Speaker 1: See what I'm doing it, Coops, what are you doing that?
Speaker 2: Mate?
Speaker 1: Gone to Origin one? You had a bit of a
Speaker 1: cheap shot at me. We're in a marine jumper.
Speaker 2: We recruits.
Speaker 1: What happened, mate, We won and I'm a I'm heartless superstitious.
Speaker 3: We recruit everyone to anyone, but we're not having to Mate,
Speaker 3: take that shirt off and go back and look.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I just want a
Speaker 1: good game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. Rugby league is a winner. What's happening Coops?
Speaker 1: Before we get in Origin, it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: chat about club Land at the moment. The top four
Speaker 1: sides on the ladder anyway, Dogs Raiders worry his Storm.
Speaker 1: What do you rank them? Wonder four?
Speaker 2: One of four?
Speaker 3: As the ladder sits, it's obviously Dog's Raiders worry a storm, right.
Speaker 3: I think Storm is still the competition favorites as long
Speaker 3: as they're injury free. I feel like if they get
Speaker 3: to the finals and their good players are fit, they
Speaker 3: are prelimp final bound and what happened to them last year,
Speaker 3: we'll drive to win the camp The Warriors, look, they're
Speaker 3: a good team.
Speaker 2: They're playing with a lot of energy at the moment.
Speaker 2: A lot of confidence.
Speaker 3: Mitch Barneck gone, I just don't feel like if they
Speaker 3: have another injury or two, they could be in trouble.
Speaker 3: And they almost need to have week one at home,
Speaker 3: whether they finish second or fifth. I think week one
Speaker 3: at home would be better for them. Like I don't know.
Speaker 1: They keep defining the odds.
Speaker 3: They they do and they record away from New Zealand is good,
Speaker 3: but I just feel like for the week one of
Speaker 3: the finals, they might need the New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Basically the whole country behind them at one stage. Raiders,
Speaker 2: have you seen their draw?
Speaker 1: Ye, I think they'll be premiers. Oh yeah, that would
Speaker 1: be it'd only bed be a collapse of sorts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: from not to get the minor premiership.
Speaker 3: Their runner is good, their confidence is sky high. Not
Speaker 3: really exposed to original that much.
Speaker 1: This is a testing it self though, because they've been
Speaker 1: operating on momentum as well nomnimy concerts. This this first buy.
Speaker 1: I'm interesting to see how they come out of it,
Speaker 1: because there is the tendency to exhale a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you've got to get yourself back
Speaker 1: on the tracks.
Speaker 3: They've got a good draw, they've had a couple more
Speaker 3: buyers compared to other teams, and Ricky's been thereabouts. He's
Speaker 3: going to ride this confidence all though. It just depends
Speaker 3: how far it takes them. The Dogs like their game
Speaker 3: style holds up well. They're a good team, but I
Speaker 3: fear like with their origin players like being exposed a
Speaker 3: lot this year, they'll fall in a flat spot in
Speaker 3: round twenty two. They might drop two or three games
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: Like that, but they'll ramp back up. But yeah, they'll
Speaker 2: be hard to beat in a big game.
Speaker 1: I've gone purely on form the mount of Good Raiders
Speaker 1: one gone Warriors too. On that that Shark's win was
Speaker 1: that was pretty special? Was not a pretty special win.
Speaker 1: That was a special win. Dogs three Dogs. In the
Speaker 1: last a month, I'm not going to say they've come
Speaker 1: off a little bit, but you know, there's a couple
Speaker 1: there's been a couple of pretty big losses. I mean
Speaker 1: the Dolphins one it was a bad one, and and
Speaker 1: the game yesterday. I thought that like there was an
Speaker 1: opportunity to really go on with it and didn't. But
Speaker 1: so I Dog three, Storm got Storm four at the moment.
Speaker 3: Now, now do you have them four for the rest
Speaker 3: of the year. Who's your favorite.
Speaker 1: Out of those to win the camp Raiders. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I've got Raiders slightly ahead of the storm. But the
Speaker 1: Warriors and Dogs they can nab it. We talk about
Speaker 1: all the time, but we say, maybe this competition is
Speaker 1: so tight that has not necessarily been the case in
Speaker 1: the previous five years. There's been the top couple, then
Speaker 1: the dramatic fall away this competition, Mate, there could be
Speaker 1: a side just come out of the blue like a Dolphins.
