Speaker 1: Welcome to three sixty league from every angle joining me
Speaker 1: in the great Gordon Tallas. Let's bring the general Australian,
Speaker 1: Poor Crawley and Dean Ritchie and guess who's back? Galvin
Speaker 1: recalled and set for an intense reception at Leichhardobal Gordy
Speaker 1: back into the team.
Speaker 2: Yes, smart decision obviously last week with all the emotions around,
Speaker 2: put Hingm back just to stay away from a bit
Speaker 2: of noise. But he's back in and hopefully he does
Speaker 2: well and in front of his home fans, I think,
Speaker 2: which is a little bit better.
Speaker 3: It's a circus though we went through all this pain
Speaker 3: last week. We had consultations between the coach and the
Speaker 3: senior players. They made the hard call to get him
Speaker 3: out of the side because he wasn't buying into the
Speaker 3: club culture and this one club approach which they keep
Speaker 3: thrusting upon us. And five six days later they've now
Speaker 3: gone back to where we were in the first place.
Speaker 4: So what was all the pain for?
Speaker 3: Darted off on a bad foot dog because I don't
Speaker 3: agree with what you said. I think last week they
Speaker 3: had no choice. But what's changed, Well, a lot of
Speaker 3: things have changed.
Speaker 1: Mate.
Speaker 3: Last week there was all the emotion, there was the
Speaker 3: media intensity and the microscope the players who were obviously upset.
Speaker 3: Galvin probably wasn't in the best headspace to be picked.
Speaker 3: I think this week it comes down to the fact,
Speaker 3: do the Digers want to play semi final football this year?
Speaker 3: Do they want to win games? If they do, Lachlan
Speaker 3: Galvin is in their state.
Speaker 1: How to train and work this week? Then, given the circumstances,
Speaker 1: like how do you as a head coach or even
Speaker 1: as a teammate, like, how does it work? I'll come
Speaker 1: to you as an ex player and we sort of
Speaker 1: spoke about it last night. How does it work? I mean,
Speaker 1: how can it get through the week and prepare for
Speaker 1: this properly?
Speaker 2: I never liked all my teammates. I didn't have to
Speaker 2: love them, but you've got to respect them and trust them.
Speaker 2: And I think that'll be the job for Benji Marshall
Speaker 2: this week. And I'm sure the senior players should walk
Speaker 2: over and it's a reception. I think it's the senior
Speaker 2: player's job to walk over to the young kid and
Speaker 2: put their arm around him.
Speaker 3: God, you didn't like some of your teammates, but they
Speaker 3: didn't go on social media. You didn't have it back then,
Speaker 3: mind you, and have diggers at him, And they didn't
Speaker 3: go to the coach behind your back and say we
Speaker 3: don't want you in the site.
Speaker 4: So it's a totally different scenario to what you went through.
Speaker 3: And I just can't work out how this bloke can
Speaker 3: possibly be in the team when his teammates have been so.
Speaker 4: Publicly and vehemently against him playing.
Speaker 3: I think when I looked at what Jerome Lewis posted
Speaker 3: last week, team first, to me, I didn't see that
Speaker 3: as bullying.
Speaker 4: I saw that as as Alvin.
Speaker 3: I saw it personally as a mark of respect for
Speaker 3: his coach.
Speaker 4: He was standing up for his coach.
Speaker 3: He'd been criticized and he said, if you disrespect our coach,
Speaker 3: you disrespect us. In that instant, I really believed what
Speaker 3: Leui did wasn't bullying. It was standing up for his coach.
Speaker 3: But now, as the team leader, he has to pull
Speaker 3: these blokes together and if he truly believes and I
Speaker 3: wrote him a column today, if he truly believes in
Speaker 3: team first culture, well then that's about bringing this bloke
Speaker 3: back into the team and finding a way to win
Speaker 3: football games. As a leader, he has to find a
Speaker 3: way to make this work, broth It's a better.
Speaker 2: Question for you because I was in the forwards. I
Speaker 2: just had one job to do. You got to run
Speaker 2: the team and bark them around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big job for jerom. I just can't
Speaker 1: imagine it. I cannot imagine it, I said last night.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were like yourself, Crawls
Speaker 1: and some highly respect to people said, you've got to
Speaker 1: play your best team. You've got to get him back
Speaker 1: in you want to make the finals. But the most
Speaker 1: successful teams are the ones that get along the best
Speaker 1: and have the best culture and camaraderie and love each other,
Speaker 1: like you don't win premierships not liking the boat next
Speaker 1: to you. And like I said it last night, he's
Speaker 1: actually suing it. He's suing the club and it's for
Speaker 1: the actionsmates.
