WEBVTT - Matty's Back! Round 21 Takeaways + What's Next for the Tigers? 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:05.640 Hey coops could be back, mate, Yeah, good for some. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.520 Yes, yes, yes, welcome back and happy birthday. Happy sixty 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.240 fifth birthday. 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:12.600 Mate fifty five. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.680 I was not sixty five any birthday presents. And I 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.840 get the spoilers today. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:20.600 That's a sore point. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.759 Got up and well, last year you're going a paper shredder. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.440 I mean who shreds paper? Honestly, And this. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:33.360 Year she got she just got me like car washed detergent. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.440 And it was like, is that for the shower or mate? 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.519 She just goes like what's that? She goes, Oh, your 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.879 cars always filthy. She goes your dirty cars, look at 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:49.920 the drug dealer's car. I was like, Jesus, think I'm unbelievable. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:51.680 So I was like, oh, what's this? 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.280 And you know, and then it ends up in a 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.160 bit of an argument. Anyway, it's rumor day. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.400 But hey, on a different thanks, mate, I've got a 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.840 bond to pick with you. By the way, yesterday the 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.000 Titans were just flying. We hit halftime, Jayden Campbell playing 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.240 the game of his life and honestly, I don't know, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.520 I don't know if you're working for the dragons. But 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.520 let's just have a look at book. What took place 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.360 this one. Yeah, yeah, I felt so bad, mate, I 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.920 felt so bad. And there's this one from last week 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.520 that was horrific, and of course this one, Coops, the 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.760 beauty made unbelievable. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.120 You know, coming with excuse singers on your birthday. You'll 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:31.240 be working on that all weekend. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.960 I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go now today. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.720 The Adam Dewey situation, Coops, it's been ongoing. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.600 It's been the big story the last four or five days. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.120 You know, if we go over, we don't recap it again. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.720 First we came out these head walked out of training 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.840 because he didn't want to play, you know, a bench 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:48.920 slash thirteen year roll. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:51.280 Everyone was saying they had to be more than that. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.240 But then Brett Comorley came out and said he had 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.280 to experienced his interim coach there before. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.280 Another said he was making a statement about the culture 0:01:58.320 --> 0:01:59.960 of the club. If you're going to make a statement 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.200 of the culture of the club, I don't think you 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.240 walk out and leave you yeah, leave your teammates and 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.080 the look yeah. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.400 Yeah, I got no idea. What is real? What is not? 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:15.680 It's not a good look for Adam himself to Benji 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.960 and three of the Tigers. Generally speaking, they had a 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.920 meeting today and apparently he's back in at training. What 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.239 would I do in that situation. Look, in the early 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:29.840 parts of my career, I was only a young kid. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.000 I got asked to play multiple persons, right, So even 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.960 if it happened at the back end, even if you 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.120 don't like it, you get a little bit of arrogant 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.960 about yourself and you got yes, coach, I will do it. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.640 And I would have gone out if I'm out to 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.160 do it and been the best player in that field 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.320 in number thirteen. Yeah, I would have tackled myself to 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.320 a standstill, would have carried the ball. I just would 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.840 not have taken the easy way out. Now he stand 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.840 out for something maybe years, but I feel like he 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.840 to go through that pain and that hurt to have 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.320 more respect in that team than stepping off sideways. Just 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.200 be really hard for him to walk back into that 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.520 club and be part of the team. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.280 Well, firstly, in the thirteen role, let's face it, he 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.200 wasn't going to play the Bradley Clyde Talmalalo thirteen role, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.919 which was just the meta reador thirteen in these days 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.200 takes on many forms and a lot of it, like 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.360 the Isaiah Yeah role, you're a lot of mostly first 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.679 receiver and so look, I I've said this a couple 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.360 of times, but I've seen Adam places schoolboy and he's 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.360 always been a bloke who's been stuck between positions a 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.480 little bit. But I've always been the belief that once 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.640 he starts to thicken out that I thought his best 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.640 spot would be thirteen. I think you've been outstanding thirteen, 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.880 but that's by the boy Roosters and Storm. You've been 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.840 in some really strong cultures, you know, Teams Club's big leadership. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:03.800 Does he walk back into that dressing room. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.280 Really hard to like. I think even Benji's got part 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.520 of the problem here too, Like there would have to 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.920 be a lot of getting the information out there in 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.200 front of the group, but just being about Adam, like, yes, 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.560 it would struggle. I would be at the point of 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:18.719 there's a door, don't let a hitch on the way out. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.800 That would be my personal reaction. Now, if I'm Benji 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.200 and he's coming back saying apologies or whatever and sits 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.880 in front of the group, If I'm Benji Marshall, I'm 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.400 picking him at thirteen again this week. Absolutely and see 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.359 if what he does, because then the Tigers are in 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:43.400 a they're in spiral mode, both performance wise and reputation wise. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.880 He wouldn't have lasted in the cultures I was in. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.800 But if there was some type of coming back to 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.080 the fold, I'm putting him straight back into thirteen saying 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:55.520 let's go do it together. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.200 And we can't walk back into the club and go 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:58.960 into a meeting and come out winning one hundred nil, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.640 Benji without a shadow over doubt. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.080 If you're not coming through the news, if you're not 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:03.720 coming through the New. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.200 South Wales Cup, we're on the bench, we're in seven 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:08.600 or six, you're playing thirteen, and. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.039 He's probably the best seven at the club. Like he 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.719 is right, and he may have taken a hit and 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.440 the ego about it, But put the ego on the 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.039 back door and go on, like I said before, just 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.320 go and prove Benji wrong, Like, have a little bit 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.800 of arrogance about your performance. Not that it's selfish. I'm 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.599 talking about just a bit of swagger and confidence and 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.640 go improve people wrong and then to walk out they 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.280 get beaten fifty, then to walk back in and say sorry. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.360 If I'm Benji, I'm putting him back into thirteen. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.000 Javan andrews By. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.600 That kid had to go down there with a lot 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.719 of pressure on his shoulders side that was in the 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.280 spotlight and without the best side around him. And at 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.039 the end of the day, he deserves to play seven 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.320 with the best team around him, and it's impossible. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.279 It's hard being a rookie seven. We have seen so 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.400 many good kids come into our game and be part 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.360 of a bad team for the first year or two 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.240 and struggle to be the player they expect they had 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.400 been at schoolboy level. So you know, I think this 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.880 is a mess and there's only a couple of people 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.720 that can truly fix it, Benji and Adam, right, But 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.440 then this whole Tigers and where they are it has 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.400 to be play led because benjis just thrown himself out 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.320 in front of everyone, the media, and that these players 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.440 need to respond because you could say that Adam playing 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.359 thirteen watch watch Benji wanted he would have been a 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.039 much better middle defensive player than any other of those 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.719 middle defenders Tigers delivered on the weekend. The way they 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:40.120 played there was gaps, holes, lazy efforts everywhere, and maybe 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.560 that was why Benji wanted him to play that we 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.400 don't know that, but yeah, they're in a mess. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.400 The last couple of weeks, could just you draw in 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.440 your own experiences, in your own dressing room experiences to 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.800 expect or to sort of anticipate what to expect from 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.600 a side who's underreversed like that, and both the last 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.400 two weeks, I've anticipated that Tiger's really came out and 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.279 make a statement and they'll be worse. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.919 And if Adam's trying to improve the culture, you know, 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.520 the standards you walk past or the standards you accept. Right, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.360 So instead of like you know, pitchfork in the ground 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.920 and exiting, how about you clip the guys for not 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.000 doing the work in the gym, clip the guys for 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.920 not doing the efforts of the extras after train. That's 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:26.920 true leadership. True leadership is having strong conversations and accountability 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.320 and getting changed that way, not just tools down. I'm out. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.720 The other one too, Cooper is Jerome, who's going there 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.040 next year. It's been well documented, documented and a lot 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.720 of people saying, well, now it's now Benji looks to 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.440 the future and Jerome gets dropped. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.119 It can't do that to the young, to the young siety. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:41.720 In my opinion. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.600 With young Andrews and all these other young players in 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.520 the side, you need Jerome there to drop your most 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.840 experienced bloke and say we're going to plan for the future. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.840 He does know any help getting flogged every single week. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.240 And that's why I find this whole situation bafflely. Like, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.600 if I'm Benji Marshall and I'm want to make your 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.760 career out of coaching, I want to make the Tigers 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.680 great again, I wouldn't have let Jerome Lui go. Like 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.200 he's the only guy really that's achieved a lot over 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.600 a long period of time. What he did at Penrith. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.320 There's a lot of lessons that he can pass on 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.000 to Andrews. Right, and now Dewey might be out. Is 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.520 the next crop of young halves at Benji has, are 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.520 they truly going to be the guy that deliver ten 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.400 out of ten performance most weeks for Benji to because 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.480 if they're in this position next year, Benji's under threat. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.360 So there's a lot of a lot of dominoes to 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:35.840 play out. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.280 But I just must have made it. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.600 Honestly, it must hurt when you're paying your best, like 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.880 five hundred thousand dollars to Western Sydney rival to take 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.840 him that next year. It's great pick up for Paramatter. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.559 People are saying, oh, one you deal made, he'd be 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.120 great for Paramatter. He's going to partner with Moses, can 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.560 help those young guys come through a bit of success 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:58.800 there possibly. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:03.200 Yeah, and hopefully for Tigers fans there's light of around 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.880 the tunnel. But we've been saying that for ten years 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.080 out Tigers coops. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.719 This season competition at the moment, it's shaping up a 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.199 bit of a survival of the fittest. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:11.320 Isn't it. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.160 And that's the thing about it, isn't like through a 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.240 There's so many important factors in winning a competition. Yeah, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.800 you get the in the preseason or your you know 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.360 your fitness work, you're talking about all your tactic work, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.320 you're reading in your attack, your defense, all your principles, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.000 but made at the end of the day, sometimes you 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.880 know one of the biggest factor can be Oftentimes, just 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.520 like as far as injury, your season can fall apart 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.000 on a tackle gone wrong. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:40.040 Sindos Mosis. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:45.480 Look at Newcastle, i'man Brown and Lucas calen Ponger still 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:50.000 not one hundred percent, but Newcastle had done all the 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:57.520 right things up until this point, sitting seventh. Now there's 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.400 a question mark whether they can get to September because 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.959 you take Dylan Brown and Lucas out of there. With 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.200 Kaylan he might play this weekend, might not. Now all 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.319 of a sudden they're vulnerable. They have done so much 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.120 good stuff this year Newcastle Knights to turn around what 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.160 they did last year and as you said, luck two 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.719 of their best players gone down in the space of 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:18.520 a couple of minutes. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:23.240 Last like the last three weeks coup not just injuries. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.840 They've lost by two points, the week after two points 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.319 and against the Rooster's a point. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.080 But they were scrapping through a couple of those wins 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.000 prior to that. The two points are two points, so 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.800 like they were doing a lot of things. Now now 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.400 Dylan Brown is more than two points of that team, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.160 like he is Dylan Lucas. It's more than two points 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:40.640 of that team. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.880 It's funny he went in Dylan Brown when he's had 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.160 a partial two of the ACL and it's gone, so 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.760 now he has to go and get the full operation. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:50.880 It hurts, has no doubt about that. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.760 Big opportunity for Fletcher Sharp, huge opportunity, but. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.439 He gave the six and he and Kaylen's side. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.480 Now, yeah, and this is the story of the Nights 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.440 before Dylan Brown arrived and Sharp was available. Last year, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.720 it was all wherever Kaylen is, double team him, force 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.520 someone else to win the game. Right, So now defenses 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.840 are going to do exactly the same thing. But all 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.120 the good stuff that Caylen was doing was because Dylan 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.160 Brown was doing a lot of good stuff in the 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.720 past between to help him with the space. So I 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.679 think it's going to be a real challenge for Newcastle 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.640 to get September now, simply because I think teams will 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.280 double team Klein from here on out. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.520 Daniel two po to shoulder reconstruction. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.800 Look will need surgery. They're going to try to rehabit. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.160 I hate for this the way to end for Dinial. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.920 We've seen a number of players over the course of 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.240 the last ten years shot of pops out do a 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.199 little bit of rehab, strong enough to get through that 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.800 others it comes out at any time. So it's literally 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:54.880 a flip of a coin for. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:55.600 The World Cup. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.439 Two yeah, may gus t what now game TEDSCA. There's 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.319 still elements of the Rooster's attack, which is really inconsistent 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.720 went to disco in one second. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.800 It's interesting, that, isn't it? 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.840 Like you got I'm looking at the Rooster's attack and 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.400 you know it's just you know, you can have great 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.679 sets and all of a sudden, you know there's little 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.760 bits like I was thinking about what trying to work 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.520 it out in a lot of ways. You know, DC 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:26.680 and Semmi Walker are both very unorthodox reactive halfbacks, you know, and. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.400 They moved they moved sideways first, yeah, straight. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.880 And you know they're unpredictably, un predicabarly. Sometimes can really 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.440 work for you, but other times it makes it difficult 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:35.880 for teammates. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.440 But we look at the game last week against the Melbourne Storm. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.720 It highlighted the importance of Tedesco, like they had enough 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.040 field position, enough attacking sets. But when you don't have 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.360 halves that engage the line consistently enough, defenders just sit 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.440 there and slide off and count the numbers. There's one 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.680 thing that adds spark to the Rooster's attack is Radley 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.280 playing at thirteen because he is arrowed straight with his 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.360 first touch, he'll always engage the first couple of defenders 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.520 and then when Todesco gets the ball, everyone's worried about 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.120 Todesco running freaking, and that causes defense to do things. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.480 Some of the things you did just completely nothing. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.240 He gets first receiver in around midfield and then he's 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.199 got the ability to get a couple of passes wider, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.360 so he'll attack you from anywhere. And he is absolutely 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.640 key because if the Roosters haves don't engage the line 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.120 or play a little bit sideways before they should, Bradley 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.000 in Tedesco are the two ones that will take the 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:29.320 line on. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.319 Give me some insight in to Disco as far as 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.840 like you know, you get certain guys to train. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.079 He's had longevity. I don't know how any games you 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.559 must be closing in all three hundred. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.400 Well, if you go back to his Tiger's days, he 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.920 had some big injuries, yes, to the point that you thought, well, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.920 is he really going to get to the level of 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.280 the potential? And I've got no idea about the Tigers 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.560 set up at that stage, right, But he arrives at 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.120 the Roosters the same time as me. You've got Trent 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.880 Robertson and Travis Tumor at the time, like guys who 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.560 really put a lot of time effort in preparation and 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.840 he professionalism from what I understand, went through the roof. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.120 Now all of a sudden, he's hardly ever missed a game. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.280 He's thirty odd something getting better to the point that 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.160 most people slowed down at the age that he's at. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.240 If anything, he's held his level to a point that 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.240 he's staying with it because he has twenty carries a game, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.080 so he's getting the tough carries in the yardage when 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:30.560 he gets around midfield. He's sort of reorganized how fullbacks play. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.640 A lot of them. Keanu Kinney was doing it yesterday 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.680 where they either get first receiver off the fifth play 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.480 either little shift to crap momentum, or they run to 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.360 quick play the ball for the kick to happen on 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.800 the on the last play, but then they're still throwing 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.080 the cutout past the winger in the red zone and 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.360 Tanasco's doing it all. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.920 Cheers that photo I saw of him as a young 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.560 player at the Tigers to what he is now, he's 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:54.080 a big. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.280 Across the ass. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:15:11.760 Ye like, who's the biggest threat to pens roosters, wires, Sharks, Remember. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.200 Penrith are the biggest threat to themselves. To start with, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.960 I think if if they get complacent, if they just 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.640 have a slight percentage off their best, they will come 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.000 back to the field. So I think they're in pole position. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.080 It's this time of year, having been a player through 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:36.800 an Origin series thereabouts. No one will ever admit it, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.560 but you do dial it back. You're like, I just 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.840 need to get through the next couple of weeks and 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.480 then I'm going to set something. I can tell you 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.800 right now. All the best teams maybe next week or 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.360 the week after call it. With four rounds to go, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.160 they will all start setting south for September. But if 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.600 you are to ask me, who's the threat to Panthers, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.600 I still think the Warriors. The Warriors have their game 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.320 consistently over the course of the year. They're a good 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:09.560 defensive team, a great completion rate. They've got some sparking attack. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.160 We've seen them against the Warriors. I think they play 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.480 in a couple of weeks time, which is going to 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.960 be a cracker. They can mix it with Penrith, right, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.920 I think the Roosters have the game style and the threat, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.160 but can they deliver it against Penrith. Their record against 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.680 them's poor. The Sharks, on the other hand, well they're 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.160 playing with a hell of a lot of conference. They 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.080 seem to be the only team that's actually going in 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.800 the right direction at the moment. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.520 I mean, you got your Braden Trindle and nickol I 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.320 think both of those got both of them in the 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.000 top five triasists for the season. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.120 Put Brayley in there, who is really bamboosly. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.960 In the middle of the fields play. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.280 I agree like he's try under the post that he 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.720 should just watch that over and over again. Why because 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.880 as soon as he gets a ball, he goes fast 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.280 at the inside shoulder and just strong carry through the 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.080 bill and beats a couple of bigger defenders. But they've 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.640 got their own Penrith don't have any issues, right, They've 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.919 got history of performance, They're confident at the moment. The Warriors, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.159 they've got the game style. But Fisher Harris is the 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:11.720 guy that I think is most important to that. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.359 There's the thing with the Warriors is I'm really curious 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:14.800 to see what. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.919 Happens in a couple of weeks, As you said, a 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.560 couple of things on the Warres they will match or 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.040 even you know, beat out Penrith in the artist battle. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.560 You know, with those young. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.320 Forwards and the powerhouse and you know they're boostle like 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:30.800 dal and bringing up early tackles. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.960 Mate, They're just they're so strong. It's what they do 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:33.560 with it. Coop. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.000 You know, this is this is this is the challenge 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.840 Tomorra and Chanel you know what I mean that that 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.800 that's that's that's the real big one until Picky. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.240 Now with the foot injury, we can see how serious 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:45.639 that is. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.960 And I must say, it's the first time this season 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.280 the other night, Coop, and I understand, like just what 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:52.800 you're saying. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.119 You know, it's it's a little part of the. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:56.919 Season where everyone's sort of tread and water a little bit, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.640 particularly in that if you're in that top four. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.080 It's the first time this suason against the Dogs. I 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.560 thought they looked tired. The Warriors. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.000 Yeah they did, Yeah they did. Yeah, I agree with you. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:10.199 The Bulldogs have beaten Melbourne at the stage was a 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.639 good performance Penrith and the Warriors, and they've done it 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:18.000 the same way now. They've done it through line speed, 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.280 aggressive contact, real high end fitness to keep up and 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.439 down and annoy the opposition's attack. But then they played 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.160 not like I've seen the Dogs play with the ball 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.600 on the weekend, like they were fast, Like normally they're methodic. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.840 They moved the ball around to their points in the field, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:40.000 but they were getting out running quickly. Stephen Crichton like 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.320 he is the best center in the world, but he's 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.640 becoming a very very good five eight just simply because 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.280 he's got the confidence. There was a couple of kicks that, look, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.560 it's not elite kicking, but it's all right. But he's 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.520 got the ability to tell people what to do. He 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.960 knows the game plan, and he's got kick Out and 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.360 Burton around him, and he knows how to use them up. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.480 That's the key. Big strong edge back rowers. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.400 They could have a lot of short comings with your ballplayer. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.919 And the other thing that Crichton has allowed it's allowed 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.280 Galvin and Preston to get back together again. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.399 Yeah, he's they're playing really strong football the moment. And 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.600 you know I said on the show last night, is 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.560 they actually recognize their identity. You know that that like 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.040 its defense at the end of the day, and don't 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.240 put you know, don't work so hard in an attack or 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.359 try to prove so much in attack. You know that 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.479 you're coming up with theres and putting pressure on your strength. 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.239 And again like at the end of the day, if 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.720 you look at the Sharks, I'm sorry the Dogs. This 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.639 great run they've had the core of it, it's been 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:35.159 their defense. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:36.840