Speaker 2: You think attack is good?
Speaker 1: Well, I well told me this on the Sunday Night
Speaker 1: Chat a couple of weeks ago. I said, at what
Speaker 1: point do we actually really start to take this side
Speaker 1: seriously as a contender. And the temptation was to go, ah,
Speaker 1: not yet, yep, but wait what yeah, well that's right,
Speaker 1: why not? Why not? You know, he's just playing They're
Speaker 1: playing great football.
Speaker 3: They really are a food pack is down like no Gilbert,
Speaker 3: no Plath, no Sofeti. And they've got good workers in
Speaker 3: their team. Can they mix it physically with that dominant
Speaker 3: Raiders pack with Fisher Harris?
Speaker 1: The challenge one thing they have is their outside backs
Speaker 1: work really hard.
Speaker 3: To say this, if they can get any type of
Speaker 3: momentum for car On Ni Karima. Yep, Yes, they can
Speaker 3: win a game if they don't.
Speaker 1: Just on Storm. This this is almost unheard of as
Speaker 1: far as the Melbourne Storm under crad Melbourne Storm in general,
Speaker 1: Melbourne Storm usually excel at night games because you blakes
Speaker 1: play in slippery night conditions all the time down in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: This year they've struggled at night. In the day they
Speaker 1: just blast sides apart. At night they've struggled quite a bit.
Speaker 1: It's just been really totally the opposite from previous years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just feel like what happened to them last year,
Speaker 3: Like it's just going to be this burning desire that
Speaker 3: we cannot answer that question until it gets to a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks out for the finals. I think their
Speaker 3: Origin players, if they get through on Scathe, will have
Speaker 3: a bit of a dip inform and energy. But once
Speaker 3: it's two weeks to go, I think they go like
Speaker 3: that and you do not want to be playing them
Speaker 3: with this burning desire of making up for last.
Speaker 1: Year and one eye on the Panthers. Oh, one eye
Speaker 1: on the Panthers coming out of this. If they can
Speaker 1: come out of this Origin series and they're still going
Speaker 1: a fair bit of petrol and Tank and those key
Speaker 1: men aren't injured. They are really dangerous.
Speaker 2: We've said this. Have they used all their bullets?
Speaker 1: That's going to be the question to catch up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you wouldn't want to be a team playing Penrith
Speaker 3: in the finish eighth.
Speaker 2: Put it that way. Yeah, you rather another way.
Speaker 1: In talk about the dogs. Yesterday I thought Galvin Sexton
Speaker 1: I thought in the first half worked well as a combination.
Speaker 1: Question is does Brands dis camera Serldo allow that combination
Speaker 1: to cultivate? If he does, Now where does Burton fit
Speaker 1: in all those things? Did one thing yesterday? I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about and show on on Galvin. What
Speaker 1: he does. Galvin lays lays on a pass to Bronson Cherry,
Speaker 1: who in turn gets a lot of mentorya for the try.
Speaker 1: Now what he does he does something which to everybody
Speaker 1: else looks really basic and simple, but it's not. He
Speaker 1: gets the ball, there's there's opportunity. Now, most playmakers would
Speaker 1: advance the ball towards the defense and then fire the pass.
Speaker 1: Now what this does, though, it brings It brings Bronson
Speaker 1: Cherry basically into the zone of an outside defense. What's
Speaker 1: the snuffy outside in? So what he does he just
Speaker 1: goes catch, he's going to advance and then he just now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to fire it early. It is and that's
Speaker 1: that's a real skill for a playmaker. Don't give it
Speaker 1: to work, don't give it too late. He just got
Speaker 1: it the Goldilocks effect just right.
Speaker 3: And there's a point of difference because if Galvin's not there,
Speaker 3: it's normally cherry and kick out in a different layer
Speaker 3: or a different formation. And it's one of the pluses
Speaker 3: of a half pass into a half because if you
Speaker 3: put a middle ford in that, it's slower and it's
Speaker 3: not as effective. If you go back and have a look,
Speaker 3: the South's defense was tight. Yes, space was where Montoya
Speaker 3: was a lot of ball players and middle forwards. When
Speaker 3: their ballplan, as you said, advanceable too far, that Russian
Speaker 3: defense comes up and you don't get what sex than
Speaker 3: Galvin did. Went past, past pass into the corner. So
Speaker 3: it's awareness of where the space is and not stuff
Speaker 3: in around. Get it to that point quickly, and they
Speaker 3: took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: My brother Andrew once said that he was talking to
Speaker 1: it was one of the playmakers at Newcastle and there
Speaker 1: was Dane Ga guy there and there was Bradman best.
