Speaker 1: Well, could be your dear friend Billy Slater has stepped
Speaker 1: down as Queensland can't.
Speaker 2: You're surprised it was a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think most of indication was that he wanted to
Speaker 3: go around again. Five years coaching Origin is a hell
Speaker 3: of an effort. But he's contributed to the Queensland jersey,
Speaker 3: you know, not like too many other people. Like you
Speaker 3: think of the player coaches that have done it before.
Speaker 2: He sits right alongside all.
Speaker 3: You know what Faddy Vorton did, what Mel's done. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's elevated that jersey to inspire the Queenslanders. And to
Speaker 3: be fair now that that position for me is the
Speaker 3: number one coaching sport position in Queensland.
Speaker 2: If you want to.
Speaker 3: Coach the Origin side, that's that's the number one right
Speaker 3: So I think a lot of Yeah, our game is big,
Speaker 3: our game gets a lot of traction, and I think
Speaker 3: sometimes the energy to do that role continuously can get
Speaker 3: chip away over to period of time. But you do
Speaker 3: a good job with those players and the results at
Speaker 3: different stages for inexperienced coach. I remember this guy had
Speaker 3: never coached anything before. He did a damn good job.
Speaker 4: What do you think will he take over the storm. No,
Speaker 4: you don't think he'll do it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think he will.
Speaker 3: Look I think it all looks quite romantic and there
Speaker 3: might be a flying session. It does all add up,
Speaker 3: but I don't think so. I think he's also said
Speaker 3: that never say never, so he could come back and
Speaker 3: coach Queensland one day. He could coach Australia's There's other
Speaker 3: jobs that might fire his belly at some stage, but
Speaker 3: I don't think the Melbourne Storm or enter L coaching
Speaker 3: in general would be on his prioritis.
Speaker 1: At the moment when a lot of stepped away at
Speaker 1: UNI South Wils level, they end up making a quick decision,
Speaker 1: but at first there was no clear cut person you
Speaker 1: know who to put in end up going for Maddie King.
Speaker 4: What about queens Lane. It's a little bit the same,
Speaker 4: is it? I mean the logical one's camera. But do
Speaker 4: you think he'll do it yet?
Speaker 2: To know?
Speaker 3: I think the best person will get the job, like
Speaker 3: it truly is a blank canvas, full time in RL coach,
Speaker 3: no experience coach and everything in between. I think it
Speaker 3: was all in on Billy and Billy sort of had
Speaker 3: a chat to his family and so he doesn't want
Speaker 3: to go around again. So now the conversation shifts to
Speaker 3: who is it?
Speaker 1: And historically great to have someone on this show podcast.
Speaker 4: So't it's Queensland coach.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you for me, it's a logical one. I've
Speaker 1: got a Queensland blake who lives next door. And he said,
Speaker 1: who do you think?
Speaker 4: I see Kronk? And he said, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 2: That won't be happy mate?
Speaker 4: Had ever hardened an ambition to coach?
Speaker 3: No, I like the idea of it, but coaching to
Speaker 3: me and Billy's showed me that coaching to.
Speaker 2: Me is like playing.
Speaker 3: There's not enough hours in the day to be great
Speaker 3: at something, and you know you did it for a
Speaker 3: long period of time, Like there's a certain joy you
Speaker 3: get out of playing. It just cannot be recreated. So no,
Speaker 3: I won't be Unfortunately you might have met here. Actually
Speaker 3: we could sort something out. Might be actually just cronk
Speaker 3: and we'll get rid of Maia.
Speaker 4: I believe me. I am. I'm more than happy to
Speaker 4: minimalize my workload.
Speaker 2: Oh then your contract goes down to it, by the way.
Speaker 4: It doesn't. It doesn't the cost of living coops.
Speaker 1: Look, you spoke last week about the importance of this
Speaker 1: time of the year, plane a fellow heavyweight and not
Speaker 1: being embarrassed or flogged. Penwth lost, but they certainly weren't flogged.
