1 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to three sixty league from every angle joining me 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: in the great Gordon Tallas. Let's bring the general Australian, 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: Poor Crawley and Dean Ritchie and guess who's back? Galvin 4 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: recalled and set for an intense reception at Leichhardobal Gordy 5 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: back into the team. 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: Yes, smart decision obviously last week with all the emotions around, 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: put Hingm back just to stay away from a bit 8 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 2: of noise. But he's back in and hopefully he does 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 2: well and in front of his home fans, I think, 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: which is a little bit better. 11 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 3: It's a circus though we went through all this pain 12 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 3: last week. We had consultations between the coach and the 13 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 3: senior players. They made the hard call to get him 14 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 3: out of the side because he wasn't buying into the 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: club culture and this one club approach which they keep 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 3: thrusting upon us. And five six days later they've now 17 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 3: gone back to where we were in the first place. 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 4: So what was all the pain for? 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: Darted off on a bad foot dog because I don't 20 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 3: agree with what you said. I think last week they 21 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 3: had no choice. But what's changed, Well, a lot of 22 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 3: things have changed. 23 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: Mate. 24 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: Last week there was all the emotion, there was the 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 3: media intensity and the microscope the players who were obviously upset. 26 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 3: Galvin probably wasn't in the best headspace to be picked. 27 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 3: I think this week it comes down to the fact, 28 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 3: do the Digers want to play semi final football this year? 29 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 3: Do they want to win games? If they do, Lachlan 30 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: Galvin is in their state. 31 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: How to train and work this week? Then, given the circumstances, 32 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: like how do you as a head coach or even 33 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: as a teammate, like, how does it work? I'll come 34 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: to you as an ex player and we sort of 35 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: spoke about it last night. How does it work? I mean, 36 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: how can it get through the week and prepare for 37 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: this properly? 38 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: I never liked all my teammates. I didn't have to 39 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 2: love them, but you've got to respect them and trust them. 40 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: And I think that'll be the job for Benji Marshall 41 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: this week. And I'm sure the senior players should walk 42 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 2: over and it's a reception. I think it's the senior 43 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: player's job to walk over to the young kid and 44 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: put their arm around him. 45 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 3: God, you didn't like some of your teammates, but they 46 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: didn't go on social media. You didn't have it back then, 47 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 3: mind you, and have diggers at him, And they didn't 48 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: go to the coach behind your back and say we 49 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 3: don't want you in the site. 50 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 4: So it's a totally different scenario to what you went through. 51 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 3: And I just can't work out how this bloke can 52 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 3: possibly be in the team when his teammates have been so. 53 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 4: Publicly and vehemently against him playing. 54 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: I think when I looked at what Jerome Lewis posted 55 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 3: last week, team first, to me, I didn't see that 56 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 3: as bullying. 57 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 4: I saw that as as Alvin. 58 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 3: I saw it personally as a mark of respect for 59 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 3: his coach. 60 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 4: He was standing up for his coach. 61 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 3: He'd been criticized and he said, if you disrespect our coach, 62 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 3: you disrespect us. In that instant, I really believed what 63 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 3: Leui did wasn't bullying. It was standing up for his coach. 64 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 3: But now, as the team leader, he has to pull 65 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 3: these blokes together and if he truly believes and I 66 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 3: wrote him a column today, if he truly believes in 67 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 3: team first culture, well then that's about bringing this bloke 68 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: back into the team and finding a way to win 69 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 3: football games. As a leader, he has to find a 70 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: way to make this work, broth It's a better. 71 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: Question for you because I was in the forwards. I 72 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 2: just had one job to do. You got to run 73 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 2: the team and bark them around. 74 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big job for jerom. I just can't 75 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: imagine it. I cannot imagine it, I said last night. 76 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were like yourself, Crawls 77 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: and some highly respect to people said, you've got to 78 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: play your best team. You've got to get him back 79 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: in you want to make the finals. But the most 80 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: successful teams are the ones that get along the best 81 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: and have the best culture and camaraderie and love each other, 82 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: like you don't win premierships not liking the boat next 83 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: to you. And like I said it last night, he's 84 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: actually suing it. He's suing the club and it's for 85 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: the actionsmates. 