Speaker 1: Welcome to L three sixty.
Speaker 2: Regul league from every angle joining me, the Great Gordon
Speaker 2: Talas Again I was bringing the journal as James Hooper
Speaker 2: and Michael carry on us. And yesterday it was a
Speaker 2: bullfrog or bulldog Richie. Today it's Aaron Woods.
Speaker 1: Woods.
Speaker 2: He's calling the Queenslanders grubs. He's calling Billy grub. We
Speaker 2: are starting to get under their skin?
Speaker 1: Or what, Gord are you? How are you accepting this
Speaker 1: behavior at the moment?
Speaker 3: No, how they get under their skin? It's Billy.
Speaker 4: I reckon Billy, like I reckon all coaches would would
Speaker 4: wear bullets for their team. I remember Gus one day.
Speaker 4: I was but I was sitting in the press conference.
Speaker 4: Gus was getting under my skin right, and I let
Speaker 4: her get to me and I said something back at Gus,
Speaker 4: and then in the end I said, mate, but.
Speaker 3: He's not playing.
Speaker 4: So if someone's not playing, they don't really get under
Speaker 4: your spoken.
Speaker 1: Anyone in camp? Is there any reaction they're hearing it? Surely. Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's splashing all over the back page of the paper,
Speaker 5: so you can't miss it.
Speaker 1: It was pretty good.
Speaker 5: Would have been Bake, would have been the I don't
Speaker 5: think they have Woods on him. To clarify, but I
Speaker 5: think the word grub.
Speaker 3: He might get on. I think the boys are on
Speaker 3: their way down.
Speaker 5: It will reminded me a little bit of when Paul
Speaker 5: Gallon called all Coinslanders two heads. That was quite heavy, but.
Speaker 1: That spiced up has got the potential.
Speaker 4: Asking you do you agree with him in terms of
Speaker 4: what what he said, Well.
Speaker 6: Billy did was reckless when he played, was he But
Speaker 6: he's definitely reckless.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you're so you're on Woodsy side. Definitely.
Speaker 1: We just need there you have it. Uh, let's get into.
Speaker 2: We'll crossing there live now the Blues Wing Zach Lomax
Speaker 2: on the g I O True Blue. Mike, Zach, you're
Speaker 2: up in the Blue Mountains in camp. How has the
Speaker 2: first few days been? And I'm assuming it's pretty cold
Speaker 2: up there?
Speaker 7: Hey, boys, Yeah, absolutely, it's I mean it's a little
Speaker 7: bit better than last camp. It was obviously torrential rain
Speaker 7: last camp, but she's super frosty up here at the moment.
Speaker 7: It was actually not a bad day and as our
Speaker 7: first hit out this morning, but yeah, it's a little
Speaker 7: bit different.
Speaker 1: Could you weather for sure? I'm sure, I'm sure of that,
Speaker 1: that's certain.
Speaker 2: Now I spoke to Larsy coach last night, and I
Speaker 2: said to him, it must be a luxury. Do not
Speaker 2: have too many changes to make for this game?
Speaker 1: Is it that case?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you just got into camp and it's
Speaker 2: just business as usual.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I think Bra that's the I
Speaker 7: guess that's a luxury that we've got. We've been able
Speaker 7: to just build on the connection straight away, and obviously
Speaker 7: that doesn't mean too many changes. It was obviously an
Speaker 7: unfortunate one for Mitchie doing his A c L. But
Speaker 7: it's also it's exciting for Steph to come in and
Speaker 7: fill that role. But yeah, it was obviously not the
Speaker 7: greatest news for Mitchie. But I guess on the luxury years,
Speaker 7: it's a very similar team to Game one and it's
Speaker 7: just that connection that's going to be built from here.
Speaker 4: Hey, Zack, it's good, he tell us him, Mate, what
Speaker 4: did you do so well in game one that's going
Speaker 4: to allow you to dominate in game two?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Obviously our connection has been really good through the whole camp.
Speaker 7: It's been a very similar team to last series as well.
Speaker 7: But I think we the field position was unbelievable for us,
Speaker 7: and I think especially we scrambled really well as soon
Speaker 7: as we went down to twelve men as well. But
Speaker 7: I think our just our defensive efforts was unreal and
Speaker 7: I think we did a really good job on their
Speaker 7: back five and I think defensively it was just you know,
Speaker 7: that's been a super focus for us and the way
Speaker 7: that the coaching staff have brought in this the defensive
Speaker 7: efforts is you know, we get marked on that sort
Speaker 7: of stuff here in camp and that's what we're sort
Speaker 7: of priding ourself on today.
Speaker 5: Zach James Hooper, you won a series last year under
Speaker 5: Michael maguire as coach. This year Laurie Daily achieved everything
Speaker 5: as a player for New South Wales. It looks as
Speaker 5: though Lass has evolved this time around. Can you give
Speaker 5: us an insight about some of his strengths as a coach?