Speaker 1: It was It was a hell of a game. What
Speaker 1: did you What did you think? What do you think
Speaker 1: of Penrith after first time so.
Speaker 3: Peneth had played, the Warriors and the Roosters have lost both.
Speaker 3: I think it was more important for the Warriors and
Speaker 3: the Roosters to win than it was for Penrith.
Speaker 2: I still think Penrith can win. If the Warriors lost.
Speaker 3: To Penith, I didn't think they could. If the Rusters
Speaker 3: lost to Penith, I didn't think they could. Now the
Speaker 3: Roosters are competition favorites. I think Isao brings them a
Speaker 3: little back to the field. The two main threats to
Speaker 3: Penrith have now found a formula that they need to recreate, career,
Speaker 3: create and do again. So I still think Penrith can
Speaker 3: win it. Worries and Rusters can win. But I think
Speaker 3: Roosters have elevated themselves that they have all the ingredients.
Speaker 2: To win the premiership.
Speaker 3: They've got a powerful forward pack, their goal line defense
Speaker 3: against Penrith is that's premiership winning performance defensively, their halves
Speaker 3: are good and they're inconfident. Yeah, they can win it.
Speaker 4: It's turning into a master threat the DC. We'll get
Speaker 4: to that in one set.
Speaker 3: Well, what was penriiths competition two three weeks ago is
Speaker 3: now three even contenders.
Speaker 4: But I saw the number one.
Speaker 1: It was interesting in the last It's been numerous years now.
Speaker 1: The Roosters kryptonite has been the other top sides. Their
Speaker 1: record against the other top sides has been horrible. Driving
Speaker 1: in the other night, I was listening to the radio
Speaker 1: broadcaster in the warming up and I forget it.
Speaker 4: Was what would have been.
Speaker 1: I think it was justin horror he said. On this end,
Speaker 1: he said something very strange. He SAIDs really some penrith
Speaker 1: through out there.
Speaker 4: In the midst of.
Speaker 1: Their warm up, which is pushing now, about twenty five
Speaker 1: minutes the Roosters came out for he said, no more
Speaker 1: than five minutes and they're back in the sheds. Do
Speaker 1: you think it's Trent Robinson's way of mixing things up?
Speaker 1: Do you think that was part of it? A totally
Speaker 1: different approach? Yeah, may they went into this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, their record prior to that wasn't very good
Speaker 3: against betters. So maybe I think if you do the
Speaker 3: same thing, you're just.
Speaker 2: Going to get the same result results.
Speaker 3: Right, Maybe they're preparing for September because in my career,
Speaker 3: when you warmed up inside.
Speaker 2: It was a big game origin in Grand finals.
Speaker 3: So I know coaches start preparing a little bit for September.
Speaker 3: So because if you train it outside the whole time,
Speaker 3: then you get the Grand Final day and go, oh,
Speaker 3: I can't kick a ball outside, I can't sprint fifty meters.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, your preparation changes. So maybe they've
Speaker 3: got a little eye on that. They had to shift
Speaker 3: slightly in the prepar but whatever it did, it worked.
Speaker 1: I used to light the warm up in the Drey Yep,
Speaker 1: you have the old run on the spot a little bit.
Speaker 1: But so I hated getting a sweat in the warm up.
Speaker 1: I get a sweat on the field too, but exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: although these things didn't need to running drop me.
Speaker 2: Well that's a little bit, right.
Speaker 3: So you do you shoulder contact and tackling out in
Speaker 3: a stadium, there's not a lot of you know, it
Speaker 3: doesn't reverberate around the scene, but you do it inside
Speaker 3: there is an intensity, There is a noise that happens,
Speaker 3: and there is something about warming up inside, but not
Speaker 3: all the time that plays a part.
Speaker 2: Like I noticed that South Sydney warm.
Speaker 3: Up inside when they're at a court sometimes, so I
Speaker 3: think coaches use that ploy at different stages.
Speaker 2: But I thought the.
