Speaker 1: Welcome to L three sixty Rugby League from every angle,
Speaker 1: joining me again the great good and tell us it's
Speaker 1: been the Jono Australian Poor Crawley and Dean Richie and
Speaker 1: let's get straight to it. Queensland coach Billy Slade has
Speaker 1: launched an emotion chart spray at former Blues prop Aaron
Speaker 1: Woods on the eve of Origin two in Perth.
Speaker 2: Take a look.
Speaker 3: When you hold a position in the media in our game,
Speaker 3: I feel that's a privilege and with that privilege comes
Speaker 3: a responsibility. I sit in that position. I know Aaron Woods.
Speaker 3: I actually ran into him about three or four weeks
Speaker 3: ago at a footy game and he didn't voice that opinion.
Speaker 3: Then he actually brought his son over to introduce him
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 4: All Right.
Speaker 3: Our game creates attention, but there's a responsibility with that attention,
Speaker 3: all right, and when you.
Speaker 5: How will I put this?
Speaker 3: When you degrade someone personally in a derogatory manner, you
Speaker 3: probably don't deserve one of those privileged positions that you're
Speaker 3: all in.
Speaker 4: That we're all in.
Speaker 3: I'm not done yet. You don't know what people are
Speaker 3: going through and although I might be able to handle it,
Speaker 3: the next person mightn't be. Maybe our last coach didn't.
Speaker 3: I believe the character of a person is judged more
Speaker 3: on what they say about people and how they treat
Speaker 3: people than what an individual says to create attention about someone.
Speaker 1: A very emotional coach of Queensland there, Billy Slater, what's
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this?
Speaker 5: It was raw, it was real.
Speaker 4: I just wonder if Billy may have overstepped the mark
Speaker 4: bringing Paul Green into it. I wonder, and we don't
Speaker 4: know this, but I wonder if there was any conversations
Speaker 4: prior to that with Paul's family. You'd hope so, because
Speaker 4: I just thought that that was unnecessary what was said
Speaker 4: against Billy. Billy's more than entitle to react to Aaron
Speaker 4: Woods's comments. But yeah, that's just what I took out
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 6: I think it's a reality check for all of us.
Speaker 6: I think we sit here and sometimes you forget sometimes Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, it's an emotional game. We've rusted on, We've
Speaker 6: got passionate fans. Everybody's got to say that. Everybody's got
Speaker 6: their own platform. I think it's fine for Billy to
Speaker 6: fire back at at Aaron Woods, and sometimes you don't
Speaker 6: know and then I've been in that situation where it
Speaker 6: doesn't sort of hurt you as much as it hurts
Speaker 6: the people around you.
Speaker 5: Paul Green situation is incredibly sad, obviously. I think what
Speaker 5: Woodsy said though, was in Jeff. It's a comment we
Speaker 5: look back on now which perhaps has gone wrong. But
Speaker 5: I'm with you, Crauls. I don't know whether Billy needed
Speaker 5: to bring Paul Green's death into a press conference talking
Speaker 5: about a comment Grub. I don't think Grub deserved Billy's.
Speaker 2: Reaction.
Speaker 5: I'm picking my words very carefully here because it's a.
Speaker 1: Very sensit sensitive one and you know, watching it, I
Speaker 1: can see both sides a little bit here.
Speaker 2: I can understand what Billy's saying.
Speaker 1: It does impact people, and you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: something that a lot of the new generation and even
Speaker 1: the old generation and all of us are got to
Speaker 1: be wary of, you know, what we say and how
Speaker 1: it impacts other people. My day community so was when
Speaker 1: I was fifteen. So, and I have a program for men,
Speaker 1: and I'm big on mental health. So I'm big on
Speaker 1: looking after men and making sure that they talk and
Speaker 1: they get their emotions out and they look after themselves
Speaker 1: and each other. That's one of my passion projects in life.
Speaker 2: But also Aaron Woods very well.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Woodsy called him a grub in
Speaker 1: terms of a grub of a human being. He was
Speaker 1: talking about the way he played, So I think that's
Speaker 1: a big difference. You know, I can understand it impact
Speaker 1: and Billy, I really can any family, you know, because
Speaker 1: it's not nice being called a grub, and I don't
Speaker 1: condone it. But I also got to stick up for
Speaker 1: Woodsy a bit, like I don't necessarily think he was
Speaker 1: trying to attack him as a human being.