Speaker 7: Oh Loss has been unbelievable as well. I think I
Speaker 7: think Madge was obviously unbelievable and I think that the
Speaker 7: thing that Loss has done, he hasn't tried to be
Speaker 7: what Madge is. He's just added to it. And we
Speaker 7: definitely relived what happened last year, but in the same
Speaker 7: in the same breath it was it was about building
Speaker 7: and building from from what we created last year and
Speaker 7: and just go on that next step. And he's a
Speaker 7: big believer on investing in every single play on the
Speaker 7: field off the field, and I think it's the connection
Speaker 7: that he drives and the leaders here and the team
Speaker 7: drive that as well. And he's been around this this
Speaker 7: system for a long period of time Los obviously as
Speaker 7: a player as well, And yeah, he's been unbelievable for
Speaker 7: the group.
Speaker 8: Zach Michael carry Onis.
Speaker 6: He made obviously some concern around Brian Toy has that
Speaker 6: hamstring complain. Jacob Kiras has been brought into the side.
Speaker 6: Can you give us an update on how Brian's tracking.
Speaker 7: Yeah, business, He's obviously professional, He's going to get the
Speaker 7: job done and we've got the best stuff in the
Speaker 7: world here with us, so I think he'll sit out
Speaker 7: tomorrow's trains session just in regards to Lowe's But I
Speaker 7: think on the flip side, it gives someone like Jacob
Speaker 7: Carras a big boost to be able to come in
Speaker 7: and and just and train tomorrow with the squad. I
Speaker 7: think it's it's massive for him too, he's been playing
Speaker 7: unbelievable footy there at the Bulldogs. But for us, yeah,
Speaker 7: we need to get busy right and I think that's
Speaker 7: that's him having a day off tomorrow and he'll be
Speaker 7: flying by by Wednesday night.
Speaker 4: Zach, there's there's reports that coach might move over to
Speaker 4: your side of the field.
Speaker 3: Does that change anything for you?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 7: Not not too much. I think obviously Zabi is a
Speaker 7: great player too, and he's he's a kick.
Speaker 3: Threat as well.
Speaker 7: But I think for me that's yeah, it's one that
Speaker 7: it'll be a good matchup as well. So fingers crossed,
Speaker 7: that's the way it goes and we can we can
Speaker 7: come toe to toe on the field. That yeah, a
Speaker 7: good one to go to go. I had to head
Speaker 7: with Zach.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of talk after Origin one about
Speaker 5: the students and whether the balls were any different after
Speaker 5: the goal kicking. Who's goal kicking this time around for
Speaker 5: the Blues? Will it be Nathan or will it be yourself?
Speaker 7: I think Nate's going to take you. I think he's
Speaker 7: going to kick left foot this this this game, So yeah,
Speaker 7: not too surely, might even take to take it, you
Speaker 7: never know.
Speaker 6: Queensland made a big decision to acts d C. Were
Speaker 6: you guys surprised by that decision? And how does having
Speaker 6: Tom Dinnen and the harves change the way you guys
Speaker 6: play mate.
Speaker 7: To be fair, us as a team haven't really spoke
Speaker 7: about it, but for me personally, I was a little
Speaker 7: bit shocked in regards to obviously chairs getting dropped. I
Speaker 7: think as a kick threat he was. He the main
Speaker 7: kicker too, so me as a winger that sort of
Speaker 7: thing that I look at straight away. But I mean
Speaker 7: Tommy Didn's been playing great football and he has for
Speaker 7: a long period of time, So yeah, it's it's obviously
Speaker 7: it would have been a massive decision to make, but
Speaker 7: thank god it wasn't our team anyway, Zach.
Speaker 2: After game one there was a general consensus from from
Speaker 2: everyone really that you guys can improve a lot from
Speaker 2: that performance, even though it was.
Speaker 3: A great win.
Speaker 1: Where do you improve? Where can you get better? Oh?
Speaker 7: I think we just want to cycle a lot better
Speaker 7: than we did. We want to keep that, we want
Speaker 7: to keep the ball off the deck. There was definitely
Speaker 7: periods where we didn't complete the best we did, but
Speaker 7: as soon as we got in that cycle, you know,
Speaker 7: we looked like a completely different footy team, and you know,
Speaker 7: we've got a lot of a lot of unbelievable athletes
Speaker 7: in our team and in our four packs really unbelievable too.
Speaker 7: So for us, it's about playing to our strengths and
Speaker 7: we need to keep the footy of the off the
Speaker 7: deck and you know, and get some of our athletes
Speaker 7: some good, valuable footy and you know, hopefully that works
Speaker 7: into our favor.
Speaker 2: On his Zach, you're having a great year yet again.