Speaker 3: Best part of the Roosters was their goal line defense.
Speaker 2: In the first twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Nathan had a bucket load to play the balls, probably
Speaker 3: should have scored. Cherry Evans goes down the other end
Speaker 3: and scores a try. There's a lot of Premiership traits
Speaker 3: in that Rooster's performance the other night that says they
Speaker 3: are in pole.
Speaker 4: Position start of the year.
Speaker 1: Mixed reviews whether they should have signed him, he had
Speaker 1: Geo coming through at a raider knots.
Speaker 4: It's proven a master.
Speaker 1: Straight because it's worked out a really terrific combination. You know,
Speaker 1: seam they they're not dissimilar on the way they played,
Speaker 1: the very instinctive reactive players. But there's no doubt to
Speaker 1: see him like the last couple of weeks, DCE has
Speaker 1: guided the ship home.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: That experience in those big games, it's just all these
Speaker 1: big games going to be invaluable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, Look, he's played a lot of big
Speaker 3: games in his career. Last played in a Grand Final
Speaker 3: in two thousand and thirteen against the Roosters. Hasn't played
Speaker 3: in too many prelium finals before in between that and
Speaker 3: now played a lot of origin games.
Speaker 2: That's his best performance in a few years.
Speaker 3: Like running the football, yes, Like taking the line on
Speaker 3: twice for two tries against Penrith, Yeah, Like kicking, managing
Speaker 3: decision making like yeah. He's had some up and down,
Speaker 3: particularly last year. It manly like he wasn't running the
Speaker 3: football and that all the commentary around the signing was
Speaker 3: fair because it wasn't the signs that he was going
Speaker 3: to go to the next level.
Speaker 2: Trent Robinson needs a huge rap.
Speaker 3: Whatever he's done to coach Daily, the person is starting
Speaker 3: now to get the performance. Because it was always he's
Speaker 3: going there for the experience to help Sam. He's now
Speaker 3: actually contributing in a performance part. Those two tries that
Speaker 3: right foot for the first one was a big moment.
Speaker 3: They defended for twenty minutes, got their first opportunity. He
Speaker 3: saw space and we haven't seen Daily do that too often.
Speaker 4: It's been a great It'll be a great experience for
Speaker 4: Hugo to Hugo Savala.
Speaker 1: I know they've got a lot of young guys coming through,
Speaker 1: but you'd think, you know, for what Hugo has done
Speaker 1: for the Jersey, no winging, just got on with it,
Speaker 1: go and play whatever position by your time made.
Speaker 2: We have seen I don't think this gets spoken of.
Speaker 3: We have seen players at other clubs, I the Tigers,
Speaker 3: ie whatever. When something happens, tills down, I'm out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: hre Svaala could have done tools down, I'm out, probably
Speaker 3: had every right to. But what did he do was
Speaker 3: the best trainerger in preseason. He was probably not in
Speaker 3: their seventeen or twenty to start with. He's found a
Speaker 3: spot at left center and he's been very, very consistent.
Speaker 3: And you know, if you're aspiring half, sometimes when you
Speaker 3: play outer position, it gives you a greater understanding what
Speaker 3: it takes to play in your preferred position.
Speaker 2: And he's doing that right now.
Speaker 3: Like he is learning, you know the other side of things,
Speaker 3: like playing rep football for me off the bench and
Speaker 3: defending in the middle, taught me how to tackle on
Speaker 3: the edge. Yeah, there's things that Hugo has done that's
Speaker 3: like he's a damn good player for that club.
Speaker 4: Nathan in the game made heta. He was certainly busy.
Speaker 1: I thought that I thought they were a tackle lacked
Speaker 1: variation when they were attacking the line as we were
Speaker 1: watching his touches here, there's no doubt that he missed Isaiah.
Speaker 4: He's got it because they have worked as a.
Speaker 1: Partnership for just so long. Right through the run of success.