Speaker 2: I really don't know, and who knows.
Speaker 1: Woodsy may regret what he said, but there are two sides,
Speaker 1: and I just gotta be careful with this, you know.
Speaker 5: I think you're right there, Broth too.
Speaker 4: With Woodsy, there's an obvious respect because Billy spoke about
Speaker 4: the fact that Woodsy had gone up to him in
Speaker 4: recent weeks and introduced him to his son, and there's
Speaker 4: an obvious respect there. But Billy can't deny them. We
Speaker 4: can't ignore it that as a player, Billy did push
Speaker 4: the boundaries. He was known at one point we used
Speaker 4: to as a blues supporter and a person in the media,
Speaker 4: we called him teflon Bill because he went out there
Speaker 4: and nothing stick to him. He pushed the edges, he
Speaker 4: pushed the boundaries, and what Woods he was doing, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, was commenting about Billy's past as a player,
Speaker 4: not not as a person. But I can also understand
Speaker 4: how Billy takes that to heart, and especially because if
Speaker 4: it's impacted his family.
Speaker 6: If everybody kept on bringing up people's past, we all
Speaker 6: probably wouldn't have a job because we've all made so
Speaker 6: many mistakes in the past.
Speaker 5: So I think it's unfair because Madge did last year.
Speaker 6: I do believe that it's a bit unfair bringing up
Speaker 6: his playing career where probably I don't know how long,
Speaker 6: probably seven years, maybe five to seven years since Billy's played.
Speaker 5: It's about his coaching, remember the career. Male ran a
Speaker 5: backpage story pre game one calling Spencer Lenue grub. So yeah,
Speaker 5: that's it wasn't Billy. But I'm saying that learn attach
Speaker 5: any of us to that. I'm trying to say it
Speaker 5: is that word grub is used and has been used
Speaker 5: on both sides of the origin. I think to the
Speaker 5: point it's a folklore saying in origin now, which whether
Speaker 5: it be right or wrong, it is used.
Speaker 1: The reason Woods he used it is because of that
Speaker 1: back page and he's just responded and fired back, you know,
Speaker 1: like that was because grub was used.
Speaker 2: He saw and it was the the word of the day.
Speaker 1: And he's fired back and he knows whether he should
Speaker 1: or he shouldn't have he did.
Speaker 5: But the bottom line is both we all have a responsibility.
Speaker 5: And I've thrown as many barbs across the border as
Speaker 5: any journo in Australia, but we all have a responsibility.
Speaker 5: We can be provocative, we can be contentious, we can
Speaker 5: be controversial. That's what our employees want.
Speaker 2: That's what this.
Speaker 5: Show was about. Being contentious. But there is a line
Speaker 5: in the sand and whether Woods he's gone over it
Speaker 5: is up to Aaron Woods to work out, and whether
Speaker 5: Billy has equally overstepped the line by bringing Paul Green
Speaker 5: into the equation.
Speaker 1: All right, time now for our origin preview thanks to
Speaker 1: four Day's christ Live to Peter Medell and up the stadium, Pete,
Speaker 1: Billy Slater was clearly talk was through that.
Speaker 7: You were there, Yeah, I certainly was, Braith. Look, it
Speaker 7: was the two hundred and forward outburst that has ignited
Speaker 7: Origin too. It was quite amazing being there in the auditorium.
