WEBVTT - Round 12 Takeaways and Origin Preview 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.760 Well, Coop, like when Galvin to the Dogs, we spotted 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:05.480 that up Nobbies a few weeks ago. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:07.320 What do you make of it? 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.440 Honestly, well, I'm not surprised by it. I'm surprised how 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.480 quickly this has all happened. And so they said the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.279 movie is imminent, They've got to buy this weekend. He'll 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.040 make his debut if they pick him in first grade 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.600 coops against ironically against Paramatta, the team that he had 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:27.400 the opportunity to go to and knock back. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.640 I'm not sure what to make of it because if 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.559 you look at their list now, like Sexton, Burton, Galvin 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:35.840 man Hey, there's a lot of a lot of ball hands, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.280 the way they play. There's a lot of noise around 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.120 Galvin for a young kid, and I think I don't 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.519 know if surrender do you think he plays in New 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.760 South Wales Cup? Would you put him straight back in? Well, 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.240 I would too, yeah, because there's so much noise around 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.000 this kid. I don't know what's right. I don't know 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.760 what's wrong. But if you're in part of the team 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.720 that's on top of the ladder doing all these things 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.880 that a team first mentality has right now for the Dogs, 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:09.440 they are besides what happened recently, what they're doing. Geez, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.480 you got to earn your stripes to be in that team. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.040 I think it says a lot. I think it says 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.040 a lot about the club. But also it's what Saldo 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.920 and Gus are saying to the team. If they may 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.560 lockey go through New South Will's Cup and Ernie's jersey. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.600 I would like that. I think that is the right 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.480 path if he comes straight in over the top. I'm 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.880 not sure where he plays, what the style of plays, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.320 and where who fits. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.400 In the g Let's imagine he doesn't play New South 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:40.480 Wales Cup, so he either plays six thirteen or fourteen. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.280 I'm guessing fourteen. But okay, but that's Bailey Hayward's role. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.840 Who's been very good. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.760 He's been very very good. There's been noise constantly around Toby. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.480 Toby Sexton, who has been very good the last twelve months, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.640 had a couple of poor performances recently. But you know, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.480 you just don't throw a black and okay in the 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.680 trash can who's been good from period of time on 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.160 a couple of on the back of a couple of 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:07.520 poor performances. So I don't exactly know where they're going 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.320 to place him. I see him as a sixth in 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.520 the next eighteen months. I see him as eventually as 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:14.120 a thirteen. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.520 Yeah, I don't think he can play seven right now. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.160 No decision making, kicking game temperament. There's a few things 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.200 that Toby Sex is doing well that compliments what the 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:32.640 Dogs are doing. Could he play seven? Look Sirealdo has 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.600 a history of working with Nathan Cleary. He's done a 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.919 good job with Sexton to get to him to where 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.160 he is. So I'm not going to say that he can't, 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.640 but he's going to need a lot of mentorship over 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.200 the next two three years before you even consider that, right, 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.400 So what do they do now? That's that's a trigger situation. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.799 You know, Coops, It's actually an opportunity for Toby. Toby 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.800 be looking at the moment going, oh jeez, you know 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.320 he's coming to assist meets the end of me with 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.320 all the noise and the fact he hasn't been offered 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.200 a new contract. But if the Galvin was to come 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.920 go to the Bulldogs slip into the six, Jersey Burton 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.639 moved somewhere else and he in sext and started, well, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.040 I don't know you Crichton and Cherry there, I don't 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.640 know where they I don't see I don't see Burton's 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.000 full that people are saying they could play fullback. I 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.080 think kind of Tracy has been fantastic there, But I 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.399 just don't see Burton express enough to play to play fullback. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.000 So I don't know. But if he was to go 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.079 into the six Jersey and I'm talking about like a 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.840 Galvin here and he and Sex and all of a 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.480 sudden throwing up this fantastic partnership and they go on 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.920 to run, well, you know, for Toby, that might that 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.600 might be the thing that actually gets in the new contract. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.960 If I was talking to Toby Sex and I would 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.160 be saying, don't focus on anything that's being said or 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.720 what you think. Focus on the things you've done well, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.360 because what you've done well is the point of difference 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.920 to Galvin right now. So keep doing that and force 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.120 the dogs to find another option. Yeah, because he is 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.880 the only one at the moment who can provide that piece. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.240 When when the dust settles in a month's time, what 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.200 do you think, how does that puzzle settle? I think 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.240 I think Burton plays somewhere else. I don't know whether 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.480 it's the only. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.240 Other one is is Yeah, maybe it's thirteen because he 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.560 is a big body, strong defensive. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.719 Begin to do it, Kurt Man, you know, yeah. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:26.080 Maybe crighton the fullback Burton to the centers, Like there's 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:26.960 a lot to move around. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.919 I mean, the Crichton situation, it's possible. When he originally 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.280 went to the Dogs, that was talking he was going 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:32.920 to play full back. I like him in the center 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.480 because he's the best defensive, one of the best defensives. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.880 He's the best, the best center in the game right now. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:45.479 Yeah, So AnyWho, it'll settle. Yeah, we'll find it. I 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.320 just want to make before what we're going to do, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.120 we're going to touch on Origin a little bit. I mean, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:50.799 we did it last week. We're going to talk about 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.200 in focus. I'm going to focus on I'm going to 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.120 have a look at Lorie Daly's playing career in Origin. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.280 Before we do that, I wanted to I want to 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:04.800 give a young player, the young fullback at Paramatta. This 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.520 bloke is a really, really special player. We're seeing it 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.600 more and more every week. I just want to show 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.400 you something from the game. It's actually my Jumblow Jack 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.279 who saw this and he called me and said, just 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.080 check this out, a really important part of the game 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.800 in the second half. Look at this chase bang and 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.640 hits Turbo gets the first market. You watch this next 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.200 hit bang, like the physicality and then he finds himself 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.360 at marker again and he goes for another one. Now 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.880 at this point, fullbacks usually send the wingers back, but 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.520 he gets back on his bike to protect the forty twenty. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.760 If they're going for it, takes it. And what's the 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:41.240 physicality in this run? Again? They like, that's a lot 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.600 of stuff you don't pick up in the game. Mainly 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.640 you pick up the flash stuff. But that says a 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:46.320 lot about. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.800 That they're the one percent. Is that you could grow 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.240 a lot of X factor skills and he's already got 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.039 the X factor skills. So I love that he is 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.719 underpinning that footwork and the speed that he's got with 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.920 that hard nosed approach because he was brilliant on the week, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:05.719 like what he delivered for that team, toughness, safety, smart, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.960 try scoring like he was very good. And while you 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.000 spotted that from Iongi, I'm going to raise it and 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.600 see what the Sharks did against the Roosters. And in 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.240 fanel Blake big noise around him in a big game 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.600 against the Roosters who are origin affected. This is his 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.320 first effort. This is the first set of the game. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.720 I just want you to watch Fanila Blake here, he's 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.480 out the back of play. The Roosters are down players, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.320 Sharks come off a big win against Melbourne. They need 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.120 to start fast and knock the Roosters out of confidence. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.200 And this is the effort of Foranila Bloke. We've just 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.800 showed Iongi how hard he worked for his team and 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.000 got the rewards. And here's Fanil Blake, who's been brilliant 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.360 this year, but most of his brilliant work as we 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.680 been with ball in him. So that moment there, I 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.760 think Craig Fitzgibven will spot and say, hey, you need 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.640 to set the standard from the beginning. Because when Fanila 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.040 Blake gets it right and the Sharks were coming against 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.520 the Roosters in that second half, I'll show you another 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.400 bit of play. Here, steams onto the football like he 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.480 shot out of a gun, creates chaos in the Rooster's 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.720 defensive line. And what happens Tunle goes down the other 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.640 side double pump play. So I think Craig Fitzgibbons got 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.200 a bit of work to do with Phil Blake off 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.000 the ball. His efforts and intensity can be influential for 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.760 the Sharks to keep going up the ladder. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.080 Probably encapsulated the performance from the Sharks. Yeah, yeah, they 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.160 were off just when you're starting to really go right 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:30.960 out here we going. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:35.680 Yeah, they shouldn't have had that effort, considering what they 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.080 did against Melbourne the week before, and off the back 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.040 of that you picked up Halia Seima and some train 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.400 spotting stuff a couple of weeks. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.600 Yes, yes, I did left handed, left hand carry right hand, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.160 play the ball. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.160 Well, Tarban has been watching this show and he's gone, 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.560 Matthew John's watched this right hand, Yes, play the ball. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:54.960 Love it? 