Speaker 1: Big wire billing. We're going to first grade mate.
Speaker 2: Actually should be prong on top automatic actually.
Speaker 1: A coops. It's a big some big things to talk
Speaker 1: about Dylan Brown situation, some of the poor performances of
Speaker 1: course a week, but first at least talk about tactically
Speaker 1: the Broncos. Well, it's not tactically but simple. There's magic
Speaker 1: in sweat. He worked them to the bone in the
Speaker 1: off season. There's been criticism that's over the top. But
Speaker 1: when you saw them in the trial game, they looked
Speaker 1: rock hard fit. They are ready to go. And just
Speaker 1: the way they moved across the field when you're fitter
Speaker 1: and you know you're a big guy, and if you've
Speaker 1: lost a few kolos seem how much better their movement was,
Speaker 1: in their footwork, their defensive energy, everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I find the commentrary really hard about Margeres training
Speaker 2: the Broncos too hot, Like, does anyone ever questioned what
Speaker 2: Ivan clearly has done with pen Does anyone have a
Speaker 2: questioned Craig Bellamy's army camp that he does every year.
Speaker 3: No, there's a reason why you train.
Speaker 2: To the red line so you know your players can
Speaker 2: touch it without going over it. And then when you
Speaker 2: come to the seventy eighth minute of a big game,
Speaker 2: you are redlining. So you need to build up resilience.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what the good teams do. One thing
Speaker 2: I will say about the Broncos is sign of a
Speaker 2: good coach is when you take average players to.
Speaker 3: Good, yes, good to great and great to elite.
Speaker 2: Corey Paks has been terrific and then the other end
Speaker 2: of the scale, paint Ass was tremendous, Like.
Speaker 3: Every time he touched the ball he did something. Paint us,
Speaker 3: He's got he's gotten better.
Speaker 1: I listened to some comments going into the game ours
Speaker 1: before the game, and they're like Pakes the starting line, Heatherington,
Speaker 1: you know what's he doing? But just the evidence some
Speaker 1: of these were players they were going to let go.
Speaker 1: And like you said, Pakes was, yeah, just how strong
Speaker 1: he looked physically. Same with Kobe Heatherans to look far
Speaker 1: more athletic and Shiit of Saki. He's an example. And
Speaker 1: he said before like Payn Haass has just elevated himself
Speaker 1: to another level. He was unstoppable. But the unbloke Zadier
Speaker 1: Willison coming off the bench like you look at like
Speaker 1: he looks really really good, is a sort of feel
Speaker 1: about Nelson suffer solomonia about it coming off with impact.
Speaker 1: They look fantastic and there's nothing tinty about what they
Speaker 1: what they do. It's all calculated, good hard work.
Speaker 2: And it was forty minutes in the preseason against the
Speaker 2: Dogs was enough to show that they had something there
Speaker 2: and that combination of Adam Reynolds and Ben Haunt is
Speaker 2: going to be a very very good thing. Like Ezra
Speaker 2: Maam like, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Move Ben Hunt.
Speaker 2: I don't care what Ezra ma'am does from here on out.
Speaker 2: Ben Hunt is my five eight for the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 2: One the cultural peace right with what Ezra went through.
Speaker 2: But two I think with the talent the Broncos have
Speaker 2: stags Cobbo Walsh, payinhas Carrigan. Adam Reynolds in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three got a lot of things right to control that
Speaker 2: team in terms of all the decision making, and to
Speaker 2: be fair, he made a couple of decisions the back
Speaker 2: end of that Grand Final that played a part in
Speaker 2: them losing. Right now, with Ben Hunt, thirty four years
Speaker 2: of age, having done what he's done, I like that
Speaker 2: there's two guys either side of the field that are
Speaker 2: very good at making decisions. Their composure is great, so
Speaker 2: you can let Walsh out on a rain a little bit,
Speaker 2: but then one of them can pull them pulling back
Speaker 2: in on that side. So I like what Ben Huni
Speaker 2: did little short side down against the Roofs.
Speaker 3: There's a three on two executed.