Speaker 7: There was the official press conference of course for Origin
Speaker 7: two here at Opta Stadium behind me. It turned into
Speaker 7: the Billy Slater show. It was quite amazing. I was
Speaker 7: the person that asked the question Braith a bit too
Speaker 7: Billy about his views on being called a grub by
Speaker 7: Aaron Woods. To be honest, I expected him to the
Speaker 7: question as he tends to do sometimes, Billy. He's pretty
Speaker 7: carefully constructed in his answers. And the response that he got,
Speaker 7: I don't think any of us expected it. It was
Speaker 7: pretty dramatic, it was. It was pretty cutting. It was
Speaker 7: a withering attack on Aaron Woods, and he inferred that
Speaker 7: he was two faced. He suggested that it was degrading
Speaker 7: and that perhaps as a commentator, giving his role in
Speaker 7: the game, he should consider his position moving forward as
Speaker 7: a commentator. So it was pretty cutting stuff. And of
Speaker 7: course there was then the bombshell moment when he inferred
Speaker 7: he didn't mention Paul Green specifically, but he did refer
Speaker 7: to Queensland's last coach. Now, of course, only those that
Speaker 7: were in the camp at the time. Break in Camp
Speaker 7: Marooney twenty and twenty one will to understand what Paul
Speaker 7: Green went through personally and how close he was to
Speaker 7: walking away at times through what was a pretty tense campaign.
Speaker 7: So if he had his time again, guys, maybe Billy
Speaker 7: Slater doesn't refer or infer Paul Green's name, but he
Speaker 7: met no stone unturned there about how he felt about
Speaker 7: Aaron Woods. And we reached out to Aaron Woods this afternoon.
Speaker 7: I'm told that he will make a comment tomorrow on
Speaker 7: Triple M on his radio show.
Speaker 4: Paul Crawley here, mate, can I ask you, since since
Speaker 4: the press conference and you asked that question, have you.
Speaker 5: Done any further digging?
Speaker 4: Because it seemed like Billy had that he was ready
Speaker 4: to go on that even when he pulled up mid
Speaker 4: question and he got the applause from the crowd, he said,
Speaker 4: I haven't finished yet.
Speaker 5: Have you found out since then?
Speaker 4: Was Paul Green's family notified that these comments were coming?
Speaker 4: Do you know if there was anyone from the QR
Speaker 4: roll who had reached out or was this off the
Speaker 4: top of the head.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, good questions, Paul. Look, I haven't delved into
Speaker 7: that depth. I don't know if Paul Green's family were consulted.
Speaker 7: I don't think they were. Look my feeling, Paul. I've
Speaker 7: had a few text from people saying, Pete, look, did
Speaker 7: you set this up with Billy Slater? I can assure
Speaker 7: you that wasn't the case. It was just a genuine
Speaker 7: journalistic question. I thought it was a newsworthy topic, as
Speaker 7: we all did. I think Billy Slater's response, though, while
Speaker 7: we were surprised, I don't think Billy Slater was surprised.
Speaker 7: I think this was premeditated. Billy's a very smart person.
Speaker 7: I think he had a calculated response planned. I think
Speaker 7: he anticipated that someone in the media press would ask
Speaker 7: him that question. He was asked the question, so I
Speaker 7: think in Billy's head he knew this was coming. He
Speaker 7: had a pretty deliberate answer. And when you listen back
Speaker 7: to his response, two hundred and four words, spinning about
Speaker 7: sixty seconds, and at one point interjecting when he got
Speaker 7: applause to say, hold on.
Speaker 5: I've done yet.
Speaker 7: To me, that says that Billy had something to get
Speaker 7: off his chest. Now where it goes from he who
Speaker 7: knows but Aaron Woodsye. I imagine we'll have some pretty
Speaker 7: pointed comments tomorrow when he gets a repost.
Speaker 4: Can I ask you on the back of that too, mate,
Speaker 4: you brought up when Paul was in charge of the
Speaker 4: Queensland team and if we just we tracked back Paul
Speaker 4: was let go by the Cowboys. I imagine that was
Speaker 4: a very difficult time in his life. Then he coached
Speaker 4: Queensland for that one year. What he went through, but
Speaker 4: ultimately it was the QR rel that made the call.
Speaker 4: Or just remind us exactly how that ended.
Speaker 7: Yes, So, Crauls, the tenure for Paul Green at Camp
Speaker 7: Maroon was expected to be longer than just the one campaign,
Speaker 7: so he was keen to do the job for longer
Speaker 7: than the one season, even though it was a tumultuous time.