Speaker 1: I thought a couple of times watching the Roosters defend,
Speaker 1: I reckon there were times that the Roosters outside men
Speaker 1: were pretty empty and outside in like rushing outside in defense,
Speaker 1: and I thought for that reason, I thought a few
Speaker 1: times that Nathan should have varied, maybe give.
Speaker 4: The ball two steps earlier. There's little things like that.
Speaker 3: Well, it is one thing when you system and you
Speaker 3: are so automated in the way you play, it makes you.
Speaker 2: A little bit predictable. So there is a little bit
Speaker 2: for next time.
Speaker 3: And this is the thing about Peter and the Roosters
Speaker 3: and the Warriors playing so close together. Is it great
Speaker 3: for the confidence of the Warriors and the Roosters. But
Speaker 3: the bad side is that Ivan and Nathan will sit
Speaker 3: through every bit of vision, yes, and they will go okay,
Speaker 3: this is what they did to us. So here comes
Speaker 3: a variation in prelim final week. So there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of the hold things in the back pocket for
Speaker 3: the big game that you need. But I think Nathan
Speaker 3: is going to get zeroed in on with no Isaiah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I remember in twenty sixteen No Billy playing Crenell
Speaker 3: of Sharks. I just remember thinking, like if I just
Speaker 3: my biggest regret of that Grand Final was not coming
Speaker 3: up with a player that I was.
Speaker 2: A decoy for.
Speaker 3: What I mean by that is attentions on you to
Speaker 3: come up and make with a player. So you keep trying,
Speaker 3: keep trying, keep trying. But if you just sit somewhere
Speaker 3: and have another player come up with a play, it
Speaker 3: just might be the X factor or the difference in it.
Speaker 2: So I think Nathan and Ivan.
Speaker 3: While you put all the responsibility and trust in Nathan
Speaker 3: to deliver without Isaiah, at some stage you've got to
Speaker 3: come up with an alternate play that says, hey, look
Speaker 3: at me, I'm over here, and you know, whether it's
Speaker 3: Cogger or Blaze or someone else.
Speaker 1: Well, that makes sense because one of the notes I
Speaker 1: made come out of the game is that Jack needed to.
Speaker 4: Give Nathan Moore.
Speaker 1: As you said, there was a distinct lack of variation
Speaker 1: wherever Nathan was that that's where the ball was going
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: Do you still think it's Cogger after that performance? Do
Speaker 3: you think cog six I thought was Blaze, but I
Speaker 3: thought Blaze was not He could have added more when.
Speaker 2: He came on the field. I expected a more significant impact.
Speaker 4: I sort of get the feeling. And look, I'm only
Speaker 4: guessing here.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get the sense that the Blaze at
Speaker 1: six experiment, if you want to call her that, all
Speaker 1: that want to turn him into.
Speaker 4: A top class six is evaporating.
Speaker 1: I think they're starting to think, now we might not
Speaker 1: get there, and we might be I mean, this kid,
Speaker 1: they might be you know, they might be sitting on a.
Speaker 4: Bloke who was a world class fullback.
Speaker 1: Or center or somewhere else, and maybe now it's start
Speaker 1: trying to push him somewhere.
Speaker 3: Because Cogo defensively did some pretty good things. So there
Speaker 3: was moments that if that was Blaze, well I don't
Speaker 3: know that's that good of contact, right, But it's definitely
Speaker 3: a point that they need to work out because if
Speaker 3: Nathan is going to be touching the ball more times.
Speaker 3: There was a couple of times where Jack went the
Speaker 3: first receiver, Nathan was that second receiving looked threatening. They
Speaker 3: just need to get that ball right. And the other
Speaker 3: one is Lindsay Smith.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now this is interesting, Coop, because I said that I
Speaker 1: believe that they needed to change the way they played.
