WEBVTT - Round 1 Takeaways 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:08.920 Big wire billing. We're going to first grade mate. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:13.520 Actually should be prong on top automatic actually. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.800 A coops. It's a big some big things to talk 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.760 about Dylan Brown situation, some of the poor performances of 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.720 course a week, but first at least talk about tactically 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.920 the Broncos. Well, it's not tactically but simple. There's magic 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.320 in sweat. He worked them to the bone in the 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.479 off season. There's been criticism that's over the top. But 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.320 when you saw them in the trial game, they looked 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.839 rock hard fit. They are ready to go. And just 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.240 the way they moved across the field when you're fitter 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.319 and you know you're a big guy, and if you've 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.239 lost a few kolos seem how much better their movement was, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.839 in their footwork, their defensive energy, everything. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:57.960 Yeah, I find the commentrary really hard about Margeres training 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.880 the Broncos too hot, Like, does anyone ever questioned what 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.960 Ivan clearly has done with pen Does anyone have a 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.880 questioned Craig Bellamy's army camp that he does every year. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.720 No, there's a reason why you train. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.360 To the red line so you know your players can 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.640 touch it without going over it. And then when you 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.360 come to the seventy eighth minute of a big game, 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.160 you are redlining. So you need to build up resilience. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.759 And that's exactly what the good teams do. One thing 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.080 I will say about the Broncos is sign of a 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.440 good coach is when you take average players to. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.000 Good, yes, good to great and great to elite. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.560 Corey Paks has been terrific and then the other end 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:41.560 of the scale, paint Ass was tremendous, Like. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.120 Every time he touched the ball he did something. Paint us, 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:44.320 He's got he's gotten better. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.640 I listened to some comments going into the game ours 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.200 before the game, and they're like Pakes the starting line, Heatherington, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.560 you know what's he doing? But just the evidence some 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.240 of these were players they were going to let go. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.400 And like you said, Pakes was, yeah, just how strong 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.680 he looked physically. Same with Kobe Heatherans to look far 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.240 more athletic and Shiit of Saki. He's an example. And 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:12.000 he said before like Payn Haass has just elevated himself 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.480 to another level. He was unstoppable. But the unbloke Zadier 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.360 Willison coming off the bench like you look at like 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.040 he looks really really good, is a sort of feel 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.600 about Nelson suffer solomonia about it coming off with impact. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.720 They look fantastic and there's nothing tinty about what they 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.160 what they do. It's all calculated, good hard work. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.920 And it was forty minutes in the preseason against the 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.600 Dogs was enough to show that they had something there 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.040 and that combination of Adam Reynolds and Ben Haunt is 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.600 going to be a very very good thing. Like Ezra 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.919 Maam like, I wouldn't. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.200 Move Ben Hunt. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.800 I don't care what Ezra ma'am does from here on out. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.280 Ben Hunt is my five eight for the rest. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:55.519 Of the year. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.080 One the cultural peace right with what Ezra went through. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.440 But two I think with the talent the Broncos have 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:08.959 stags Cobbo Walsh, payinhas Carrigan. Adam Reynolds in twenty twenty 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.120 three got a lot of things right to control that 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.240 team in terms of all the decision making, and to 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.919 be fair, he made a couple of decisions the back 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.240 end of that Grand Final that played a part in 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.359 them losing. Right now, with Ben Hunt, thirty four years 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.960 of age, having done what he's done, I like that 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.160 there's two guys either side of the field that are 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.960 very good at making decisions. Their composure is great, so 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.800 you can let Walsh out on a rain a little bit, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.880 but then one of them can pull them pulling back 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.560 in on that side. So I like what Ben Huni 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.400 did little short side down against the Roofs. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.400 There's a three on two executed. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.760 So he's gone from being a first receiver halfback dominating 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.720 the Dragons, touching the ball a thousand times to basically 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.559 picking his moments on the left hand side and complimenting 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.360 what Adam Reynolds and Riss Walsh have. Like, I think 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.080 it's very good against the Roosters and doesn't matter for 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.160 me what Ezra man does. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.040 Ben Hant stays there coops. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.440 That's the thing. If you've got one experienced playmaker in 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.640 your side, it's a god send. You see the difference 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.880 that made to the Broncos when Adam Reynolds went there 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.320 to that young Ford path that was so good but 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.960 did never steering. Will he arrives and have two now 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.200 in the field and on Ezra. Ezra is going to 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.280 give Madge flexibility. He can plain Ford Hune. The other 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.400 thing you can do as well is is like one 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.240 thing about Adam and Ben they're not spring chickens. There's 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.200 going to be tying through the year that they need 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:34.960 they need a break is going to give him the 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.279 ability to just rotate the spine a little bit, which 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.760 is going to be invaluable and time they're runs. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.280 For the two thirty four year olds to play their 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.320 best foot in the back. And that's the role Ezra 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.159 Man would play after what I've seen from that and. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.799 You just touched on it there. Like playing short sides, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:54.440 you know a side has had very good off season, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.720 not just in training but planning, getting getting down path 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.159 out their structure and the science of their game and 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.200 how they're going to do things when they play short sides. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.240 So well, there's the subtleties jumping out the open, switching 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.000 back to get rid of the markers, and. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.560 Just a little difference between playing halfback and five eight. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.760 The halfback is sort of really sort of got the 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.200 blinkers on. There's a lot of eyes down the middle 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.320 of the field about what he can do running the ball. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:19.880 Or a short part. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.680 When you're a second receiver five eight, your eyes are 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.400 a little bit more wider looking at options for the 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.320 outside right. So what Ben Hunt's brought to his game 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.599 now is that he can actually start looking a bit 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.599 further afield, looking for rees, looking for wingers, and he's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:34.600 coming up with plays. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.040 Well, let's say talking about sixes and sevens. Later, we're 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.360 going to talk at the difference between both. We're going 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.000 to talk about Dylan Brown a little later. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.600 But Jerome Lewe so a lot of hope for the 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.640 Tigers and at the game on the weekend, before the 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.680 nights before the game, like, there was a lot of 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.080 excitement around what Jerome could do. When you play five eight, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.240 you might touch the ball, let's say forty times a game. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.200 When you play half back touched the ball closer to 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:02.200 sixty times a game. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.640 That's twenty more decisions that Jerome has to make. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.800 And when you're half back, yes you got to set 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.360 up tries, Yes you got to score, You've got to 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:10.039 do all these things. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.279 But how can you win a game when you don't 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.960 have the ball as a half back. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.119 So at the Panthers, they were the best defensive team, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.320 one of the best completion rates, and their run meters 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.120 through their forward pack of back three got them basically 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.960 over halfway majority of their time. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.040 At the Tigers, he doesn't have that. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.320 They're the worst defensive team from last year, discipline, paul, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.000 all those things. So he's going to be let's say, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.400 fifteen to twenty meters away from where he normally kicked 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.760 the ball to where he will be for the Tigers. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.880 And in the fiftieth minute, leading eight tonil, Jerome Lewie 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.000 puts up a kick which he might have done four 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.640 or five times with Nathan. Now he's kicking the ball 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.200 let's say ten to fifteen times more. Plus he's put 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.520 a kick in seven tackle set, Calen Bonger catches it back, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.920 Knights go down the other end, score a try eight 0:06:58.960 --> 0:06:59.280 to six. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.760 They lose ten's too long by inches. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.200 Inches and that twenty more decisions that Jerome has to 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.520 make is going to play an impact when they're not 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.559 defending well, when they're making errors, when their discipline's poor. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.600 So Jerome can play. We've seen that he can dominate. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.120 What he did last year was arguab his best year 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.080 of Yeah, I think, But when you're a half back 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.280 of a team from the bottom of the ladder, how 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.800 can you win a game without touching the ball? How 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.080 can you drive consistency in all those other areas? And 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.200 Benji's got a part to playing this about improving that 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.160 defense and discipline and all that. But there's a lot 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.560 of more challenges for Jerome obviously, But that's a bit 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.920 of the halfback verse five eight mentality. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.200 I mean, what's going to help him enormously is happy chorus. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.040 How come back in the site? You know, like on 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:50.160 the weekend one of their main direct focal points in 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.120 that middle of the field was missing. That put a 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.680 lot more pressure on Jerome on top of all the 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.120 responsibility's got anyway Buller coming back in the site, So 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.480 I want to getting that year is I just see 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.360 so much upside for this Tiger side. Now, I thought 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.400 their defense on the weekend was was fantastic. Now they 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.000 missed fifty five tackles, but that's yeah, statsa means to 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.520 an end. You can miss fifty five tackles. A lot 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:14.240 of it's scrambling. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.640 Defense lost a lot of tackles last year. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.080 Miss tackles aren't miss tackles, you know what I mean. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.320 You know, you can miss a lot of tackles. But 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.360 it's yeah, and I. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.160 Agree, I think I like the energy that's around are 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.480 the Tigers. But there's just a couple of other things 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.920 that to me after the weekend that says, hey, Jerome, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.160 like you are a good player, but if you want 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.280 to be that dominant half back and lift the Tigers 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.960 from where they are to potential finals, then there's a 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.719 few things that have to be taken consideration. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:49.040 Is it a cage or bastard made like so, he's 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.040 coach the Dolphins last couple of years and he knows 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.000 his players inside out, and what he did the other 0:08:54.080 --> 0:09:00.240 night he ran a standard shape at Herbie Farnworth every time, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.520 and every time he ran it he went and obviously 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.840 the talk between young Katoe and Herbie wasn't that good. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.240 But right at the last second Herbie couldn't help himself, 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.040 lost his nerve and turned in like that's Wayne coaching. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.080 He just knew, you know, inside out, how Herbie would 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.280 react under pressure and that certain shape and just very 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.520 very clever coaching. And blokes tell me it's funny we 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.800 always look at Wayne and go eye. He's a man manager, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.520 that's what he does. But blokes do a coach by 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.720 him and they say he has very good, great attention 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.120 to detail as far as attacking shapes. It's just it 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.439 doesn't be note himself about it. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.120 But he's also got that ability to use someone's strength 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.520 and weakness against them, right, as history shows Herbie Farwerth. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.360 But on the flip side, the ballplane of Cody Walker. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.680 Give Cody Walker a cute defensively, and he will tear 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.080 you apart when he's got his when he's styled in. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.400 And the other one was manly. What do you think 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:55.200 of Manly on the weekend? 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.760 Mainly were fantastic, but it was a manly type of 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.599 game in terms of it like manly. My knock on 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.520 Manly is this right? Is that they have no breaks 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.320 their bang bang bang attack. It's just relentless and on 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.560 the weekend, like all of it's stuck. And they found 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.719 themselves on a blink of I thirty points clear, and 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.520 so they just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.600 against an opposition which allowed them play that sort of football. Now, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.320 why knock on Manly? Sys coups is so often when 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.559 I think of Mainly, I think of dry Sunday afternoon 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.040 noon football that I'll watch them in the first twenty 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.240 minutes and they're going whack bang, wham wham, They're going 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.480 to win this game by thirty points. But then invariably 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.520 when little bit of fatigue comes in and all of 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.559 a sudden errors come into the game. Is they let 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.280 the opposition back in. They have inconsistencies week to week, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.640 but they have inconsistencies which sit in the game, and 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.560 I want to see them win a game coop against 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.800 an elite team where things aren't going their way, when 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.480 the ball's not sticking and they've got to defend their 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:00.000 way to victory. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.920 Yeah, so they're outside backs and the halves and their 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.080 billy to score points is up there against most other teams. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.400 The big question mark from last year and lead into 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.400 this year for Manly is can their forward pack dominate 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.480 and can they defend for long periods of time against 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.800 the best attacking teams. What I saw from Prosecca and 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.080 Ola Calato, we didn't see that defense because Cowboys it 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.000 was a no show basically, But what I saw from 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.000 Prosecca and Ola Calat, it looks like their forward pack's 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.880 got some arrogance and swagger about it, which is going 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.480 to complement Cherry Evans and Turbo and their billy right 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.720 and just looking at their game, Jerry Evans just turned 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.199 thirty six and you can go out a bit of 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.640 a limbir They've got five of their first seven games 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.120 at home. They are lightning quick at home, particularly on 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.720 a dry track. As we said, they could be on 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.040 the top of the ladder after eight weeks. Jerry Evans 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.720 hasn't decided what he's going to do for Origin and 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.360 Rep football. Just turned thirty six. I think he's going 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.320 to see himself in six or eight weeks time and go, 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.800 you know what, this is my best chance winning a comp. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.480 And he might just pull the trigger on Rep footy 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.280 and go, you know what, I'm on slipstreaming here. I've 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.760 got to Travoivic out of the back. Luke Brooks is 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:13.080 energetic of forward. Pack's going well and a lot of 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.160 things have to fall into place. I'm not saying they're 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.360 going to win it, but I'm just saying, Cherry, this 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.720 might force him into thinking, you know what, was it 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.520 playing Grand File in twenty thirteen was his last one? Yeah, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.480 maybe one or two prelims outside of that. He's never 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.280 really gotten close for ten years, so. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.600 This is this is his go. He just might pull 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.320 the pin and focus on it because. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.400 At thirty six years of age is a half back 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.280 playing for thirty weeks plus origin. Now the fuel tank 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.679 will get low. So maybe he's just double down and 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.160 it's he's still playing very good. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.920 Yeah he has. It's gonna be test for Anthony Soubold 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.240 this too, Coops, because if what you say happens where 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.280 they're top of the table. So this has got a 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.719 propensity to overshare. That makes sense, you know what I mean, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.600 It's going to be important they when things are flying, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:05.720 it's Cooper lid on it. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.120 I haven't looked at their draw but whoever they play 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.199 at home, out those five or seven five seven, and 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:22.239 they're a chance of bend every one of them. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.559 I'll ask your question here. I post this to the 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.800 boys last night on the on the shower. So box A, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.200 box B. Right in box A, you've got Penrith, the 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.040 Broncos and the Melbourne Storm. The rest of the competition 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.720 is in boxbury. What price do you give either. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.000 I'm taking box those guys Storm, Penrith what they did 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.200 in Vegas, and the Broncos like they are top line betting. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.000 I'm doubling down on them. Everyone else is chasing sports. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.559 But dollar fifty five box A, which I think is 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.400 actually quite generous, but lower than that. Yeah, well, in 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.800 boxby the two sides the two wild cars, but they're 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:00.880 still could elevate themselves. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.120 Is me shark? 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.760 The other two are some of the things the Dogs 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.200 in there. Yeah, I'm under estimating the Dogs, which. 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.160 I don't think they've got the attacking flare to beat 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:12.800 those teams. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.640 Yeah, but defensively they can keep it close. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.840 That was a terrific game like that was That was 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.200 a game that I thought had upset written all over it. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:26.280 Dragons at home full house point to prove new players, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:27.800 but Dogs got it done. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.240 About the Dogs, So my question mark for them lead 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.640 into this year was soroldose defensive system is proven. He's 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.880 gone character over talent as such, because he wants people 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.320 who can defend and move and make defensive decisions and 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.760 all that stuff. And when you go from the worst 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.520 defensive team to one of the best takes a lot 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.800 of effort and heart. And I was wondering whether Reed Marni, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.640 kick out Crichton, Connor Tracy could go again defensive Yeah, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:57.280 and I think that again. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.000 I saw that on the weekend. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.640 Their attack is not near some of those gun teams, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:02.880 but their defense holds up. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.960 It's a lot of discipline, you know, coops the year 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.440 before to have not a lot of expectation on you, 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.240 and you've got a point to because it comes down 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.120 here comes into the individual competed to this year where 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.920 the expectation as well, you've got to reach the second 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.320 week of the finals. Let's progress when it's so hard 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.760 to part the course to say what he did last year? 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.360 So we spoke manly, spoke dogs. What about sharks on 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:25.880 that second? 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.720 I want to see I want to see more from 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.680 more from the Sharkies in that. When I watched the 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.240 side coops right and I watch them for the first 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.840 time for the year trial game round one. I don't 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.480 want to see a team who's picked up where they 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.800 left off. I want to see a team and go, wow, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 look that they've worked on there. There's different aspects of 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.720 their game. For me, Cronulla is they just can't rely 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.880 on the elevation that Adam field Bay is going to 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.680 give them. I just want to see some different things 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.960 for us because we're Harves. We saw it half by. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.640 I want to see some different attacking shapes. I want 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.400 to see Trendle and Nicico just approached the defense a 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.600 little bit differently. They've got themselves into an algorithm of 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.920 forty five degrees to find their target defender. I just 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.880 want to see a little bit, a little bit of 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.440 something different from the Sharks capable of winning it. They've 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.120 got They've got the Blaker with the buye of the 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.040 Year Vanilla. Blake's just a machine. But I just want 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.240 to see a little bit more from well. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.360 I think the little point of difference for them to 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.840 use is Brayley. I think Brayley if he can become 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.840 you know, he had a really good year last year. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.440 But if he becomes like a Harry Grand equivalent of 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.560 like really creative when there's chaos, and use someone like 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.240 Adam Fanil Blake straight close to the line, that could 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:42.840 be ten tries right there. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.880 We'll see Coops, can they win the comp? Yes, they 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.800 can more than capable of winning it. And round one 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.080 was a good performance of very good performance, but Coops, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.360 they got beat by Penris. And when the game was 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.640 on the line, when you're going to blink, who's going 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.240 to win it? They gotta beat by Penis. When there's 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.439 really vital moments where you're going to win, you're going 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.240 to lose. It's not about it was a very good 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.360 performance is you're lost. They've got to start nailing those games. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.359 You marry up attack and defense and they probably meet 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.760 Penrith and Melbourne. But when it comes to blinking, yeah, Storm. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.200 And let's do some straight talking. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:19.920 What you got. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.000 People always start these things by saying, this is not 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.560 a criticism, and this is not a criticism. This is 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.239 just facts, straight talking, but straight talk. But this is 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.880 just a fact. Is that Dylan is a six. We've 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.800 already spoken about the difference between six and the seven. Right, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.960 Dylan can impact a game heavily. He can have a 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.240 big impact on a game. But to do that, he 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.119 needs someone alongside him to control the game. That's what 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.760 he needs. Dylan is an explosive player. He impacts the 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.119 game through moments. He's not a seven. He's a six. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:56.359 Dylan's game is the game of a deputy. Like you 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.560 know which most sixers are. They are deputies the moment. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.240 He's a reactive player. He's a deputy. He's a pure six. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.800 Hell of a six, very good six, but he ain't 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:07.200 a seven. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:07.480 Yep. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.800 So go back and listen to what we spoke about 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.960 with Jerome Lui. The forty touches to sixty, the decision making. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.960 Every decision has consequences. When you're half back, kick the 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.520 ball three times, Now, all of a sudden, I have 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.640 to kick it fifteen times a game. The one thing 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.919 I will say is I was disappointed in what Dylan 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.200 Brown delivered when Mitchell Moses. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:28.880 Was out last year. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.320 We've said this before that when a five mate as 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.399 their main man go down, sometimes it's really good learning 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.600 and development for you to go whar the seven and 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.680 find out what it takes in eighty minutes and during 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.240 the week to say, oh, that's what Mitch does through 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.200 the week. Oh that's what Nathan does. Oh that actually 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.160 when I go back to six, I'm going to bring 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.760 that to my game. And he moved halfback and didn't 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:52.639 really do too much. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.760 And like, look, I don't blame him fierce like yesterday, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.520 I'm still been last year when there. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.520 Was that window where he moved his half back. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.920 As someone that loves watching doing Brown play, I thought, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.280 you know, this is a chance, this is actually going 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.000 to elevate his five eight play understanding what Mitch goes 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:11.840 through every week. 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.800 But it just didn't have that impact. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.120 And yesterday, like we said, I really felt you don't 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:18.639 understand I said this in the show Last Tight. I 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.680 don want to sound condescending. I really felt for that 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.480 a lot of those young Paramittal players yesterday to go 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.800 out there in again, they hadn't been exposed to a 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.960 game like that against the Melbourne Storm, dry sound afternoon. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.679