WEBVTT - Round 23 Takeaways 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.400 Course we'll talk guys Ao and Luke nee Karf and 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.200 what I previously some of the big games coming up 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.240 this weekend was the first day Night came. But firstly, Brian, 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:11.960 you've got to credit the P and G team. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.080 You have to credit them the way they're gone about it. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.440 They're almost building Jerome Lewie and Brian told best friends. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.840 They bring their kids together, they live in the compound, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.840 like there almost has to be one of the prerequisites 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.520 are building that list is does everyone get along? Like 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.040 it has to be like there's part of it, like 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.640 you've got to do a bit of background checking on 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.440 do they have an issue, is there whatever, Like there 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:36.800 would be more than just saying. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:37.680 This guy is a good player. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.760 And they seem to be building a group of people 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.479 that have played together, like enjoy each other's company, just 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.320 as the building blocks and then plugging other people in. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.160 But I like it. Like the one thing that. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.680 P and G will struggle to do is I'm I'm 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.280 going to guess they're gonna have a lot of turnover 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.400 players one year, two year, maximum three year deals. They're 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.160 not going to sign people for long term, so they 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.360 will have to continue it to turn over and be 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:05.240 active in the market. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.679 It's both a strength and a challenge for them, you 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.120 know the fact that you can bring players in people going, oh, 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:11.640 make the sign and Blakes at this point in their 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.720 career it's perfect two years then turn over the roster 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.200 and in the first ten years. I don't think they'll 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.000 have a problem turn over the roster with tax free dollars. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:21.960 I know it all comes back to that, but I 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.720 like the signing because he's a big character. It'd be 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.280 great to sell there. And as you said before, you 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.880 can see what they're doing, you know, as far as 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:35.480 the close living quarters, but also coops you know just 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.080 very much the football and how you train everything, Like 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.680 when a club starts, you know, the formative years are 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.880 so important to a culture of a club. Isn't like 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.920 you know, Melbourne Storm, you come out of that, you know, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.360 like Melbourne Storm started, you know, with such a strong 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.600 base of Blakes with character who trained hard, and that 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.960 just set you know, set the whole place along on 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:57.240 it on. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.480 With that culture, with that character, I think they're also 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.720 going to need a genuine leader and that's the person 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.360 has to be signed yet. I haven't signed a half back. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.760 Haven't signed too many like big alpha type players, but 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.079 that's coming and I think that'll be the key part, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.720 like who is going to be their captain, that that 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.519 will set the culture compass for them. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.799 Well, I tell you what they're building. Another one I'm 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.440 hearing quite a bit is either they're not buying any forwards. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.960 Where's all the artists are going to come from. Well, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.519 they've got the best two yardage backs that I've seen 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.880 in the game in the last decade, probably Brian and 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.679 Zach Lomax. So I mean that's just evidence of the 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.160 they know exactly what they're doing and what they're building. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.000 It's just not going to be the Harlem Globe Trotters 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:46.119 coops isaaia. It's a torn peck, it's not ruptured. They're 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.200 going to try to Rehabhi getting back for Week one 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.760 of the finals. If it did surprise me that when 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.040 we first of all there was news come through that 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.480 they thought he was gone for the entire season, then 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.040 everyone just went up put a line through Penriis I 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.239 didn't there to me, still the benchmark regardless. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.799 I agree with that with Isaiah. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:12.359 Isaiah they can without him, they can still win four 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.200 to six for a peck, But the way that it happened. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.600 On no dogs. I'm not a physio, sure they are. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.320 Think they're just doing what Nathan did a couple of 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.919 years ago for that Grand Final. Just put in there 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.840 just in case a miracle can happen four to six 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.239 for a position that he plays. For a peck, it's 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.760 going to be dodgy whether it gets back to full strength. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.320 But you know what, front of stumps have a crack. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.760 He's professional. He just might be able to do it. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.600 So I think they can still win it. But they 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.760 come back to the field a little bit. I'll tell 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.360 you the reason why. The combination. It's like clockwork with 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.040 Isaiah and Nathan. You can't replace Isaiah, but Lindsay Smith, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.600 for me, has been doing a little bit of it, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.880 and he will start as thirteen. That means Jack Couga 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.160 starts on the bench. For me, Jack Cogger is the 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.240 type of player that came on and replaces and does 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.040 a little bit more Isaiao type stuff. But he's not 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.320 the big physical one. I means Blaze to Lungy now 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.640 is the six. I feel like that's going to be 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.360 their rotation through the middle of Jack and Lindsay. The 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:16.360 problem I have with that is Jack's a damn good play. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.000 We've seen him attack really well. But you'll have Jack 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.200 and free Lasik defending together in the middle of the 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.880 field up against the Warriors, Fish Harris, Aaron Clark, up 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.720 against the far who White and Victor Radley. For the Russes, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.400 they are more vulnerable through the power game now than 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.800 they were before without Isaiahoh. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.919 It's interesting with the football coup. I sort of differ 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.839 a little bit. I think it'd be a mistake for 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.160 Penrith if Isaiah let's say, for instance, if he's gone 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.000 for the season, but he's gone for this net, let's 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.000 pretend he's gone for a bit, Okay. I think it's 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.400 a mistake to try to play the same way, given 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.440 the fact that it's very easy to look at Isaiah's 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.000 role and say, right, A, well, let's bring Lindsay in 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.960 because he can do that role, and that's the temptation. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.440 But you know, the quality of Isaiah's past selection and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.479 all those things, and his vision, you know, like you 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.719 just can't put that into another player. What I would 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.200 like if for Penrith, what I'm looking for, I would 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.720 love to see Nathan as opposed to playing on those 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.080 sweep shades, playing more flat square on the event. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.120 So who's his sixth Then it's Coger. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:20.960 I'd been coggering, right. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.919 So you're going to play Nathan more up on the 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.600 advantage line, and then Cogger's going to be the guy 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.080 that's got to use his speed to get the outside. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.239 It'll be I think what we've seen that twenty minutes 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.160 at that Grand Final is that one thing when Jack's there, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.880 When Jack cogg is there, Nathan can step back and 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.840 become second but arna for a little while. It gives 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.119 him more flexibility in his football because I just think 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.760 I just don't think you can you can play the 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.280 same style of football without Isaiah. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.880 I think I think differently. I think this it was 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.040 always Nathan's team. This is definitely his team. Now he 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.600 first receiver, here's seven, and for him to do more 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.320 of the organizing early touches, take control, he's going to 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.320 need someone a bit more dynamic at the back of shape. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.560 He can create shape for anyone Blaze to Lungey needs 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.640 to get his defensive game on, and it could be 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.720 the thing that is the point of difference. I think 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.920 this is all on to lungy like for me, at 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.200 his best, he is the sixth For Pederick at his 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.080 best he is defensively some issues. Has he gone back 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.240 and fixed that? That's up to Blaze and I think 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.600 that determines whether he's in the side or not. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.760 What did you What did you think of the Bulldog's performance? 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.440 I mean it was I mean that did credibly well. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.680 I mean they should have won it. All sorts won. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:38.479 That should have won it. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.880 The best thing about the Rooster's performance, I think if 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.600 that game was played to a month so that they 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.480 lose that that's the type of game. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:47.560 That they weren't at their best. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.000 They were sort of bit patchy with the way they 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.320 played in that second half. Sam Walk was frustrated doing 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.680 some things that he's more developed out of. I'm going 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.680 to give daily Cherry Evans a bit of rap here 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.479 because we don't see the impact he's having on the 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.279 game in terms of tries and try sists. But the 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.320 little bit of calm had, the little bit of game management, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.160 made a couple of good decisions with his kicks and 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.840 field position. Comparatively speaking, the thing that lost the Dogs 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.240 was one the decision to catch that ball that went 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.800 up between Galvin and kinnor Tracy and the experience at 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.120 managing the game at the back end. Like Crichton's a 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.800 damn good play but some of his kicks. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:32.400 Weren't the right one. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.960 That's at the end of the day. That's what separated 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.800 the two side exactly, is that one side had two 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.320 pure playmakers and one side had Lucky Galvin who still 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.400 find his way in that role and Stephen Crichton, who 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.840 is the center who's been a make chief seeks and 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.520 done incredibly well. But you just saw at the back 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.920 end of the game how you need that playmaker there 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.640 to Lockie. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.160 Did a good job score that try he combined with 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.120 Preston early in the game was annoying Sam Walker a 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:04.520 little bit. I thought Crichton missed a couple of opportunities. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.920 If you're going to play against the Roosters, you got 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.240 Cherry Evans one on one Villa Army kickout, play short, yeah, yeah, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.640 play short more than you play at the back. But 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.880 there is an opportunity there, I think, and you know, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:21.680 from a pure technical kicking point of view, he had 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.000 some poor options. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.080 There's an area that he needs to improve. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.000 In that bigople well one thing I reckon Nathan, we'll 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.200 see an op and will pick up is that I 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.040 thought that the Roosters, the young Fords are just outstanding 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.200 what they're doing at the moment, but they were caught 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.840 out a couple of times as far as like Lachland 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.160 going to the line and some little shapes are doing 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.120 one in one out, they'll get they'll getting caught out 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.240 a little confused by it. Nathan will just go it 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.679 relentlessly with that sort of stuff. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.280 Like it's a number one principle as a middle forward, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.960 like don't allow halfback to go through on your inside 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.600 childer or miss tackle like when Lachlan Galvin went through 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.280 like he should have been sandwiched. Yeah, that's what a 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.760 good defensive team would do. Ye think it was Spencer 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:05.440 Land knew Robson turned out mister tackle. So I think 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.160 the Roosters that was again they would have dropped them 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.640 versus Panthers this week. Yes, Nathan's going to see that. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.400 He's going he's going to go to work for sure. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.640 Both thirty six points, Penrithy got better for and against 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.360 by one hundred and forty one hundred and forty points. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.520 So I mean that's why they're ahead of at the moment. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.720 But I mean the bottom line for these two clubs, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.880 they're not going to sweat out of the minor premiership 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:28.640 just top two. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.520 I can put you on the spot here. Penrith lose, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.359 can they win the premiership? 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.160 Yes, Roosters lose. Can they win the premiership? 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:37.440 Yes? 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.000 Oh so you think the Roosters lose to Penrith, yep? 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:41.160 They can we still win? 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.720 Yep? I do talk to me because I just don't 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.880 see the Roosters as a real formula team that makes sense. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.080 Roosters for me, I look at the Roosters and I 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.120 go with the Roosters can beat anyone on their day, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.120 That makes sense. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.280 But I you can say that about ten teen. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.199 Absolutely, But I think I find the Roosters that more 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.000 than any other side I look at when you look 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.560 at the players, the very nature of their players. You 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.360 know Sammy and even do you see you at this 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.880 point in his career when they take chances and they're 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.160 hit and miss. Yeah, one week they could play this 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.800 week against Penrith, they do a few things, it doesn't 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.160 work out and they get beat. Two weeks later they 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:18.439 do it and nail all of them. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:23.800 When convincingly, but they can I think they have to win, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.400 but at least at put in a show and where 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:26.599 they play. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:27.400 Very very well. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.719 Like if Penrith win this by sort of eighteen, I'm 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.480 going to say they're going to struggle to put your 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.439 When you're back in your playing day playing against what 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:37.640 team like the Bristoon. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.440 Broncos in your day and want to make a statement. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:40.800 You want to make a statement. This is a month 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.040 out before final start. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.959 Your record against this team has been poor for a decade. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.240 Yeah, probably too much, but say ten games. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.720 You need to have a little bit of confidence that 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.360 you can do this on prelim final. Whether you roll 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:56.760 out of the bed on the right side or the 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.040 wrong side, you still need to put your best game 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.000 of four together to be. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.400 I think the really important thing here for the Roosters 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.199 and it will be the Panthers as well, But these 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.240 sides at this point of the year is strong showing 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.560 probably as is important. It's probably more important than the results. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.559 Strong showing, but seeing, like collating information on a team 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.480 that makes sense, like you know we've played I remember 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.520 Newcastle we played sides at the back end of the 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.480 season and whilst they beat them, we collated information on 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.120 them and then got them in the more important games. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.040 I think that's I think that that's the big thing 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.680 going forward for the Roosters. As far as beating these 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.400 very elite sides like Penrith and so on, I think 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.440 the important thing is not so much the winning, but 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.040 finding them making ground up all the time. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.120 Let's say this, then, if pen win by eighteen, I'm 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.560 going to say the rus are going to struggle to 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.120 beat them in a big final if Pen win or 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.840 the Roosters win by two or four. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.040 Rightah, I like. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.600 That because you can slightly change. I didn't do this right, 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.480 so I'm going to slightly change that next time we 0:11:58.520 --> 0:11:58.800 did this. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:11:59.880 Well, we need to do it again. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.040 There's a little bit of a scoreboard that tells whether 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:04.600 the Roosters are a chance a. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.840 Far who are white. It's a big game for him. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.520 He's playing great football, having a great season. But if 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.760 you watched James Fisher Harris last week, right, and he's 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.319 the big dog, is zi alpha, He's got all that experience. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.800 But he went out there and you order had to 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.600 do against the Penwrith pack and straight away just got 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.200 right in their face and really picked up the intimidation. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.880 It's one of the best captain's performances I've seen for 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.920 a while, definitely this year what he did from a 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.839 spiritual point of view with indigenous round, from a leadership 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.120 point of view of his carries into liota and not 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.640 taking a backward step. And then there was a call 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.320 it a try saving effort late in the game where 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:43.439 it looked. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.360 Like Penrith were coming. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.360 Shift the ball down the left hand side and just 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.720 watch Fisher Harrisey in the middle of the field. He 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.520 doesn't have to do this, This is not his job. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.160 This is exactly what leadership is all about. And not 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.040 only just makes a tackle, absolutely makes his mark. Who 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.000 knows what that play could have been, a flip pass 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.320 to inside of fish hours is not there. I thought 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.960 it was a player of the day and one of 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.280 the great captain's knocks from them. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.040 Certainly was the big question in this game. Coop comes 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.880 out of it. Let Luke Metcalfe, who went into the 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.480 Wars number seven jersey first time for a long time. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.520 Will he still be wearing the seven finals week one? 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.880 You don't think so, Coop, But to have look at 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:27.720 all these touches, I absolutely think so I think there's 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.120 some areas he's got a tidy up, mainly his defense. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.520 I think he's got a tidy up, but I back him. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.840 I back him to do that Coup. I like it 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.640 with Chanel and Tamare for me, they both play very 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.200 similar game, just with this play gives them a little 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.120 bit of something different. And because the of course the 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.760 Warriors are so good in yardage, can really bend the lineback. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.840 His style of football, that run first mentality works. And 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.800 the other thing too is Wade Egan's doing a lot 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.760 of that finesse in the middle of the field, and 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.760 I just think Metcalf's running game supports supports that. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.200 He's only played a couple of games this year, that's 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.040 a hell of a performance. Like this kid has been 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.280 under pressure for a number of different reasons, injuries and 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.600 leaving together the Dragons. It was a stellar It was 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.880 class performers. The Dragons will be happy with what's happening 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.679 next year. But sometimes I think we fall in love 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.920 or get romantic too quickly. The Warriors have been a 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.120 damn good team all year. Who've been the harves Combo, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.640 Tomati Martin, Yes, right, they have done a really good 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.880 job and until they prove that they can't do the job. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.280 I think Metcalf's on the bench and he has got impacts, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:40.120 so why why move him from the bench position which 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.120 has done most of the year. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.240 I think Tomato and Harris s Tafita deserve it. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.640 Let's give the Warriors and Webster a big rappi because 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.680 when the Metcalf thing was going on, I don't know what's. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.640 Right or wrong with you, whether he wanted to get 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:53.560 out or whatever. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.600 But they said they are in the window for a premiership. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.480 The clubs wanted him earlier and a lot of clubs 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:00.920 would have gone, yeah, get out of here. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.120 But Webster has. 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.120 Managed that kid to a point that he delivered for 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.640 his team on the weekend, and he will deliver for 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.360 the Warriors again in the next six weeks. He will 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.600 be needed at some stage. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:16.000 It's interesting. Maybe he's doing Andrew Webster might be and 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:21.360 turned out to be a good hitting Tim Kale situation. Yeah, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.840 you know that one, Cahill. I remember like to give 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.840 people a bit of background in Australia versus Japan in 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.120 that soccer World Cup, you know, the first one being instance, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.240 I think you might have been seventy eight and we're 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.920 at the ground Kaiser slouton and they're all warming up 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.560 and suddenly word comes through that Timmy Cahle had been 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.280 banched and Mate, you could see how filthy he was, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.960 Like the coach was trying to talk to, being the 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.160 manager he's walked off and just holding him back, holding 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.600 him back, holding him back, and suddenly let him go 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.320 and being Bean just totally turns the game. Seasons are 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.160 hell a lot longer than what we're talking about there, 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.160 but you know what I mean, he's been He's felt 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.400 like in his mind that he's been on too a 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.520 certain degree, that's all been bruined on him and that's 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.120 led to this result. Maybe Webster's managed that, he's managed 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.280 that well that the club needed him. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.520 And if someone was disgruntled, pissed off, do you really 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.680 think Metcalfe is delivering that tope of performance and will 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.960 he be able to do it again? I got to 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.680 give Webster a huge amount of credit. I think to 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.600 Marty Martin is the halfback and I think he has 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.160 got that team Andrew Webster in the palm of his hand, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:34.000 and they are absolutely chance of winning this title. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:35.720 I'll tell you what if you played in the halves 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.040 with the Warriors, you'd be just you'll be loving it 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.440 because I mean those those forwards are just bending the 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.400 lineback and they've got a nine who's creating space off 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.560 that as well. I mean some of Wade Egan stuff. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.800 I mean you watch this little play here. I mean 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.120 this is like a little rock play he did this. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.320 This is like like that just little that that touch 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.720 on the ball. I mean, that's that's a that's a 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.000 tough like it looks as simple play. That's a tough 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:00.960 play to execute. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.800 Home again, I think this is Webster. I think this 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.520 is the coaching. Like that is not a player. I've 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.040 never seen the Warriors do that. That is not a 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.080 play that they've just called off the top of the head. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.159 That is, hey, guys, look at this first marker. They 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.480 get around this field position, they have a tendency to 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.159 lean in and there's a space outside. So how about Wade, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.320 you do your thing, set up a big four run 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.119 on the outside and all you need to do is separation. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:32.520 That's Webster knowing a little bit at Penrith, doing some 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.280 video analysis and then having a crafty little number nine. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.119 That what he's doing now. Wade Egan is he always 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.159 had the craft but probably overplayed the craft. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.600 Yeah, I think he's got it dilled in very well. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:55.960 Now, when we're talking about this title, there are certain 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:57.600 sizes who will come out of nowhere and snatch you. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.720 But at the moment, if we're talking about the big three, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.040 at the moment we're talking about Penrith, the Wars and 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.399 the Roosters, what order do you have them in? 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.120 Penrith Warriors Rooster, I'm the. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.680 Same, Yeah, I think, boy what mate? The Warriors. Warriors 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:17.200 have got the Broncos this Saturday night at San Corps Stadium, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.119 so it's going to be a Warrior's home game. The 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.159 seventy five percent of that crowd will be Warriors fans. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.000 They're setting for a big end of season. 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:25.600 Yeah. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.080 If I think key for one of the Warriors is 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.160 to finish top two. Like if you can get too 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.840 home finals massive, it's a big advantage because if Warriors 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.560 play the Roosters tomorrow. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:36.879 Who are you picking? 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.960 I go the Warriors Warrior is at home. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.840 For me, Roosters at Alliance now prelim final. I'm probably 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:48.520