Speaker 1: You're the opinion, No, no, no, They've come this far
Speaker 1: down the road. It's too dangerous to start changing. I'm
Speaker 1: sort of leaning your way a little bit. Although Lindsay
Speaker 1: won't give the same service, doesn't have quite doesn't have
Speaker 1: the same vision everything of Isaiah. I think he showed
Speaker 1: enough the other night to show that he can play
Speaker 1: a role similar. I thought he's I thought his first
Speaker 1: stint was pretty good. I thought his second stint was
Speaker 1: just outstanding.
Speaker 3: His first stint was probably two past centric, and his
Speaker 3: second stint he realized he had to know that run
Speaker 3: first mentality and then maybe I.
Speaker 1: Can This is this is only second stint here, so
Speaker 1: you just you see in the first half, I just
Speaker 1: thought he was a little bit out of sink. That
Speaker 1: second stint, you obviously went went back to back to
Speaker 1: the bench, collected himself.
Speaker 3: He took the game on that second stint. But the
Speaker 3: Smith Cleary Coga combo. I don't think they're going to
Speaker 3: change the way they play, but I would say next
Speaker 3: time they play the Roosters or the Warriors, there's going
Speaker 3: to be a variation to their set players. Because you
Speaker 3: and I could sit here and say, oh, you know,
Speaker 3: Penrith will go to the one post and they would
Speaker 3: come back and drop that back roll off and then
Speaker 3: I'll all swing back this way.
Speaker 2: You can see it unfold.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to showcase any type of
Speaker 3: football they've got in terms of tricks until they play
Speaker 3: those teams next.
Speaker 1: Now we're dedicating a lot of time here to these
Speaker 1: two sides, but I mean there's a reason for it.
Speaker 1: This is really interesting in one coup in your opinion
Speaker 1: on Sam Walker at the moment, I want if you
Speaker 1: were if you were Trent Robinson with everything going on
Speaker 1: at the moment, And I don't know Sam, I don't
Speaker 1: know whether he's very good at compartmentalizing.
Speaker 4: He might be, he mightn't bother him at all. But
Speaker 4: there's a lot going on this contract stuff.
Speaker 1: Now there's rumors that the you know, the Broncos could
Speaker 1: be the background preparing.
Speaker 4: A big a bid. This talk about the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: Behind the scenes maybe going to come in as well.
Speaker 1: He got concerns about this being a start to become
Speaker 1: a distraction for Sam.
Speaker 4: Will of course it can be, do you think it will?
Speaker 3: And performance is king right, Like the only thing that
Speaker 3: says right now that he compartmentalizes is his performance.
Speaker 2: I just don't like the noise.
Speaker 3: Like these things can be done behind closed doors and
Speaker 3: not necessarily.
Speaker 4: Hard to they coop in it.
Speaker 2: It's hard.
Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to look at Nathan's situation like he's
Speaker 3: in the same situation and people have said, oh, he's
Speaker 3: going to p and G, but no one's actually really
Speaker 3: speaking about it, because it.
Speaker 2: Could be he might be.
Speaker 3: He might be having these conversations, but whoever's doing that
Speaker 3: is not having external ones.
Speaker 4: And I think that's the reason.
Speaker 1: Was was the very fact that when you know, when
Speaker 1: you heard that, when you heard that Sam and the
Speaker 1: roosters were going to sit down at the table, you
Speaker 1: expect because of the roosters, was going to be that, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get the deal done. Because from the roosters, I
Speaker 1: don't want him sitting down with that makes sense all
Speaker 1: the broncos I'd want the deal done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, See, I might be naive here, But I think
Speaker 3: when you're talking about a long term deal, you are
Speaker 3: investing in a person for a long time, then it
Speaker 3: needs to be genuine care and respect both ways.
Speaker 2: Like I couldn't care less if you went to November one.
Speaker 3: Like if you are working together and trying to achieve something,
Speaker 3: you want to achieve together, and he is going to
Speaker 3: be a franchise half back for a long time, take
Speaker 3: your time, get it done. And I Sam seems to
Speaker 3: have backed himself in. It might be the thing that
Speaker 3: gets that extra deal, extra number. It might be the
Speaker 3: thing that brings it back to normal. But look at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, but the kick can play.