Speaker 2: So he's gone from being a first receiver halfback dominating
Speaker 2: the Dragons, touching the ball a thousand times to basically
Speaker 2: picking his moments on the left hand side and complimenting
Speaker 2: what Adam Reynolds and Riss Walsh have. Like, I think
Speaker 2: it's very good against the Roosters and doesn't matter for
Speaker 2: me what Ezra man does.
Speaker 3: Ben Hant stays there coops.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. If you've got one experienced playmaker in
Speaker 1: your side, it's a god send. You see the difference
Speaker 1: that made to the Broncos when Adam Reynolds went there
Speaker 1: to that young Ford path that was so good but
Speaker 1: did never steering. Will he arrives and have two now
Speaker 1: in the field and on Ezra. Ezra is going to
Speaker 1: give Madge flexibility. He can plain Ford Hune. The other
Speaker 1: thing you can do as well is is like one
Speaker 1: thing about Adam and Ben they're not spring chickens. There's
Speaker 1: going to be tying through the year that they need
Speaker 1: they need a break is going to give him the
Speaker 1: ability to just rotate the spine a little bit, which
Speaker 1: is going to be invaluable and time they're runs.
Speaker 2: For the two thirty four year olds to play their
Speaker 2: best foot in the back. And that's the role Ezra
Speaker 2: Man would play after what I've seen from that and.
Speaker 1: You just touched on it there. Like playing short sides,
Speaker 1: you know a side has had very good off season,
Speaker 1: not just in training but planning, getting getting down path
Speaker 1: out their structure and the science of their game and
Speaker 1: how they're going to do things when they play short sides.
Speaker 1: So well, there's the subtleties jumping out the open, switching
Speaker 1: back to get rid of the markers, and.
Speaker 2: Just a little difference between playing halfback and five eight.
Speaker 2: The halfback is sort of really sort of got the
Speaker 2: blinkers on. There's a lot of eyes down the middle
Speaker 2: of the field about what he can do running the ball.
Speaker 3: Or a short part.
Speaker 2: When you're a second receiver five eight, your eyes are
Speaker 2: a little bit more wider looking at options for the
Speaker 2: outside right. So what Ben Hunt's brought to his game
Speaker 2: now is that he can actually start looking a bit
Speaker 2: further afield, looking for rees, looking for wingers, and he's
Speaker 2: coming up with plays.
Speaker 1: Well, let's say talking about sixes and sevens. Later, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk at the difference between both. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about Dylan Brown a little later.
Speaker 2: But Jerome Lewe so a lot of hope for the
Speaker 2: Tigers and at the game on the weekend, before the
Speaker 2: nights before the game, like, there was a lot of
Speaker 2: excitement around what Jerome could do. When you play five eight,
Speaker 2: you might touch the ball, let's say forty times a game.
Speaker 2: When you play half back touched the ball closer to
Speaker 2: sixty times a game.
Speaker 3: That's twenty more decisions that Jerome has to make.
Speaker 2: And when you're half back, yes you got to set
Speaker 2: up tries, Yes you got to score, You've got to
Speaker 2: do all these things.
Speaker 3: But how can you win a game when you don't
Speaker 3: have the ball as a half back.
Speaker 2: So at the Panthers, they were the best defensive team,
Speaker 2: one of the best completion rates, and their run meters
Speaker 2: through their forward pack of back three got them basically
Speaker 2: over halfway majority of their time.
Speaker 3: At the Tigers, he doesn't have that.
Speaker 2: They're the worst defensive team from last year, discipline, paul,
Speaker 2: all those things. So he's going to be let's say,
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty meters away from where he normally kicked
Speaker 2: the ball to where he will be for the Tigers.
Speaker 2: And in the fiftieth minute, leading eight tonil, Jerome Lewie
Speaker 2: puts up a kick which he might have done four
Speaker 2: or five times with Nathan. Now he's kicking the ball
Speaker 2: let's say ten to fifteen times more. Plus he's put
Speaker 2: a kick in seven tackle set, Calen Bonger catches it back,
Speaker 2: Knights go down the other end, score a try eight
Speaker 2: to six.
Speaker 1: They lose ten's too long by inches.
Speaker 2: Inches and that twenty more decisions that Jerome has to
Speaker 2: make is going to play an impact when they're not
Speaker 2: defending well, when they're making errors, when their discipline's poor.
