Speaker 1: Isaiah Yo. The very first Panthers have reached two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty games for the club, more than Steve Carter,
Speaker 1: then Craig Gower, more than the legendary Royce Simmons, very
Speaker 1: own Brandy Greg Alexander.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't got the ball.
Speaker 3: Everything's clear.
Speaker 4: I've comed all the way through from outside in it
Speaker 4: came and just everything's over that line.
Speaker 3: He's pushed the port sharp.
Speaker 4: They came to see where that gets us.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's going to be perfector robbers, how were wrapping?
Speaker 2: Those were moments this.
Speaker 3: Week, Isaiah Yo. The captains Warrior Schers.
Speaker 1: Open with Nathan Cleary. He's co captain all four Grand
Speaker 1: Final wins. Stoppaball played fourteen times for the Blues and
Speaker 1: that's right. Captain the Kangaroo's last Year's Specific Championships try
Speaker 1: and he's still only thirty.
Speaker 4: I really got there, akind of trouberver resilience to go now.
Speaker 1: Seventy second, having deboted twenty fourteen as a one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety five centimeter seven three.
Speaker 6: Quarter, leaves the Panthers to the.
Speaker 1: Frontier tonight from the Rugby League production line that he's
Speaker 1: Dubbo and new South Wales, Central West. This old man
Speaker 1: Justin was a centimeter taller, one ninety six and a
Speaker 1: dead ringer who played for Norse and the Tigers. They
Speaker 1: say he never let anyone down.
Speaker 7: Like father, like son.
Speaker 4: Welcome to an hour old three sixty rugby league. From
Speaker 4: every end you're dreaming me the great Gordon Tallis, that's Bender, Jeronato, Australian,
Speaker 4: James Hooper and Dave Ricchio. And Isaiao becomes first Panthers
Speaker 4: player ever to play two hundred and fifty games for
Speaker 4: the Panthers. And it's quite the surprise. But what a
Speaker 4: magnificent achievement by Isaiah.
Speaker 5: Great happening there by Maddy Nabel and all those great
Speaker 5: players at Penrith that he surpasses. I never would have
Speaker 5: thought a senat And just the way his game is growing.
Speaker 5: No matter what level he goes to, he's one of
Speaker 5: the best players on the field.
Speaker 3: What a player.
Speaker 5: He's only thirty, so where he gets to he's pretty
Speaker 5: durable as well.
Speaker 3: But congratulating and.
Speaker 5: It's not the two fifty right when people talk about numbers,
Speaker 5: Arthur Beats have played one for Queensland and that sticks
Speaker 5: with us all the time. It's how many good games
Speaker 5: he's played for Panda. It's not just running out for
Speaker 5: two fifty. He's played a lot of quality games from.
Speaker 7: It's fitting Gord.
Speaker 8: He given all the blood, sweat and tears that he's
Speaker 8: put into that jumper. He's a great role model off
Speaker 8: the field, and then the way he's evolved, Like he
Speaker 8: began his career in the centers. He played one game
Speaker 8: on the wing, then he was in the second row
Speaker 8: for a number of seasons and he actually didn't move
Speaker 8: to Locke until the twenty twenty season, which is when
Speaker 8: Penrith have gone on this run of five straight ground four.
Speaker 3: He plays lock a backup half back, doesn't he really?
Speaker 9: When things go pear shaped with Nathan or Nathan has
Speaker 9: to come off the field, incomes Isaiah and plays this
Speaker 9: brilliant ball playing style. The greatest respect you can give
Speaker 9: Isaiaho comes from the legends that are so many from Penroth,
Speaker 9: Royce Simmons, Greg Alexander, Brad Fhittler, so many of them
Speaker 9: speak as Isaiaho will go down as the greatest Panther
Speaker 9: of all time.
Speaker 4: That's what surprises me. There's so many legends of the
Speaker 4: club that have played there for a long period of
Speaker 4: time for him to be the first to hit two fifty.
Speaker 4: You know, it caught me off guard a little bit,
Speaker 4: And you're right, Gordy. The quality in which he's played
Speaker 4: nearly every one of those games, the transformation, the evolution.
Speaker 4: You know, when you first watched him play in the
Speaker 4: centers for the pend of Panthers, there is not one
Speaker 4: person that could possibly have predicted where this guy was
Speaker 4: trending and where he was heading in his career. And
Speaker 4: the player that he's become. I mean, it's not only
Speaker 4: his performances on field, it's his leadership. His leadership is
Speaker 4: just you know, even the way he carries himself on
Speaker 4: the field. He's quite a humble guy too. It's an
Speaker 4: incredible achievement, isn't it.