Speaker 1: And Andrew was encouraged Bradman to talk to more to
Speaker 1: dang Gaguy, but come on, learn center play learn the nuances,
Speaker 1: but also talking to the playmakers you know, about how
Speaker 1: to operate with the center and gag guys went. He said,
Speaker 1: it was really good to watch. Gag Guy was teaching
Speaker 1: the young Newcastle playmaker how to how to feed his
Speaker 1: center if it's like, let's say, for instance, three or
Speaker 1: three situation, you know, and he was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just you've got to just time the pass perfectly.
Speaker 1: Don't take it a step too far. The winger's going
Speaker 1: to jam me outside in and I don't give it
Speaker 1: too early. To have a slide and push him out
Speaker 1: of the sideline just a step maybe two, and then fire
Speaker 1: it or catch him in no men's land.
Speaker 3: And that comes with experience and repetition when you're a
Speaker 3: ballplayer to know the cues of what that center is
Speaker 3: doing before you get the ball across. But the Dogs
Speaker 3: have had a soft landing with this Galvin situation. Like
Speaker 3: I really like what they did week one. They waited
Speaker 3: to the game was sort of in their favor because
Speaker 3: if you had to come at a half time it
Speaker 3: was twelve all I think it was they lose.
Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about Galvin.
Speaker 1: Yeah you got him.
Speaker 2: In the last twenty minutes to go, the game was
Speaker 2: tied up.
Speaker 3: He scores a try. We're all celebrating, No Burnton. So
Speaker 3: Sexton was terrific.
Speaker 1: He was. I'm telling you, I got so much admiration
Speaker 1: for Taby with all this going on. He has he had,
Speaker 1: his form has held and he's been able to remain
Speaker 1: focused where other people sometimes will be just chewing their fingernails.
Speaker 2: And his first try was pure half back play.
Speaker 3: He went to kick with option one in his head,
Speaker 3: realize the South defense was retreating. Wait a minute, I
Speaker 3: can take this space here, and then the cover came
Speaker 3: across back inside.
Speaker 2: That is that's good half back play.
Speaker 1: Cameron Suldo is a good enough coach sometimes and not
Speaker 1: proud enough to go you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 1: change my mind here, Like I'm sure they've got a
Speaker 1: plan in place, but if you know with Sexton, it's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, Toby, just keep playing the way you do, mate.
Speaker 3: You know that obvious. The obvious plan is no Sexton
Speaker 3: galving in. But kudos to Sexton. I like what he's doing.
Speaker 1: It made some of these opposition clubs. If the dogs
Speaker 1: want to let him go, there's mate something to invest
Speaker 1: in there. I would say most teams in the competition
Speaker 1: could do with a seven in the side. Talking about sevens.
Speaker 2: You talk about yourself.
Speaker 1: Here, I was a six, Isaiah Cato.
Speaker 2: I know why you're six because you were seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I controlled it. Sometimes the Matthew.
Speaker 3: The player you're about to talk about, you and I
Speaker 3: could play six outside.
Speaker 1: This guy at his age, I've never seen a playmaker
Speaker 1: do the things that he is doing.
Speaker 3: This one here, that is that's beyond his years. He
Speaker 3: has gone to the line. John McLean's reached out and instead
Speaker 3: of advancing the ball further, he actually slows up and
Speaker 3: hooks Jordan McClain to say come to me, which ties
Speaker 3: up the outside defender.
Speaker 2: Like we we could do a show on this kid.
Speaker 1: Mate, we could well, honestly, it's we're spoken about this
Speaker 1: kid more than anyone had competition.
Speaker 3: Last year it was clearing and on this show we
Speaker 3: are doing cartel most weeks. He is doing things that
Speaker 3: he's manipulating defenders to the point that defenders don't want
Speaker 3: to defend that way, and the coaches are saying, don't
Speaker 3: do that. But the way that he holds his body,
Speaker 3: his hips, the ball movement, that stutter step, the gears
Speaker 3: are fast and slow.