86 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 5: Do you think that he'd be back in the team 87 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 5: if the legal and it wasn't? Said? 88 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 4: Well was it lid com obile yet that new? 89 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 6: So? 90 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 3: Well, it's cup game and he had a modest performance 91 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 3: at best. He defended on the left wing, a couple 92 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:06,119 Speaker 3: of kicks here and there. 93 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 4: His side were well beaten. 94 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 3: To be fair, I was actually yes, that's why no 95 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 3: one got through it. 96 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: I couldn't see the face in the air, that's why 97 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: in disguise. 98 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 3: But he wasn't brought back based on this game, so 99 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 3: it wasn't through merit or form. 100 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 4: So why was he brought back? Is it due to 101 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 4: these legal implications? He has been in good form throughout 102 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 4: the year, though he has And because when. 103 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 3: He said it yesterday, Broth, I watched the show last 104 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 3: night and you said last night would the Tigers? Would 105 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: it have been a different result if Galvin had played? 106 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 3: And I guess that's the question that you asked. Could 107 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 3: it have been a different result that was good? 108 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 5: Watching that form, you'd say no. 109 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 2: Because the week Look what it's done to day Cherry 110 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 2: Evans he had thirty seven's And. 111 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 3: That's a question mark too, Gordy. Look, no one knows 112 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 3: the true answer. And I'll tell you what I also 113 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 3: find interesting when they play on Sunday is watching the 114 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 3: interaction twin the players, Like you know, you see all 115 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 3: the players if someone does something good and they all 116 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 3: come diving over the top of each other. 117 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 1: I remember years the things that the players will be 118 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 1: worried about. 119 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 3: But will the players remember when Cherry Evans was going 120 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 3: through his dramas at Manly and that, and he was 121 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 3: playing with the Stewart Boys and whatmo on that, And 122 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 3: there were moments on the field where you could dead 123 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 3: set see the tension between them, especially when DC might 124 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 3: have done something good. And I'll be interested to see 125 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: what the reaction is on the weekend. 126 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: I think they like going back to the game and 127 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: the reason why they lost. I think they would have 128 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: been better off playing Loui at seven, you know, and 129 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: control on the whole game and kicking the majority of 130 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: the kicks. I think, you know, do we just I 131 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: don't see him as a seven at all, a six 132 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: at best. I see more as a center, and I 133 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: think that cost him a couple of his short kicks 134 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,679 Speaker 1: and game management in big moments. You know, if Leui 135 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: had just said, you know, you've got the team, You've 136 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: got the ball, take us to where you want and 137 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: be on the ball twenty four to seven, I think 138 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: they would have maybe even won that game. But just 139 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: to RuvA, like you talk about the the players and 140 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: the posts and all that, he let the emotion get 141 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: the better of him on Monday. That was obvious. How's 142 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: he going to do with this week? He could tell 143 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: that he had a be in his bonnet about I 144 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,919 Speaker 1: don't know was it about Galvin directly? Was it that 145 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: they wanted to prove everyone wrong and think that and 146 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: prove everyone that they could win without him? 147 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 4: He's been lippy all year, But come on, Mike, he did. 148 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 4: He's on the fielding lip and he has that. 149 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 3: Immy, this went one step too far and the emotion 150 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 3: did get the better of him. 151 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 4: I see what you're saying, I really do. 152 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 3: And and the camaraderie, but amongst the great teams, you know, 153 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 3: that's what makes them very special. But I do think 154 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 3: in this instance, like I think the Tigers fans have 155 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 3: been through so much in recent years that if anyone 156 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 3: can pull him together, it has to be Jerome and 157 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 3: a happy because Benji, like they backed the coach last week, 158 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 3: and if the coaches made a call this week to 159 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 3: bring him back in the side, surely you've got to 160 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 3: back the cake, do you. 161 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 4: So? With this legal stench in the air, what about 162 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 4: it training? 163 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: What about if there's a g up? 164 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 4: What about if they have a dig at Galvin for 165 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 4: dropping a ball? 166 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: Any little side issue that the players say is that 167 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 3: now going to end up as evidence? 