Speaker 8: Who's real, ol, Look, it's a fantastic achievement. I remember
Speaker 8: going to Panthers training would have been about twenty fifteen,
Speaker 8: and he did notice him because he was a tall
Speaker 8: unit and he stood out and we're asking questions because
Speaker 8: we weren't sure too much about his background. They said, look,
Speaker 8: he's come from Dubbo. He's tough. His old man was
Speaker 8: a good footballer and played for Valmain and they weren't
Speaker 8: sure what his best position was going to be. But
Speaker 8: to your point, he evolved his game and he's clearly
Speaker 8: worked extremely closely with Ivan and Nathan Cleary to get
Speaker 8: it where it is today.
Speaker 7: But you talked to.
Speaker 8: Plenty of forwards and he's certainly not underrated by anybody
Speaker 8: in the game.
Speaker 4: Let's think with the Panthers and Ivan Cleary has had
Speaker 4: a lot to do with Isaoh and his performance and
Speaker 4: where he is at the moment. You've spoken to Ivan,
Speaker 4: what's happening out there at Penis.
Speaker 9: Yeah, guys, look absolutely spoke to him the other week, sorry,
Speaker 9: earlier this week, and very candid, quite honest, was Ivan
Speaker 9: about the current predicament of the Panthers where they are
Speaker 9: thirteenth on the NRL. Ad of guys, I just unheard
Speaker 9: of where we think of the penwith Panthers defensively leaking
Speaker 9: twenty eight and a half points a game completely on
Speaker 9: Penrith and throughout this four week period we've seen in
Speaker 9: after injuries started eat away the Panthers. Ivan has described
Speaker 9: it as one of his great challenges since being appointed
Speaker 9: head coach of PENRITHT at this point in time, and
Speaker 9: I've got the sense what he was talking about there
Speaker 9: is it's much harder to stay on top than it
Speaker 9: is to climb from the bottom. And that's where Ivan
Speaker 9: sees the challenge that everyone's coming for them. They've got
Speaker 9: some chinks now, you can't deny it. They've been leaking
Speaker 9: player after player, and he knows that this will be
Speaker 9: one of his greatest tests to try and resurrect what
Speaker 9: has been a sluggish start to the season.
Speaker 3: You since does he think?
Speaker 5: He knows that he's got all the pieces of the
Speaker 5: puzzle and he's just got to put it back together.
Speaker 9: I think for the first time, Gordy Ivan's understanding of
Speaker 9: how long these guys have been up for Isaiao is
Speaker 9: a great example. Through a five year Grand Final campaign,
Speaker 9: He's played in Origins World Club Challenges, test matches, so
Speaker 9: end of season's test matches, your preseason start later, and
Speaker 9: you can only gem so much in the elite players
Speaker 9: of Nathan and Dylan Edwards and Isaiah and that I
Speaker 9: just wonder it now, are we starting to see a
Speaker 9: little bit of fraying the of those elite players because
Speaker 9: they've been off for so long.
Speaker 4: I don't know the depth they've had, you know, over
Speaker 4: the past four or five years with players leaving because
Speaker 4: of the salary cap and because of the success that
Speaker 4: they've had. They've also had injuries in key positions, which
Speaker 4: you can't have in that when you've got that situation.
Speaker 4: Clear he goes down missus the Melbourne game early missus
Speaker 4: last week. Edward's out. He's been their most consistent performer,
Speaker 4: you know, for a number of years now, so you
Speaker 4: just can't afford that as a top grade team or
Speaker 4: an elite team to have those interruptions now because they
Speaker 4: don't have the depth that they used to have. And
Speaker 4: we were all a little bit concerned, you know, first
Speaker 4: show really about whether they sort of fall off the
Speaker 4: cliff this year. And I wouldn't say they've fallen off
Speaker 4: the cliff, but they're certainly not looking like they have
Speaker 4: past seasons.
Speaker 8: I still think they're going to be okay, breath based
Speaker 8: on that. As long as Nathan Dylan, Edwards, Mitch Kenny,
Speaker 8: those key position players Moses lead are all on the
Speaker 8: field and they're there come September, then I still think
Speaker 8: they're absolutely playing finals football.
Speaker 7: But it probably is the biggest.
Speaker 8: Challenge for Ivan Clear since he signed with Penrith because
Speaker 8: it was a big deal. The West Tigers had to
Speaker 8: pay a transfer for you for him to join the club.
Speaker 8: There were off field challenges when he arrived at the time,
Speaker 8: they didn't make the finals in his first season, and
Speaker 8: then he's since gone on to create this dynasty. But
Speaker 8: I would say at this point in time, right now,
Speaker 8: this is his biggest challenge.
Speaker 4: To add all of this and something that I think
Speaker 4: has been underestimated is to switch to Kombink. Now, Penwith
Speaker 4: Park was a fortress for them. They've hardly lost games
Speaker 4: there season after season. They've gone to colmback Kombank. Albeit
Speaker 4: they've only played a couple of games there, but that's
Speaker 4: going to continue. But a different atmosphere, not as many crowd,
Speaker 4: I believe, if you've got.