Speaker 2: Good luck in game two and great win in game one.
Speaker 2: Make sure you stay nice and warm up there in
Speaker 2: the Blue mountains. Maybe a few cuddles and even a
Speaker 2: hot chocolate. We've bull dogg you've.
Speaker 7: Seen no ways les got on your boys.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the camps. There he is now.
Speaker 2: It was pretty interesting that that DC commic that he
Speaker 2: that he made kicking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's something that DC was really good at it. Right,
Speaker 4: he had great experience. He's a great kicker at that level.
Speaker 4: I don't think that our running threats were probably where
Speaker 4: we were in defensively. So you're looking at DC. He's
Speaker 4: been amazing for us, right, Like he's had a great career.
Speaker 4: He had one last crack at it and you know
Speaker 4: it's time to change and Tommy didn't. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 4: there's no little weak redd out there, so he's going
Speaker 4: to go there and he'll put his head in there
Speaker 4: and you know it's a it's we're changing, we're evolving.
Speaker 4: We've got a young little half now and good luckily.
Speaker 5: I think Coinslanda are more dangerous with Tom Diddon at
Speaker 5: half back, irrespective of the fact that definitely from a
Speaker 5: kicking point of view, particularly a long kicking perspective, they
Speaker 5: do lose at edge with no daily but in terms
Speaker 5: of their run threat breath did and the way the
Speaker 5: bulldog directness that he loves to play the game with,
Speaker 5: I think he and then the off the cuff, unpredictable
Speaker 5: X factor of Munster with the captaincy that to me
Speaker 5: is a lot more dangerous and Coins when we're in
Speaker 5: game one.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Didon the Great School, I said that Didn't
Speaker 2: is a rookie and a kid. Is he playing mind
Speaker 2: games here, Cass or is he spot on? He?
Speaker 1: Is he right or wrong?
Speaker 3: He is?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have dropped Dally Cherry Evans.
Speaker 2: I don't think any half back, let alone a rookie,
Speaker 2: is going to function behind a forward pack beating as
Speaker 2: badly as them. D see at this stage of his
Speaker 2: career is far more equipped to deal with that than
Speaker 2: throwing in a kid, a rookie and a kid going.
Speaker 3: Isn't he thrown in a kid at the hoods?
Speaker 8: That's a kid, Well, that is a kid Likecky Gavin.
Speaker 8: He's a kid.
Speaker 6: Tom died and he's not a kid played Origin. He
Speaker 6: actually beat Daily Chair Evans to a half spot for
Speaker 6: the Kangaroos last year. Right, So I don't know what
Speaker 6: I think Gus is just trying to stir the pot
Speaker 6: there because Tom did and is neither a rookie nor
Speaker 6: is he a kid.
Speaker 1: He had the Player of the Series last year for Queensland.
Speaker 2: Didn't believe queens Yes inside therefore Walls, Yeah, that's that
Speaker 2: and he won that won the series when Cameron had
Speaker 2: COVID and he got how is he a rookie and how.
Speaker 1: Is he a kid?
Speaker 6: He played for the Kangaroos last year too, in the
Speaker 6: number six jersey with alongside Mitch Moses when DC was
Speaker 6: overlooked games.
Speaker 5: That's what he used the media platform to try and
Speaker 5: stir a bit of an agenda. But look, he's new
Speaker 5: South Wales's most successful coach in all serious discuss He
Speaker 5: knows what he's doing. He's putting the pressure on Queensland
Speaker 5: similarly to the way that Aaron Woods put the pressure
Speaker 5: on queens yesterday. There's no Michael McGuire with glass houses
Speaker 5: this time around, so it's been left to people who
Speaker 5: have worn or been involved with the jumper previously.
Speaker 2: News howth Wales has throwing a lot of barbs from
Speaker 2: all different sides of their camp. Queen's arein going to
Speaker 2: fire any shots at all?
Speaker 3: No, We're going to for it on the field.
Speaker 4: No, I says, well, well can you when you get
Speaker 4: beaten winners of grinners right, and they're beating us on
Speaker 4: the scoreboard, So sometimes you got to shut your mouth
Speaker 4: and go out there and let your actions do the talking.
Speaker 1: I find it very dangerous that they are.
Speaker 6: So we've seen this story so many how many turns
Speaker 6: right when New South Wales are clearly the better side
Speaker 6: on paper, seemingly have all the momentum and then get
Speaker 6: blown off the park.
Speaker 8: But the concerning thing is is how you're right?
Speaker 5: Well, you can go back to two thousand and six
Speaker 5: Gordon and the final game of that series was at
Speaker 5: Eddie had Stadium in Melbourne and the Blues had won
Speaker 5: three straight series we're on target to win a fourth
Speaker 5: Brett Hodgson froze a while pass out of Dumby half
Speaker 5: lock your scores under the post, and then the Maroons
Speaker 5: go on to create an eight straight dynasty, never seen
Speaker 5: for possibly never seen again. So history does dictate and
Speaker 5: underline how often coins I love being in this position.