Speaker 5: Do you think that he'd be back in the team
Speaker 5: if the legal and it wasn't? Said?
Speaker 4: Well was it lid com obile yet that new?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 3: Well, it's cup game and he had a modest performance
Speaker 3: at best. He defended on the left wing, a couple
Speaker 3: of kicks here and there.
Speaker 4: His side were well beaten.
Speaker 3: To be fair, I was actually yes, that's why no
Speaker 3: one got through it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see the face in the air, that's why
Speaker 1: in disguise.
Speaker 3: But he wasn't brought back based on this game, so
Speaker 3: it wasn't through merit or form.
Speaker 4: So why was he brought back? Is it due to
Speaker 4: these legal implications? He has been in good form throughout
Speaker 4: the year, though he has And because when.
Speaker 3: He said it yesterday, Broth, I watched the show last
Speaker 3: night and you said last night would the Tigers? Would
Speaker 3: it have been a different result if Galvin had played?
Speaker 3: And I guess that's the question that you asked. Could
Speaker 3: it have been a different result that was good?
Speaker 5: Watching that form, you'd say no.
Speaker 2: Because the week Look what it's done to day Cherry
Speaker 2: Evans he had thirty seven's And.
Speaker 3: That's a question mark too, Gordy. Look, no one knows
Speaker 3: the true answer. And I'll tell you what I also
Speaker 3: find interesting when they play on Sunday is watching the
Speaker 3: interaction twin the players, Like you know, you see all
Speaker 3: the players if someone does something good and they all
Speaker 3: come diving over the top of each other.
Speaker 1: I remember years the things that the players will be
Speaker 1: worried about.
Speaker 3: But will the players remember when Cherry Evans was going
Speaker 3: through his dramas at Manly and that, and he was
Speaker 3: playing with the Stewart Boys and whatmo on that, And
Speaker 3: there were moments on the field where you could dead
Speaker 3: set see the tension between them, especially when DC might
Speaker 3: have done something good. And I'll be interested to see
Speaker 3: what the reaction is on the weekend.
Speaker 1: I think they like going back to the game and
Speaker 1: the reason why they lost. I think they would have
Speaker 1: been better off playing Loui at seven, you know, and
Speaker 1: control on the whole game and kicking the majority of
Speaker 1: the kicks. I think, you know, do we just I
Speaker 1: don't see him as a seven at all, a six
Speaker 1: at best. I see more as a center, and I
Speaker 1: think that cost him a couple of his short kicks
Speaker 1: and game management in big moments. You know, if Leui
Speaker 1: had just said, you know, you've got the team, You've
Speaker 1: got the ball, take us to where you want and
Speaker 1: be on the ball twenty four to seven, I think
Speaker 1: they would have maybe even won that game. But just
Speaker 1: to RuvA, like you talk about the the players and
Speaker 1: the posts and all that, he let the emotion get
Speaker 1: the better of him on Monday. That was obvious. How's
Speaker 1: he going to do with this week? He could tell
Speaker 1: that he had a be in his bonnet about I
Speaker 1: don't know was it about Galvin directly? Was it that
Speaker 1: they wanted to prove everyone wrong and think that and
Speaker 1: prove everyone that they could win without him?
Speaker 4: He's been lippy all year, But come on, Mike, he did.
Speaker 4: He's on the fielding lip and he has that.
Speaker 3: Immy, this went one step too far and the emotion
Speaker 3: did get the better of him.
Speaker 4: I see what you're saying, I really do.
Speaker 3: And and the camaraderie, but amongst the great teams, you know,
Speaker 3: that's what makes them very special. But I do think
Speaker 3: in this instance, like I think the Tigers fans have
Speaker 3: been through so much in recent years that if anyone
Speaker 3: can pull him together, it has to be Jerome and
Speaker 3: a happy because Benji, like they backed the coach last week,
Speaker 3: and if the coaches made a call this week to
Speaker 3: bring him back in the side, surely you've got to
Speaker 3: back the cake, do you.
Speaker 4: So? With this legal stench in the air, what about
Speaker 4: it training?
Speaker 1: What about if there's a g up?
Speaker 4: What about if they have a dig at Galvin for
Speaker 4: dropping a ball?
Speaker 3: Any little side issue that the players say is that
Speaker 3: now going to end up as evidence?
Speaker 4: Is that over the top. Is it possible and will
Speaker 4: they be told?