Speaker 3: To I think it's an absolute factor.
Speaker 9: Look, he might be only scratching on the surface to
Speaker 9: this point because they've only played that one home game
Speaker 9: so far against the Roosters, but only twelve thousand fans
Speaker 9: turned up.
Speaker 3: Right, again, twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: It's twenty minutes and they're not going to watch a
Speaker 5: dud footy side.
Speaker 8: There's something for the po surrounding areas. It is an
Speaker 8: awesome experience going to Penrith Park, like the way that
Speaker 8: the club has set it up there on with you Gordon.
Speaker 8: It is only twenty minutes down the road, so it's
Speaker 8: not that much of a challenge, but it is a
Speaker 8: unique experience going to venue at the foot of the
Speaker 8: mon So.
Speaker 9: Twelve thousand turn up to combat against the Sydney Roosters. Guys,
Speaker 9: it's a Sydney team Friday nights.
Speaker 7: The Roosters fans don't always they're not.
Speaker 9: Travelers Friday nights six o'clock, all right, it is Friday night,
Speaker 9: six o'clock against the Cowboys. Now, I'm fascinated to see
Speaker 9: if Penwith fans have got any reason whatsoever to get
Speaker 9: out there.
Speaker 3: It's for Isaiaho.
Speaker 9: But I think this is a factor that we may
Speaker 9: see play out that they're not running out the Hell's
Speaker 9: bells packed at Penwouth Park with the Panther.
Speaker 7: Scout than the c and out.
Speaker 8: They still play Hell's bells of combat.
Speaker 3: The atmosphere.
Speaker 7: Game.
Speaker 3: The atmosphere is not the same.
Speaker 5: The atmosphere is not the same. People are still too competition.
Speaker 5: The stadium doesn't make it. The people in the stadium
Speaker 5: make it. We saw so we saw COVID and we
Speaker 5: saw suncur It wasn't a great atmosphere, was it. So
Speaker 5: the people that walk in the venue, And if you're
Speaker 5: a Panmouth fan, you should get there twenty minutes away
Speaker 5: to watch this great team play.
Speaker 4: All right now, Ivan loves the theme each year. Is
Speaker 4: he running out of ideas? Does he have a theme
Speaker 4: for this year?
Speaker 9: Well, look he spoke about that, and you know they
Speaker 9: have had the undisputed tag top Gun. We saw what
Speaker 9: was it they tapped into that top Gun movie.
Speaker 3: That's right, all that.
Speaker 9: Last way that they come on by the way he
Speaker 9: did last week last week last season it was Mana
Speaker 9: the Pacific Nation's tribal theme. And look, he says it's
Speaker 9: too early to start coming up with themes. They usually
Speaker 9: come up with something later in their run of the finals.
Speaker 3: Struggling with the thing.
Speaker 5: Is God, don't push me because I'm close to the edge.
Speaker 3: You to speak to that you might be able to
Speaker 3: speak to this year. One of there it is is
Speaker 3: one of.
Speaker 9: The factors is is they don't have that retiring player
Speaker 9: this year, guys, And it's been a factor.
Speaker 5: And getting come up with one living on a prayer
Speaker 5: and I've only ever had one in my fourteen years,
Speaker 5: and I didn't really like a theme. The themers work
Speaker 5: hard and go there and try it.
Speaker 9: You aren't going to play that little bit harder for
Speaker 9: your best mate who's finishing up at the club to
Speaker 9: try and win a premiership with him.
Speaker 5: Absolutely you do. But then that's the theme. It's not
Speaker 5: a song, it's not the.
Speaker 4: Theme has worked there, Gordy, but they've also had a cha'
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: Did you say that, top Gun?
Speaker 9: I'll say this brace The losing Grand final team also
Speaker 9: have a theme, I'm pretty sure, and we don't hear
Speaker 9: about it because they've lost.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, paying Hass has confirmed he's likely to switch
Speaker 4: allegiance to Samol but the superstar prop won't make it
Speaker 4: cool until Origin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really going to talk about it, but
Speaker 2: I will be transparent and so I have been considering it,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to make a decision until after Origin.
Speaker 2: So that's me being honest and transparent to everyone. So
Speaker 2: we can just put that depend on now. So I
Speaker 2: don't take the grand and goal jump on fly you
Speaker 2: know it means well, I grew up here in Australia
Speaker 2: and has given my family lots of opportunities as well.
Speaker 2: My origin means well, and you want to be in
Speaker 2: the biggest arena. But like I said, I'm just here
Speaker 2: to play good footing for the boys and be present here.
Speaker 2: So it's about representing my grandparents. My grandfather's getting pretty old,
Speaker 2: to be honest, and obviously I grew up around my
Speaker 2: son want so, so I'll be silly not to consider
Speaker 2: it to be honest, and I want to represent them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously I'll make that decision after Origin, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not one hundred percent yet, but it still what happens.