Speaker 5: I think you're more dangerous than ever given the circumstances.
Speaker 2: All right, we've got fresh vision of Spencer Land. You you
Speaker 2: it's emerged. Has Queensland is scared.
Speaker 4: He's so cool And I watched this live. I was
Speaker 4: sitting up in this corner. They're like, I was probably
Speaker 4: a bit right there. He might have been talking to me,
Speaker 4: but you know what, that was great theater, right he
Speaker 4: came out. The first thing he did was he got
Speaker 4: into the crowd and he you know, and he's trying
Speaker 4: to get himself up.
Speaker 3: That's the first thing I saw. And good on him.
Speaker 2: Teammates Connor and Camel Graham turns around, he and goes
Speaker 2: Blake's not normally.
Speaker 8: I would have seen it a thousand times playing for but.
Speaker 4: It's great theater, and it was great theater on a
Speaker 4: night made he run right into the teeth of the
Speaker 4: fans and that's the part. And then right now, right
Speaker 4: he come on after twenty five minutes, we like, we
Speaker 4: had no momentum.
Speaker 3: Why did you kick me? But if he starts the game,
Speaker 3: I guarantee will kick doing well. He won't be starting
Speaker 3: on the bench. If you guys don't want to start.
Speaker 4: But he said how tough he was, started him and
Speaker 4: let him play any minutes like the other boys. And
Speaker 4: if you do, you guys called us cowards because I
Speaker 4: remember it right and this and Queensland.
Speaker 3: They shoot themselves and all the things.
Speaker 4: You All that you have to do is put him
Speaker 4: on at the beginning of the game, show your courage
Speaker 4: and show your behind him and they will kick doing.
Speaker 8: You said, what about to change their game?
Speaker 3: Okay, but we don't have to change out, So what
Speaker 3: are you telling us how to change ours?
Speaker 1: Stick to your game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but New South Wales did, but it was good.
Speaker 6: He's a genuine villain, right this is and he plays
Speaker 6: up to it. We know you know where you stand
Speaker 6: with Spencer. There's no gray area there.
Speaker 8: I love it.
Speaker 6: It is awesome to watch. We need more mad men
Speaker 6: like that in the game, right. We need him up
Speaker 6: against Corey Osbro that's what we need in origin, Cory.
Speaker 1: But do you want to go down that path?
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 1: We'll get there. We'll get there. Now another mad man,
Speaker 1: he's Liam Martin.
Speaker 2: Love him and he praises Cameron Munster. Here it is congratulations,
Speaker 2: I guess praising.
Speaker 1: It was pretty tame out there.
Speaker 2: I saw a quote where he said that he wants
Speaker 2: to take the game on more. I think I'm just
Speaker 2: going to have to try and match that.
Speaker 3: Is this a feud or do they play on the
Speaker 3: same side for the Kangaroos.
Speaker 1: Sure, but they come.
Speaker 4: It's so good because Cameron he does get under his
Speaker 4: skin and they lift his leg and every time he
Speaker 4: plays look.
Speaker 3: At him so like they're always into each other. It's
Speaker 3: a great little rivalry. It's a great battle every time.
Speaker 5: Every time they find one another, they are mates. No
Speaker 5: doubt they're both got a good dash of Rogan off
Speaker 5: the field. But I think once it's on the field,
Speaker 5: there is no doubt that William goes out there with
Speaker 5: a bulls eye on Cameron and he likes to try
Speaker 5: and get under monthst the skin. So given he's just
Speaker 5: been given the captaincy, I think the role only intensive force.
Speaker 1: Next week out of each other. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean Williams, he's imposing right at the.
Speaker 4: End of the different place, at the end of the year.
Speaker 4: Whoever picks the Kangars, they've got to put those two
Speaker 4: in the same.
Speaker 3: Room, all right.
Speaker 1: You mentioned it before.
Speaker 2: Now Ricky Stewart has demanded a please explain over Corry
Speaker 2: hawes Bro being snubbed for this second game.
Speaker 6: With Ricky, I can't believe he's not in your seventeen, Gordy.
Speaker 6: He's a piece of difference and an explosion that Queensland
Speaker 6: desperately needed. Off that off that bench. They've dropped Pat
Speaker 6: Carrigan to the bench. But fine, New South. Wow, I'm
Speaker 6: glad that Corey hawesb is not in that seventeenth, particularly
Speaker 6: off the bench, because we saw what the Blues bench
Speaker 6: did in Game one. Queensland couldn't match it. I think
Speaker 6: he's a guy that could.
Speaker 3: Yep, Gordy, No, yeah, prize.