Speaker 5: No matter what.
Speaker 4: Happens, to keep your mouth.
Speaker 1: You couldn't even talk with the pres com. There you go,
Speaker 1: it could. As I've said the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: his management has been agitating for an early release. Well,
Speaker 1: I believe I think most people. If you put two
Speaker 1: and two together, then that's what it seems to be.
Speaker 1: What's going to happen next? Will the Tigers stay strong
Speaker 1: here or will he get his release?
Speaker 3: I think I think the Tigers. I think most people
Speaker 3: in rugby league are hoping the Tigers do stay strong.
Speaker 4: Look, we are only surmising.
Speaker 3: We talk people from other clubs and they want to
Speaker 3: They want to see the Tigers stand their digs on this.
Speaker 3: They want to see its true, and I truly they do.
Speaker 3: We don't know, like we hear secondhand information. No one
Speaker 3: truly knows other than the agent and the officials at
Speaker 3: the Club's.
Speaker 1: Going on the Tigers today, that they're going to do
Speaker 1: their hills in.
Speaker 3: And if they've got if they've done nothing wrong, if
Speaker 3: these claims are bullying, like you have to look at
Speaker 3: the definition of bullying.
Speaker 4: The definition of bullying.
Speaker 3: Is repeated intimidation or using tactics to bring someone down
Speaker 3: and cause distress is what we saw last week.
Speaker 4: That's not the definition of bullying. There's a one off incidence.
Speaker 4: So it has this been going on.
Speaker 5: For some You don't like a post, that doesn't mean
Speaker 5: that it's bulliing.
Speaker 4: It's not bullying.
Speaker 5: Because you don't like.
Speaker 2: Someone's actions, It doesn't mean it's bullying. But I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope, and I've been strong on this. I have
Speaker 2: that every club and the game, like I have the
Speaker 2: NRL stand behind the Tigers here, well.
Speaker 4: The Tigers the Tigers.
Speaker 3: If the Tigers, the Tigers are to their fans too
Speaker 3: Gordy like, if they have done nothing wrong, then they
Speaker 3: have to see this through. And if there's going to
Speaker 3: be a court case, which I don't believe we'll get there,
Speaker 3: but if there's going to be, they have to stick
Speaker 3: by him. If they've got this kid for three hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars for the rest of this year and the
Speaker 3: rest of next day, you keep him.
Speaker 5: Absolutely the fans want ing there.
Speaker 4: That's a good question because I don't know.
Speaker 1: Again they're on socials with mice just through contact to
Speaker 1: me through the Tigers fans is what. They don't want
Speaker 1: him there.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. If he goes out and plays
Speaker 5: really good this week they were wanting there. If he
Speaker 5: plays no.
Speaker 4: Good, that's judge jury and execution or winning.
Speaker 1: We all want him to stay there and play well and.
Speaker 3: Want Look, he's got a contract, and I'm all for
Speaker 3: a contract. We should always honor contracts. It's one thing
Speaker 3: we don't do well in rugby league. But if he
Speaker 3: doesn't want to be there, the players don't want him there,
Speaker 3: he's suing the club for goodness sake.
Speaker 4: What is the point of keeping him there? What is
Speaker 4: the benefit?
Speaker 5: Like, how do you know the players don't want him there?
Speaker 4: God, they got rid of him last week. They consultation,
Speaker 4: they said, we don't want him in our side.
Speaker 1: I think this week will tell us kind of where
Speaker 1: he's at and where the team's at. Like, if he
Speaker 1: responds well this weekend, goes out there and plays really well,
Speaker 1: they get a win and you can see that they've
Speaker 1: kind of mended a little bit, then I'm willing to
Speaker 1: lean on the way of definitely keeping him. You know,
Speaker 1: because you watch that game on Monday that they could
Speaker 1: have won, still winded you, but you watch it and
Speaker 1: you see how frustrated the players were, You see how
Speaker 1: the emotions got the better of them. You see the fans,
Speaker 1: and you can see their season falling away off the
Speaker 1: back of this, like you can like this is a
Speaker 1: big drama. It's exhausted a lot of energy. And we
Speaker 1: talk about the Tigers and how far they've come and
Speaker 1: the start of this season, the promise that it showed
Speaker 1: season twenty twenty five, and you just don't want it
Speaker 1: to crumble and that could happen, you know, either way here, But.
Speaker 3: Like, which would they be a more harmonious club without
Speaker 3: all the media scrutiny and all these headlines which will
Speaker 3: be flushing up here right now if he left the club?