Speaker 4: So paynehas saying there that he's not going to make
Speaker 4: a decision until after State of Origin this year. The
Speaker 4: feeling is though that he could be gone. Do you
Speaker 4: guys get that impression.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll reading between the lines.
Speaker 8: It sounds as he's out the door, and from reports
Speaker 8: that have also emerged this afternoon for saw my Art,
Speaker 8: he could also be following suit as well. So it's
Speaker 8: a big moment in the game break in that it's
Speaker 8: awesome for the international game and it clearly only strengthens that.
Speaker 8: But I do feel like it is a bit of
Speaker 8: a slap in the face for State of Origin and
Speaker 8: also for the Pathway through to wearing the Green and Gold,
Speaker 8: which for all players who are born in Australia has
Speaker 8: always been the pinnacle of the game. So I can
Speaker 8: understand why it is going to upset a few people.
Speaker 8: It's going to polarize opinion.
Speaker 4: It's always going to upset people, isn't It is always
Speaker 4: going to polarized opinion. I'm torn on this. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think every player should have the right to play
Speaker 4: for whoever they want, whatever country they want, you know,
Speaker 4: I really do. But I know there are some implications
Speaker 4: around that, and there's rules and regulations as well, and
Speaker 4: rules for some and not for others. Again, we brought
Speaker 4: up that Kalin situation with the tier one, Tier two
Speaker 4: and all that sort of thing. But you know, I
Speaker 4: think if he's if he really wants to play for
Speaker 4: Samorroa and represent his family and his heritage, then he
Speaker 4: should be able to do that. I don't have an
Speaker 4: issue with that.
Speaker 9: You can't open you can't open a can of worms, though,
Speaker 9: right I firmly look, I'm with you and guys.
Speaker 3: I've tossed and turned on.
Speaker 9: This as well, but I still believe State of Origin
Speaker 9: is the greatest product that the game has and you
Speaker 9: have to keep it sacrosanct for what.
Speaker 3: It is, and that is that you can't turn it in.
Speaker 3: We have the NRAL All Stars like we have.
Speaker 9: We have those feature events that cater for all of
Speaker 9: our different backgrounds, right, but origin is New South Wales
Speaker 9: versus Coinsland, flip flopping from England to Samoa to New
Speaker 9: Zealand and back trying to play again for Origin.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the right of it all. But
Speaker 3: I think that's you have to be.
Speaker 5: I think our games is bigger than that now and
Speaker 5: the best part of our game in the pinnacle has
Speaker 5: to be playing for your country because that's what we
Speaker 5: all strive for. So when you talk about World Cup
Speaker 5: SoC so if we keep on saying, you know, these
Speaker 5: two states playing against each other is the pinnacle, you know,
Speaker 5: I think that you know we haven't said our sides
Speaker 5: high enough, and then those guys playing for their country,
Speaker 5: and that you know, Samorrow and Tong are selling out England,
Speaker 5: and if we and if we open it up to
Speaker 5: Samorrow and Tonga, why don't we open it up to
Speaker 5: New Zealand and England.
Speaker 8: You make a great point, Gordy, in that we can't
Speaker 8: I think, yeah, no, but you do make a great point.
Speaker 8: I think this is where in the fair income department
Speaker 8: the IRL needs to step in.
Speaker 7: Samara and Tonga are no longer.
Speaker 8: Tier two, not in twenty twenty five. Right, Tonga made
Speaker 8: the final of the Pacific Championships last year and samhow
Speaker 8: made the World Cup final in the most recent World Cup.
Speaker 7: If you go through all of.
Speaker 5: Their squads, it also comes down much every single and
Speaker 5: what you're.
Speaker 3: Doing for the game. Would say, it's not all.
Speaker 8: Dave, that's not only that's fine at a lower level, right,
Speaker 8: But in the fair income department, if you look at
Speaker 8: the squads from that Pacific Championship final last year and
Speaker 8: the World Cup final for Samoa, right, virtually every single
Speaker 8: player has featured in the n L. They're all elite superstar,
Speaker 8: some of them the highest paid players in the game.
Speaker 8: So if that's the case, then surely they need to
Speaker 8: be considered as Tier one nation.
Speaker 4: It's either going to be a free for all or not.
Speaker 4: Yeah for all?
Speaker 3: Does Victor rad play origin Herbie Farmer? Well, why not?
Speaker 4: Have ridiculous I'm just saying, well, I think it's going
Speaker 4: to be one of the other I.
Speaker 5: Can't say if you play form and tongue that you
Speaker 5: can and then say no to the other countries.
Speaker 3: It's not fair on Victor. On the other the problem
Speaker 3: is protect the origin.
