WEBVTT - 🏉 NRL Analysis - Preparing for State of Origin 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:12.800 Better than the Lego coup. Like the Queensland saw. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.720 It, love It, Love it Underdogs. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.480 We just do something dogs, I think for the benefit 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.360 of this podcast, can we just put our state bias. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.120 I know we're drawing the line straight down the middle here. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.080 As one of the greatest New South Wales players. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.879 You were one of the greatest Queensland players. Games for 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:34.600 you delivered as a few. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.640 That's why, hence why I only played full games. Yeah. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.040 I do a lot of talking points around both teams, right, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:47.200 Like I think the Queensland team is pretty much picks 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.760 itself at different stages. Billy's got this culture that he's 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.040 driven for a long period of time. The Munster injury, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.760 it was almost was there that Dinner was going to 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.880 jump straight in. He's got origin character ristics written all 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.360 over him. The Hammers back in form, Reese Walsh at fullback. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.640 They're probably a little bit thin with no Tino and 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.760 no Flegler, probably a little bit light in the front row. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.360 So yeah, but Harry Groan on the bench, dynamic and 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:20.279 selling Cobo. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.000 Thing that's interesting it is it is was sell and 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.440 sell On is just one of those guys and he 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:26.880 can win your series. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.440 Well I think Selwyn been on the bench. Like I think, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.520 if you don't put an outside back on the bench, 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.880 you run the risk of hia injury to someone in 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.920 the outside back. So there's a little bit of cover there. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.080 But if you remember when Ponger was playing well and 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.040 everyone's talking about it's going to be a resal Ponger, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.320 I think Billy was trying to think of a way 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.720 how to get Ponger and Reese into the same team, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.680 and maybe he devised a plan where he goes, you 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.200 know what, actually Sell and Cobbo could do this, probably 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.480 a bigger body, so I'd be really interested to see 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.120 its cover number one. But let's say everything's fit and healthy. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.080 He just might have a plan for Cobo to come 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:06.640 in and do something. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.440 It's interesting. So I didn't think about that because we've 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.120 spoken about this before. We said, can he go with 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.400 the Harry Grant ben Hunt combination at but still have 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:19.120 Rehys Walsh and Pongner And we immediately thought probably not. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:20.960 I said, yes, did you really? 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.000 I did? I want to be on the record, I. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.160 Want to have a look at this. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.880 But I think he might have hatched a plan and 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.360 go on, Actually, you know what, I'm going to revisit that. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:33.280 Who else can do it? 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.560 Coops the big one. No day for Feeder. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:41.400 It's surprised just about everyone. Why got no idea? But 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:47.480 you know, personal opinion. I like Peter Kurra. I really 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.440 like he's in the extended bench. I think he has 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.280 got origin written all over him. If you're the argument 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.320 is can David play any minutes? Does his fitness levels? 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.560 Does it play a part? There's a couple of ways 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.320 you can look at it. I really like what Peter 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.280 ker brings to a team he's delivering this year. The 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.480 other one you could have used is this is probably 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.400 the way I look at it is you start Ruben 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.359 Cotterer in the back row and you put for Feeder 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.960 on the bench. Your first interchange is Ruben Cotta goes 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.440 to the front row and that replaces someone and then 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.400 David Feeder on. He plays forty fifty sixty minutes there. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.160 But Billy I know he sits in his little chamber 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.600 at home and watches every game. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.160 So there's a reason why. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.359 I think it's a respect for Madge too, why he 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.200 didn't pick him. I think if there's one air of 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:37.240 his game with Dave, it's probably his defensive application roxall diamonds. Yeah, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.560 and I think that Billy. I think it's a wrap 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.240 for Madge him having a look at it. I remember 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.600 the twenty you play first one in the com two 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.080 thousand and seven two thousand and seven competition, him hatching 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.600 a plan for anthy Wa maote remember, and I think 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.760 the Billy would look and go. Madge is very good 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:54.040 at this. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.160 And the other thing too, is you think about not 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.720 that this would have come into Billy's selection process, but 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:05.360 New South Wales had definitely gone down a character discipline, toughness, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:10.120 consistent sort of personality, trading their team, and maybe the 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.760 way that Dave comes in and out of contest. Billy thought, oh, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.320 you know what, I need to stick to my guns. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:20.920 Here. One more thing just there talking about Bill. It's 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.359 really funny watching coaches come into state of origin and 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.440 the high pressure environment of state of origin, and most 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.719 of them come in sort of fairly white and bubbly. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:30.320 All the jokes. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.479 Yeah, but I reckon the only one that hasn't that 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:39.600 I haven't seen it was mal like you mouse, He gets, well, 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.479 I've seen Billy. The press conference yesterday morning on Monday 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:50.080 morning is Billy had prickly, you know, like, because there's 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.800 always going to be journalists there that aren't probably they're 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.360 being sent there that aren't hardcore ragularly fans, and you're 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.160 going to get questions that are naive and you know 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.640 I and oftentimes you get coaches they'll just float with it. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.880 Billy just it was just a bit of an edge 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:06.320 to Bill. 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.440 Yeah. So Origin coaches sit there twenty four to seven 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.840 and know everything about their team, and they might get 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.960 a couple of questions that end up being a little 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.080 bit off script or whatever, and they do buy it. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.120 The other thing, too, is Origin. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.160 Is a beast with how much exposure it gets, so 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.480 a lot of people want to know and ask questions. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.160 The thing about Bill is the one that I noticed 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.800 is I think Kevin Walters said something about Reese Walsh 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.720 in terms of he's so dynamic that he needs to 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.159 iron out a couple of those rough edges and said 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.159 he needs to take a chill pill. And one of 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.800 the questions was you're going to tie Reese Walsh up 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.279 and say no, chill, take some chill pills in camp, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.320 and Billy, through his own experiences that live wife fullback, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.120 said no, I want Reese to be Reese. There is 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.120 no chill pills going on with Reese, and I understand 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:54.880 it because. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.839 His words were no pills in this camp. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.039 Well I said chill. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.000 Pills, which I thought it was a little. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.279 Now I think that Rehys Walsh could be the guy, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.200 like if you look at everyone in this both teams, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.760 like he has got the biggest ceiling of the game, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.880 Like he can just do things that not too many 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.200 other players have. So the last thing Billy wants to 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.480 do is say, hey mate, I want to clip your 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.400 edges here. He wants him full throttle and everyone else 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:22.360 will worry about the other stuff. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:23.839 Yeah, you want to bloke out there. He's going to 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.960 go and try to win the game, not lose it. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.160 Well, and you look at New South Wales many and 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.120 they've gone down that whole character discipline thing and don't 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:37.440 really have that genuine like out and out start compared 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:38.240 to Reese Wald that. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.040 Maverick. You could just do something out of nothing. It's 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.320 a good look in Queensland. Excuse me. New South Wales side. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.359 I like it. It's a fit side. It's a gutsy side, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.640 tough side side that can play for eighty minutes. It's 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:52.760 a very Queensland side. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.400 I definitely think he's made a few statements with my 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:02.120 own his choice, like the obvious one Teddy and Edwards right, honestly, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.240 they're both so so good they could be in the 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.400 one jersey and you wouldn't sort of go oh yeah, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.840 I get it sort of thing. But he's definitely made 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.880 a statement with I think with Teddy out and put 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.200 Edwards in. The Other statement he's made is Ken mc ginnis. Yeah, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.320 Like he puts his head in places we don't put 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.000 our feet or anything, right, and he's trying to from 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.960 the outside looking at in. This is me guessing with 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.360 no intel the outside looking in. I think McGuire's gone, Okay, 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.200 I'm going to survey a few people. They think about 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.280 the OROQ New South Wales team and they go, well, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.680 we want some tough, tenacious, character driven guys are never 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.080 going to let the state down. And he's stuck to 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.720 his mantra and then he's gone for those type of 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.040 players we spoke with. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.800 This last week, and you having Isaac starting the game 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.720 in particular with J JR. Voievitch and Isaiah can be 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.280 problematic because they both play a similar role and the 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.600 ball will go sideways more than you really want. And 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.080 he's done that. He's put Isaiah at fourteen. Start with McGinnis. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.040 Look to bring Isaiah on once a bit of the 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.760 cut and thrusters out of the contests. Use McGinnis a 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:01.200 little later. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.600 For Robson, the McGinnis peek at starting is purely get 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.720 your best defensive team on the field to start the 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.200 game and then if they get to a lead, get 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:11.880 your best defensive team back on the field. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.880 That's mcinness's role. He will tackle himself to a sense 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.880 or the other. And from a Queenslander, the guy that 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.440 I fear the most in New South Wales team is 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:28.880 paynhuss I think he's a genuine star of our competition. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.320 What he has been through, what he is, what he's playing. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.000 He's so so good and not too many players playing 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:40.360 the front row that I feel like has the keys. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.400 To success in their football team. I think it's Payinhause 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:43.760 and this team for me. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.160 Is that young bloke has not been given enough credit 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.880 for how he has held himself with what he is 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.280 enduring at the moment, and. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.120 He hasn't Like you're going to critique pain like he's 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.960 dominated the NRL every time, but he hasn't truly truly 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.680 dominated an Origin game. And I feel the way that 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.240 this game or this team, the style that New South 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.120 Wales will play. It'll be high percentage, it'll be tough, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.480 they'll do all the basics really well. They'll fight over 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.079 a five cent piece on the floor. But then paint 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.880 House has the game breaking ability. One thing that he 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.640 will like is having no Tino opposite him, because Tino 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.720 went after him all those times in Origin. Ken Patrick 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.880 Kerrigan be that guy that goes after his mate. But 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.000 as a Queenslander, I fear a little bit of what 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:30.800 a paint House can do. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.560 Robson ahead of Happy. It's interesting. It just shows you 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.640 what currency May is going to put in defense. That's 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.120 a clear one, a tough, hard nosed player. If we 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.280 go back for a second on Dylan Edwards, and as 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.079 we said, it's not knock on t Desco's ability or 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.240 any insinuation that Teddy's starting to go back. You haven't 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.480 done or you haven't Dylan Teddy. Yeah, I take Dylan 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.200 because look, I don't need to say it again, he's 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.160 just been close to the best in the last three 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.600 I think I like a Bed Dylan coup. When you're 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.840 picking on when you're peeing on character. I really, I 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.839 really like players whose careers were I don't think I'm 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.800 going to say on the brink is right, but have 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.760 endured in their career, has been challenged, They've endured tough 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.040 times in their career, and they've been old to scale. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.200 They've basically been able to scale their game back and 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.240 then rebuild it. Because the people who do that, they 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.720 when they come out of it, they understand themselves. They 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.719 understand their own game. They understanding their strengths and their weaknesses, 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.480 how to big build firewalls around their game. That's like 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.280 they're just they're very aware of their own game. And 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.679 if we go back and the reason I say that, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:47.240 people forget, like five years ago, Dylan had the yips. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.800 He was a man, he was struggling. I went out 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.640 and watched one night at Penrith and he was playing 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.800 New South Wales Cup against South Sydney and a few 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.559 times the ball went in there and our kids, not 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:02.160 one occasion he ran away from it. But the way 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.960 he has bounced back and become close to the best 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.160 player in the game shows his mental toughness and his intelligence. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.240 I agree tipcat to him as a former New South 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.320 Wales halves great that helped Queensland win a few games. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.760 Yeah. Confidence in lewit heines he got a lot of confidence. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.120 Yeah, no, no, I do particular Leui has been playing 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.240 in the last the last couple of games have given 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.280 me a great encouragement around Leui. We spent last week 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.440 on a as far as from a football suspective, a 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.839 technique perspective, he's stepping and accelerating more, which has got 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.760 him as opposed to stepping and restepping as giving that 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.880 thrust back in the game, but also how he's relished 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.840 having no Nathan as part of the reason. I think 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.960 he's probably taken. He's gone away. So I've won three 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.480 comps here, maybe chance that I'm going to win four. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.200 Then I'm going to move away a little bit and 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.240 I'm just going to show you guys, you know, really 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.960 stand by myself and show how good I am and 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.000 I can run aside, he's done that in the last 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:00.720 couple of weeks. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.800 A huge amount of pressure on them because if McGuire 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.440 has gone down this path of kick picking a tough, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.360 defense orientated team they can keep this close to make 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.240 it a dog fight. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.080 Then you're going to have to have a point of difference. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.559 It's got to be Leui and it's got to be Heines. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.680 Guys, Okay, here's something for with nik because this is 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.080 a real is a huge series for Nicker, it is 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.240 his career. What would you what would just say to Niko? 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.840 For Nico Hines up until the week against Penis, he 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.839 absolutely did everything right and Jerome Leue what he's done 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.920 the last two weeks super super impressive. But what I 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:44.480 would say to Nico Hines is your mental state or 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.000 your mental temperament in this game is what's going to 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.560 get you to the finish line. Don't try and win 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.520 it in the first ten or fifteen minutes. Make sure 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.160 you're driving this team, getting in good positions, and when 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.400 you see that moment in the sixty eighth minute, don't 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.640 hold back for it. Because if he tries to win 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.679 it and play this fancy style of play, it's not 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.720 really him. In the new South Wales team, he might 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.960 be able to do that at the shaft, he's got 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.800 everything around him at origin. When you come into REP teams, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.000 you've got to get people on the same page quickly. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.160 And the key for him is to make sure that 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.960 he has an opportunity to win this game late, not 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.560 lose it in the first twenty minutes. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.080 Do less good, Yes, do less. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.240 Let paint ass go listen off the leash and just 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.679 kick your team into good positions for first fifteen twenty minutes. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.880 And it's probably another reason why Madge has gone right, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.320 let's go Isaiah in the fourteen so we do less 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.360 early and probably and I think as well, is okay, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.360 Let's let Niko find his rhythm. Don't hear him out 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.200 there competing with the football with other people. Let him 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.440 find some rhythm and then brings Isaiah on later. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.120 And if I was to give a little bit more advice, 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.319 I'd be saying, when Spencer land YOUU comes on, follow 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.240 him like that guy, I think he'd be wound up. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.199 Yeah. Now he's a powerhouse. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.240 He's a players. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:06.760 Joseph, look, I like the selection. I do, I really 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.440 lot the selection. I don't know a lot about Joseph. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.680 I admire him as a player, as an athlete, but 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.439 as a person. I've walked past him sometimes and said hiya, 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:21.280 He's generally ignored me. So he should Yeah, absolutely. What 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:25.400 makes him tick? What sort of young bloke is he? 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:30.280 Very well mannered, very respectful, He's a very good young kid, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:36.000 got a great work ethic, good thirst. I would invest 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.320 in Joseph Swally. I would like I get the rugby deal, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.840 Like that's something that I would do because I think 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.920 this kid's got it. I think he's got it in bunches. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:49.160 And he could definitely be the best player in the 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.320 A team or the game at some stage, depend on 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.720 whatever he's doing. The thing about Joseph is this whole 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:56.680 thing he's going to rugby. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.000 Some people think, well, if he's not. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.360 Committed, then you know what, Like go watch him play, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.360 see what he's done, and he bleeds rugby league right 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.840 now for the Roosters And as a Queensland person, I 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:12.200 would like you not to pick him because he's a extrovert. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.000 Introvert from course probably sits in the middle, like I 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.280 think he's very respectful, so an introvert that way, but 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.520 when he's comfortable in his environment, he's got a swagger, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.400 but he's got confidence that sits underneath there, like all 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:26.840 the good ones that says you know what. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:28.840 I particularly care what you say about me. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.280 I believe I can do this strong in the gym, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.000 oh mate, He's a beast like I think every young 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.840 kid these days is that's probably a difference between when 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.400 you were playing in the forties and being back. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.440 These young bikes are strong, bigger bouf. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.360 When I get under the bench, person, I don't need 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:44.840 no spot. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:45.880 What do you got on there? 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.680 Fifteen two people, a couple of cherries other side. Okay, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.960 let's talk with the NRL coops. Most disappointing performance of 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.520 the weekend the Raiders, right, yep. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.040 Reason being is we've spoken about this DNA, the grit, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.040 the grind and never beat themselves. The first minute was 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.600 obvious they weren't there to physically play hard Graves and 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.120 Spencelen you were just charging off the kickoff and skittling defenders. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.120 And then Victor Radley runs through basically untouched. And I 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.120 just thought, after what they delivered last week at Magic Round, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.120 there was a poor performance, a. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.000 Lot of young guys on the side, and you get that, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.480 you get the big performance flaid By. Sometimes you can 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.640 have a stinker from mine. It's crnulla and Coops, it 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.120 come off, come off. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.800 The week of praise you spoke about it. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.360 It's Coops. It's a challenge and people go, oh, that's it. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.720 It's absurd. You know, the people encourage your people good 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.480 you know it should be bored and give you confidence. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.560 But in a sport like rugby league, you didn't need 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.000 to be off that much and just that praise, praise, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.680 more praise just can weaken your resolves. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.480 So if the Sharks are your most disappointing performance, the 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.560 Panthers are my most impressive. Because I'm kicking myself for 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.239 not reading that leading into that, because we were all 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.760 about the Sharks. How good do they go? And they 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.560 deserve to be there and you don't think that. Ivan 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.800 clear went back after that victory, went back to Penerith 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.440 just dangled that little carrot, said, you know what everyone's saying, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.960 the Shark's the best team in the comp how about 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.960 you go out and show the rugby world who is? 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.240 And it was a powerful like Lui was great, Edward's terrific. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.720 They really flex their muscles and I kicking myself, I 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:35.240 didn't see it. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.080 No wonder they're looking at four winds in a row. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.760 Because Coops, even your great sides of Melbourne storm, to 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.639 go back to back is not just a test on 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.600 how you are physically and your ability to change the game. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.840 It's the biggest test is you desire and your heart 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.320 and to want to get out and do that. They're 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.040 one three in a row and they get they drop 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.200 one game against against the Warriors. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.960 I had go to the bin for a ten minute period. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:00.280 Yeah. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:01.760 I mean like there's a lot of things that we 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.919 all should have picked up on and then said, you 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.320 know what, they're going to go to Shark Park and 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.360 they're going to deliver a state. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:08.919 It would have been a bit of stuff with Ivan, 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.440 you know, the old oh you wouldn't be live that 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.040 a bit pretty ordinary stuff. I was going to you know, 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.600 most Yeah, as you said, most oppressive. Couple of special mentions. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.160 Love the way the Titans rebounded from that devastating lost, 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.000 the Brian Kelly situation over the line. I thought they 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.040 were really really good and the Dog's second half performance 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:33.600 was terrific. Really Toby Sexton, I thought he was really 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.320 sort of super impressive. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.879 Talk since the start a year about Drew Hudson, Toby 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.960 Sexton and Sirealdo went with it and he showed a 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.760 little bit of class with a genuine seven on his back, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.160 so yeah, he might be there for a bit longer. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.920 Which the origin period. It's always an interesting one of 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.560 the Orange Men because it so it really helps some 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.719 sides out others and knocks them around. He didn't think 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:57.200 it will help. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.679 Well, you said the Knights are on the upward trajectory, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.520 and if you go have a look at their origin period, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.400 I think they get the best teams at the right 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.479 time because there's some by rounds there for them. They 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.919 get them when they're playing Origin. Off the back of 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.520 Origin sometimes they get rested. So I think the Knights 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.760 have I think they've crept into the eight. Might be 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.880 a beneficiary of what's about to come. 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.399 I think the Warriors as well. Yeah, one reason they've. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.199 Both done the same thing, lost their best players and 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.840 they've all doubled down on the basics and done it better. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.800 Than one of the best football through the simplicity and 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.159 the other thing about the Warriors are out of the 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.680 hype too a little bit. They've been good the last 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.640 couple of weeks of Warriors been. They're back in business. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.600 Of course, as far as it's going to be toughest 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.840 for across the Broncos with the Cowboys going to put 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.920 a big dent. The Cowboys did, and then I robson 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.080 to Langey Vale Holmes and. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.040 They're not exactly at the level they want to be 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.399 at too. But their season this year has reflected a 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.000 lot of things that they did last year. And if 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.360 we go back to last year, it was a real 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.600