Speaker 7: Of course it was COVID there were restrictions placed on
Speaker 7: the group. But I know that Paul Green wanted to
Speaker 7: coach the Morons for another year. He wanted a little
Speaker 7: bit more certainty around the tenure. He was seeking more
Speaker 7: than just the one year. I think he wanted a
Speaker 7: multi year arrangement. At the time, there wasn't any certainty
Speaker 7: around whether he could be given that. There was also
Speaker 7: some talk about him wanting to coach the Broncos. There
Speaker 7: was some talk about the Dolphins coming into the comp
Speaker 7: later in the year and potential opportunities for him as
Speaker 7: an assistant to Wayne Bennett at the Dolphins, so he
Speaker 7: had several cards to play, and in the end it
Speaker 7: was a mutual agreement. Really, I think they couldn't come
Speaker 7: to terms either party in the q L said look,
Speaker 7: if you have other opportunities, you're happy to go and
Speaker 7: seek them. Paul Green did that and then of course
Speaker 7: we had the tragedy about eighteen months later when we
Speaker 7: lost the great Paul Green.
Speaker 2: So look at it.
Speaker 7: It was a sad time Crauls, as we all know
Speaker 7: in rugby league. But we now move forward to Origin
Speaker 7: two here on Wednesday night and Billy Slater has a
Speaker 7: big opportunity to save the series here before sixty thousand fans.
Speaker 5: Pete, why do you it's bullock? Pete? Why do you
Speaker 5: think Billy waited almost a week to come forward with
Speaker 5: his comments. It just seemed an unusual time, twenty four
Speaker 5: hours before the game to come forward with this blows
Speaker 5: if a bombshell.
Speaker 7: I guess you could call it, well doggie, Oh, I
Speaker 7: think it was purely opportunistic. I mean, he had the
Speaker 7: chance to be asked the question at his first press
Speaker 7: conference when the Origin two team was named last Monday week,
Speaker 7: and he wasn't asked the question about Aaron Woods. I'm
Speaker 7: sure if someone asked him then he probably would have
Speaker 7: had time to ruminate on an answer and provide one.
Speaker 7: So I guess it was just the first journalist to
Speaker 7: ask him the question. He was asked that today and
Speaker 7: I don't think Billy would even have imagined the fallout
Speaker 7: to this, but it will create some discussion now there's
Speaker 7: been some ructions as a result. Maybe it's a good
Speaker 7: thing for queens and it takes the focus off the
Speaker 7: pressure there now under because they're facing four consecutive losses
Speaker 7: for the first time in twenty eight years. They need
Speaker 7: to win. They need to get their job done. Let's
Speaker 7: see if they've got the talent to do it.
Speaker 1: Current your Pete, great work. They're over in Perth. Go
Speaker 1: enjoy tomorrow night's game.
Speaker 2: There it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, Billy's coming out pretty hard on this, I
Speaker 1: suppose is it a case of him feeling the pressure
Speaker 1: or is it more just he's emotional about this situation
Speaker 1: and will it galvanize Queensland or could it go the
Speaker 1: other way?
Speaker 2: Like how do we look at this.
Speaker 5: It was such a curveball other players over many years
Speaker 5: break and you guys played at the highest level. I mean,
Speaker 5: you would have put up with comments on the field
Speaker 5: which were far more nasty and divisive than what as.
Speaker 6: A player you can go there and then your actions
Speaker 6: can just wash it away you I mean, like as
Speaker 6: a player, I thought as a coach last year, and
Speaker 6: this is my opinion, he was shot down a bit
Speaker 6: in Glasshouse and kept on going and the sale and
Speaker 6: Cobbo and that story which was fabricated and we all
Speaker 6: know was fabricated. I think it must have or just
Speaker 6: kept on filling up a bucket maybe.
Speaker 4: But also you mentioned it earlier, dog like the twenty
Speaker 4: four hours before the game, when there's been the build up,
Speaker 4: the week build up. You wonder if it's a tactic
Speaker 4: to galvanize his team, to bring extra emotion to their
Speaker 4: performance like that, that's you're entitled.
Speaker 5: To us the first coach to do it. No, he wouldn't,
Speaker 5: but that's good.
Speaker 4: And then you go back to the fact, Okay, a game,
Speaker 4: why do you bring poor Green into it?