Speaker 1: Like he's he is driving defenders mad like that one
Speaker 1: with mcclan where As you said before, he's recognized instinctively
Speaker 1: he's going to come out the line of me and
Speaker 1: then go bush push and then just push backwards right
Speaker 1: and McLain he almost falls over him at the end there.
Speaker 3: The contrast to this is that some halfbacks would keep
Speaker 3: going and McLain would wipe that half back out right
Speaker 3: and probably don't engage that next defender as much. But
Speaker 3: because he hooked and stopped, McClain went reached and therefore
Speaker 3: Cafusi on the outside held up the next one. Then
Speaker 3: Nickoreema gets space and that's the reason why they collapse
Speaker 3: on the outside.
Speaker 1: I was talking to someone the other day, I said,
Speaker 1: how did the Dolphins end up with this young bloke?
Speaker 1: And they said, what had happened is, you know, as
Speaker 1: is the way with great clubs like Penrith is you know,
Speaker 1: they're looking five years in events and they look at
Speaker 1: they looked at Nathan and Jerome coming through and they thought,
Speaker 1: as this side, this young Penriside starts to get better
Speaker 1: and better and wins one camp after the next stuff.
Speaker 1: The next they're going to lose one of their spine players,
Speaker 1: one of their key blokes, Jerome or Nathan probably Jerome
Speaker 1: is not going to see your son yea after camp
Speaker 1: after being camp and they said he's the kid. He's
Speaker 1: the one that's going to then jump in. But you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Peter O. Sullivan, who was at the Dolphins alongside Wayne,
Speaker 1: recognized his young bloke and they went and got him,
Speaker 1: gave him a lot more money as a master stroke.
Speaker 2: He obviously spoted him.
Speaker 3: But I think we need to give Christian Wolf a
Speaker 3: huge rap too, like his development under him in the
Speaker 3: first fifteen weeks of this competition year has gone from
Speaker 3: this kid's got talent, so he's a genuine start of
Speaker 3: the competition. And speaking to Christian Wolf and hearing him
Speaker 3: talk like he doesn't over complicate things, like to give
Speaker 3: a bit of example why I think the Dolphins are
Speaker 3: where they are. Remember back at the study, I lost
Speaker 3: four in a row and the cyclone was in Southeast Coinsland.
Speaker 3: A couple of players stayed behind and we all thought,
Speaker 3: this is rugby league, you've got to win the two
Speaker 3: points like that, he said, I trust my players. My
Speaker 3: players trust me, and they stayed true through that four
Speaker 3: losses and they've come out the other side and they
Speaker 3: are playing very entertaining football like Bostock farm Worth like
Speaker 3: just so good.
Speaker 1: Origin Origin. Now what is touched on this? Quickly? The
Speaker 1: dropping of dce ah two things on this and Billy
Speaker 1: has put everybody on notice by dropping DC. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: you know no one is safe right now people will thinking,
Speaker 1: oh he mean no one safe. I mean Munster and
Speaker 1: Harry Grant that surely they're safe. I heard Monster interviewed yesterday,
Speaker 1: right They asked the question. They said, when Billy called
Speaker 1: you and asked you to come to his room, what
Speaker 1: did you think do you think it was about the captaincy?
Speaker 1: And Monster said in honesty, no, After the way I played,
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to tell me I was
Speaker 1: eighteenth man or dropped to the bench. That just shows
Speaker 1: it never underestimate anyone's insecurities. Right and by dropping DC,
Speaker 1: all of those Queensland players wo beyond the bit Now
Speaker 1: I tear what like I need to perform? He's going
Speaker 1: to drop the captain. He can easily drop me.
Speaker 2: I think there's two parts this.
Speaker 3: I was either way with Cherry Evans or did I
Speaker 3: think Queensland could win Game two with Cherry Evans?
Speaker 2: Or did it halfback right?
Speaker 3: The way that Daily Cherry Evans responded for his team
Speaker 3: against the Titans showed me that.
Speaker 2: Billy made the right call.