168 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 4: Is that over the top. Is it possible and will 169 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 4: they be told? 170 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 5: No matter what. 171 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 4: Happens, to keep your mouth. 172 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: You couldn't even talk with the pres com. There you go, 173 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: it could. As I've said the last couple of weeks, 174 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: his management has been agitating for an early release. Well, 175 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: I believe I think most people. If you put two 176 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: and two together, then that's what it seems to be. 177 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: What's going to happen next? Will the Tigers stay strong 178 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,559 Speaker 1: here or will he get his release? 179 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 3: I think I think the Tigers. I think most people 180 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 3: in rugby league are hoping the Tigers do stay strong. 181 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 4: Look, we are only surmising. 182 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 3: We talk people from other clubs and they want to 183 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 3: They want to see the Tigers stand their digs on this. 184 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 3: They want to see its true, and I truly they do. 185 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 3: We don't know, like we hear secondhand information. No one 186 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 3: truly knows other than the agent and the officials at 187 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 3: the Club's. 188 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: Going on the Tigers today, that they're going to do 189 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: their hills in. 190 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 3: And if they've got if they've done nothing wrong, if 191 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: these claims are bullying, like you have to look at 192 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 3: the definition of bullying. 193 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 4: The definition of bullying. 194 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 3: Is repeated intimidation or using tactics to bring someone down 195 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 3: and cause distress is what we saw last week. 196 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 4: That's not the definition of bullying. There's a one off incidence. 197 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 4: So it has this been going on. 198 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 5: For some You don't like a post, that doesn't mean 199 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 5: that it's bulliing. 200 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 4: It's not bullying. 201 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 5: Because you don't like. 202 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 2: Someone's actions, It doesn't mean it's bullying. But I hope, 203 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 2: I hope, and I've been strong on this. I have 204 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 2: that every club and the game, like I have the 205 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 2: NRL stand behind the Tigers here, well. 206 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 4: The Tigers the Tigers. 207 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 3: If the Tigers, the Tigers are to their fans too 208 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 3: Gordy like, if they have done nothing wrong, then they 209 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 3: have to see this through. And if there's going to 210 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: be a court case, which I don't believe we'll get there, 211 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 3: but if there's going to be, they have to stick 212 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 3: by him. If they've got this kid for three hundred 213 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 3: thousand dollars for the rest of this year and the 214 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: rest of next day, you keep him. 215 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 5: Absolutely the fans want ing there. 216 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: That's a good question because I don't know. 217 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,959 Speaker 1: Again they're on socials with mice just through contact to 218 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: me through the Tigers fans is what. They don't want 219 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: him there. 220 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. If he goes out and plays 221 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 5: really good this week they were wanting there. If he 222 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 5: plays no. 223 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 4: Good, that's judge jury and execution or winning. 224 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: We all want him to stay there and play well and. 225 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,599 Speaker 3: Want Look, he's got a contract, and I'm all for 226 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 3: a contract. We should always honor contracts. It's one thing 227 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 3: we don't do well in rugby league. But if he 228 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 3: doesn't want to be there, the players don't want him there, 229 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 3: he's suing the club for goodness sake. 230 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 4: What is the point of keeping him there? What is 231 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 4: the benefit? 232 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 5: Like, how do you know the players don't want him there? 233 00:09:54,400 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 4: God, they got rid of him last week. They consultation, 234 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 4: they said, we don't want him in our side. 235 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: I think this week will tell us kind of where 236 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: he's at and where the team's at. Like, if he 237 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: responds well this weekend, goes out there and plays really well, 238 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: they get a win and you can see that they've 239 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: kind of mended a little bit, then I'm willing to 240 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: lean on the way of definitely keeping him. You know, 241 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: because you watch that game on Monday that they could 242 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: have won, still winded you, but you watch it and 243 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: you see how frustrated the players were, You see how 244 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: the emotions got the better of them. You see the fans, 245 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: and you can see their season falling away off the 246 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: back of this, like you can like this is a 247 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: big drama. It's exhausted a lot of energy. And we 248 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,599 Speaker 1: talk about the Tigers and how far they've come and 249 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: the start of this season, the promise that it showed 250 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: season twenty twenty five, and you just don't want it 251 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: to crumble and that could happen, you know, either way here, But. 252 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 3: Like, which would they be a more harmonious club without 253 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 3: all the media scrutiny and all these headlines which will 254 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 3: be flushing up here right now if he left the club? 255 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 4: Answer is yes, we might take that away. 256 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 2: And this club's been a punching bag. They've been at 257 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 2: the bottom. And if you don't stand for anything, you'll 258 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 2: never stand for any. 259 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 5: But let me tea you something. 