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.640 Hey, love it. I'll sit with that, yes, because he's 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.320 in for the show in to May, and I'll watching 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.960 HALLI Suma. I just kept saying, happy, happy, watch his 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.200 left hand carry right hand for I think happy was 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:11.680 thinking it is this plog place, which was. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.400 So any players out there that watch the show, just 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.760 a bit of left hand right action, play the ball 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:16.760 of whatever? 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.160 Yeah, have you had a game? You know? 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.280 I can't do it. I can't do it. And I 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:21.320 suggest you can't either. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.480 Yeah. Now in focus state of origin. We gave our 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.480 predictions last week. Anything changed is what you think about. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.040 Well, I still think months through is the key for Queensland. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.160 I still think there'll be some points scored. One thing 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.079 I will say is thinking about, like, what's going to 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.160 happen in this game. New South Wales won that play 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.680 game won the series with one play at the back 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.440 end of last year, and it's would have sat with 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.920 Billy for long period time. I know how Billy reacts 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.280 to things, and he'd be sitting in his bunker analyzing 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.600 every Queensland play but also picking apart New South Wales 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.520 and big games. Billy loved to come up with a player, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.800 a trick shot, something that just threw the opposition out. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.200 I don't know what it will be, but I'm pretty 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.800 sure he'll come up with something, either the game plan 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.000 or a trick shot that will sort of try and 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.680 roffle the feathers of New South Wales. So keep an 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.200 eye on that. But I still think Munster. I think 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.000 twenty two fourteen Queensland. I think it's going to be 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:22.920 an entertaining game. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.559 Will be entertaining a game, and earlier today Stephen Crichton 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.360 left training, had a nice bag and he's quad, so 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.640 we'll find out there. That's a nervous way. He's such 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.400 an important player. That combination Latrell, Mitchell and Stephen Crichton, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.319 as far as centers, it's as good as it gets. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.000 Look, they dominate. Do you think Latrell and Steven Kricht 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:40.920 is the point of difference? 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.480 I do. I think they're dominate. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.920 I'm worried. I'm worried. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.480 Look, it's a great combination given the way that Nathan 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.800 has been playing. If you watch the way Penwth has 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.120 been playing of late and how straight Nathan's been playing, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.160 and like he's been playing so straight, he's been just 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.439 basically perling an opposition in short and giving his outside 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.120 men so much time and space. With Latrell and Cryton 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.560 vis that's yeah, that's a big opportunity there. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.200 Clearing and Moses can connect and condense the middle part 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.079 of the defense and create just space for Latrell and Crichton. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.440 I think Hammer and Rob Toyer need to almost have 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.120 the toy's debut game, but the best defensive performers ever. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.440 Had you mentioned Billy? I want to talk about Lurie, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.880 not Laurie's coaching, his playing career. A lot of younger 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.040 people who come to the game don't remember Laurie as 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.280 a player and what he did for New South Wales 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.960 as a player. I think when you're talking about you know, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.160 when you talk about Queensland, I took with the greatest 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.520 Queensland players is of course Wally Lewis, of course Cameron Smith. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.640 When it gets to New South Wales, there's blokes at there. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.880 Joey spoken about Bradley, Clyde, Brett, Kenny, Freddie Mate. I 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.840 put Lourie just about the top. He's contribution in New 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:07.280 South Wales and basically changing like Queensland dominated for so 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.960 long throughout the eighties, but the emergence of those young 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.079 guys from the Green Machine that Canberra era really swung 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.239 up back in New South Whil's way and Laurie tippified 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.760 that he came in. It was funny. His first series 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.200 was in eighty nine right and the great Jack Gibson 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.080 was coaching the New South Wales side. Jack knew you 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.959 had this kid who was developing. It was going to 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.800 be a legend of the game. He just missed it 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.880 by twelve months because when he come in Laurie that 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.600 first series, he was really struggled. He talks of I've 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.400 spoken to him. I interviewed him about it, and I said, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.200 that first series in eighty nine bad memories, he said, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.160 most terrible. He said, I went in so naive, not 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.640 knowing what Origin was about. He was nineteen years of age, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.640 and he said, I was playing center opposite my mentor, 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.840 my hero, my teammate, my captain, Malmaninger. And he said naively, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.679 I went into that game believe him Mal would take 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.760 it easier. And he said he he just completely completely 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.520 humiliated loss, you know. Talking about his trajectory as a player. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.880 The big turning point for Laurie, I think he's breakouts 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.000 as far as being a representative player was City versus 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.400 Country nineteen ninety and Country were beaten by two points, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:23.240 but Laurie absolutely tore City to shreds and after the 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.439 game it was like mate, it was everything changed. He 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.000 went into State of Origin that year ninety ninety and 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.080 dominated Queensland in the first game. But the big one 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.840 when Phil goirled. The big rise with Laurie coops come 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:42.000 when Phil Gould was coach. Gus recognized straight away that 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.360 Laurie's got to be my captain. He elevated him's captain. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.720 But I love this story when you talk about Gus 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.200 spoke to him about what did you learn from that 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.760 first series? Tell me about that first series, and he 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.360 told Gus the story about playing against Mail and Phil 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.760 Mali take it easier. I mean how he humiliated him. Anyway, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.160 when he made Laurie captain, he said, they're playing a 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.040 game at lang Park. It's a big game. Got to 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.720 be a decider, and he said, I've been the call 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.320 to tap on the tap in the dressing room. Mate, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.640 come out. The captain's out to toss the coin, and 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.320 Mal is the captain of Corny's land. Anyway, Gus grabbed 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.760 him and said this is your time. He said, go 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.079 and hide in the toilet. Let Mal wait for you 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.199 out there. So he said, Maol was forced to wait 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.280 outside Lorry's hiding in the toilet as a power play. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.400 Mail is just standing out there, made him wait five 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.920 minutes and then strolled out. And it was just a statement. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.920 He said, Mao was filthy and mal knew exactly what 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.400 he was doing. And then he turned went back into 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.440 the sheds. It was a Turning Point and Lorry that 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.600 ninety four series, Laurie completely dominated it to the fact 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:52.959 that Coops they won. I don't know if it was decided, 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.400 but they won Game three in a really tough game 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.920 at the Sydney Football Stadium and Lorry scored a key 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.560 try late. And remember talking to Paul Harrigan the next day, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.480 who was a skipper at Newcastle. He played in that game, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.599 and it was myself and out of me and we 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.200 have a lunch with Chief. I said, this is a 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.080 tough game. It said, yeah, really tough. And I said, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.960 you know, how did you feel through the game? You know, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.720 like when they were on top? Did you think we win? 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.079 He said, on you would win? I said, why did 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.520 you know your win? He said because we had Lori 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.440 daily And I think that that says it all. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.360 It's funny, like my history Lesson of Origin. You mentioned 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:29.760 about MAO and I always wanted to play Origin, but 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 I didn't play until twenty ten. So I was still 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.880 playing first grade for a few years and everyone else 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.000 would pack there, but I go Thrid and I'd stay behind. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.240 It started cutting me and I wanted for Ego to 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.400 be a part of it, right, So I just all 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.240 I thought about was Origin was the best game of 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.480 the year, and I just wanted to play in it. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.560 So it was self driven and egotistical about I get 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.280 into Origin Camp twenty ten for my Deboom and Mao 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.320 talks about the history of Origin, where the concept of 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.120 Queensland started in nineteen eighty and all of a sudden 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.280 it became more powerful than just me. So I'm talking about, like, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.480 why does Queensland rise when they playing them own jerseys 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.720 because quick history lesson. Prior to nineteen eighty, it was 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.320 always about where you played, right, So all the good 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.160 players of queens then moved to New South Wales represented Queensland. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.120 They played in the state game and New South Wales 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.720 would smash Queensland fifty zeril every game yep, and the 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.360 Queenslander's got smashed. It wasn't until nineteen eighty when they 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.520 changed the rules of where you're born. Arthur beats in 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.240 that first scrum. He's playing reserve grade for Paramatter at 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.080 the time. Packs In McCrone is the gun player for 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.640 paramatter at the time for New South Wales get stuck 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.200 into him and that is mate verse mate state Verse State. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.320 Mal brought that story up. So the power of that 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.760 Queensland Jersey. Why did Queenslanders get Origin? It's because of 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.280 that history, lesson of the past and playing for the future. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.840 And I lived through that coup, like you know, growing up, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.760 following when I was a young kid in the seventies 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.360 watching New South well, when the interstate games came around, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.000 we would annihilate Queensland. And I still remember, I still 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.160 remember the first set of Origin game. I was living 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.920 in Newcastle. We didn't get the game televised and I 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.800 don't believe I'm listening to it on the radio and 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.080 I'm listening to Queensland just belders and I'm saying, I 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.000 said to my dad, what's going on? Like you know, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.480 I didn't understand the concept. But watching you back later, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.160 like I'll get goose pumps, watching Arthur boots and run 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.720 on the field like the returning hero. I heard Chris 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.880 Cloves tell a story. Was Gordy as it was Gordy 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.000 relaying the story. The only difference was choppy story where 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.880 for two minutes and Gordy's breath for two hours. But 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.960 he sold. He told Gordy, he said, I'm a young 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.760 guy sitting there and he said in the next locker 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.600 to me or sitting next to me is Arthur. And 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.320 he said, Arthur's just sitting there really quiet. And Arthur's 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.880 got all these tapes, doing all his own taping, and 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.080 he's strapping his fingers up and he said. I looked 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.280 at him and said, mate, this guy's going to war 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.000 like he was a warrior going to war and man 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.920 a contribution. So often, coops, you're just talking there about 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.960 the history and the history that like think you blokes 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.120 are taught when you go into camp and how important 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.200 that is for you blokes, and oftentimes that's the reason 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.000 why you blokes going into a series, you win the 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.399 battle of the narrative. That makes sense, You win that battle, 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.679 like played in the game where that that series fatties 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:27.320 Queensland as a ninety five and we went into county 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:34.919 when that guy apologize to the studio audience. We've got 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:40.399 a studio awardens three viewers have made the trip to 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.879 our time and to watch us and howdy ah. But 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.760 I so we had like a gun team, even though 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.280 Super League players weren't selected, were gun site, you know, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.359 Freddie and Chief and someone and of course Stop John's 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.719 Stop New South Wales anyway. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.520 Why do you for yourself? 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:06.239 That was this funny turn of phrase anyway, But we 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.920 went in there and we were I've heard Gus talk 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.080 about this after they Queensland beat the series and so 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.920 what was the difference? He said? Our blokes turned up 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.040 into camp trying to show each other how skillful they were, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.760 and the Queensland has turned up trying to show each 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.959 other how tough they were and coops. That first night 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.439 at the Sydney Football Stadium, I remember, I think, and 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.960 I was right, did the warm up felt good? You know? 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.560 Run onto the field and I'm standing there right and 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.240 I look over as Queensland run on and I see 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.840 my teammate Robbie O Davis and there was just something 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.320 different about him, and at that point I thought we 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.560 won't be in trouble here. There was just something. There 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.680 was an extra layer of intensity in that term. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.160 So there's not a huge gap there was in ninety five. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.240 But there's some similarities. And the example will be paying 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:57.240 us and Patrick Carrighan. Yeah, like that will be an example. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:58.760 Paying us runs out of the field a bunch of 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.280 Patrick Carrighan is not Yeah, high five of him saying goody, you. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.640 Be one big great classroom too. Yeah, it's a big 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:16.679 one for cubs. We're gonna do a bit of the 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:20.040 health check on the competition here and when we you know, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.200 it's been all about origin here, we might split it 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:23.959 in two. We'll do a few of the teams now 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.080 and a few of them next week. But let's start. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.080 We'll go from the bottom up to the top. And 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.000 usually the bottom teams it's usually very straightforward. They're having 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.600 a blood er every year and they're not going to 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.520 make the finals. There's a couple of them, but there are, 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:41.159 But it's Penrith. What are you thinking? 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.199 They are in seventeenth on nine points. The Broncos are 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:50.560 in eighth on twelve points. In the next period of time, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.800 they play the Eels twice, the Tigers twice. They've got 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.880 two buyers. They've got the Titans, Knights and Souths. There's 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.400 a couple of other big games of worries. 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:01.720 They're going to creep in. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:07.440 I've got them here finishing eighth. You agree, I do agree. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.639 I do agree. We've said this before. If they can 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.320 creep into the eight, they can win the camp Coops. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.040 My prediction is I think they will creep into the eight. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.240 But I think it'll be very, very similar to when 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.960 Brisbane did similar ninety nine, but they lost all those 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.879 games empty and they spent the pennies getting there. I 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:25.840 agree with that, But when you look at it also 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.800