Speaker 3: Now I don't even know what Tom didn is going
Speaker 3: to do, but I would have thought with the disappointment
Speaker 3: that Daily chair Evans would have come back and been
Speaker 3: the best player on the field. Now, this is his
Speaker 3: performance against the Titans, and see how he is sideways
Speaker 3: made We spoke about the directness of car See everything
Speaker 3: is sideways. Now he's a good player, but the outside
Speaker 3: runners get caught up, they're not in the best timing
Speaker 3: and it's just a little bit not engaging the defensive line.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So I think off this performance and his ballplane, it
Speaker 3: shows that Tom Dinnan is the right call. Reason being
Speaker 3: is Tom Didan is arrow straight. He might not have
Speaker 3: the kicking game that Daily Cherry Evans has, but Tom
Speaker 3: Didnan will threaten the line. So some of his performances,
Speaker 3: Tom like he is more straight than what Daily Cherry Evans.
Speaker 3: Is that creates space for Munster. It is also a
Speaker 3: threat for this guy to do something like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like I love him as player coops. I
Speaker 1: love that story where Billy picked him a few years
Speaker 1: ago they were under the park, lots of injuries. Is
Speaker 1: he knocked on knocked on on Tom's door at the
Speaker 1: hotel and told him and Tom started crying. And actually
Speaker 1: they're the sort of players that you want. He's all hard,
Speaker 1: he can't be discouraged. He is not. They've picked him
Speaker 1: for his fight and his energy you have.
Speaker 3: I would tell you that the fact that he got
Speaker 3: that emotional with his debut would have been a big
Speaker 3: part of Billy's decision here. Yeah, because he knows.
Speaker 2: How much it means.
Speaker 3: I won't say it doesn't mean to daily. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that. I'm saying that this kid will not take
Speaker 3: a back footstep.
Speaker 1: He's not a pure playmaker, not in the same post
Speaker 1: code as a Nathan Cleary. So he's a different type
Speaker 1: of hard packed. So I think it's a big responsibility
Speaker 1: on Munster on the left, but a huge responsibility on
Speaker 1: Kaylen Ponger. You know, I expect Calen Pomer played a
Speaker 1: lot of first receiver.
Speaker 3: And I think you'll do a bit of the kicking
Speaker 3: now on the flip side. Moses gone, He's out four
Speaker 3: to six weeks. Leui comes back in. Now the band's
Speaker 3: back together. That Anderth machine is back together. And I
Speaker 3: really am speaking on behalf of Luis. But he's been
Speaker 3: grinding a way at the Tigers, wrestling between being a
Speaker 3: six outside Nathan with a seven on his back, and
Speaker 3: he's doing a decent job. But now he's putting on
Speaker 3: those comfy shoes and Moses is a more dominant.
Speaker 2: Player than Jerome.
Speaker 3: So in game one, Moses would kick the ball, Moses
Speaker 3: would chase on the right hand side, Moses would want
Speaker 3: to get his hands at first receiver and do all
Speaker 3: these things. Jerome Lewie, if I'm trying to predict this,
Speaker 3: he's going to sit on the left hand side, and
Speaker 3: he's going to wait, and he's going to wait. He's
Speaker 3: going to wait till he gets the advantage. He's going
Speaker 3: to Nathan give me the ball. And the other thing
Speaker 3: that he will do that's different to Moses is he
Speaker 3: will drop off Nathan and threaten the middle of the
Speaker 3: field with those drop off plays that Penrith. He will
Speaker 3: be more of a running threat through the middle of
Speaker 3: the field than Mitchell Moses.
Speaker 1: Him coming into the side. It will be less work
Speaker 1: for Laurie in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: Big time. It's prob he went with him over Burton.
Speaker 1: Like Burton this at this point, in my opinion, is
Speaker 1: he utility play at origin level. That's what people are
Speaker 1: going hang on his eighteenth man. He sh'll go in
Speaker 1: at six. No, no, at you know, if you needing
Speaker 1: to play six, there's an injury at eighth man, he
Speaker 1: can go in there and do the job. But as
Speaker 1: far as the pure six, it's Slewi first, second and
Speaker 1: third mate, energy, arrogance after wrong with that, mate, you know,
Speaker 1: arrogance been able to get into the griddle of the opposition.
Speaker 1: So familiarity and he's just sit mate. He's been he's
Speaker 1: been working really hard at the Tigers. He's my man
Speaker 1: of the match. I think with a lesser responsibility, he'll
Speaker 1: just get out there and play really free. And that
Speaker 1: would be for him to go in there and put
Speaker 1: a staring performance in this game. That'd fantastic for the Tigers.