Speaker 4: Like when I picked my SI, I'd say six weeks ago,
Speaker 4: I would have had Corey in my seventeen. But I'm
Speaker 4: not the coach, so he he must be this far away, right,
Speaker 4: You've got Tin, you got Lindsay Colin, you got Mae right,
Speaker 4: So they're the guys that he's competing against.
Speaker 8: Better than all of them except for Tin.
Speaker 5: I would have picked him over after what happened in
Speaker 5: Origin one. That's not a knock on my that's just
Speaker 5: after that game and given the way that the Maroons
Speaker 5: pack was stick guys.
Speaker 3: I saw Dennis the bull he gave it. He was
Speaker 3: looking good to the bull frog. He was very.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looked premier today. He was filthy. He's gone on
Speaker 1: and die. He hasn't eaten.
Speaker 2: All right, Kirk kate Well has Rubbie suggestions he'll be
Speaker 2: a liability in defense for Queensland.
Speaker 1: Take a look a.
Speaker 6: Bit of an unfortunate stat for yourself leading the comp
Speaker 6: and miss tackles.
Speaker 8: The stat's not telling the bull story?
Speaker 6: Or is is it a bit of a differ and
Speaker 6: approach for you in Origin?
Speaker 9: I'm not sure I where that's that, but I guess
Speaker 9: I don't know. We're winning games at the Warriors, so
Speaker 9: obviously it doesn't mean too much. Probably a lot of
Speaker 9: them are effort players where you're sort of pushing someone
Speaker 9: across field or trying to make a cover tackle or
Speaker 9: something like that. So I don't read too much into
Speaker 9: the stats, and I just do what I can for
Speaker 9: the team to win.
Speaker 2: Now here are the stats, and Kate Will looks surprised there,
Speaker 2: But here are the number seventy seven misstackles from Capewell,
Speaker 2: most this season. Five by chorus on the list goes on,
Speaker 2: he's quite a ways ahead of the others. Is this
Speaker 2: a concern, Gordy or do you not look too much
Speaker 2: into stats.
Speaker 4: I don't see him as a poor defender. And obviously
Speaker 4: we were talking about it last night when they told
Speaker 4: us the stats. It's how you miss him, but he
Speaker 4: slid off there, but he wedged him to make the tackle.
Speaker 4: It's where you miss him, how you miss him. That's
Speaker 4: on the kick chase. He sort of tackled him and
Speaker 4: stopped him. So it's not a true one on one
Speaker 4: mistackle where someone runs through and makes a break, but
Speaker 4: they are still missus. And it's good that they just
Speaker 4: poked him now and he's got to clean that up
Speaker 4: in the next nine days.
Speaker 6: Where he is defending and those ones at the center, right,
Speaker 6: and he's done a job because the Warriors have been
Speaker 6: under strength.
Speaker 8: His days of center have gone past him.
Speaker 6: Right. He does a job there for the Warriors out
Speaker 6: of necessity, but he doesn't have the speed at times
Speaker 6: and you know has good He said a lot of
Speaker 6: them are kickchase and he's getting isolated when he's making
Speaker 6: that kick pressure because he's a little bit old and
Speaker 6: a little bit slower than he was. So I don't
Speaker 6: read into them too much at all.
Speaker 5: Sometimes statistics can be like matches, dangerous in the wrong hands,
Speaker 5: and in this case, I don't think they're an accurate
Speaker 5: reflection of what Kirk Caprall can do for the Morines
Speaker 5: next Wednesday night. I think there's no doubt defending in
Speaker 5: the back row rather than in the centers.
Speaker 3: Bill Aima, No, I agree with all that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Stephen Crichton has dismissedconcerns Lachlin Gavin Will upset the Bulldogs
Speaker 2: playing group, insisting its team first mentality.
Speaker 10: Right now, I'm at the Blues and this is at
Speaker 10: the forefront and when I get back there we can
Speaker 10: sort out kind of whatever's going on there. But here unlucky.
Speaker 10: He's just very happy that we get to have a
Speaker 10: player like him come to our team, and because a
Speaker 10: better footy team as well. We've got a massive thing
Speaker 10: at the club is put in the club first and
Speaker 10: whatever the club needs, that's first priority, and putting egos
Speaker 10: aside is the biggest thing for us too.
Speaker 2: Berry and Stephen Krichton not too concerned about Reid Marny
Speaker 2: his reaction and saying that it's a team first mentality,
Speaker 2: which is what you've got to have to win a
Speaker 2: comp So I love that, I really do. And we've
Speaker 2: seen the result of Lochlin Galvin going there so positive.
Speaker 2: He played great, the team won the game.
Speaker 1: Last night.
Speaker 2: We highlighted this and a few Bulldogs fans had the
Speaker 2: you know what's with this?