260 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: The media and the speculation, and you know, because if 261 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: he leaves, it doesn't go away, the media, the headlines 262 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: don't go away. It'll be then life after. There will 263 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: be pressure on Benji. If they're not performing, it'll be 264 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: who they're going to buy next. How do they feel 265 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: the void like this ain't and they've got three wooden 266 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: spoons in a row like this. They're used their headlines, 267 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: but the headlines aren't going anywhere. 268 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: And that's the other thing in this when we talk 269 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 3: about Benji bringing Galvin back, because his career rides on 270 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 3: this too, Like he's he's been dragged down in the 271 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: gutter in recent days, the allegations and the claims against 272 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 3: him as you know, not being a good coach for 273 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 3: this young guy, like that's a real attack on his credibility. 274 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 4: I feel free a really good. 275 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 5: Job the teams. 276 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 4: The team's been playing well, but you know what if 277 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 4: it all fall apart? 278 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 3: Now break through one hundred percent, right, that becomes the 279 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 3: next storyline, the only the coaches can So why would 280 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 3: you even on the weekend on Monday when when they 281 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: lost to Paramatta, And are you saying that you're then 282 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 3: going to give Paramata a gun player to make them 283 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 3: a better team and make your club worse. If you 284 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 3: work at an employment place, you don't want to be there, 285 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 3: your colleagues don't want you to be there, but yet 286 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 3: other people are saying you should stay. 287 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: You'd be saying screw that. 288 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 4: I don't want to be if it's better for everybody, if. 289 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 3: I move along, I think if the Tigers were in 290 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 3: a position of power and they are a successful, strong club. 291 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 4: You probably maybe consider that they should get I agree with. 292 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 4: If you want to stand for something, stand for something, mates, 293 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 4: stick to this. 294 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 5: What is it? 295 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 2: Eight players or whatever? Teddy all those guys, it's going 296 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 2: to keep on happening. When are the Tigers going to 297 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: stand up for their fans? 298 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: You know what they get in a return of three 299 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: and a thousand dollars play? 300 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 5: Yeah? 301 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 2: No, and they've got one now that's probably worth I 302 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 2: think the money was too much. I think he's a 303 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 2: six hundred third all of player and the only one 304 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 2: that can turn it around, in my opinion, is Lucky 305 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 2: Galvinavigo's out there kickcase. If he rips in the team 306 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 2: will go with him. 307 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: It's a fascinating one. Watched his space. It's not going 308 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,599 Speaker 1: anywhere anytime soon. Now the Bulldogs are no longer in 309 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: the race. Does this mean that the paramatter ills are 310 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: a dollar one? 311 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 4: That's certainly the mail through rugby league. 312 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 3: I think you'll find a few clubs have already come forth, brother, 313 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 3: as you say saying we don't want him manly the Bulldogs. 314 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 4: I'm never quite sure with Gus. You know, he's the 315 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 4: master manipulator. He has said, well publicly, why have they 316 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 4: pulled out? 317 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 5: I don't like this to happen to them. 318 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 3: Possibly or they don't feel he would be a fit 319 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 3: at their club positionally, But I'm never quite sure with Gus. 320 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 4: But certainly paramatter is the club. 321 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 3: Jason Rowls has gone on the record yet again on 322 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 3: Fox League yesterday. 323 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: So we want I said last night the Dogs were 324 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: interested in because I've heard that they were, and even 325 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: after the show last night, I had a few interesting 326 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,199 Speaker 1: texts saying that they definitely were interested from very good sources. 327 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,719 Speaker 1: They were interested. But I hate to say it, but 328 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: the reason they didn't was because of the situation and 329 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: the management that was that was what I heard. 330 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 3: So are you're suggesting that the Bulldogs don't want to 331 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 3: deal with Isaac Moses? 332 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: Well, they read between the lines Bulldog. Yeah, that's pretty 333 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: much what I just said. I don't like Again, it's 334 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: not me targeting him and his management, but that's what 335 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: I heard, and that's from good sources. 