Speaker 1: You can imagine him taking that back to the Tigers
Speaker 1: and they'll be all up on these taps.
Speaker 3: If you're the half back of the Tigers, like trying
Speaker 3: to find your best form, your stress levels are almost
Speaker 3: here in most weeks. And he's going to go into
Speaker 3: the biggest game of the year so far, and he's
Speaker 3: stressed that this might sound weird, but he stressed level
Speaker 3: is going to be so much like going to be
Speaker 3: so free.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, it's true, curbs, right, let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about I want to talk about Queensland, how hell they play,
Speaker 1: but I want to talk put this Perth, this Perth game.
Speaker 1: Perth's been a really great place for New South Wales
Speaker 1: because traditionally it is a really fast track. Generally it's
Speaker 1: dry that's talking. Might be a bit of rain in
Speaker 1: this one, but dry thirty eight six, forty four to twelve.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt two scores at Perth.
Speaker 1: Yep. New South Wales now want that show. If Queensland
Speaker 1: go out there to make this an attacking shootout, I
Speaker 1: think New South Wales wrap up the series comfortably. Queensland
Speaker 1: are going to want to make this, want to make
Speaker 1: this a tough, gritty game. Now, in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: person who's under the most pressure in this game is
Speaker 1: going to be the referee, because I've got no doubt
Speaker 1: that he'd been given the directive less penalties, let's a
Speaker 1: little bit, a little bit, let more go, a bit
Speaker 1: more flow, you know, and that sort of stuff. Now Queensland, mate,
Speaker 1: they'll multiply, they'll multiply the pressure because they know how
Speaker 1: they have to win, how they have to play to
Speaker 1: win this game. And this is not a criticism, this
Speaker 1: is just fact. Line the ruck a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: half a miter off side sometimes, mate, rush the playmakers,
Speaker 1: rough up the playmakers a little bit, All that stuff
Speaker 1: will be gone, all be on, And I reckon every
Speaker 1: single time the referee blows a penalty, he'll go yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, Just like.
Speaker 3: I can guarantee Queensland won't going in with a shootout mentality.
Speaker 2: That won't happen. A couple of reasons.
Speaker 3: Why one in Game one at Queensland, in the first
Speaker 3: ten minutes even shortened, I was going to say twenty,
Speaker 3: we're we say ten. They didn't bring the crowd in
Speaker 3: the contest, they did not lay on the ruck, they
Speaker 3: did not pull off big line speed wax on. Anyone
Speaker 3: who didn't pick anyone up in rag doll them back.
Speaker 3: They gave away a couple of penalties which let New
Speaker 3: South Wales off the hook, right yep. So when Billy's
Speaker 3: under pressure, he doesn't try and create.
Speaker 2: A way around it. He walks into it.
Speaker 3: So I think, Tino, he's going to take it upon
Speaker 3: himself and he's going to stop paying ass in the
Speaker 3: first fifteen minutes. Does that mean bring back the bif
Speaker 3: does that mean, you know, pushing the boundaries. I don't
Speaker 3: know what it means, but I'm going to back TEENA
Speaker 3: to stop paying half to that little bit. The other
Speaker 3: reason why I say that is you talk about leadership.
Speaker 3: Munster's leadership is not going to be fluff. It's not
Speaker 3: going to be words of wisdom. It's going to be
Speaker 3: all right, what do I need to do here? And
Speaker 3: he's going to run, he's going to tackle. He's going
Speaker 3: to run, he's going to tackle. He's just going to
Speaker 3: be really aggressive of the way that he approaches it.
Speaker 2: So they won't miss the start. I don't think they're
Speaker 2: missus start.
Speaker 1: I look, I'm certain I've seen this a million times. Coop,
Speaker 1: you guys coins ay kind of come out in a
Speaker 1: frenzy the intensity be through the roof and one of
Speaker 1: the most important, the most important factor for New South
Speaker 1: Wales is matching their energy and their desperation because, as
Speaker 1: we've said before, having to win as opposed to know
Speaker 1: so like even when your blokes dominated for years andsink
Speaker 1: there was only one clean sweep. It just shows you
Speaker 1: if your desperation drops that much, you're going to give bo.
Speaker 3: What So if Queensland play that way, how did New
Speaker 3: South Wales play?
Speaker 1: Okay, if I'm Laurie, I'm not giving Queensland what they want.