Speaker 4: I'll say this, I agree the originally be fine. No
Speaker 4: matter what I do know, I'm not going to serve
Speaker 4: one bit about origin. I'm really not that the players
Speaker 4: wearing the jersey in origin, no matter who they are,
Speaker 4: make origin. And it's so such a passionate game. Gordy,
Speaker 4: you can speak to this more than anyone. It really is.
Speaker 4: But just back on, we had Abdoh on Heavy Hitters
Speaker 4: on Monday night.
Speaker 3: The amount of times you use.
Speaker 4: The word global global globalization was about three or four times.
Speaker 4: So the game is really looking to grow internationally and
Speaker 4: go abroad, right, So with these players deflecting, it actually
Speaker 4: grows the international game. So I think that they will
Speaker 4: not have an issue with it. I think the end
Speaker 4: all will be fine with Yeah, I think they'll be
Speaker 4: fine with it.
Speaker 8: So so New South was and Coinsland will just be
Speaker 8: the best seven. How do you decide who's I don't
Speaker 8: know what they're going.
Speaker 4: To do, but what I'm saying is is from talking
Speaker 4: to Andrew, I think they want the game to grow.
Speaker 4: They want we're going to you know, we go on
Speaker 4: to Vegas. You know, he wants Samara and Tonga and
Speaker 4: Fiji everyone to be as strong as they possibly can
Speaker 4: because they want our game to be on all on
Speaker 4: the world stage. So if you've got the Samoan team
Speaker 4: with the likes of Moses, Leoda and Leui and Crichton
Speaker 4: and has, you know, it does make that they're almost favorites.
Speaker 4: You know when when you look at the side that
Speaker 4: Samoa can come up with, So there's so many different
Speaker 4: angles you can look at this the end of I
Speaker 4: have really got to just come out with some sort
Speaker 4: of rules and regulations that everyone needs to abide by
Speaker 4: because at the moment there's just so much doing and throw.
Speaker 9: So would you would you suggest that the paynhas ops
Speaker 9: to play for Samoa, that he sits out that then
Speaker 9: is he available to play Origin again one question? Secondly,
Speaker 9: or is there a two year three year gap that
Speaker 9: he has to serve before he can then come back
Speaker 9: and play.
Speaker 3: And because you're going to just have plays foot rules,
Speaker 3: you can't be run for.
Speaker 8: The simplest solution, Dave is that if you make Tonga
Speaker 8: and Tomorrow or Tier one nations right then it is
Speaker 8: very clear. The rules are very clear clear and players
Speaker 8: it's then up to the players which way they want
Speaker 8: to go because in many instances players are born in Australia.
Speaker 7: But I understand they want to represent the.
Speaker 3: Expect on the back of that.
Speaker 4: If that is the case and they make everyone a
Speaker 4: Tier one team and don't have the tears, it's a
Speaker 4: three it's a three year. Now you got city out
Speaker 4: room from what origin to then represent your country? Would
Speaker 4: they reduce that three years? Possibly for the World Cup?
Speaker 4: You probably would? Do you know what I mean? Because
Speaker 4: this is the thing.
Speaker 8: There's so many there's a lot of different layers to it,
Speaker 8: and our landscapes changed.
Speaker 5: The synic in me is if every jersey was worth
Speaker 5: the same amount of money, who would you choose? And
Speaker 5: that's who you play for? And that's the elephant in
Speaker 5: the room. Good point, all right, let's you mention.
Speaker 4: Take Senna stage on Friday night against his former club
Speaker 4: and this is going to be huge.
Speaker 10: There is a superstar Latrovitchel.
Speaker 4: Mixel beg Latro.
Speaker 3: Mixellche.
Speaker 4: It is a true Michel. What a game.
Speaker 3: He's happy.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna stop.
Speaker 1: I got to stop it.
Speaker 9: Up from the bonelet is he praying from.
Speaker 4: The bone in the Napo Betro Mitchel? He is back
Speaker 4: front and center. Dos Latro Mitchell give the Bunnies the
Speaker 4: edge over the Roosters? Did they already have the edge?
Speaker 8: I think they are he had the edge given the
Speaker 8: form that they've burned in breakthrough from forward to begin
Speaker 8: the season. Latrell's off the booze. He's also been training
Speaker 8: harder than probably the hardest. I heard some of his
Speaker 8: teammates say this week he looks in as good a
Speaker 8: condition as they've ever seen him. So I feel as
Speaker 8: it's going to be a big season for Latrell. He's
Speaker 8: done a lot of hard work. He's got a point
Speaker 8: and prove and that spells big trouble for the Roosters.
Speaker 9: I think I think everything Hoops has just said I
Speaker 9: agree with as farn fit.
Speaker 3: How fit does he look?
Speaker 4: He looks viably different, doesn't he?
Speaker 3: Season?
Speaker 4: Kind of like it's like GEI. You know there was
Speaker 4: a period there was always a machine, right. I don't
Speaker 4: compare them as players, but they're similar. Bills and g
Speaker 4: I just turned up one year.