336 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 3: Within that, there's also the stain now and you can't 337 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 3: deny this. There is a stain on Lachland Galvin's reputation 338 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 3: as a result of this. You would imagine we well, 339 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 3: we talk about his own teammate. Is it more on 340 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 3: Isaac Moses but Doggie, we talk about his own teammates, 341 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 3: the kids wanting to play with him. If he goes 342 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 3: across to the Dogs and you've got guys like Stephen 343 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 3: Crichton and Matt Burton and that who would have been 344 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 3: mates with Leuyan and Tuva at. 345 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 4: Penrif does that go with him? 346 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: You know? 347 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 5: Does that? 348 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 4: Does that go with and I reckon it? Does it 349 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 4: goes with Lachland Galvin for some time? What's happening? 350 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: Does his manager have to walk around with a security guard? 351 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 2: But he put the young kid in a situation where 352 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 2: he's going to play rugby league and he needed a 353 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 2: security guard. The last young kid I've witnessed in my 354 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 2: short time in the media to have a fall out 355 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: with the senior players, as Jackson Hastings, the last guy 356 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 2: that's got there a bit more of an ego thought 357 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 2: the Roosters. He's fallen out of all of his clubs 358 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: and where is he now? I hope this doesn't smell 359 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 2: this kid, and do you know who wears that? Jackson Hastings. 360 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: The kid wears it, not the manager. 361 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: Fair point, fair point. Right, Let's get to the rest 362 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: of the sports Bet team selections for Round eight and 363 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: cobbos which is the fullback for Wall shout with that 364 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: knee injury for the Broncos kright in the beginn for 365 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: the Roosters from that growing injury, Young is dropped for 366 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: that Anzac Day game against the Dragons. Mitchell moves to 367 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: full back and Gray to the bench for the Bunny's 368 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: Chaboievich much anticipated return for the mainly see this boy, 369 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: don't they need him? And Galvin if you didn't know, 370 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: he's been recalled back into the Tigers team at five eighth. 371 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: But the big one n Crawls Latrell Mitchell, He's been 372 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: moved back to fullback, and Young Ji Gray, who has 373 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: been on fire their best player all year, he's back 374 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: to the bench. 375 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 3: I said in McCollum, I think this has Bennett's biggest 376 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 3: decision since he returned to South because Ji Gray has 377 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 3: been their best player all year, but Latrell is their 378 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 3: best player. And I think if you watched Latrell on 379 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 3: the weekend and last week as well, and even in 380 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 3: his first game back against the Roosters, he hasn't been 381 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 3: crash off. He come up with a couple of flukey 382 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 3: plays against the Roosters. He was average last week and 383 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 3: this week I thought he was disappointing. Wayne has to 384 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 3: find a way to get him interested. 385 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 4: I tell you his best position. 386 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 2: He's going to get interested if he's back there. You 387 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 2: want to put on a good pair of joggers, He's 388 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 2: going to do some kilometers. 389 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, Gordy, We've been talking about his 390 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 3: fitness all year and he hasn't show on the weekend. 391 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 3: At the start of that game, early on, he was 392 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 3: coming out of his own end and he threw a 393 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 3: ridiculous silly off flow that led to the ball an 394 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 3: early try to the Bulldogs. And from that moment on, Mate, 395 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 3: it just changed the game and he was you know, 396 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 3: he got moved from five to eight out to center 397 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 3: quite and owned him. 398 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 4: Like in previous years, that was a. 399 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 3: Challenge that would have lifted Latrell going up against a 400 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 3: heavyweight opponent, but in this game, it was like he 401 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 3: didn't want to be a part of it. 402 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 4: I think Wayne made the core. 403 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 3: When Latrell returned from injury, he's our best fullback, and 404 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 3: when we get players back from injury and all that 405 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 3: sort of stuff, we're going to put him back there. 406 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 3: I think after what we saw on the weekend, he 407 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 3: had to do it. 408 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 4: He was always going to be the long term fullback. 409 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 3: Wayne has said that multiple times over his stint at South. Look, look, 410 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 3: I didn't have a problem with throwing at six. It's 411 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 3: a free throw at the stumps. Latrell complaining position. Has 412 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 3: it worked probably not? Was it worth a crack? Absolutely? 413 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 4: I didn't a problems. They had to reenforced, but I 414 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 4: thought it's worth having a crack. 