Speaker 5: Or is it a.
Speaker 6: Because Kevin Wolder spoke about it on a podcast, right,
Speaker 6: And coaches can't often and now if they say anything,
Speaker 6: they get fine. So when they talk about what they
Speaker 6: believe goes against them. So we've shut them up really
Speaker 6: in a way. And then they ask him about a
Speaker 6: coach and he goes. I think it's unfair, and maybe
Speaker 6: they do feel the pressure and they can't go out
Speaker 6: there and playing. These are all champion players that have
Speaker 6: gone out there and pretty much the results being in
Speaker 6: their own hands. And Billy sitting there now and he
Speaker 6: probably feels helpless as a coach when.
Speaker 4: I don't think this is a motivational tactic ahead of
Speaker 4: the game, because maybe he strikes.
Speaker 6: Me everybody or like maybe he's just sticking up for
Speaker 6: ever him off the back of the.
Speaker 1: Good There's something I need to probably address. Corey Patterson
Speaker 1: x regu play good mate of mine had mental health
Speaker 1: issues and we spoke about long ago. Wasn't there an
Speaker 1: incident where something happened on the field between him and Billy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Braith, it was back in twenty ten. Corey Patterson
Speaker 5: was suffering from some mental health issues and Billy accused
Speaker 5: him on the field of quote unquote running, don't go
Speaker 5: running to your room and sooking to which Corey was
Speaker 5: deeply offended, deeply hurt, and Billy was forced to come
Speaker 5: out twenty four hours later and issue a public apology.
Speaker 5: So we have been on this path before, and Billy's
Speaker 5: been involved in this before, but in that case it
Speaker 5: was Billy was the one who was doing the sledging.
Speaker 1: There's been worst things said on footbeat. Absolutely, of course
Speaker 1: it has. Of course it has. But it's like again,
Speaker 1: he kind of it's such a I think it's.
Speaker 5: A wake up call for all of us, like I
Speaker 5: really do audio as a journalist, it can be quite frightening.
Speaker 6: Then I'll tell you what, Gordylan, you are grub right.
Speaker 6: I didn't agree with it, right, And then they say
Speaker 6: Queenslander said, Queenslanders didn't write that article. That's not one
Speaker 6: Queenslander wrote that article. That's that's someone that did it.
Speaker 6: And it's a headline. And we know that you know,
Speaker 6: and yes, yes, it is to.
Speaker 4: Create a need to be mindful and you learn over years.
Speaker 4: Break I remember you as a young man and some
Speaker 4: of the things that were written and said about you
Speaker 4: like it and you all say good to it. But
Speaker 4: as a journalist also over over decades, you grow and
Speaker 4: you're mature, and you learn and you do become more
Speaker 4: aware of the impact of your comments. But in modern society,
Speaker 4: I think what's happening these days has gone to a
Speaker 4: new level with social me.
Speaker 5: I've had people say to me and this has happened
Speaker 5: twice in the last year. If you write that story
Speaker 5: that you threatened to write, it could lead to suicide.
Speaker 5: And as a journalist, that is a terrifying thought. So
Speaker 5: as a journalist, do you then say I will pull
Speaker 5: back and not right there? But how often can you
Speaker 5: keep pulling back on stories when you know that that
Speaker 5: story should be written?
Speaker 2: But it is?
Speaker 5: It's a very frightening dilemma.
Speaker 1: A sens as this is and we can all appreciate
Speaker 1: that is trash talk.
Speaker 2: Now before origin gone, is we My.
Speaker 5: Theory is we don't need it.
Speaker 6: Arthur beats and lit the fuse in nineteen eighty and
Speaker 6: you and everybody else that has gone and played it
Speaker 6: has kept on throwing flames and petrol on that fire.
Speaker 6: And the efforts of all the players that have played
Speaker 6: thirty games to one game has built this to what
Speaker 6: it is. There was no build up the game, and
Speaker 6: wasn't it one of the highest ratings games ever it's
Speaker 6: it's the football, the games that start.
Speaker 5: We don't need to use to throw.