Speaker 4: But yeah, see what happens an xt mounth for So
Speaker 4: now the top a structure.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got the Cowboys and the Dogs of
Speaker 1: Bunnies were sort of flating around. You expect after the
Speaker 1: weekend they're locked in. Cowboys had the opportunity, they're blowing
Speaker 1: it and.
Speaker 2: You reckon they make it.
Speaker 4: I think they do.
Speaker 2: They've got dogs two points outside and the.
Speaker 1: Dogs and the Cowboys are very similar points differential. Dogs
Speaker 1: just slight advantage on very slightly sixteen points. Dogs have
Speaker 1: got the Dragons, the Panthers and the Broncos.
Speaker 2: You'd say they're going to win two of those.
Speaker 1: You'd think Cowboys have got the buy the Tigers and
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Oh, I mean watching on the weekend, like
Speaker 1: you just look at the Cowboys. You got everything to
Speaker 1: play for and off the kickoff like Brian Kelly makes
Speaker 1: the break off the kickoff.
Speaker 3: But they have they have a history of this, the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: Like you're playing PARAMOUNTA down the bottom ladder and this
Speaker 3: is your first effort. That's a few weeks ago a
Speaker 3: getting Brison. Broncos they smashed kickoff.
Speaker 4: Yeh.
Speaker 3: I think it was in tal Malolo's game or something
Speaker 3: like Todd Peyton came out and said they don't like
Speaker 3: the Broncos and they smashed the kickoff right, Like they're
Speaker 3: so frustrating. I just don't know how where you can
Speaker 3: predict the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: What do you think? Do you think it's the Dogs
Speaker 4: or the Cowboys?
Speaker 2: I think the dogs?
Speaker 4: Do you think the dogs?
Speaker 3: And even like I'm not saying that because I've got
Speaker 3: more faith in the Dogs. I just every time I
Speaker 3: backed the Cowboys, something happens, you know. I mean like
Speaker 3: last time they played the Eels. They dropped the ten
Speaker 3: twelve point lead and lost. They got beat by eighty
Speaker 3: from the Roosters, and then they bounced back with a
Speaker 3: couple of good performances and then they do that again.
Speaker 3: Yeah and yeah, the Dogs they got their own issues.
Speaker 2: But look, that's not head or heart. That's just the
Speaker 2: Cowboys just hard.
Speaker 1: To pick intuition and like the Sharks, let's keep moving out.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Sharks were flying, and the question always
Speaker 1: was you felt there was just a sense of something
Speaker 1: a little bit different this year, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Then suddenly out of the blue, they.
Speaker 4: Dropped two games, two bad losses.
Speaker 1: And we said last week watching that their last win,
Speaker 1: which was against the Bunnies, Fitzy up in the box,
Speaker 1: unusually animated. He could almost like he must have sensed
Speaker 1: them coming off.
Speaker 2: We've won five or six in a row. Now I
Speaker 2: know my team, I know I'm better than most.
Speaker 4: Can they in your opinion?
Speaker 1: They've got I mean they've dropped out of the four,
Speaker 1: this big Cowboy, Dolphins, leap Frog and Newcastle right up there,
Speaker 1: Clacker as well. They've got the Titans who got the earls,
Speaker 1: and they've got the Melbourne Storm. Question, can the Sharks,
Speaker 1: and they've got time to do it. Can they basically,
Speaker 1: you know, pull themselves together and go again, not.
Speaker 3: Because it's impossible to go again with your form and
Speaker 3: create Fitzgiven would do that, but I think the Trindle injury.
Speaker 2: Shuddering for them. He's been their MVP.
Speaker 3: He's been the guy that has come up with big players,
Speaker 3: and Nico tried on the weekend and he just didn't
Speaker 3: come up with enough.
Speaker 2: With Trindle off.