Speaker 2: So Jerome can play. We've seen that he can dominate.
Speaker 2: What he did last year was arguab his best year
Speaker 2: of Yeah, I think, But when you're a half back
Speaker 2: of a team from the bottom of the ladder, how
Speaker 2: can you win a game without touching the ball? How
Speaker 2: can you drive consistency in all those other areas? And
Speaker 2: Benji's got a part to playing this about improving that
Speaker 2: defense and discipline and all that. But there's a lot
Speaker 2: of more challenges for Jerome obviously, But that's a bit
Speaker 2: of the halfback verse five eight mentality.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's going to help him enormously is happy chorus.
Speaker 1: How come back in the site? You know, like on
Speaker 1: the weekend one of their main direct focal points in
Speaker 1: that middle of the field was missing. That put a
Speaker 1: lot more pressure on Jerome on top of all the
Speaker 1: responsibility's got anyway Buller coming back in the site, So
Speaker 1: I want to getting that year is I just see
Speaker 1: so much upside for this Tiger side. Now, I thought
Speaker 1: their defense on the weekend was was fantastic. Now they
Speaker 1: missed fifty five tackles, but that's yeah, statsa means to
Speaker 1: an end. You can miss fifty five tackles. A lot
Speaker 1: of it's scrambling.
Speaker 3: Defense lost a lot of tackles last year.
Speaker 1: Miss tackles aren't miss tackles, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know, you can miss a lot of tackles. But
Speaker 1: it's yeah, and I.
Speaker 2: Agree, I think I like the energy that's around are
Speaker 2: the Tigers. But there's just a couple of other things
Speaker 2: that to me after the weekend that says, hey, Jerome,
Speaker 2: like you are a good player, but if you want
Speaker 2: to be that dominant half back and lift the Tigers
Speaker 2: from where they are to potential finals, then there's a
Speaker 2: few things that have to be taken consideration.
Speaker 1: Is it a cage or bastard made like so, he's
Speaker 1: coach the Dolphins last couple of years and he knows
Speaker 1: his players inside out, and what he did the other
Speaker 1: night he ran a standard shape at Herbie Farnworth every time,
Speaker 1: and every time he ran it he went and obviously
Speaker 1: the talk between young Katoe and Herbie wasn't that good.
Speaker 1: But right at the last second Herbie couldn't help himself,
Speaker 1: lost his nerve and turned in like that's Wayne coaching.
Speaker 1: He just knew, you know, inside out, how Herbie would
Speaker 1: react under pressure and that certain shape and just very
Speaker 1: very clever coaching. And blokes tell me it's funny we
Speaker 1: always look at Wayne and go eye. He's a man manager,
Speaker 1: that's what he does. But blokes do a coach by
Speaker 1: him and they say he has very good, great attention
Speaker 1: to detail as far as attacking shapes. It's just it
Speaker 1: doesn't be note himself about it.
Speaker 2: But he's also got that ability to use someone's strength
Speaker 2: and weakness against them, right, as history shows Herbie Farwerth.
Speaker 2: But on the flip side, the ballplane of Cody Walker.
Speaker 2: Give Cody Walker a cute defensively, and he will tear
Speaker 2: you apart when he's got his when he's styled in.
Speaker 3: And the other one was manly. What do you think
Speaker 3: of Manly on the weekend?
Speaker 1: Mainly were fantastic, but it was a manly type of
Speaker 1: game in terms of it like manly. My knock on
Speaker 1: Manly is this right? Is that they have no breaks
Speaker 1: their bang bang bang attack. It's just relentless and on
Speaker 1: the weekend, like all of it's stuck. And they found
Speaker 1: themselves on a blink of I thirty points clear, and
Speaker 1: so they just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and
Speaker 1: against an opposition which allowed them play that sort of football. Now,
Speaker 1: why knock on Manly? Sys coups is so often when
Speaker 1: I think of Mainly, I think of dry Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: noon football that I'll watch them in the first twenty
Speaker 1: minutes and they're going whack bang, wham wham, They're going
Speaker 1: to win this game by thirty points. But then invariably
Speaker 1: when little bit of fatigue comes in and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden errors come into the game. Is they let
Speaker 1: the opposition back in. They have inconsistencies week to week,
Speaker 1: but they have inconsistencies which sit in the game, and
Speaker 1: I want to see them win a game coop against
Speaker 1: an elite team where things aren't going their way, when
Speaker 1: the ball's not sticking and they've got to defend their
Speaker 1: way to victory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're outside backs and the halves and their
Speaker 2: billy to score points is up there against most other teams.