Speaker 4: You threw You even threw a barb at Aaron Woods
Speaker 4: on the radio on the weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 4: you did. What I'm saying is you you you also
Speaker 4: did that? Like where does it start and where does
Speaker 4: it stop?
Speaker 5: Gordon? Like, is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4: You don't respond to those anymore because when we're sitting
Speaker 4: on a panel and we're talking, I don't know if
Speaker 4: we need it, Gordon, but we certainly.
Speaker 5: Just leave it to the players when they're there.
Speaker 4: But our job also is to talk about moments and
Speaker 4: what is going on in the world of rugby league
Speaker 4: and respond with with opinions and analysis, and sometimes Mate,
Speaker 4: it does push the boundaries. But sometimes when you're not,
Speaker 4: you're not setting out to and you try never to
Speaker 4: do that to make it personal.
Speaker 5: And I think on.
Speaker 4: This occasion, I truly think Woodsy was only sparking the
Speaker 4: fire of an origin emotional debate.
Speaker 5: He wasn't, he was not. I don't think he was
Speaker 5: trying to make it personally. Billy's obviously taken it.
Speaker 4: That way, and I understand that side of the story too,
Speaker 4: But you can't just draw a line in it like Gordon.
Speaker 4: If you go back to Paul Green, it wasn't the
Speaker 4: criticism or the journalists that led Paul Green to do what.
Speaker 5: Happened to him.
Speaker 2: We know.
Speaker 4: What we know is it was the Queensland Rugby League
Speaker 4: that ended his tenure. What we know at the Cowboys
Speaker 4: it was the board of the Cowboys who got rid
Speaker 4: of him as the coach, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And as Peter Bedell mentioned that afterwards, there were opportunities
Speaker 4: for Paul to continue in coaching and that so we
Speaker 4: don't know where he was as a person, but he had.
Speaker 4: It wasn't the media that cost him his job as
Speaker 4: the Queensland coach.
Speaker 5: I think the rgie Bargie pre origin is just as
Speaker 5: important as the game itself. I think we have to
Speaker 5: build origin up. That's what sets it aside from a
Speaker 5: club game. And Gordon, you just touched on the thing
Speaker 5: the players. I think it was Ray Price that said,
Speaker 5: oh who does wal it? Or thinking is he thinks
Speaker 5: he's the king or whatever, and then it was players
Speaker 5: that would Paul Gordon, they're two, well, why did we
Speaker 5: do their job? Because we try to build it up.
Speaker 5: You just mentioned the TV runnings nearly four million, but
Speaker 5: that again, nothing was set in game one, but that
Speaker 5: again to a bit of a build up, which the
Speaker 5: media is now entrusted with because the players won't say anything,
Speaker 5: The coaches don't want the players are staying because they
Speaker 5: don't want to fuel the opposition. So we in the
Speaker 5: media taken upon ourselves to try to build the game
Speaker 5: that might be wrong or rights.
Speaker 1: Out a story every day. You know, he's because he's
Speaker 1: working to try and puck the game up. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just fine in that balance.
Speaker 5: He found his voice after you won in game one.
Speaker 5: Loud and clear. All right, let's move on to the next.
Speaker 1: Details emerge of Seabolts seven minute crisis meetings with Manly players.
Speaker 2: Seven minutes? Why seven minutes? What's going on in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a strange one down there at Mainly. Look,
Speaker 5: there's certainly an increase in unrest among the players and
Speaker 5: unsettlment re how the season's going. There are multiple rumors
Speaker 5: flying around about who's at fault here. There's two elephants
Speaker 5: in the room here, in my eyes, one is Isaac Moses.
Speaker 5: He keeps parking players at Manly. He's got multiple players
Speaker 5: at Manly and he's so players that aren't getting a
Speaker 5: job done. Yes, I think it's fair to say. And
Speaker 5: the coach is under Isaac Moses? Is it time for
Speaker 5: a divorce with Isaac Moses? And the second elephant in
Speaker 5: the room is the Jaboi bitches? How long do you
Speaker 5: give them in terms of their future? Both are contractor
Speaker 5: to twenty twenty six. Tom wants to go out to
Speaker 5: twenty twenty nine, Jake to twenty twenty seven. How far
Speaker 5: do they should they be extended and how much money
Speaker 5: will it take for them to stay?