Speaker 4: Answer is yes, we might take that away.
Speaker 2: And this club's been a punching bag. They've been at
Speaker 2: the bottom. And if you don't stand for anything, you'll
Speaker 2: never stand for any.
Speaker 5: But let me tea you something.
Speaker 1: The media and the speculation, and you know, because if
Speaker 1: he leaves, it doesn't go away, the media, the headlines
Speaker 1: don't go away. It'll be then life after. There will
Speaker 1: be pressure on Benji. If they're not performing, it'll be
Speaker 1: who they're going to buy next. How do they feel
Speaker 1: the void like this ain't and they've got three wooden
Speaker 1: spoons in a row like this. They're used their headlines,
Speaker 1: but the headlines aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3: And that's the other thing in this when we talk
Speaker 3: about Benji bringing Galvin back, because his career rides on
Speaker 3: this too, Like he's he's been dragged down in the
Speaker 3: gutter in recent days, the allegations and the claims against
Speaker 3: him as you know, not being a good coach for
Speaker 3: this young guy, like that's a real attack on his credibility.
Speaker 4: I feel free a really good.
Speaker 5: Job the teams.
Speaker 4: The team's been playing well, but you know what if
Speaker 4: it all fall apart?
Speaker 3: Now break through one hundred percent, right, that becomes the
Speaker 3: next storyline, the only the coaches can So why would
Speaker 3: you even on the weekend on Monday when when they
Speaker 3: lost to Paramatta, And are you saying that you're then
Speaker 3: going to give Paramata a gun player to make them
Speaker 3: a better team and make your club worse. If you
Speaker 3: work at an employment place, you don't want to be there,
Speaker 3: your colleagues don't want you to be there, but yet
Speaker 3: other people are saying you should stay.
Speaker 1: You'd be saying screw that.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be if it's better for everybody, if.
Speaker 3: I move along, I think if the Tigers were in
Speaker 3: a position of power and they are a successful, strong club.
Speaker 4: You probably maybe consider that they should get I agree with.
Speaker 4: If you want to stand for something, stand for something, mates,
Speaker 4: stick to this.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 2: Eight players or whatever? Teddy all those guys, it's going
Speaker 2: to keep on happening. When are the Tigers going to
Speaker 2: stand up for their fans?
Speaker 1: You know what they get in a return of three
Speaker 1: and a thousand dollars play?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, and they've got one now that's probably worth I
Speaker 2: think the money was too much. I think he's a
Speaker 2: six hundred third all of player and the only one
Speaker 2: that can turn it around, in my opinion, is Lucky
Speaker 2: Galvinavigo's out there kickcase. If he rips in the team
Speaker 2: will go with him.
Speaker 1: It's a fascinating one. Watched his space. It's not going
Speaker 1: anywhere anytime soon. Now the Bulldogs are no longer in
Speaker 1: the race. Does this mean that the paramatter ills are
Speaker 1: a dollar one?
Speaker 4: That's certainly the mail through rugby league.
Speaker 3: I think you'll find a few clubs have already come forth, brother,
Speaker 3: as you say saying we don't want him manly the Bulldogs.
Speaker 4: I'm never quite sure with Gus. You know, he's the
Speaker 4: master manipulator. He has said, well publicly, why have they
Speaker 4: pulled out?
Speaker 5: I don't like this to happen to them.
Speaker 3: Possibly or they don't feel he would be a fit
Speaker 3: at their club positionally, But I'm never quite sure with Gus.
Speaker 4: But certainly paramatter is the club.
Speaker 3: Jason Rowls has gone on the record yet again on
Speaker 3: Fox League yesterday.
Speaker 1: So we want I said last night the Dogs were
Speaker 1: interested in because I've heard that they were, and even
Speaker 1: after the show last night, I had a few interesting
Speaker 1: texts saying that they definitely were interested from very good sources.
Speaker 1: They were interested. But I hate to say it, but
Speaker 1: the reason they didn't was because of the situation and
Speaker 1: the management that was that was what I heard.
Speaker 3: So are you're suggesting that the Bulldogs don't want to
Speaker 3: deal with Isaac Moses?
Speaker 1: Well, they read between the lines Bulldog. Yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 1: much what I just said. I don't like Again, it's
Speaker 1: not me targeting him and his management, but that's what
Speaker 1: I heard, and that's from good sources.