Speaker 8: And just stop the chest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he was unstoppable that you and you get
Speaker 4: the same sort of feel, don't you, Gordon.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, look Latrell at his best, and you know,
Speaker 5: maybe the injuries and you know it's like that he's
Speaker 5: lost the baby fat and the penny drops every now
Speaker 5: and then, and maybe the trouble he went through last
Speaker 5: year and all the trouble at South Sydney and the
Speaker 5: hears say hopefully he's growing up because House Sidney eating.
Speaker 5: But in this game, I'm not too sure. I think
Speaker 5: you throw the full out.
Speaker 4: Oh really, yeah, you throw do But I'm worried about
Speaker 4: this week mate, So from what perspectives ago.
Speaker 5: Of course, three weeks ago Teddy said it was the
Speaker 5: greatest victory in the club's history other than but.
Speaker 4: I was worried about the weekend. We'll probably get into
Speaker 4: that made you come up against the Titans.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: Details today have Reggie the Rabbit. He's back again, brandish,
Speaker 4: brandishing a raw chicken. Will he bring this chicken to
Speaker 4: Friday Night's game? Here, Reggie the Rabbit. I think it
Speaker 4: was Peter mem Mizola who was quoted when he was
Speaker 4: fifteen years of age. Charlie. Here he is, Reggie the
Speaker 4: Rabbit brought a raw chicken in He's.
Speaker 8: Coming with the frozen staggles and just started pulling the legs.
Speaker 3: Of destroyed it too. He's very passionate.
Speaker 4: Reggie got a good right by the way.
Speaker 7: He believes Red and Green. This reminds me of a story.
Speaker 8: So Ronnie Cook many years ago defected from South to
Speaker 8: the Roosters, and this family of mad Red and Green
Speaker 8: did in the wool Bunnies Fans used to have a
Speaker 8: pet rabbit called ron When he switched to the Roosters,
Speaker 8: they cooked the rabbit and made it. That's how much
Speaker 8: it means this rivalry be Probably he might have been
Speaker 8: at the last supper.
Speaker 5: Didn't the great Tommy Vertonic has have a heart.
Speaker 7: Day.
Speaker 6: He did because he's that's a big booked Dylan, who
Speaker 6: is preparing to make his club debut for the Eels
Speaker 6: as paramounta struggle to find a win under rookie coach Jason.
Speaker 10: Rynolds Dylan, welcome to Paramatta. It's yeah, it was pretty
Speaker 10: it was pretty busy. It happened real quick. I flew
Speaker 10: over one weekend meet with Zi. You know, they're very accommodating,
Speaker 10: they were nice. I got a sense of feeling that
Speaker 10: it just felt in the right move and it's your conversation.
Speaker 7: You help with Jason. Where does he see your value?
Speaker 10: Yeah, just the similar role what I've been doing it
Speaker 10: just through that middle third, controlling the middle, helping the
Speaker 10: hearts out. You know, there's there's quality plays here and
Speaker 10: that's what I saw. It just needs a bit of confidence.
Speaker 10: Nothing's ever going to be perfect. Been in this situation before.
Speaker 10: Mainly we lost four in a row and there's a
Speaker 10: lot of potential here and I saw that and I
Speaker 10: saw the real growth. So quality football side here, a
Speaker 10: good bunch of blokes. You know, you put those two together,
Speaker 10: work hard, you know, you can go off and running,
Speaker 10: and that's what I'm banking on and just can't wait
Speaker 10: to go out there this week and and show what
Speaker 10: I can do.
Speaker 4: Dial and Walker there. You know, I don't think he's
Speaker 4: under too much pressure. He's coming over from the Warriors.
Speaker 4: They're already struggling at the moment. But hopefully for Paramatter
Speaker 4: he makes an impact. But it feels like Paramata beginning
Speaker 4: a four year rebuild. How did they get in this position.
Speaker 9: I think it's a by product of a new coach.
Speaker 9: Quite simply that Jason Rowles wants to put his stamp
Speaker 9: on his way. Look, there's a suggestion throughout the game,
Speaker 9: and that you know Brian Smith, God he might be
Speaker 9: able to speak to this. Brian Smith had a bit
Speaker 9: of a mentality of when getting to a new club,
Speaker 9: clean house, get rid of the leaders, take control.
Speaker 3: Have a young group at your disposal.
Speaker 9: That way you can dictate the path of that group
Speaker 9: much easier when you've got your more senior experienced players
Speaker 9: still hanging around from the former coach.
Speaker 8: But I've also Wayne Bennett say when you get to
Speaker 8: a new club, you don't want to change too much.
Speaker 8: You might, you might bring one or two players in,
Speaker 8: but you've got to figure out what you got under
Speaker 8: the bonnet, and you've got to try and figure a
Speaker 8: way to make it work so that then you know
Speaker 8: exactly how you to get.