Speaker 2: The big question mark from last year and lead into
Speaker 2: this year for Manly is can their forward pack dominate
Speaker 2: and can they defend for long periods of time against
Speaker 2: the best attacking teams. What I saw from Prosecca and
Speaker 2: Ola Calato, we didn't see that defense because Cowboys it
Speaker 2: was a no show basically, But what I saw from
Speaker 2: Prosecca and Ola Calat, it looks like their forward pack's
Speaker 2: got some arrogance and swagger about it, which is going
Speaker 2: to complement Cherry Evans and Turbo and their billy right
Speaker 2: and just looking at their game, Jerry Evans just turned
Speaker 2: thirty six and you can go out a bit of
Speaker 2: a limbir They've got five of their first seven games
Speaker 2: at home. They are lightning quick at home, particularly on
Speaker 2: a dry track. As we said, they could be on
Speaker 2: the top of the ladder after eight weeks. Jerry Evans
Speaker 2: hasn't decided what he's going to do for Origin and
Speaker 2: Rep football. Just turned thirty six. I think he's going
Speaker 2: to see himself in six or eight weeks time and go,
Speaker 2: you know what, this is my best chance winning a comp.
Speaker 2: And he might just pull the trigger on Rep footy
Speaker 2: and go, you know what, I'm on slipstreaming here. I've
Speaker 2: got to Travoivic out of the back. Luke Brooks is
Speaker 2: energetic of forward. Pack's going well and a lot of
Speaker 2: things have to fall into place. I'm not saying they're
Speaker 2: going to win it, but I'm just saying, Cherry, this
Speaker 2: might force him into thinking, you know what, was it
Speaker 2: playing Grand File in twenty thirteen was his last one? Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe one or two prelims outside of that. He's never
Speaker 2: really gotten close for ten years, so.
Speaker 3: This is this is his go. He just might pull
Speaker 3: the pin and focus on it because.
Speaker 2: At thirty six years of age is a half back
Speaker 2: playing for thirty weeks plus origin. Now the fuel tank
Speaker 2: will get low. So maybe he's just double down and
Speaker 2: it's he's still playing very good.
Speaker 1: Yeah he has. It's gonna be test for Anthony Soubold
Speaker 1: this too, Coops, because if what you say happens where
Speaker 1: they're top of the table. So this has got a
Speaker 1: propensity to overshare. That makes sense, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's going to be important they when things are flying,
Speaker 1: it's Cooper lid on it.
Speaker 2: I haven't looked at their draw but whoever they play
Speaker 2: at home, out those five or seven five seven, and
Speaker 2: they're a chance of bend every one of them.
Speaker 1: I'll ask your question here. I post this to the
Speaker 1: boys last night on the on the shower. So box A,
Speaker 1: box B. Right in box A, you've got Penrith, the
Speaker 1: Broncos and the Melbourne Storm. The rest of the competition
Speaker 1: is in boxbury. What price do you give either.
Speaker 2: I'm taking box those guys Storm, Penrith what they did
Speaker 2: in Vegas, and the Broncos like they are top line betting.
Speaker 3: I'm doubling down on them. Everyone else is chasing sports.
Speaker 1: But dollar fifty five box A, which I think is
Speaker 1: actually quite generous, but lower than that. Yeah, well, in
Speaker 1: boxby the two sides the two wild cars, but they're
Speaker 1: still could elevate themselves.
Speaker 3: Is me shark?
Speaker 1: The other two are some of the things the Dogs
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, I'm under estimating the Dogs, which.
Speaker 2: I don't think they've got the attacking flare to beat
Speaker 2: those teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but defensively they can keep it close.
Speaker 1: That was a terrific game like that was That was
Speaker 1: a game that I thought had upset written all over it.
Speaker 1: Dragons at home full house point to prove new players,
Speaker 1: but Dogs got it done.