415 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: Well, he needs he just needs to stand up this 416 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: week because to be selected over Gray, you know the 417 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: way that he's playing, and to take that asset. You 418 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: know that the the house have had all year that 419 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: the guy who's been there best consistently by a long way, 420 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: by a long way to move him back to the bench. 421 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: She was leading the daily ams and he just got 422 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: picked this week. It's he needs. He just needs to 423 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: stand up and deliver. 424 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,959 Speaker 3: He needs Stage two, hasn't he taking on a wounded 425 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 3: storm in Melbourne? Who the Bunnies I'm not sure exactly 426 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 3: what the record is, but they have a shocking record 427 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 3: against down there. 428 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: It's a danger game for the Bunnies because Bennett looks 429 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: to the fire history with a rare win over Bellamy 430 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: and look at this forty two games overall, thirty two 431 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: losses at a win rate of twenty three point eight 432 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: percent in Melbourne. It gets worse only nineteen percent win 433 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: rate for Ben and over Bellamy. And it gets even 434 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: worse when we go further, we go down on Coming. Yeah, 435 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: it's last thirteen games, thirteen wins and Souths haven't won 436 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: in Melbourne since nineteen ninety nine. This is this is 437 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: a huge hoodoo. 438 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, this is magic Dusty old man, he hasn't. 439 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 3: Had down there And this is this is where, like 440 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 3: you know last week against the Bulldogs, in the big games, 441 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 3: that's where you need your big players to stand up. 442 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: And arguably their two most disappointing players last week was 443 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 3: Latrell and Cody. 444 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 4: Cody had a shock of two. 445 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,640 Speaker 1: Well, he denies that Cody was hooked last week. 446 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 3: Made he maintains he wasn't hooked. He said what he 447 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 3: said to me, He said he had a hamstrings. He's 448 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 3: come back from a hamstring problem. Late in the game 449 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 3: is where you're likely to get that, and that's why 450 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 3: he thought, well, look we're not going to win game. 451 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 4: It was I think at that point. Yeah, it was 452 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 4: about twenty six nil. But look, let's face it, he 453 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 4: was terrible. I thought he was hooked. 454 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: He's off contract next year. Where are they with him? 455 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 4: He'll be resigned, resigned, He'll be resigned. 456 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 3: That's all you got for a to be a one 457 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 3: year deal, possibly with a second year option. I have 458 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 3: old Cody now thirty two thirty five five. If I'll 459 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 3: be I'd say to be more of a one year 460 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 3: deal with a second year option. 461 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 4: You know we'll get that. I was in the thirties. 462 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 5: I mean two. 463 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: Thirty five thirty very don't count made it thirty six months. 464 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 4: I don't get that. 465 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: At this stage. 466 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 3: I thought Cody had a pretty disappointing year last year. 467 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 3: Yes he had injuries, but he was disappointing. He's been 468 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 3: solid to start the season. I wouldn't say he's been great. 469 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 4: It does away too, doesn't he have yourself? 470 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 3: This will South Sydney be a better team in twenty 471 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 3: twenty six when Cody Walker is thirty six and he's 472 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 3: still their main playmaker, like or do they need to 473 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 3: start looking and planning for the future. 474 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: I think what they'll do is rewarding through loyalty, and 475 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 1: they'll definitely signed him on at least the one year deal, 476 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: and I think he deserves that. But it's a very 477 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 1: good question that you ask, Like, that's a tough one, 478 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:08,959 Speaker 1: and that's that's a big decision for him to make, 479 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: probably in twelve months. I think if he asked for 480 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: it to year deal, that would make it very interesting 481 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: whether they do it or not. 482 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 4: I just look at the souse at the moment. Aren't 483 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 4: quote with the elite. 484 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,479 Speaker 1: So you disagree with calls, you just think sign him 485 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: on you you. 486 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 4: Certainly resign him. He's still an elite player. 487 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 3: I don't forget Cody didn't really establish himself in thenner 488 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 3: all til he was twenty seven, So he's got a 489 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 3: few years left in him that others don't have because 490 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 3: of wearing that made you can't play to year one 491 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 3: hundred just because you started at twenty six. He doesn't 492 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 3: have the wear and tear on his body that others do. 493 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 4: He's played a fair bit of foot. Are you saying 494 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 4: you should he injuried. 