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, can't be in denial.
Speaker 2: There's always going to be someone who's been put out
Speaker 2: in a situation like this, and let's read what have
Speaker 2: you got for us on the situation, hoops.
Speaker 5: I think the Bulldogs have got a delicate balancing act here, breath,
Speaker 5: because I think there's no question that Reid is going
Speaker 5: to be squeezed out of Canterbury banks down at the
Speaker 5: end of this season. I don't think he will be
Speaker 5: at the Bulldogs in twenty twenty six. Toby Sexton could
Speaker 5: also be another casualty as well. We wait to see
Speaker 5: how that plays out. But in the case of Ruid,
Speaker 5: and the vision from the dressing room. I think if
Speaker 5: any coach can galvanize, excuse the pun A team and
Speaker 5: get them all invested and on the same page with
Speaker 5: a view of trying to win the big games come September,
Speaker 5: it's Cameron Serraldo. But if I'm Reid Marni I have
Speaker 5: got a little bit of shit on my liver, I
Speaker 5: would be I would be aggrieved at the way that
Speaker 5: the Bulldogs have have brought in Galvin and I'm going
Speaker 5: to be the one who's moved on a year early
Speaker 5: because when he went to the Bulldogs from Paramounta, the
Speaker 5: Eels were in a Grand Final. He'd been playing outstanding
Speaker 5: footy and his first year at the Bulldogs, I think
Speaker 5: they ran fifteenth and considered more points than any other
Speaker 5: Canterbury Banks down side in the history journeysn't he He
Speaker 5: has like and he's at the start at the ground
Speaker 5: and do the hard yacker to get him to where
Speaker 5: they are now. So I can understand why Reid would
Speaker 5: have the the you know what.
Speaker 6: I feel like there was an element there that this
Speaker 6: was going to happen, regardless of look at Galvin Kye
Speaker 6: that Bailey Hayward was going to be their dummy half
Speaker 6: next season, but not this year, not this year. No,
Speaker 6: he's not getting squeeze out this year. He'll finish the
Speaker 6: year there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that reaction is into what's happening
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: That reaction from Reda is what he replaced, he's been replaced,
Speaker 2: and probably the fear of what's going to happen the
Speaker 2: next few months. You know, he's Easy's spot in jeopardy.
Speaker 2: He's there a chance to win the competition. You know,
Speaker 2: every player wants to win a competition.
Speaker 6: I don't think when push comes to Shop they'll be
Speaker 6: playing Toby Sex and a dummy half instead of remarking.
Speaker 6: So I don't think his place is in jeopardy in
Speaker 6: terms of starting for the Bolldogs this year and playing
Speaker 6: a key part into their premiership tilt. I just don't
Speaker 6: I'm with Hoops. I don't think he's the next year.
Speaker 6: But I don't think there's an issue with you know,
Speaker 6: there might be limited he might play less minutes now, right,
Speaker 6: but eventually we all believe that Luckie Galvin's going to
Speaker 6: start in the halves at some point for Canterbury. So
Speaker 6: Toby Sexton will find himself out of the seventeen with
Speaker 6: Bailey Hayward playing the role that he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's forteen rounds to go. How do we see
Speaker 2: these playing out? Where does this land over the next
Speaker 2: sort of month.
Speaker 5: Well, it's a blessing in disguise, the origin period and
Speaker 5: the fact that Matt Burton had to gave it to
Speaker 5: Perth because it means the six jumpers available this week,
Speaker 5: So Galvin plays six, Sexton gets to wear the halfback
Speaker 5: jumper still reads, still named it number nine. But I
Speaker 5: think once everybody's fit and available and back on deck,
Speaker 5: Sexton will most likely be the player who gets squeezed out.
Speaker 5: But then again, you look at Monday's result on the
Speaker 5: King's Birthday fourteen twelve, when Sexton goes to hooker and
Speaker 5: Galvin comes on and then the Bulldogs finish over the top,
Speaker 5: scoring thirty points. So it was a fair indication that
Speaker 5: things can still be strong.
Speaker 2: I have here for the Dogs, but it is so
Speaker 2: fascinating and intriguing whether you like it or not, Like
Speaker 2: it's a great problem they have, their stocks have gone
Speaker 2: up in terms of a premisshion.
Speaker 5: But what's it like? I'll ask you, blokes, what's it like?
Speaker 5: From a player's point of view. Put yourself in read
Speaker 5: Marty's shoes.
Speaker 4: Gordy, well, look, twenty four hours has gone. I like
Speaker 4: his reaction because you want him to know, you know,
Speaker 4: to have the Royals right, like you want him to
Speaker 4: be dirty that he got taken off. But what Crichton said,
Speaker 4: and when the senior players get back, and it's how
Speaker 4: I reckon the senior players sometimes when the coach and
Speaker 4: they've made those decisions, you know, it can go through
Speaker 4: one ear and out the other. I reckon it's the players.