Speaker 2: About the Dogs, So my question mark for them lead
Speaker 2: into this year was soroldose defensive system is proven. He's
Speaker 2: gone character over talent as such, because he wants people
Speaker 2: who can defend and move and make defensive decisions and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. And when you go from the worst
Speaker 2: defensive team to one of the best takes a lot
Speaker 2: of effort and heart. And I was wondering whether Reed Marni,
Speaker 2: kick out Crichton, Connor Tracy could go again defensive Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think that again.
Speaker 3: I saw that on the weekend.
Speaker 2: Their attack is not near some of those gun teams,
Speaker 2: but their defense holds up.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of discipline, you know, coops the year
Speaker 1: before to have not a lot of expectation on you,
Speaker 1: and you've got a point to because it comes down
Speaker 1: here comes into the individual competed to this year where
Speaker 1: the expectation as well, you've got to reach the second
Speaker 1: week of the finals. Let's progress when it's so hard
Speaker 1: to part the course to say what he did last year?
Speaker 2: So we spoke manly, spoke dogs. What about sharks on
Speaker 2: that second?
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to see more from
Speaker 1: more from the Sharkies in that. When I watched the
Speaker 1: side coops right and I watch them for the first
Speaker 1: time for the year trial game round one. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see a team who's picked up where they
Speaker 1: left off. I want to see a team and go, wow,
Speaker 1: look that they've worked on there. There's different aspects of
Speaker 1: their game. For me, Cronulla is they just can't rely
Speaker 1: on the elevation that Adam field Bay is going to
Speaker 1: give them. I just want to see some different things
Speaker 1: for us because we're Harves. We saw it half by.
Speaker 1: I want to see some different attacking shapes. I want
Speaker 1: to see Trendle and Nicico just approached the defense a
Speaker 1: little bit differently. They've got themselves into an algorithm of
Speaker 1: forty five degrees to find their target defender. I just
Speaker 1: want to see a little bit, a little bit of
Speaker 1: something different from the Sharks capable of winning it. They've
Speaker 1: got They've got the Blaker with the buye of the
Speaker 1: Year Vanilla. Blake's just a machine. But I just want
Speaker 1: to see a little bit more from well.
Speaker 2: I think the little point of difference for them to
Speaker 2: use is Brayley. I think Brayley if he can become
Speaker 2: you know, he had a really good year last year.
Speaker 2: But if he becomes like a Harry Grand equivalent of
Speaker 2: like really creative when there's chaos, and use someone like
Speaker 2: Adam Fanil Blake straight close to the line, that could
Speaker 2: be ten tries right there.
Speaker 1: We'll see Coops, can they win the comp? Yes, they
Speaker 1: can more than capable of winning it. And round one
Speaker 1: was a good performance of very good performance, but Coops,
Speaker 1: they got beat by Penris. And when the game was
Speaker 1: on the line, when you're going to blink, who's going
Speaker 1: to win it? They gotta beat by Penis. When there's
Speaker 1: really vital moments where you're going to win, you're going
Speaker 1: to lose. It's not about it was a very good
Speaker 1: performance is you're lost. They've got to start nailing those games.
Speaker 2: You marry up attack and defense and they probably meet
Speaker 2: Penrith and Melbourne. But when it comes to blinking, yeah, Storm.
Speaker 1: And let's do some straight talking.
Speaker 3: What you got.
Speaker 1: People always start these things by saying, this is not
Speaker 1: a criticism, and this is not a criticism. This is
Speaker 1: just facts, straight talking, but straight talk. But this is
Speaker 1: just a fact. Is that Dylan is a six. We've
Speaker 1: already spoken about the difference between six and the seven. Right,
Speaker 1: Dylan can impact a game heavily. He can have a
Speaker 1: big impact on a game. But to do that, he
Speaker 1: needs someone alongside him to control the game. That's what
Speaker 1: he needs. Dylan is an explosive player. He impacts the
Speaker 1: game through moments. He's not a seven. He's a six.
Speaker 1: Dylan's game is the game of a deputy. Like you
Speaker 1: know which most sixers are. They are deputies the moment.
Speaker 1: He's a reactive player. He's a deputy. He's a pure six.