495 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 3: Now, mate, No, I look, I'm not saying he's not 496 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 3: a good player, but if you want to be a 497 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 3: premiership contender, I'm not certain Souths are going to be 498 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 3: in a greater spot. 499 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 4: This time next year if he remains their main man. 500 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying. You're dismissing el play. I'm not 501 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 4: dismissing him made. 502 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 3: I'm saying at the moment, at the moment, I don't 503 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 3: consider sous up with the top four teams and do 504 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 3: you want to get there? Like look at Melbourne's helves 505 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 3: at the moment You've got Jerome Hughes and Cameron Munster. 506 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 3: You go to Penrifoll, they've got Nathan They've lost your own. 507 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 3: The top teams have good playmakers. 508 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 4: And who's the best one. I don't think thirty six, mate, 509 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 4: is where you're bus replace that. There's no point getting 510 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 4: rid of them. Have you got no one better to 511 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 4: come in? 512 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: Look there not yet? 513 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 4: You've got luck on Gavant on the market. 514 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 5: Or do you know? 515 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying I know nothing. 516 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 4: That's just me throwing there. 517 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 3: Are good young players out there, That's what I'm saying, 518 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 3: I just wonder, after what we've seen so far, if 519 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 3: he's worthy of a new contract. 520 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 1: We won't need to get you a calculating to all 521 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: right now, the good news. The good news is for 522 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: sus Storm coming off a big last no Grant Hughes 523 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: seems he wounded. 524 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 2: Its not good news for this house. Yeah, that's not 525 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: good news. Melbourne stim coming off a lost. I said 526 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 2: last week, you know, like the only problem was Melbourne 527 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: was so dominant against Manly that they had put the 528 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 2: Q on the rack and this here to lose the 529 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 2: Redcliffe up there. The way they lost, I think it 530 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 2: would have been a horrible week down there. And and 531 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 2: Melbourne don't lose too like, you know. 532 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 3: Melbourne had some bad luck in that game too, Like 533 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 3: I know, Look, the Dolphins were wonderful coming back and winning. 534 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 4: But they went in without Harry. 535 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 3: They lost howarth early didn't they like it sort of 536 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 3: shut coats down and there's. 537 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 4: A clearly show how important Harry is the Storm. Without Harry, 538 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 4: they come back. 539 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: To the feet wried about it. I won't be worried 540 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: about him. They look wounded, you know, like Jerame's had. 541 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: He's had injuries for a couple of years now against 542 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: his shoulder, he's you know, he looked a bit sluggish, 543 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 1: you know, not like he's a great player, don't get 544 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: me wrong, but he's carrying an injury, you know. And 545 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: then they don't sort of they've been dropping off at 546 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: the back end of games. Thought that was because they'd 547 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: won the previous ones and just kind of put the 548 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: Q in the rack. And then on the weekend, you know, 549 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: they didn't have that depth. They didn't have Harry out there, 550 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: so they couldn't then rely on on that lead that 551 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: they did have, and in games like coming up against 552 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: the Souse team who were desperate trying to you know, 553 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: end that who do and Wayne trying to sprinkle his 554 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: magic dust, they'll be fired up the trail back to fullback. 555 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 5: I don't know. 556 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 4: They didn't just fall away in this game, fell apart. 557 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 4: They got that. 558 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 3: They've got a point, said Broth. Are they the Premiership 559 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 3: favorites in your eyes? 560 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 5: They were? 561 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: And I still have them there. Now this week's a 562 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: big week, you know, and how these experienced players in 563 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: key positions get through the year with major setbacks like 564 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: they've had so far. Because the whole thing about Melbourne, 565 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: why they are short is because not only formed, but 566 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: they had they were healthy in key positions. They're nine, six, 567 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 1: seven and one. For the first time in a long 568 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: time ra aw fline. All of a sudden, you know, 569 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: two have sort of gone down and how do they 570 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: respond to that and are they premiership favorites. That's the 571 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: big question over the next few week now Patrick carrying 572 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: in Australia, any support behind ben Hunt moving to hooker 573 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,719 Speaker 1: as the Bronco is prepared for the return of Mezra Man. 574 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 1: Obviously we saw ben Hunt get shifted to nine. 575 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 4: Do you think I'm saying that potetiically signal Ez? 576 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 577 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,360 Speaker 6: Maybe Es has been working hard. 578 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 1: It's got a couple of weeks left. 579 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 6: But it does played nine at international level, let alone 580 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 6: at club level here, and I know that z has 581 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 6: been training bloody hard here so forgets the opportunity to 582 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 6: come back in when he does, I'm sure if you're ready. 