Speaker 4: Like right now, I reckon for the rest of the year.
Speaker 4: It comes down to the plane group. It sort of
Speaker 4: leaves the management because they've made this decision, so it'll
Speaker 4: come down to how they love.
Speaker 1: The team first.
Speaker 2: I actually think that this is not a bad thing
Speaker 2: for Reid right now. He's probably he's had twenty four
Speaker 2: foot hours and now think about it himself and he
Speaker 2: would have been in a bit of shock probably and
Speaker 2: on the weekend he would have been probably had the
Speaker 2: worst thoughts gone through his mind. You know, I'm on
Speaker 2: the chopping BLANKI year, my chance of any premiership with
Speaker 2: the club that I love, and it works so hard
Speaker 2: for could be gone like you get in your own head,
Speaker 2: you know, as a player, it just happens, and he's
Speaker 2: in the sheds probably you know, contemplating all of that.
Speaker 2: But once he's had time to chat to zero, take it,
Speaker 2: step back a little bit and see where they are
Speaker 2: in their position, probably be having a.
Speaker 1: Bit of reassurance from his head coach.
Speaker 2: You know, pots attitude, bring you best to training team
Speaker 2: first mentality, let's go.
Speaker 1: So you know we highlighted it because it happened. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't.
Speaker 3: It's legitimate.
Speaker 5: It's legitimate to the point where you could see that
Speaker 5: he was a groove.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 5: He then went home and put the game strade on
Speaker 5: and analyzed it and was trying to pick up areas
Speaker 5: where he'd either made errors or let the team down.
Speaker 5: So he wants to improve as well. If any coach
Speaker 5: can get at the Fly, I think Cameron Crela has
Speaker 5: shown him what he's built already at the Bulldogs, he can,
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: Paint Hass has tried to calm Broncos fans, declaring he
Speaker 2: wants to extend his contract at Redhill.
Speaker 11: You want to be a Bronco for life, as yell, yeah,
Speaker 11: I do want to be a Bronco for life. I
Speaker 11: love Brisbane, my family does, and I know, you know,
Speaker 11: we'll be doing all we can strike a door, but
Speaker 11: my left my agent sort that out and Broncos and
Speaker 11: you never know what's going to happen. So yeah, obviously
Speaker 11: I love to stay, but like I said, there's not
Speaker 11: one hundred percent sure. Yeah, so see what happens.
Speaker 2: It sounds like another interview we did earlier this year
Speaker 2: in regards to playing for Australia.
Speaker 4: But the doors closed, but the windows are open, the
Speaker 4: side doors open, and.
Speaker 2: The chase if he wants to be there. He loves
Speaker 2: Brisbane and his family's there. Why hasn't he signed?
Speaker 5: Well, that's a two million dollar question, Browth, and none
Speaker 5: of us can answer it. And not only that, I
Speaker 5: mean his management claim. There was an email that went
Speaker 5: around recently with his name as being a player who
Speaker 5: is off contract as of November one to rival clubs.
Speaker 5: Now the agents tried to since smooth that over, but
Speaker 5: his name is on the list until he signed. If
Speaker 5: you're the Broncos, you want him signed yesterday. You know
Speaker 5: you don't want to mince around about this anymore. You've
Speaker 5: just got to get the deal done. But because of
Speaker 5: the position that they're in with Sell and Cobbo off contract,
Speaker 5: also Adam Reynolds, Catani Stags.
Speaker 3: It's a balance.
Speaker 1: To sign.
Speaker 2: You are the best front rower of the game, you've
Speaker 2: been demand by. There's a shortage of them of that quality, right,
Speaker 2: So what's the hurry for.
Speaker 6: Him because he could pick any club because clubs would
Speaker 6: move anyone essentially almost anyone to get him in.
Speaker 8: Right, So he's got the.
Speaker 3: Choice crazy not to go to the market and there.
Speaker 6: Well, if he's happy, he's not crazy not to go
Speaker 6: to the market, Gord, if he's happy with the offer
Speaker 6: and happy to stay.
Speaker 4: Back other day when it was Brisbane or Sydney. Now
Speaker 4: he's got red Cliff, he's like, there's other options like
Speaker 4: and he can stay in Brisbane.
Speaker 2: Well, what it says is his second guessing staying there
Speaker 2: because if he was, if he was happy and does
Speaker 2: he can name his price there and he's amount of
Speaker 2: years like that, The Broncos would jump at that. So
Speaker 2: it's not the money all the years, then what isn't I.
Speaker 5: Think he's clearly got a little bit of head noise
Speaker 5: and some doubts around the journey that the Broncos are on.