Speaker 1: Hell of a six, very good six, but he ain't
Speaker 1: a seven.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: So go back and listen to what we spoke about
Speaker 2: with Jerome Lui. The forty touches to sixty, the decision making.
Speaker 2: Every decision has consequences. When you're half back, kick the
Speaker 2: ball three times, Now, all of a sudden, I have
Speaker 2: to kick it fifteen times a game. The one thing
Speaker 2: I will say is I was disappointed in what Dylan
Speaker 2: Brown delivered when Mitchell Moses.
Speaker 3: Was out last year.
Speaker 2: We've said this before that when a five mate as
Speaker 2: their main man go down, sometimes it's really good learning
Speaker 2: and development for you to go whar the seven and
Speaker 2: find out what it takes in eighty minutes and during
Speaker 2: the week to say, oh, that's what Mitch does through
Speaker 2: the week. Oh that's what Nathan does. Oh that actually
Speaker 2: when I go back to six, I'm going to bring
Speaker 2: that to my game. And he moved halfback and didn't
Speaker 2: really do too much.
Speaker 1: And like, look, I don't blame him fierce like yesterday,
Speaker 1: I'm still been last year when there.
Speaker 3: Was that window where he moved his half back.
Speaker 2: As someone that loves watching doing Brown play, I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, this is a chance, this is actually going
Speaker 2: to elevate his five eight play understanding what Mitch goes
Speaker 2: through every week.
Speaker 3: But it just didn't have that impact.
Speaker 1: And yesterday, like we said, I really felt you don't
Speaker 1: understand I said this in the show Last Tight. I
Speaker 1: don want to sound condescending. I really felt for that
Speaker 1: a lot of those young Paramittal players yesterday to go
Speaker 1: out there in again, they hadn't been exposed to a
Speaker 1: game like that against the Melbourne Storm, dry sound afternoon.
Speaker 1: They're in the mood to play, and you could just
Speaker 1: see that was shell shocked. Their eyes were rolled on
Speaker 1: the back of their heads. And I can totally understand why.
Speaker 2: If I'm Jason Ryles like, it's obviously a bad stuff,
Speaker 2: But I don't mind that. There's the benchmark. We just
Speaker 2: sit here if we want to get to where Melbourne are.
Speaker 2: These are the things we have to do. One defend
Speaker 2: like your life depends on it. For every minute, every game,
Speaker 2: every tackle counts. You've got to be prepared. You've got
Speaker 2: to get ready at you know, in the morning, on
Speaker 2: away trip. These are all the things they will learn
Speaker 2: from that. But you know, for Rosie, that's a tough
Speaker 2: initiation going.
Speaker 1: Down there like a young fighter step in the ring
Speaker 1: with Muhammad Ali, exact funny the great you know where
Speaker 1: you stand. That's right. Those young players yesterday said, they said,
Speaker 1: we've watched Monster, We've watched Grant We've watched pappen House
Speaker 1: and Hues and that, but we just didn't know what
Speaker 1: it was like to be on the receiving end of that.
Speaker 3: They got punched in the face yesterday, but they know
Speaker 3: what's coming now.
Speaker 1: The young side they did with the Cowboys, a lot
Speaker 1: of young guys there would have been shell shocked and
Speaker 1: look Toddy Toddy Canty. Toddy Payton ended the season under
Speaker 1: fair bit of pressure because I think even though they
Speaker 1: played finals last year, I thought they under choeved. I
Speaker 1: thought the standard of football they're capable a lot better
Speaker 1: of the year before terrible. The way they've started this
Speaker 1: year is alarming. They've got the Sharks next week and
Speaker 1: that the Broncos after that. Todd Toddy can't afford another
Speaker 1: loss like Saturday night.
Speaker 3: It was bad.
Speaker 2: It was a bad start, like mainly were unbelievable. But
Speaker 2: since it was it twenty two, the Cowboys did their thing.
Speaker 2: They went to a prelim. Ye it was twenty two,
Speaker 2: played a really high level.
Speaker 1: They looked like a side that was going to roll
Speaker 1: into the next year and picture too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty three bad, twenty four we're inconsistent.