Speaker 5: Anywhere.
Speaker 9: Well, I think there's no greater examples that Jason Rowse
Speaker 9: is doing his way, thinks his way with Bryce can't right,
Speaker 9: Ryan Madison calm too long. He's sitting in New South
Speaker 9: Wales Cup and kids are being deboot on the bench.
Speaker 3: You know in scenarios you come.
Speaker 7: At a cross though, Dave.
Speaker 8: Look if you look at the numbers to start the year,
Speaker 8: it's been a brutal beginning. You go back to Paramatta
Speaker 8: and the opening month of their season last year. I
Speaker 8: think they won two out of appening four games. They
Speaker 8: certainly were a lot tighter defensively. The decisions to move
Speaker 8: on Clint Gartherson and Reagan Campbell gill Out have clearly
Speaker 8: bit them.
Speaker 7: On the ass.
Speaker 8: And I just feel I don't know how we went
Speaker 8: from paramaking a Grand Final.
Speaker 3: In twenty two went today.
Speaker 8: Yes, so they let me back in somehow break Yeah,
Speaker 8: well this tells the Taylor the tape. So to begin
Speaker 8: the season in twenty twenty four, Paramatter won two games
Speaker 8: this year, zero wins, points scored. You can see they're
Speaker 8: going okay last year. This year they are sitting last.
Speaker 8: They've only scored eleven points. Points conceded last year they
Speaker 8: eighth this year, their last thirty.
Speaker 7: Two point five points per game. That's all of a lot.
Speaker 8: Misstackles aren't great either, and then you've got your run
Speaker 8: meters conceited to round it out, So those numbers don't lie.
Speaker 8: And yes, the Eels had some challenges early doors last year,
Speaker 8: after the opening month of the season, but I think
Speaker 8: it just shows it. I don't know how power went
Speaker 8: from being in a premiership window and making.
Speaker 4: It exactly because they had the team to win a
Speaker 4: premiership and they thought he couldn't get them there.
Speaker 8: Yes, and they said at that time that they still
Speaker 8: thought that they had a roster capable of competing for
Speaker 8: a premiership.
Speaker 7: Well now it's at an act station.
Speaker 9: It feels like you're giving Jason Rowls no time to
Speaker 9: put his impro on the class transition.
Speaker 3: Which way he wants to take it.
Speaker 8: Now, I'll give him all the time in the world, Dave,
Speaker 8: because he's four games into a four year deal. But
Speaker 8: the numbers don't lie and some of the decisions so far,
Speaker 8: I think if you asked Rollsy now with the benefit
Speaker 8: of hindsight, would he make the same cause he might
Speaker 8: have a different Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Because Moses, that's a big loss, right that he packs
Speaker 4: the numbers there to a degree, not like I'm not
Speaker 4: going to try, you know, can you you know your
Speaker 4: lab buttho you know, you know the energy he brings
Speaker 4: to a team, Like he's just irreplaceable, even in his losses,
Speaker 4: and even he's always competing so reliable.
Speaker 8: Super Saturday last week we're started into Melbourne Stem. If
Speaker 8: he doesn't play that game, I don't think St. Georgia
Speaker 8: law are a win. It's not just what he does
Speaker 8: with the ball or the little tip ons in attack.
Speaker 8: It's his organization defensively and the amount of tries that
Speaker 8: he stops his years break. You're right, he is a leader,
Speaker 8: He's an energizer bunny. So look, I just get the
Speaker 8: film and that that hasn't worked out. There's a great decision.
Speaker 9: Can we not ignore that Dylan Brown's in like career
Speaker 9: low form, yes, like again an attacking spark for that side,
Speaker 9: he's not.
Speaker 4: Can I just say that has there been a long
Speaker 4: period of time in his career or a length of
Speaker 4: time where he has been grateful?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think he started the year that they the Grand
Speaker 8: Final strongly, maybe half a dozen and eight games. He
Speaker 8: was very consistent with running the football and then as
Speaker 8: they went on the run into the finals, he was strong.
Speaker 8: But now aside from that break, there hasn't been a strong,
Speaker 8: consistent massive by I think.
Speaker 4: Because of the whole fanfare and deal that he's got
Speaker 4: at Newcastle. Yeah, it's put pressure on him, but you
Speaker 4: know he hasn't reached great heights at.
Speaker 3: All yet, not at all.
Speaker 8: We have squirrels in your head when you've when it's
Speaker 8: on the back page and the front page of so
Speaker 8: many papers, everybody's got an opinion on it. It's the
Speaker 8: richest deal in the history of the game. But he
Speaker 8: comes with But that's not the point. That it comes
Speaker 8: with enormous pressure and enormous scrup.
Speaker 3: And what is the concern is his response to it.