Speaker 5: At the moment, because we all remember, I know that
Speaker 5: a good win over the Gold Coast, But aside from that,
Speaker 5: it's been a lean eight weeks, right, so I think
Speaker 5: clearly the fact that he hasn't put pen to paper,
Speaker 5: he's clearly still got some question all.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had some breaking news on Josh Josh Alia.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he looks like he might have played his final game.
Speaker 6: He's had this ongoing shoulder complaint. It reared its head
Speaker 6: again two weeks ago in that clash against the Broncos
Speaker 6: and he just loses feeling in that shoulder. So privately,
Speaker 6: there are suggestions that he's played his last game for
Speaker 6: Manly's medical retirement. Medical retirements, medical retirement. Here's never age
Speaker 6: of twenty nine. He's never afraid to voice his opinion.
Speaker 8: We love the lawmar was yet Yes, when Lee A.
Speaker 6: Pentell has told him that when he wanted to get
Speaker 6: out of the West Tigers, leagabentellis that he can paid
Speaker 6: the dress and sheds and mow the lawns.
Speaker 8: And that's what he came up with, all right.
Speaker 2: Now, merely criticized for buying old journeyman forwards.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, who do they target next.
Speaker 5: There's not a lot on the market at the moment,
Speaker 5: so I'm not sure where the Seagulls could try.
Speaker 6: And yeah, that's going to be their issue because and
Speaker 6: as you just alluded to Regard and Paint hals break
Speaker 6: that there's not a lot of big middles or high
Speaker 6: quality middles off contract at the end of the season.
Speaker 6: Right then of next year, come November one, Josh's salary
Speaker 6: will three up around four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 6: on their.
Speaker 8: Cap if he is medically retired.
Speaker 6: But you look on the market, you're got paying Hass
Speaker 6: clear cut number one. You know, Tino's the other interesting
Speaker 6: one what happens with his future. But outside of that,
Speaker 6: it drops off quite significantly.
Speaker 4: There would be a front rower at every club coming
Speaker 4: off the bench. There would be a young front roll
Speaker 4: coming that wants to start. Yeah, so there's enough there,
Speaker 4: but you've got to get a young kid.
Speaker 1: What's the out read on?
Speaker 2: Mainly at the moment, they've been terribly inconsistent the sitting
Speaker 2: ninth position as we speak, that's.
Speaker 6: The most inconsistent side. Like them and Brisbone are the
Speaker 6: most frustrating sides to watch in the NROL. At the
Speaker 6: moment because mainly on their day can mix it with
Speaker 6: the top four. On and off day they look like
Speaker 6: a bottom four side and they very rarely play in between.
Speaker 6: If I'm a mainly fan, it'd be doing my head
Speaker 6: in because they've got the talent.
Speaker 8: I think where they let themselves.
Speaker 6: Their issue is their middle right No Taniela Perseca, which
Speaker 6: hurts Josh Loyer gone now as well, and at times
Speaker 6: you know their game management just hasn't been there, so
Speaker 6: you know, to get a read on them is virtually impossible.
Speaker 2: I think it's worse when you see how really good
Speaker 2: they are closely great sometimes and then how poor they are.
Speaker 2: You'd rather have a team that really good or good
Speaker 2: every week and can reach a certain ceiling or improve
Speaker 2: every week. But when you see the inconsistencies, it's so
Speaker 2: frustrating to you. That says there's an attitude issue. Though
Speaker 2: that's an attitude issue because that means you potentially can
Speaker 2: play like this, but you can also potentially play that
Speaker 2: when you when you don't turn up like it's a mindset.
Speaker 5: You know they're hugely a rady team. You spot on
Speaker 5: breath and I think we can't den know that. You
Speaker 5: go back to when Daily made that announcement. Clearly that
Speaker 5: hasn't sat well with some of them. Last year too,
Speaker 5: they were, but I think it's worse this year.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 5: I think it's if you look at the fluctuation this year,
Speaker 5: one week they look as though they could genuinely compete
Speaker 5: for the top four.
Speaker 2: Next week down the bottom not thinking thinking about it,
Speaker 2: I'm just that creates friction within within the group.
Speaker 5: Yeah, within the playing group, but I think that the
Speaker 5: uncertainty around it has then added to the other reasoning
Speaker 5: as to why they're an erratic turn.
Speaker 1: All right, boy is your key player matchup? All thanks
Speaker 1: to Oussie Broadband. Who have you got for this weekend?
Speaker 5: I'm going to see and Jackson Hastings. Jackson Hastings back
Speaker 5: into the NRL for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 3: Let's see how he goes.
Speaker 6: Kyle Flaning again up against Nico Hines in the local diving.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one. Both under a bit of pressure
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 2: Definitely all right, all right, hoops, fantastic work up next
Speaker 2: to Legends agenda with Public Enemy number one Aaron Woods
Speaker 2: and Billy Moore.