Speaker 3: We got back to a point I think they've lost
Speaker 3: their consistency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've lost their They've got top end talent, but
Speaker 2: they've also lost a little bit of that sort of
Speaker 2: work ethic that sits below the top end talent. And
Speaker 2: like they just their forward pack, just let Perseca, Jake
Speaker 2: ta Voievic, they just let.
Speaker 1: Them run coops. That that excellent season when they got
Speaker 1: to the final four, it almost make it very very
Speaker 1: close to making the Grand Final, perilously close. Is that
Speaker 1: that that year their game is based on fitness, discipline
Speaker 1: and defense. Somewhere in between that last game, in the
Speaker 1: first game of twenty twenty three, they just become attack
Speaker 1: of obsessed. They just got intoxicated. But what they can
Speaker 1: do with the football, and they were the same last year.
Speaker 1: They if you play them every day of the week,
Speaker 1: because they're happy to win forty two forty, they'll let
Speaker 1: you play football. They've just got to develop a much
Speaker 1: harder each.
Speaker 2: What did you say the thing in twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: they built their game on, was it defense, work ethic
Speaker 2: and all those things? Right, that's exactly discipline. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: exactly what Craig Bellmy has done for twenty three years. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: he knows exactly what he's good at, and he just
Speaker 2: keeps coming back to the table every time. He lets
Speaker 2: other people worry about the attack, all the changes and
Speaker 2: things like that.
Speaker 1: So no, just follow at it. You blokes are ordinary roosters, Well.
Speaker 3: They need to tackle anyone, neither of Today.
Speaker 1: It's good. The Broncos, well, I mean, look what you go,
Speaker 1: tell me, Tell me what do you think?
Speaker 3: Give me your take on the Roosters? What else?
Speaker 1: I understand under strength all those things. But the side
Speaker 1: you put out I looked at it on the night
Speaker 1: right and I liked the Broncos going in. Everyone did.
Speaker 1: But teams tell you what, mate, it's still a good
Speaker 1: It's still a good rooster side.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well there's Taedasco Towns and Crichton, Colin's Radley Watson off
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: To go out in wet weather and be able to
Speaker 1: put fifty points on a team says a lot about
Speaker 1: the Broncos and know how they're prepared for the season,
Speaker 1: But it says a lot about the Rooster's defense. I
Speaker 1: saw and cooped. I was so dislocated at times. It
Speaker 1: was structurally it was bad, like you know, there was
Speaker 1: some bad one on one missus. But more than that,
Speaker 1: it was structurally they were so poor. And it's round one.
Speaker 2: When you sort of predicted to have a challenge in year.
Speaker 2: The one thing you probably need to focus on are
Speaker 2: the hardest parts of the game. You like the defense,
Speaker 2: like to kick, chose all those things. So alarming that
Speaker 2: the game against was week two of pre season was
Speaker 2: the Knights into the Broncos game when Trent Robinson historically
Speaker 2: when he's won Comps has been the best defensive team.
Speaker 3: I mean, so that's the focus. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: And talking about Jerome Lewi on how to win a
Speaker 2: game as a halfbacker without touching the ball, well, Chad's
Speaker 2: got a little bit of that. He's a smart guy,
Speaker 2: but he's not going to break over the game with
Speaker 2: a run and a dash. I'm going to have to
Speaker 2: work on ways to win games of football.
Speaker 1: A very difficult start to his rooster's career. That's get
Speaker 1: new club on when you went there first of all,
Speaker 1: took a little bit of time to beat yourself down.
Speaker 3: I think you were calling from my head and everyone.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I still am.
Speaker 3: That's really worked out.
Speaker 1: What we're going to do this you cap, We're going
Speaker 1: to do a thing called let people in focus. Now
Speaker 1: we could focus on a game, a player, mom rabul
Speaker 1: league history. What we're going to do next week, we're
Speaker 1: going to focus on the similarities between rugby league's golden
Speaker 1: period the eighties rolling into the nineties and where we
Speaker 1: sit at the moment, what produced such a great era,
Speaker 1: and the warnings we should hear.
Speaker 3: Because our games in a good spot.
Speaker 2: We just need to not get lost in what's possible
Speaker 2: focus on.
Speaker 3: We do word word,