Speaker 4: I think initially that's not the problem. The problem is
Speaker 4: that Manly aren't performing where they should be performing. Like
Speaker 4: we look at their roster at the start of the
Speaker 4: year and they're a top four roster and in recent
Speaker 4: weeks they've gone down to Newcastle and now the Titans.
Speaker 4: They've had a captain who wasn't offered a contract initially.
Speaker 4: After fifteen seasons at the club, he's chose to leave.
Speaker 4: Why has he chose to leave? Is it because he's
Speaker 4: not believing in what's happening at that club anymore?
Speaker 5: Clearly there's also a lot of talk and I.
Speaker 4: Understand it's right that there are other players there that
Speaker 4: don't necessarily agree with Sea Bowl's way of coaching, and
Speaker 4: the message is not getting through. And yet last night
Speaker 4: Ready sitt there talking about the fact that perhaps down
Speaker 4: the track Sea Bowl will have this, you know, he'll
Speaker 4: move into a football cit, a football role.
Speaker 5: And they'll usher someone in down the track.
Speaker 4: I think the priority is trying to get this team
Speaker 4: firing now, and I don't think he'll be the one
Speaker 4: making the call on what happens in that club in
Speaker 4: two years time.
Speaker 5: To be fair, Gord, I'll ask you this, Not every
Speaker 5: coach is there to be liked. Just because a couple
Speaker 5: of the Manly boys don't like Seabow, that doesn't mean
Speaker 5: he should be sacked. They're not winning, that's right.
Speaker 6: But the results speak for itself. It got two big
Speaker 6: it's a result of him. And as much as we
Speaker 6: don't like it, I always say no, no Tommy, no trophy.
Speaker 6: But they've got a fair sight. All those young kids
Speaker 6: that come up and played Brisbane, they were outstanding. So
Speaker 6: one week the superstar. So was the inconsistency. That's what
Speaker 6: you've got to put your finger on a Manly and
Speaker 6: where does that come from? This succession plan? That Crawls
Speaker 6: just mentioned, what's the goal with this? It doesn't make
Speaker 6: any sense to me. Two and a half were years.
Speaker 1: He's gotten his contract, but then he said he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to coach beyond that. But then he's going to
Speaker 1: move into a head of a GM like ahead of
Speaker 1: football And you know that's a long way away that
Speaker 1: two and a half years. Especially the way they're performing
Speaker 1: right now, I can't possibly see it lasting if they
Speaker 1: continue on the same parf hour and now, can you
Speaker 1: give us some clarity and for the fans mainly fans,
Speaker 1: what's the plan there?
Speaker 5: Look, Anthony Seabol is highly intelligent, Braith, and he's very
Speaker 5: big on self development, self improvement. I've spoken to Anthony
Speaker 5: Seabol before. I don't think I'm talking out of school here,
Speaker 5: but he doesn't see himself as being a career coach
Speaker 5: for the rest of his life. He's got other things
Speaker 5: he wants to do in his life. He went to
Speaker 5: England with Anie Jones for the rugby unit. He loved
Speaker 5: it got him out of his.
Speaker 1: League and obsessive rugby league. And if you're a head coach,
Speaker 1: necessarily tell me one of the coaches.
Speaker 5: I got that wrong, Broth I'll rephrase it. While you're coaching, yes,
Speaker 5: but doesn't mean you have to be a coach for
Speaker 5: the rest of your life. But if you you might
Speaker 5: have other things that you want to accomplish.
Speaker 1: If you're already thinking that you don't want to coach
Speaker 1: in two and a half his time.
Speaker 5: You're not coaching for your future. You're not playing for
Speaker 5: your future.
Speaker 6: And if you've got someone like Craig Balamy and all
Speaker 6: those guys that we talk about that eat and breathe
Speaker 6: it and every day they're there to get better and
Speaker 6: that's their job and that's their life, you can't beat them.