Speaker 3: The field, maybe Brayley needs to step up and become
Speaker 3: that main ballplayer through the middle, really control things like
Speaker 3: he was doing through the middle part of the year
Speaker 3: of origin. But dropping those two games, I think they'll
Speaker 3: bounce back. They'll win a couple of those, they'll play finals.
Speaker 3: But you're asking me, can they go past what they've
Speaker 3: done the last couple of years of a prelim.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Because Trindle is going to try and get that shoulder
Speaker 3: right in four weeks. He's got four weeks to rehab
Speaker 3: that thing to make it strong. Maybe they miss. Maybe
Speaker 3: they can win Week one without him, but they can't
Speaker 3: go past Week.
Speaker 2: Two of the finals without Trindle.
Speaker 1: And the Newcastle Knight two just beyond they've got to
Speaker 1: buy up their sleeve as well, and they've got mainly
Speaker 1: this week massive game Saturday for Newcastle and Manly the
Speaker 1: old old Boys Day three pm. You going yes, I
Speaker 1: am yep, going up there, myself and my jumblow Jack
Speaker 1: who played for the.
Speaker 4: Knights, and uncle Joey road trip up there. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Yes. The other son going no, he's not allowed to.
Speaker 1: He didn't made he never played for the Knights, and
Speaker 1: we might get him to drive.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Coop the Warriors, well, oh man, I still think, like
Speaker 1: you know we mentioned the Roosters that we've mentioned Penrith.
Speaker 1: I think they are the most finals ready the way
Speaker 1: they look, they've got their pushing for top two. They've
Speaker 1: got to see us. They get the Knights and Manly,
Speaker 1: Pan got the Storm, the Dogs and the Tigers.
Speaker 4: Let's okay.
Speaker 1: Luke metcalfe Ashton Ward almost the same spot on the field,
Speaker 1: a really rare injury doing a hamstring kicking a goal
Speaker 1: bugger meat.
Speaker 4: Luke Metcalf does the same thing.
Speaker 3: Our game is is brutal, right, our game is physical.
Speaker 3: But that was quite emotional scenes from Metcalf, like he
Speaker 3: put his hands in his head like you. It was
Speaker 3: just like dramatic in the way that he reacted because
Speaker 3: I think he knew how bad it was. He was
Speaker 3: very confident, never really had any signs that there was
Speaker 3: some hot spots in the hamstring.
Speaker 2: It just goes to show the Warriors are a damn
Speaker 2: good coach team.
Speaker 3: I keep saying this about Andrew Webster with respect to
Speaker 3: all the other Australian.
Speaker 2: Coaches that have gone over there. He's an Australian.
Speaker 3: Coach that's gone over and the Warriors culture culture has
Speaker 3: significantly gone up, Like this is a non Kiwi guy
Speaker 3: that's got this multi culture that's bubbling along that it's
Speaker 3: stronger than ever. There was a moment when Clokstar went
Speaker 3: off the field James Fisher Harris, if he does not
Speaker 3: win Captain of the Year, I'm not here. He got
Speaker 3: the team in together in a huddle. Clokstar's gone res
Speaker 3: Wolsh's bouncing around a broken ankle or whatever he had,
Speaker 3: and he's got the team in together and going, you
Speaker 3: know what, defensively the strongest.
Speaker 2: These are the little things we need to do. I
Speaker 2: don't know what he said.
Speaker 3: Lofi cart Perreira intercepts freespolsh runs the other end like
Speaker 3: they are doing things like it was probably the Sharks
Speaker 3: dropped the game, right, That was probably a game for
Speaker 3: the Warriors to go.
Speaker 2: You know what, the Broncos aren't playing.
Speaker 3: Well, we could just cruise here a little bit, but
Speaker 3: they put the cleaners on them, strangle them into submission
Speaker 3: and put forty points.
Speaker 1: They punished them, didn't they They just went from Coop
Speaker 1: on James Fisher house.
