looked up. Turbo came off sideways, told a lie to 555 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 4: the left hand side, and just bounced off that left 556 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 4: foot like he had lightning it. The other thing I 557 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 4: like about him being a young half is that when 558 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 4: you're come in the game sometimes you can have some 559 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 4: deficiency in your defense and coaches go, right, We're going 560 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 4: to go straight at young Matthew John's this week. 561 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 3: Get stuck into him and. 562 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: Knock him around. 563 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 2: Good luck. 564 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 4: Ethan Straits doesn't take a backward step like he's physical. 565 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 4: But you used to get dom. 566 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: You just have a talk to Gordon what used to 567 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: happ when he used to run into this left Sholder 568 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 3: Runs it through for Troy