Speaker 4: And I think I think that what you mentioned too,
Speaker 4: that that Seabold is a very intelligent person, and I
Speaker 4: think that is sometimes to the criticism of as a
Speaker 4: coach bulldog because he's coaching rugby league players. He's not
Speaker 4: coaching or teaching university students. Some of them may be
Speaker 4: university students. But the really great is in our game.
Speaker 4: The secret to their success is keeping it simple, making
Speaker 4: it an enjoyable workplace, motivating, motivating the players and having
Speaker 4: them ready to go. And at the moment, whatever Sea
Speaker 4: Boll's doing there is not working. And Tom Tom's injuries
Speaker 4: at the moment. Tom's injuries at the moment. You know
Speaker 4: that that goes back Dars had to deal with Tom's
Speaker 4: injuries too. You know that that's been an ongoing concern
Speaker 4: for Tom. But I also think that the decision this
Speaker 4: week and the revelation that Tom will be moved into
Speaker 4: the centers and out to fullback, that I'm not sure
Speaker 4: that's gone down too well with other parties.
Speaker 1: Fail that now, for now, I'll give my opinion on
Speaker 1: this first, and then I'll send it to you guys.
Speaker 1: I actually like the move. I think Tom in the
Speaker 1: sense it will I mean, I love if you break it.
Speaker 1: Tom is the best bloke in the world right and
Speaker 1: we all love him. But Lehi Halparadi has been killing
Speaker 1: it at the back. Is youthful, he doesn't get injured.
Speaker 1: Is a rising star, if not a star already, and
Speaker 1: Tom's best foot, he would most likely be behind him
Speaker 1: now right like this, Let's be honest. Tom can move
Speaker 1: into the centers. We've sent him play there for origin.
Speaker 1: We know how good he can be. He's a big body,
Speaker 1: doesn't need to move as much cover as many kilometers.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good thing. I don't see that
Speaker 2: as a bad thing.
Speaker 5: I'll throw this at your broth. It would half his work,
Speaker 5: There's no doubt about it. But he is the best
Speaker 5: voice in Ragia League back there in terms of on field,
Speaker 5: he's a coach and being at fullback also allows him
Speaker 5: to attack on both sides of the feature.
Speaker 2: It probably is we're not having the impact he used
Speaker 2: to have, though.
Speaker 5: I spoke to Sebold about this two weeks ago and
Speaker 5: he told me at that moment that no, he had
Speaker 5: no plans because Tom's voice at the back is too
Speaker 5: important and Lehi is not quite there as yet. We
Speaker 5: talk about a young man's game, good, you're right compartable
Speaker 5: if it is only twenty eight. We talk about Tom
Speaker 5: as if he's thirty four. He's twenty eight years old.
Speaker 6: Listen, I love Tom. He's not pulling the trigger anymore.
Speaker 6: Went like like when he runs, it's luck. He's running
Speaker 6: on MiGs shells and that's that's no criticism. I just
Speaker 6: feel sorry. I think he's carrying injury. I thought they
Speaker 6: were hiding it. They said he had a cork when
Speaker 6: maybe he did have another hamstring problem.
Speaker 4: Again, it goes back to how the message was relayed.
Speaker 4: You know like it's the Cherry Evans situation. Whatever happened there,
Speaker 4: it wasn't handled well. And if this, if Tom's on
Speaker 4: board on this and it works, good luck. But if
Speaker 4: it's created more division within the team, it could have
Speaker 4: been done differently.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: If something's got to give at Manly, and we agree
Speaker 5: that something has to give because their performances aren't up
Speaker 5: to standard, should daily Cherry Evans stand down as captain
Speaker 5: give it to somebody else who might have more of
Speaker 5: a follow me. I'm going to go into battle right now?
Speaker 5: You mean right now?
Speaker 2: I'm just trying it.
Speaker 5: Out there, breath.
Speaker 2: They need more disruption.
Speaker 5: Things aren't working at the moment. He's going it forms, Paul.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, who's the person though, because you've got
Speaker 4: Tom that's being moved from fallback to senata. Jake has
Speaker 4: had his own issues this year with injuries, and is
Speaker 4: he going to be the leader that take them forward?
Speaker 5: Like, that's a difficult situation. If it's not Cherry Evans,
Speaker 5: who is it?
Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to get too break stick around journals
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