Speaker 4: I'll take you half a step back from that, go
Speaker 4: and have a look at this. This is like for me,
Speaker 4: it was the response of a man like you know,
Speaker 4: like because that's what he is like. And I exactly.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you play alongside, but when someone's
Speaker 1: your captain, they've almost got a father aura over the side.
Speaker 1: And I want you to watch when when the referee
Speaker 1: is explaining to Chance why he's on report and why
Speaker 1: he's why he's been sent to the symbin him and
Speaker 1: Fish is standing there with Chance, the referee is explaining it.
Speaker 1: The referee goes, that's what's happening when Sandral the bin
Speaker 1: Chance stands there and goes like that and Fish turns
Speaker 1: to him, does this just goes? The Chance goes off
Speaker 1: and they just get on with it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. There was none of this bullshit about oh
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Then he got the team in a huddle, spoke about whatever,
Speaker 3: and they defended it and then went down the other
Speaker 3: end of score.
Speaker 1: Just one more thing than Andrew Webster me, we're out
Speaker 1: of time again before we spoke about the Knights and
Speaker 1: dally M's and formed players and whatnot. Just on Andrew Webster.
Speaker 1: And I said this in the show last night. You
Speaker 1: judge coaches on wins and losses primarily, but also a
Speaker 1: huge one probably the best evidence of it.
Speaker 4: A guy is really a great coach, and the very.
Speaker 1: Essence of coaching is not just improving the team, improving
Speaker 1: the individual. The individual improves the side, of course all
Speaker 1: both rise. What he has done for Chanelle, Harris Tavita
Speaker 1: and what he did what he did for Tanna Boyd
Speaker 1: Fruit is remarkable. Chanell has done the Chanelle and Tanner,
Speaker 1: those two guys. It's the biggest turnaround I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in careers.
Speaker 4: Chanell.
Speaker 1: Let's like a few years ago a Chanell it just
Speaker 1: got all two much for him, and I get it is.
Speaker 4: A young guy.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure everything that goes on with
Speaker 1: professional sport. He just said, you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: need this, I'm out. And then he's come back. And Andrew
Speaker 1: Webster has just taken charge of his game, and mate,
Speaker 1: he's cheese.
Speaker 2: He's playing great, a little bit like the Savala thing.
Speaker 3: Like Metcalf could have thrown the toys out and left,
Speaker 3: but Andrew Webster's obviously got a relationship with these guys.
Speaker 3: The thing I would encourage Webster to do, now that
Speaker 3: there's no to Martin Martin, no Metcalf, give the responsibility
Speaker 3: to Harris Tavita for a couple weeks because in September
Speaker 3: he's always been the second in charge. No matter who's
Speaker 3: been the halfback, he's been second in charge. And in September,
Speaker 3: if they're going to win the camp, they're going to
Speaker 3: need him to step up to play along with to
Speaker 3: Martin Mark when he comes back. So I would not
Speaker 3: necessarily give him the seven, but get another play like
Speaker 3: put cook Stars suspended, but put someone else in there
Speaker 3: that is going to be second fiddle to Christ and
Speaker 3: let him drive.
Speaker 2: The Warriors train, take him that next step.
Speaker 3: Tick him over that level of confidence. He did it
Speaker 3: on the weekend. He can do it again.
Speaker 4: Well to the other bloke, he's going good. We mentioned him.
Speaker 1: It feels like every week at the moment hegan, ye
Speaker 1: like he's at the moment, he's the best. He's the
Speaker 1: best knowne in the competition.
Speaker 2: And informed too, and crafty as well and knows when.
Speaker 4: To pull the triggers.
Speaker 1: Matthew, excellent, mate. I'm going to head back. My wife
Speaker 1: in China at the moment. What's she in China?
Speaker 4: It's going to sound bad. I've got absolutely no idea.
Speaker 2: So your's in China. You've got no idea why.
Speaker 4: She said I'm going to China. She said something, but
Speaker 4: like I actually forget.
Speaker 2: She's probably I forgot.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll be honest with you. I couldn't blame her.
Speaker 2: I can't blame courage.