Speaker 1: I think Billy to look at this game and say, Rada,
Speaker 1: where you know, where was the pebble in the pond?
Speaker 1: You know where did that initial impact have? That set
Speaker 1: all the reverberations out and it was our back three,
Speaker 1: right and best. The best example is at the start
Speaker 1: of the game Lomax check hit Harry Grant, driv him
Speaker 1: back a meter or two, play the ball and away
Speaker 1: pain hasse went. It'll be very I think one of
Speaker 1: the big themes of the week. It'll be tighten out
Speaker 1: offense and mate, let's subdue that back through for New
Speaker 1: South Wales. So if I'm Laurie, given the fact I'm
Speaker 1: talking about before. Traditionally up there you can move the
Speaker 1: ball around in Perth given the nature of the track
Speaker 1: is that early in the contest, I'm moving the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, I'm moving the ball the edges.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let Queensland gang tackle get numbers
Speaker 1: in the tackle, allow us to lie on. I'm going
Speaker 1: to push the ball with the edges. I'm going to
Speaker 1: get one on one tackles. If they're going to tighten,
Speaker 1: I'm going to push the ball to Crichton and Latrell
Speaker 1: and just take the twenty meters on offer. As soon
Speaker 1: as they tighten and darest to push the ball White
Speaker 1: push it wide later in the contest, then revert start
Speaker 1: to play through the middle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think on the flip side for Queensland, I think
Speaker 3: Kaylen needs to be way more involved. The halves need
Speaker 3: to run the ball like I think they were getting
Speaker 3: two finesse sideways trying to create that extra number. I
Speaker 3: think with Didn's directness, yep, when months is directness, Kaylen
Speaker 3: needs to be that guy that if did and runs
Speaker 3: months ago. As Kaylen goes again, I think the spine
Speaker 3: when one moves the other one needs to don't worry
Speaker 3: about this whole Get the ball one on one out
Speaker 3: in the centers. It needs to be fast played through
Speaker 3: the middle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've no doubt, isn't it. See old Wayne Bennett
Speaker 1: thiing where he coached that year with Monster and Monster
Speaker 1: just come off for a couple of days party in the
Speaker 1: Grand Final, went to the first half, just pushed the
Speaker 1: ball sideways and Wayne's halftime speech was a month to
Speaker 1: run the football and he did. Got Ment of the match.
Speaker 1: Give me five predictions in this game.
Speaker 3: Five predictions. I said Tino will dominates. I think Monsters
Speaker 3: captain c will be a big talking point after this game.
Speaker 3: I think Xavier coats up against Brian Toal.
Speaker 2: I think he gets three tries.
Speaker 3: Wow, I think. I think Queensland obviously win. Score line
Speaker 3: I'll say twenty eight to six.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I've gone first prediction. I think this could
Speaker 1: be one of the great Origin games. Everything is set
Speaker 1: for it or the theater in game one. I've never
Speaker 1: like I've seen Queensland sides in the past. Have there
Speaker 1: been criticized, but I've never heard them have their gumption
Speaker 1: criticized or questioned over the Spencer situation. Queens will come
Speaker 1: out in a frenzy and I think it's set the
Speaker 1: scene for one of the great Origin Games. My second
Speaker 1: prediction is I think this could be the arrival of
Speaker 1: Stefana as an elite middle forward. He's gone to Melbourne.
Speaker 1: You can see him sort of bit by bit improving,
Speaker 1: just doing those little things right. Craig Bellamy wouldn't have
Speaker 1: you know, I've got no doubt that, Laurie. We went
Speaker 1: to Craig and said is he ready? Craig, the fact
Speaker 1: that he's picked said that. Craig said he is, So
Speaker 1: it's set for him to go to that next level
Speaker 1: and he and pain in combination could be a beauty Queensland.
Speaker 1: Third prediction Queensland do kick off to Spencer if they're
Speaker 1: as no doubt that that's a dollar one. New South
Speaker 1: Wales to win thirty four to fourteen. Jerome Leui mean
Speaker 1: of the match.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really like Isaiah Oh in this match because
Speaker 3: we're talking about physicality.
Speaker 2: He knows when to hold it, he knows.
Speaker 3: When to pass it, and that combination Nathan Cleary and Isaiahoh,
Speaker 3: he's worrying for fantastic.
Speaker 1: That's a great way of finish it.