Speaker 3: Within that, there's also the stain now and you can't
Speaker 3: deny this. There is a stain on Lachland Galvin's reputation
Speaker 3: as a result of this. You would imagine we well,
Speaker 3: we talk about his own teammate. Is it more on
Speaker 3: Isaac Moses but Doggie, we talk about his own teammates,
Speaker 3: the kids wanting to play with him. If he goes
Speaker 3: across to the Dogs and you've got guys like Stephen
Speaker 3: Crichton and Matt Burton and that who would have been
Speaker 3: mates with Leuyan and Tuva at.
Speaker 4: Penrif does that go with him?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: Does that?
Speaker 4: Does that go with and I reckon it? Does it
Speaker 4: goes with Lachland Galvin for some time? What's happening?
Speaker 2: Does his manager have to walk around with a security guard?
Speaker 2: But he put the young kid in a situation where
Speaker 2: he's going to play rugby league and he needed a
Speaker 2: security guard. The last young kid I've witnessed in my
Speaker 2: short time in the media to have a fall out
Speaker 2: with the senior players, as Jackson Hastings, the last guy
Speaker 2: that's got there a bit more of an ego thought
Speaker 2: the Roosters. He's fallen out of all of his clubs
Speaker 2: and where is he now? I hope this doesn't smell
Speaker 2: this kid, and do you know who wears that? Jackson Hastings.
Speaker 2: The kid wears it, not the manager.
Speaker 1: Fair point, fair point. Right, Let's get to the rest
Speaker 1: of the sports Bet team selections for Round eight and
Speaker 1: cobbos which is the fullback for Wall shout with that
Speaker 1: knee injury for the Broncos kright in the beginn for
Speaker 1: the Roosters from that growing injury, Young is dropped for
Speaker 1: that Anzac Day game against the Dragons. Mitchell moves to
Speaker 1: full back and Gray to the bench for the Bunny's
Speaker 1: Chaboievich much anticipated return for the mainly see this boy,
Speaker 1: don't they need him? And Galvin if you didn't know,
Speaker 1: he's been recalled back into the Tigers team at five eighth.
Speaker 1: But the big one n Crawls Latrell Mitchell, He's been
Speaker 1: moved back to fullback, and Young Ji Gray, who has
Speaker 1: been on fire their best player all year, he's back
Speaker 1: to the bench.
Speaker 3: I said in McCollum, I think this has Bennett's biggest
Speaker 3: decision since he returned to South because Ji Gray has
Speaker 3: been their best player all year, but Latrell is their
Speaker 3: best player. And I think if you watched Latrell on
Speaker 3: the weekend and last week as well, and even in
Speaker 3: his first game back against the Roosters, he hasn't been
Speaker 3: crash off. He come up with a couple of flukey
Speaker 3: plays against the Roosters. He was average last week and
Speaker 3: this week I thought he was disappointing. Wayne has to
Speaker 3: find a way to get him interested.
Speaker 4: I tell you his best position.
Speaker 2: He's going to get interested if he's back there. You
Speaker 2: want to put on a good pair of joggers, He's
Speaker 2: going to do some kilometers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, Gordy, We've been talking about his
Speaker 3: fitness all year and he hasn't show on the weekend.
Speaker 3: At the start of that game, early on, he was
Speaker 3: coming out of his own end and he threw a
Speaker 3: ridiculous silly off flow that led to the ball an
Speaker 3: early try to the Bulldogs. And from that moment on, Mate,
Speaker 3: it just changed the game and he was you know,
Speaker 3: he got moved from five to eight out to center
Speaker 3: quite and owned him.
Speaker 4: Like in previous years, that was a.
Speaker 3: Challenge that would have lifted Latrell going up against a
Speaker 3: heavyweight opponent, but in this game, it was like he
Speaker 3: didn't want to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: I think Wayne made the core.
Speaker 3: When Latrell returned from injury, he's our best fullback, and
Speaker 3: when we get players back from injury and all that
Speaker 3: sort of stuff, we're going to put him back there.
Speaker 3: I think after what we saw on the weekend, he
Speaker 3: had to do it.
Speaker 4: He was always going to be the long term fullback.
Speaker 3: Wayne has said that multiple times over his stint at South. Look, look,
Speaker 3: I didn't have a problem with throwing at six. It's
Speaker 3: a free throw at the stumps. Latrell complaining position. Has
Speaker 3: it worked probably not? Was it worth a crack? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: I didn't a problems. They had to reenforced, but I
Speaker 4: thought it's worth having a crack.