Speaker 4: You know, the way he's playing now that the elite
Speaker 4: of our game, the best of our game, you know, respond,
Speaker 4: the champions respond. That's That's what I was getting to.
Speaker 4: And this is it's hard to knock him because I
Speaker 4: actually think he's got so much potential.
Speaker 3: And I think he'll be I actually think he'll be.
Speaker 3: I've asked him to do a job that he can't do.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The sad part is, that's really.
Speaker 5: The sad part is when I watch him, and I'm
Speaker 5: not a coach and I'm not a talent scapper, when
Speaker 5: I watch him, I think he's a bore runner. I
Speaker 5: think he's more suited to the centers than moving closer
Speaker 5: to the rug. And I think he's a mile away
Speaker 5: from running a footy side. And we've caught him a
Speaker 5: couple of times and hopefully you know, Dylan Walker can
Speaker 5: like open him up a little bit so I.
Speaker 7: Can get his drunk.
Speaker 5: He's quite squeeze and he can open him up a
Speaker 5: little bit. But there's but it's chalk and cheese, and
Speaker 5: sometimes he's lost. He doesn't look like a big talker
Speaker 5: like when you watch him. He's not pointing, like he's
Speaker 5: not even getting involved. So I don't know how he digs.
Speaker 4: He just needs to step it up somehow in some way.
Speaker 4: Now it's taking us a while, but let's get to
Speaker 4: d C Hoop's war in camps are threatening to release emails.
Speaker 3: This is huge.
Speaker 7: It's getting very murky the D style.
Speaker 3: Mate.
Speaker 8: I think they've basically declared an uneasy truce the moment.
Speaker 8: Off the back of what Daily had to say after
Speaker 8: the game on Sunday, I think everybody at merely realizes
Speaker 8: they've got to try and bunker down and do their
Speaker 8: best to win games and give themselves a shot at
Speaker 8: the top four. Tommy Turbo is injured. That adds another
Speaker 8: degree of difficulty. The emails Do they exist? Don't they exist?
Speaker 8: No one seems to be alleged to well that that
Speaker 8: Daily's camp, Daily's management. We're seeking a contract worth between
Speaker 8: one point two and one point two million dollars. That's
Speaker 8: what they valued his worth on the open market at
Speaker 8: and Maarier adamant they exist in.
Speaker 4: Saying that Daily's camp said they've never received anything. Ever,
Speaker 4: that's the conflict, and they've got emails.
Speaker 3: So is it because that who's.
Speaker 8: Got Well, yeah, so there's a lot of claims about emails.
Speaker 8: We might have to call in the cyber police and
Speaker 8: get Inspector Gadget to solve it for us.
Speaker 4: So do camp thought they'd make the announcement and just
Speaker 4: move on day if you got something? Oh?
Speaker 9: I just I just again, I don't want to backtrack
Speaker 9: on chapter number thirty seven in Saga, However, the naivety
Speaker 9: of standing up at a press, sitting down on national
Speaker 9: television and announcing to the world that you will no
Speaker 9: longer be at Manly and thinking that by making that
Speaker 9: call on Tuesday morning, you wake up the sun shining
Speaker 9: and everyone's just moved on and everything. So a okay,
Speaker 9: I just I just think I can't believe that that
Speaker 9: would be the context of making that call last Monday.
Speaker 7: N that wasn't going to be the case. He knows,
Speaker 7: big bombshell development.
Speaker 3: How long doesn't it you should play Origin this year?
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, I wrote that column in relation to what
Speaker 9: DCE could do for Manly to give them every chance
Speaker 9: to do exactly what he claims he wants to do now,
Speaker 9: and that is to lead them all the way to
Speaker 9: the premiership. And what a legacy that would be after
Speaker 9: all this To do that would be extraord for me.
Speaker 9: The greatest opportunity for him to do that would be
Speaker 9: to miss the Origin series and give it all to Manly.
Speaker 9: Don't miss those games that he would sit out for
Speaker 9: Manly and also too at thirty seven years of age.
Speaker 9: Right here is a captain exactly so captain according to
Speaker 9: thirty seven.
Speaker 7: I think he's going to give that up.
Speaker 3: Well, I think there's one hundred thousand we could talk about.
Speaker 3: We can talk about DC. Oh yeah we will.
Speaker 4: Let's just move on the broadband key you play out
Speaker 4: match up journees.
Speaker 3: What do you got for us?
Speaker 8: Latrell's backs onging Latrell playing left center for the Bunnies
Speaker 8: up against Robert Toyer for the City Roosters.
Speaker 7: The young Gun.
Speaker 9: Yeah, matchup tomorrow night goes big Ding Dong battle Adam
Speaker 9: for Norman Blake for the Sharks up against Raiders Joey
Speaker 9: Tarpani love it, d Dong, thank you.
Speaker 4: Very much, Day, thank you. Who's this Sunday? The most
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Speaker 10: No.