WEBVTT - Round 16 and Origin II Takeaways 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.600 Coops State of Origin heading for a decider, which is 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:05.480 always a huge game. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:11.520 Have you you played numerous deciders couple? Yeah, it's difficult. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.200 Coming New South Wales. Yeah it is. It's the it's 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.079 obviously the pinnacle and the biggest games of the year, 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.520 and there's this sort of strange thing before kickoff you're 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.120 supremely confident, but then fear and terror kicks in because 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.720 it is the biggest game of the year and can 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.400 you do it? It's the one game that you'd love 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:33.840 to be a part of. But then the other part 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.440 of it is you just don't want to be the 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:36.400 one that stuffs it up to. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.880 Coops, and that is that is such a natural emotion. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.239 It's the primary emotion going into big games. Is that 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.000 nervousness and total fear that you're going to be the bloke. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.040 And home ground advantage plays a part. Now it's not everything, 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.920 but I just remember a couple of origin deciders a 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.800 sun call and it became a factor early on if 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.840 you started well. So for New South Wales need to 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.200 start well and that crowd will bring them home. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.840 Just on on game two we'll have our saying it. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.400 The big talk is DC going in the game and 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.559 whether it was going to be work or not. Given 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.000 the side he picked, it was always going to be 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.160 in hindsight. Clearly did going to congratulate Billy for that. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:20.920 Munster elevating Munster captain was a master stroke and didn't 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.119 simplify their attack. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.319 Best players, what do you think? Do you think Monster 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:25.280 was the best player on the ground. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.520 I thought Monster was the best player short half head 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.600 over Kirk Capewell, and I thought Payne Hasse and were 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:33.600 pretty pretty special. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.000 I had Ruben Connor as my own man for Queensland. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.920 I thought his performance was outstanding, just defensively. I haven't 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.760 seen too many New South Wales players be put on 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.240 their backside through the work of Monster. Outstanding. I think 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.280 Tyler deserves a big rugby. He did everything he could 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.560 for New South Wales. But in terms of Monster in 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.160 the elevation the No DC, there was two parts to it. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.040 I think Queensland's halves were and spined to be fair, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.760 were way more direct. Yes, they were arrows straight in 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.160 the way they attacked it. And Munster's sort of influence 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:10.000 on the team wasn't you know. It's the way that 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.840 he communicated. It was more that he just knew the 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.120 responsibility he had and he delivered with that. Like go 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:17.680 back and watch when he walked out in the field. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.399 Oh my goodness. He is a character. Everyone loves him, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.400 but he was not going to let down his state 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.000 the way that he was dialed in and that simple 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.120 promotion to captain is that sole reason that he was 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:32.160 going to lead from the front. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.679 Coop, I've never seen him so stonefaced and made one 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.240 point he sort of like almost shook with excitement, and 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.400 that would have been adrenaline and evidence of that Coop 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.280 was his first kick, like when he was adrenalized and 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.120 he was excited about the contest seven tackle set which 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.080 I thought New South Wales. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.440 Went down and scored from memory. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.239 But that's just as you know, Coop, it can be 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:54.960 a difficult thing going in a really big game when 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.399 you're playing in the harves and you've got to see 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.960 the side around the park and you got to make 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.639 smart decisions, you got to play with some new when 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.000 there's adrenaline pumping through you. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.760 I know caramansa well and played a lot of forty 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.080 with him. I've never seen him like that. Before we 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.760 go and watching it, I just thought, oh my goodness, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.920 this is the biggest moment his career up to that point. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.320 You could tell how dialed in he was. He was 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.600 not going to take a backwards step and he's going 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.320 to lead from the front. And there was a couple 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.720 of moments from him, like running the football, a couple 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.040 of early kicks that really got the job done. So 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.120 I just I really marveled at. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.280 What he did throughout Origin history just thinking about it. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.520 Think like Queensland, some of their greatest players have been 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.160 quite unheralded, if you know what I mean, that have 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:39.800 not been. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.000 So much surprise selections. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.920 But you look out on paper and you go, oh yeah, 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.840 you know, like Gary Larson, if I made sense back there, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.840 I mean, Billy Moore, what Billy you provided that emotion? 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.680 Dane Gaguy should go down as one of Queensland's great 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:56.600 Origin players. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.520 Given the fact too. Wally Lewis medals from the wing. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.080 Kirk Cable's another one, and I sat on the show 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.480 last night, the old saying take an old dog for 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:05.080 the hard road. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:06.600 He's the evidence of that. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.880 I thought it was a good performance. I think there 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.680 was a couple of moments in that game. There's a 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.760 lot of talk around the penalties, but I think the 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.320 execution of New South Wales, particularly early in the game 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.960 helped Queensland. Yeah, there was adalso penalties or whatever, but 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.960 Leui kicked the ball out in the full, Nathan clearly 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.480 had an attacking set through the ball behind paying Hess 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.320 there was an error. So there was a couple of 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.640 things that actually helped Queensland out a lot. And then 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.119 on the flip side in that second half, I thought 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.320 the New South Wales attack was very threatening to Queensland. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.719 As a Queensland supporter, I thought they were going to score. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.760 I thought New South Wales were coming moving left with 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.839 the trail, moving right with Stephen Kricht. They just looked 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.040 like in that second half they were going to crack. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.480 But I think the one thing that helped Queensland was 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.039 I thought Harry Grant was horrific early on. Months's running 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.000 game was direct, did and round the ball, ponger supported 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.520 through the middle. So in game three, trying to predict 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.760 what happens the edge attack of New South Wales looks good. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.000 The running game of Queensland. Spine is a truth. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.840 You mentioned before and we talked about. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.000 You know, I spoke before about Gaguy Boon one of 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.200 the great origin players. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.000 You know what point with you? 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.640 Three tries again ran for over two hundred meters every 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.960 time he plays here, over two hundred meters. He always impacts. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.279 Looking at some of the best origin wingers ever. You 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.520 know Willie Kahn, Michael Hancock, Darius Boy, Chicka Fergus and 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.279 Wendell Sailor Eric Gross like Kiri, you know where does 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.800 I mean is to number one? 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.680 Yeah? I think, well, current players are still doing what 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.159 they're doing. It's hard to put them collivate above anyone else, right, 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.280 But I will tell you this. We have through the 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:02.159 history of our game and currently some super athletic wingers 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.640 they elevate themselves with a corner posts and put the 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.240 ball down. But I don't think there's a body shape 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.880 with Brian to Or that's delivered the way that he's delivered. Like, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.960 he doesn't elevate himself out around the corner posts. He 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.240 would just ram his body into you in the corner 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.400 of the field and say tackle me if you can. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.760 And he normally gets there and he is like, go 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.200 watch what he did the early parts. He's smart. To 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.479 He realized that the defense of Queensland. We're probably going 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.160 to try and lift him up and take him back. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.479 He was running head first and towards the ground, just 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.839 doing the right thing for the team to get that 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.240 quick play of the ball and set someone else on. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.400 He's a great player. Diets to disgrace. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.520 Twenty Did you think New South Wales is going to score? 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.599 No, he didn't know, And I can use my sons 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.599 as evans. We didn't deserve to win and so often 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.599 coops the gods of rugby league, that's what they do. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.440 But the bottom line is we just didn't deserve to 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.360 win game. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.520 He's a little bit of the footy IQ of what 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.560 makes Karen Monster smart. Go back and look in that 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.600 second half, clear who's running that play. He was passing 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.120 our back to Leui or Edwards. Months would fly up 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.440 out of the line and try and shut that down 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.560 because he knew he was under threat. This time with 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.080 a game of the line, he realized that paint hass 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.720 was an opportunity to catch the football on the first layer. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.760 Clearly plays to him. Instead of Months have flying out 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.120 the line, he sat there and hit the ball over 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.840 the top and dislodged it. So game awareness and the 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.040 biggest moment for months to stood up on Monster. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.240 It's interesting when that ability to run the football or 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.080 you know, being couraged to run the football at the time, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.000 like for months, to have the have the and this 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.480 is going to sound odd, but have the discipline to 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.440 continue to play simple. And I'd love to know a 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.240 stat with Munster how many tries are scored off his 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.240 play the ball or how many tries are scored off 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.240 he's offload. I know the Cape will try. I think 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.160 come from a monster ran the ball, engage to three. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.400 Guys offloaded out the back. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.280 It's just because when he runs with football he just 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.520 attracts so many defenders. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.400 Fifteen runs of the footing most of any Queensland player 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.440 and we highlight that. But I thought he kicked the 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.000 ball early and just really set the time for Queensland 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.480 the way that they had to do things. So yeah, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.120 I thought it was a good performance. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.320 Kicking early that. Yeah, you blokes in the last fifteen. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.600 Years, it's an origin player that's been your staple when 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.680 the game's in the balance or no one can quite 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.480 you know, take superiority. So often see you blokes just 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.440 pop out, you know with yourself and the camera. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.800 On the left foot foot kick J two. It was monster. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.000 The other night it was eight six. You blokes, but 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.240 a lot both sides coming up with a lot of errors. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.280 Someone's trying to find rhythm. You blokes, go kick early, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.640 big kick, Chase put pressure on New South Wales and 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.920 the pressure loves to Zach Lomax given the arrow of 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.640 the elbow and it goes up to toss it fourteen six. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.360 Now I know it's only an eight point split, but 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.320 in those conditions in Origin, that just squw It puts 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:08.319 a little bit more pressure. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.800 I always thought to explain the Origin play. If you 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.760 were to defending your goal line for two, three, four 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.040 sets in a row and you stop the opposition from scoring. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.559 I always thought kicking, if you get good momentum and 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.160 tackle three or four, that next set is almost like 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.720 a sign of the opposition you tried your best, but 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.600 we're coming again, and it's almost they have to get 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.640 the carry out of their own end. Isolate the fullback, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.680 ragged all the fullback and you actually start changing momentum. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.760 So Cameron used to do it all the time because 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.120 at dummy half you're the first touch, everyone's on side. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.880 It was easier to do it from that position, because 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.800 if you went to the half, it's a pass. The 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.360 fullback reads it sometimes. But that's why it's an origin play, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.319 because you're actually forcing the opposition to do things I 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:54.960 don't want to do. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.880 I hear you like certain terminology sometimes and when you southway, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.239 I've got a bit of an ascendency. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.520 We're going at you. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:07.520 You guys use the term absorb pressure, not so much 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.240 repel it, but absorb the pressure then CounterPunch your here 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.040 that all the time. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.760 So if the team's got attacking possession on the goal 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.680 line and you can absorb that pressure one, two, three sets, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.880 you watch the halves start going to option three, four 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.160 and five. When you got them going to their third 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.839 or fourth option, you know that you've got them rattled 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.560 a little bit. So they might have started off with 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.280 a sequence of players, but then this long pass or 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.800 an early kick comes into play. You've got them rattled 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.920 because your first two options aren't working. When you sense 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.880 that it's time to change momentum and kick early. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.080 We've spoken monster before. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.080 I think when we talk greater storage and players and 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.080 you know, removing let's remove state bias here, I think 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.240 he is he's got to be in the discussion. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.160 You're Monster in your top ten Origin players of all time? 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.679 Absolutely I do. Yep, Well, yeah, you have coops. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.160 Have a look at his record, right, just have Luke 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.560 Monster's record from his debut where he got a man 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:05.080 at the match. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.640 There's been very few Origin. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.960 Games where he hasn't stood up and he has been 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.959 the guy oftentimes in Queensland state of origin sites that 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.319 haven't been like as strong as I mean that that 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.640 team that the won so many series in a row, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.360 like Munster came in on the back of that era, right, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.199 but then when he come into prominence as a senior player, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.800 those sides weren't as strong. But you know twenty twenty, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.480 the COVID years, you know that what he did in 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.280 that series. Every single time Corneysland needs something or needs someone, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:41.760 most of the time it's Monster. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.280 He is the most influential Queensland player today. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:44.640 Yep. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.000 But I don't have him in my top ten. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:51.040 Right, Let's make some enemies, let's go, right, it gives 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.479 your top ten in no particular. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.160 I just sort of went, you know, who were the 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.319 best players that I think for New South Wales and Queensland. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.439 For New South Wales I've just got Fitler, Badera's Daily 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:09.720 and John's. Okay, thanks, So those for me, these four 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:15.199 for me are the ones that have Captain lad influenced outcomes. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.960 The are the ones I think about. But I will 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.560 say in terms of Queensland, I've got by society, I've 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.840 just got more Queenland players that have influenced so Lewis 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.160 Alpha mal like. I think from those days they were 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.320 the most influential and then from the time that I play. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.319 I don't think you can separate lockey Smith versus English. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:39.839 I couldn't leave out any of those. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.520 It's it is, it's really hard when you sit there 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.280 and go with I'll give you some of the ones 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.160 I've left. I've left g I out, Yeah, I couldn't 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.079 couldn't put him in. I've left Brett Kenny out. I've 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.319 left Darren Lockyer out, June Miles, Glenn Lass. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.120 You've left Lockeye out. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.520 Yes, so some he make. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.280 And I've left out Laza and I've left I left 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:03.960 out Steve Mordon. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.560 I know you're looking go you know I Steve. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:07.920 Morton, but I'll talk about him in the second we're 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:15.280 discuss But I've gone Wally given Andrew John's, Cameron Smith, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.680 Billy Slater, Jonathan Thurston, all those sides in your order, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.160 No lord, but I mean this is the thing to 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.920 leave our guys like Lockie and June, Miles, Brett Canning 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:26.440 and so on. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.440 It's because that era, that one, that that side that. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.040 Came through and just completely dominated our origin where arguably 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:34.720 the greatest Origin run of all time. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.240 And so where have I gone? 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.680 I've gone to Thurston, So Wally, Joey, Cameron, Billy Thurston, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:45.200 Laurie Day, Brady Clyde, Malmaninger, Alan Langer, Cameron Munster. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.480 Yeah, hard to argue with any of those, like Clyde 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.600 for me being a young Queensland like, he was such 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.280 a good player, like so good he revolutionized the. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.480 Way he changed, He changed the game. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.200 How third he's played because thirteen's coop used to be 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.960 clever short side players like Ray Price, incredibly tough. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.720 But underrated as playmaker. You know, guys like. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.720 But what they used to call it the thirteen in 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.360 the English game was the loose forward. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:15.880 He was like a second five eighth. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.440 Clyde, come along mate, you knock the ball down the field, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.280 He get back and take play too. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.360 Going through the list, and so it is not the 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.280 best player, but I so wanted to put Arthur beats 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.360 it in there just because of without Arthur like origin 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.440 isn't not what it is. What he did in that 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.400 nineteen eighty game and what he's done for queens over passed. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.840 So he's almost the pioneer for Queensland. If I was 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.800 to say who the pioneer for New South Wales is 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.040 or was, who's that? 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.400 Well, it's tempted. You look at guys like you Tomy 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:49.320 donic As in the early years. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.720 But the one who taught, who was a big part 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.480 of teaching New South Wales to win and what it 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:56.120 took to win. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:57.240 Steve Mortimer. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.120 He was the captain in eighty five and and the 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.680 players just said he was outstanding. Terry Fernley was the coach, 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.640 but on minus N Terry Fernley gave a lot of 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.720 the power to Turvy and Turvy just he rallied the 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.640 troops and he got it done. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.360 Who was probably arguably. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.000 Of any New South Wales the best as far as 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.480 the series concerned. The best captain is knocking a series 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.840 because he just turned it around so much for us. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.880 You know, we were just under the pump every single 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.080 you know, to sit us New South Walshman those early 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.960 years and just you know, you bloke's just given it 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.320 to us and to us to an extent, Coop, the 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.360 old thing where they say New South Wales doesn't get 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.960 orangin back then, we didn't, you know, the first ever 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:39.560 origin game. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.960 I heard this one the other day was when, of. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.040 Course, Coop, you know the history where if you're a 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.800 Coeensland and you come down and play for Sydney club. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.880 I was explaining this to someone the other day and 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.000 sort of going the essence of white to coins Land 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.920 hate New South Wales more than the other way around. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.080 You know, maybe that's not true, but and I explained 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.880 it was that the really big Richard said Sydney clubs 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.520 would sign the best Queensland players and as a result 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.800 they had to play for New South Wales. And when 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.680 that first game was announced for Queensland in all those 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.840 Queensland players to return to Queensland and have those great 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.360 players like Arthur return, they reckon it was just like 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.200 the excitement amongst the things and like the Queensland side 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.520 they said before the game and the build up were 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.160 just right on the bit New South Wales night for 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:29.600 the game. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.720 We're having a beer. They were drinking. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.080 It wasn't until they turned up to play that game 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.920 at land Park they reckoned. They walked in and Tommy 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.600 said to the term in the dressing room, hellmatee the ambushes, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.040 they said when they walked into land Park they were 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.840 just getting abused and screamed up. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.120 He said, mate, this is this is totally well. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.800 That inspired a generation of Queensland. Is what Arthur did 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:00.640 that side because you know Kevy tells in st about 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.240 how him and his brothers fought cut through the fence 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.760 wanted to be there. So multiply that by multiple Queensland people. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.320 That is a is a part of the history of 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.280 why Queensland have a feeling and love and connection. When 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:29.040 it comes to Origentie. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.520 Brod a Coop's club Land, what are you a bit 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:26.840 of trained sporting? What are you go for me? 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.719 Yeah, we've given this guy a huge wrap over the 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.960 course of the air as a cartier. The Knights versus Dolphins, 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.480 it was twenty or with about fifteen minutes to go 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.800 and neither side got a field goal in Yes, the 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.280 Knights won it. They got lucky. In my opinion, but 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.680 this is a cartel with eight and a half minutes ago. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.560 He is in perfect position in a tight contest, but 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.679 decides to run the football. They try and go for 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.480 the try, bounces back in here and they turn over possession. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.359 He should have taken a shot. Then there's no doubt 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.840 he's development. He should have taken it. A couple of 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.399 minutes later, six minutes ago, it's a bit further out. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.080 He's on the left hand side, the right side for 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.199 the right foot. It swings to the other side and 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.800 kicks a ball. There's an opportunity to win the game 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.960 for the Dolphins. Then the Newcastle Knights they get down 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.919 to the other end and there's about a minute to 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.080 go that Jones scores to try to win it. But 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.560 look here, Koger tackled Klein on the left hand side, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.919 Crosslin comes from other side. Didn't even think about the 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.639 field goal. That's about a minute to go on the clock. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.240 So I think there's a couple of things that both 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.359 these teams really need to look at and understand that 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.439 when you get inside ten in a close game and 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.320 you can go for the tribe, but you've got to 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.240 set up and have a crack. Particularly inside five minutes, 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:46.399 it's your first thought. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.920 At what point, Coop, when you played, was the time 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.000 to go for it? Because let's imagine it's twenty all 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.440 and it's eleven minutes to go. Is that the do 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.480 you get for the field goal? Then what is the point? 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.560 Ten minutes was always my mark, But around that ten 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.840 minute mark, being a right footer, I always shifted the ball, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.479 tried to shift it to the left hand side, so 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.400 if I had the chance, I could just set back 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.119 one in and take the shot, whereas if you go 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.480 to the right it's a more difficult approach. But then 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.960 inside five minutes less is more one to one to 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.320 kick the ball. And the other thing too, is the 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.679 time that you want to kick in is get your 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.440 best play the ball with the fastest speed to take 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.600 that run. It was Billy at the Storm, was Boy 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.360 Corner at the Roosters, So you need to put some 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.840 thought into it. But the simple fact is not one 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.120 person in that field thought about it and didn't. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.520 Take the shot completely like a composure, What do you 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.000