Speaker 1: Well, he needs he just needs to stand up this
Speaker 1: week because to be selected over Gray, you know the
Speaker 1: way that he's playing, and to take that asset. You
Speaker 1: know that the the house have had all year that
Speaker 1: the guy who's been there best consistently by a long way,
Speaker 1: by a long way to move him back to the bench.
Speaker 1: She was leading the daily ams and he just got
Speaker 1: picked this week. It's he needs. He just needs to
Speaker 1: stand up and deliver.
Speaker 3: He needs Stage two, hasn't he taking on a wounded
Speaker 3: storm in Melbourne? Who the Bunnies I'm not sure exactly
Speaker 3: what the record is, but they have a shocking record
Speaker 3: against down there.
Speaker 1: It's a danger game for the Bunnies because Bennett looks
Speaker 1: to the fire history with a rare win over Bellamy
Speaker 1: and look at this forty two games overall, thirty two
Speaker 1: losses at a win rate of twenty three point eight
Speaker 1: percent in Melbourne. It gets worse only nineteen percent win
Speaker 1: rate for Ben and over Bellamy. And it gets even
Speaker 1: worse when we go further, we go down on Coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's last thirteen games, thirteen wins and Souths haven't won
Speaker 1: in Melbourne since nineteen ninety nine. This is this is
Speaker 1: a huge hoodoo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is magic Dusty old man, he hasn't.
Speaker 3: Had down there And this is this is where, like
Speaker 3: you know last week against the Bulldogs, in the big games,
Speaker 3: that's where you need your big players to stand up.
Speaker 3: And arguably their two most disappointing players last week was
Speaker 3: Latrell and Cody.
Speaker 4: Cody had a shock of two.
Speaker 1: Well, he denies that Cody was hooked last week.
Speaker 3: Made he maintains he wasn't hooked. He said what he
Speaker 3: said to me, He said he had a hamstrings. He's
Speaker 3: come back from a hamstring problem. Late in the game
Speaker 3: is where you're likely to get that, and that's why
Speaker 3: he thought, well, look we're not going to win game.
Speaker 4: It was I think at that point. Yeah, it was
Speaker 4: about twenty six nil. But look, let's face it, he
Speaker 4: was terrible. I thought he was hooked.
Speaker 1: He's off contract next year. Where are they with him?
Speaker 4: He'll be resigned, resigned, He'll be resigned.
Speaker 3: That's all you got for a to be a one
Speaker 3: year deal, possibly with a second year option. I have
Speaker 3: old Cody now thirty two thirty five five. If I'll
Speaker 3: be I'd say to be more of a one year
Speaker 3: deal with a second year option.
Speaker 4: You know we'll get that. I was in the thirties.
Speaker 5: I mean two.
Speaker 1: Thirty five thirty very don't count made it thirty six months.
Speaker 4: I don't get that.
Speaker 1: At this stage.
Speaker 3: I thought Cody had a pretty disappointing year last year.
Speaker 3: Yes he had injuries, but he was disappointing. He's been
Speaker 3: solid to start the season. I wouldn't say he's been great.
Speaker 4: It does away too, doesn't he have yourself?
Speaker 3: This will South Sydney be a better team in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six when Cody Walker is thirty six and he's
Speaker 3: still their main playmaker, like or do they need to
Speaker 3: start looking and planning for the future.
Speaker 1: I think what they'll do is rewarding through loyalty, and
Speaker 1: they'll definitely signed him on at least the one year deal,
Speaker 1: and I think he deserves that. But it's a very
Speaker 1: good question that you ask, Like, that's a tough one,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a big decision for him to make,
Speaker 1: probably in twelve months. I think if he asked for
Speaker 1: it to year deal, that would make it very interesting
Speaker 1: whether they do it or not.
Speaker 4: I just look at the souse at the moment. Aren't
Speaker 4: quote with the elite.
Speaker 1: So you disagree with calls, you just think sign him
Speaker 1: on you you.
Speaker 4: Certainly resign him. He's still an elite player.
Speaker 3: I don't forget Cody didn't really establish himself in thenner
Speaker 3: all til he was twenty seven, So he's got a
Speaker 3: few years left in him that others don't have because
Speaker 3: of wearing that made you can't play to year one
Speaker 3: hundred just because you started at twenty six. He doesn't
Speaker 3: have the wear and tear on his body that others do.
Speaker 4: He's played a fair bit of foot. Are you saying
Speaker 4: you should he injuried.
Speaker 3: Now, mate, No, I look, I'm not saying he's not
Speaker 3: a good player, but if you want to be a
Speaker 3: premiership contender, I'm not certain Souths are going to be
Speaker 3: in a greater spot.