583 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 1: He's a great kid. 584 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 6: Made he made a mistake, he owned it and I 585 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 6: don't think there's any sugarcoating that. But as a person 586 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 6: and having the opportunity to grow with him since he 587 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 6: come into the club at seventeen, I know what you 588 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 6: know this club means to him, but his community and 589 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 6: you know, being a role model for young kids and 590 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 6: young Aberige and Torres Schedlander kids. So I know he 591 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 6: would have been hurting and he's learned a lot of 592 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 6: lessons and coming NA stand beside him and are really 593 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 6: excited for him to come and do his thing again. 594 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: It's some big decisions to be made by Mirk McGuire 595 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: up in Brisbane over the next few weeks, with Ezra 596 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: men set to return in a couple of weeks. Ben 597 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: Hunt having close to the worst game I've ever seen 598 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: him playing the weekend. I felt sorry for him. You know, 599 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: that's not a dig. It just wasn't very good. What 600 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: do they do? What's going to happen? Where have you 601 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: got him at the moment? Cross? 602 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 4: Oh look, I thought, yeah, Hunt was terrible on the weekend. 603 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 3: I thought the decision to move him into dummy half 604 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 3: during the match kind of strange. And Billy Waters goes 605 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,719 Speaker 3: out to play five to eight. You know, you've got 606 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 3: four hookers in the club and Ben Hunt's moving there, 607 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 3: and I know I know that we probably saw this 608 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 3: as something that might happen down the track when Ezra 609 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 3: was coming back but I thought to myself, I wondered, 610 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 3: is that the first cracks that appear here? Because Hunt 611 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 3: has made it known throughout his career. Even though he 612 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 3: loves playing dummy half at Origin level, as a club football, he. 613 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 4: Sees himself as a half back or. 614 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 5: A half yep. 615 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 4: And I think we just saw the fact that when 616 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 4: Ezra does return. 617 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 5: Yeah absolutely. 618 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 3: Well. 619 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 2: Look when you're playing for Coins and you're put on, 620 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 2: when you're playing for Australia just to get it on 621 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 2: the side, you'll put on any number. But when it 622 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 2: comes to club I think Ben Hunt thinks that he's half. 623 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 3: The worrying part was Ben Hunt's body language. He's waving 624 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 3: his arms around. He looked totally rattled. For a senior player, 625 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 3: you don't normally expect that. But I think there was 626 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 3: a bad pass. He didn't chase the boat that picked 627 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 3: up the ball. There was the dummy half and he 628 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 3: went to throw to Adam Reynolds for the match winning 629 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 3: the field goal. 630 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 4: He fumbled that, but it wasn't so much the mistakes. 631 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 3: We all make mistakes, but this is the bit I'm 632 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 3: talking about, waving his arms around, remonstrating with the referee. 633 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 3: He just lost his way badly for a bloke who's 634 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 3: had so much experience, it's quite up. 635 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: Only a couple of weeks ago it was like, where's Ezra, 636 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: We're going to fit him in. He will be fourteen now, 637 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now it's like within a few weeks. 638 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 3: I haven't reckon though, Like even even the Broncos have 639 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 3: been hot and cold. They've lost their last two, but 640 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 3: even before that they were going pretty good. But has 641 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 3: Reese Walsh really lit up the field like he has 642 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 3: when I've been thinking to himself for some time he's 643 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 3: missed Ezra, you know, like I think Walsh hasn't been 644 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 3: as good without his little mate there when. 645 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: He had that injury at PCL, which you know we 646 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: thought it looked like core, but he was justified in 647 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: the end because he struggled all a game with that. 648 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 1: So that's why he struggled on the weekend. But all 649 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: year he hasn't been oh in years. 650 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 3: And then so now after two defeats, they take on 651 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 3: the Bulldogs who were unbeaten, and who I reckon will 652 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 3: go into this game with a point to prove because 653 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 3: I think it is the bulldogs only defeat this year 654 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 3: was in a trial match, and when we saw that 655 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 3: trial match, the Broncos man handled him. At that point, 656 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 3: I thought the dogs aren't going to look. Have they 657 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 3: got the manpower to aim up to these big teams? 658 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 3: I reckon they'll go up there with the point approved. 659 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: A bit of pressure on Madge up there after the 660 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, no doubt about that. Now, you guys, 661 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: stick around and and Zac Day on Fox League will 662 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: be something very special. All three games live and I 663 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: Break three jury play with coverage from three pm on 664 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: Channel five oh two.