Speaker 4: This time next year if he remains their main man.
Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying. You're dismissing el play. I'm not
Speaker 4: dismissing him made.
Speaker 3: I'm saying at the moment, at the moment, I don't
Speaker 3: consider sous up with the top four teams and do
Speaker 3: you want to get there? Like look at Melbourne's helves
Speaker 3: at the moment You've got Jerome Hughes and Cameron Munster.
Speaker 3: You go to Penrifoll, they've got Nathan They've lost your own.
Speaker 3: The top teams have good playmakers.
Speaker 4: And who's the best one. I don't think thirty six, mate,
Speaker 4: is where you're bus replace that. There's no point getting
Speaker 4: rid of them. Have you got no one better to
Speaker 4: come in?
Speaker 1: Look there not yet?
Speaker 4: You've got luck on Gavant on the market.
Speaker 5: Or do you know?
Speaker 4: No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying I know nothing.
Speaker 4: That's just me throwing there.
Speaker 3: Are good young players out there, That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: I just wonder, after what we've seen so far, if
Speaker 3: he's worthy of a new contract.
Speaker 1: We won't need to get you a calculating to all
Speaker 1: right now, the good news. The good news is for
Speaker 1: sus Storm coming off a big last no Grant Hughes
Speaker 1: seems he wounded.
Speaker 2: Its not good news for this house. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 2: good news. Melbourne stim coming off a lost. I said
Speaker 2: last week, you know, like the only problem was Melbourne
Speaker 2: was so dominant against Manly that they had put the
Speaker 2: Q on the rack and this here to lose the
Speaker 2: Redcliffe up there. The way they lost, I think it
Speaker 2: would have been a horrible week down there. And and
Speaker 2: Melbourne don't lose too like, you know.
Speaker 3: Melbourne had some bad luck in that game too, Like
Speaker 3: I know, Look, the Dolphins were wonderful coming back and winning.
Speaker 4: But they went in without Harry.
Speaker 3: They lost howarth early didn't they like it sort of
Speaker 3: shut coats down and there's.
Speaker 4: A clearly show how important Harry is the Storm. Without Harry,
Speaker 4: they come back.
Speaker 1: To the feet wried about it. I won't be worried
Speaker 1: about him. They look wounded, you know, like Jerame's had.
Speaker 1: He's had injuries for a couple of years now against
Speaker 1: his shoulder, he's you know, he looked a bit sluggish,
Speaker 1: you know, not like he's a great player, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but he's carrying an injury, you know. And
Speaker 1: then they don't sort of they've been dropping off at
Speaker 1: the back end of games. Thought that was because they'd
Speaker 1: won the previous ones and just kind of put the
Speaker 1: Q in the rack. And then on the weekend, you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't have that depth. They didn't have Harry out there,
Speaker 1: so they couldn't then rely on on that lead that
Speaker 1: they did have, and in games like coming up against
Speaker 1: the Souse team who were desperate trying to you know,
Speaker 1: end that who do and Wayne trying to sprinkle his
Speaker 1: magic dust, they'll be fired up the trail back to fullback.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: They didn't just fall away in this game, fell apart.
Speaker 4: They got that.
Speaker 3: They've got a point, said Broth. Are they the Premiership
Speaker 3: favorites in your eyes?
Speaker 5: They were?
Speaker 1: And I still have them there. Now this week's a
Speaker 1: big week, you know, and how these experienced players in
Speaker 1: key positions get through the year with major setbacks like
Speaker 1: they've had so far. Because the whole thing about Melbourne,
Speaker 1: why they are short is because not only formed, but
Speaker 1: they had they were healthy in key positions. They're nine, six,
Speaker 1: seven and one. For the first time in a long
Speaker 1: time ra aw fline. All of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: two have sort of gone down and how do they
Speaker 1: respond to that and are they premiership favorites. That's the
Speaker 1: big question over the next few week now Patrick carrying
Speaker 1: in Australia, any support behind ben Hunt moving to hooker
Speaker 1: as the Bronco is prepared for the return of Mezra Man.
Speaker 1: Obviously we saw ben Hunt get shifted to nine.
Speaker 4: Do you think I'm saying that potetiically signal Ez?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Maybe Es has been working hard.
Speaker 1: It's got a couple of weeks left.
Speaker 6: But it does played nine at international level, let alone
Speaker 6: at club level here, and I know that z has
Speaker 6: been training bloody hard here so forgets the opportunity to
Speaker 6: come back in when he does, I'm sure if you're ready.
Speaker 1: He's a great kid.
Speaker 6: Made he made a mistake, he owned it and I
Speaker 6: don't think there's any sugarcoating that. But as a person
Speaker 6: and having the opportunity to grow with him since he
Speaker 6: come into the club at seventeen, I know what you
Speaker 6: know this club means to him, but his community and
Speaker 6: you know, being a role model for young kids and
Speaker 6: young Aberige and Torres Schedlander kids. So I know he
Speaker 6: would have been hurting and he's learned a lot of
Speaker 6: lessons and coming NA stand beside him and are really
Speaker 6: excited for him to come and do his thing again.
Speaker 1: It's some big decisions to be made by Mirk McGuire
Speaker 1: up in Brisbane over the next few weeks, with Ezra
Speaker 1: men set to return in a couple of weeks. Ben
Speaker 1: Hunt having close to the worst game I've ever seen
Speaker 1: him playing the weekend. I felt sorry for him. You know,
Speaker 1: that's not a dig. It just wasn't very good. What
Speaker 1: do they do? What's going to happen? Where have you
Speaker 1: got him at the moment? Cross?
Speaker 4: Oh look, I thought, yeah, Hunt was terrible on the weekend.
Speaker 3: I thought the decision to move him into dummy half
Speaker 3: during the match kind of strange. And Billy Waters goes
Speaker 3: out to play five to eight. You know, you've got
Speaker 3: four hookers in the club and Ben Hunt's moving there,
Speaker 3: and I know I know that we probably saw this
Speaker 3: as something that might happen down the track when Ezra
Speaker 3: was coming back but I thought to myself, I wondered,
Speaker 3: is that the first cracks that appear here? Because Hunt
Speaker 3: has made it known throughout his career. Even though he
Speaker 3: loves playing dummy half at Origin level, as a club football, he.
Speaker 4: Sees himself as a half back or.
Speaker 5: A half yep.
Speaker 4: And I think we just saw the fact that when
Speaker 4: Ezra does return.
Speaker 5: Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Look when you're playing for Coins and you're put on,
Speaker 2: when you're playing for Australia just to get it on
Speaker 2: the side, you'll put on any number. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to club I think Ben Hunt thinks that he's half.
Speaker 3: The worrying part was Ben Hunt's body language. He's waving
Speaker 3: his arms around. He looked totally rattled. For a senior player,
Speaker 3: you don't normally expect that. But I think there was
Speaker 3: a bad pass. He didn't chase the boat that picked
Speaker 3: up the ball. There was the dummy half and he
Speaker 3: went to throw to Adam Reynolds for the match winning
Speaker 3: the field goal.
Speaker 4: He fumbled that, but it wasn't so much the mistakes.
Speaker 3: We all make mistakes, but this is the bit I'm
Speaker 3: talking about, waving his arms around, remonstrating with the referee.
Speaker 3: He just lost his way badly for a bloke who's
Speaker 3: had so much experience, it's quite up.
Speaker 1: Only a couple of weeks ago it was like, where's Ezra,
Speaker 1: We're going to fit him in. He will be fourteen now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now it's like within a few weeks.
Speaker 3: I haven't reckon though, Like even even the Broncos have
Speaker 3: been hot and cold. They've lost their last two, but
Speaker 3: even before that they were going pretty good. But has
Speaker 3: Reese Walsh really lit up the field like he has
Speaker 3: when I've been thinking to himself for some time he's
Speaker 3: missed Ezra, you know, like I think Walsh hasn't been
Speaker 3: as good without his little mate there when.
Speaker 1: He had that injury at PCL, which you know we
Speaker 1: thought it looked like core, but he was justified in
Speaker 1: the end because he struggled all a game with that.
Speaker 1: So that's why he struggled on the weekend. But all
Speaker 1: year he hasn't been oh in years.
Speaker 3: And then so now after two defeats, they take on
Speaker 3: the Bulldogs who were unbeaten, and who I reckon will
Speaker 3: go into this game with a point to prove because
Speaker 3: I think it is the bulldogs only defeat this year
Speaker 3: was in a trial match, and when we saw that
Speaker 3: trial match, the Broncos man handled him. At that point,
Speaker 3: I thought the dogs aren't going to look. Have they
Speaker 3: got the manpower to aim up to these big teams?
Speaker 3: I reckon they'll go up there with the point approved.
Speaker 1: A bit of pressure on Madge up there after the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, no doubt about that. Now, you guys,
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