Speaker 1: Thanks guys, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: No, we love you.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do.
Speaker 3: With that, mate, No, who cares.
Speaker 2: Hey, Jacob, thanks for coming over me. No worries, mate,
Speaker 2: thank you going me on and finally got out of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, it's a big talking point. Presto.
Speaker 3: My message Pressto reckoned a month ago, just before his suspension.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, bloody, he only lives up the road.
Speaker 1: Bloody.
Speaker 3: I THO keenurs come on? And then and I was like,
Speaker 3: he's keen to go on. Sometimes you get the vibe
Speaker 3: where someone's not yea, Presto, mate, let's get over, let's
Speaker 3: get in there. And then boss, it was like the
Speaker 3: earth had just ended and Presto had gone underground.
Speaker 1: Or suspensions do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I don't know if they do. And then
Speaker 3: he he must be you must be a hard blow
Speaker 3: to date.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I text my misses a bit better
Speaker 2: than I've got back to you.
Speaker 3: So I was gonna say, if you're better than doing that,
Speaker 3: because she would have left you pretty.
Speaker 1: Quick if I tear what YouTube blokes in the same room. Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean I remember the day Bo, what you was
Speaker 1: that made both for manly you and yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brook, you over your bulldog's day. Mark. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: come on off the bench and you sub someone off
Speaker 3: quite quickly too. They must have blown out of steam.
Speaker 3: Joey Simpson, Nah, I think Ray might have gone to
Speaker 3: the middle.
Speaker 2: And then I moved into the.
Speaker 1: Of course, and your parents were sitting next to me.
Speaker 1: That was a weird thing. Yeah, I'm in there watching
Speaker 1: and then I heard him. Your mum must have mentioned
Speaker 1: your name and I looked over and someone told me, oh,
Speaker 1: that's Jacobs. Yeah, played well too. He did play well.
Speaker 1: He played really really good.
Speaker 3: Didn't didn't break any tackles.
Speaker 2: It was a tough day, but you guys prettle bit
Speaker 2: of a score on us.
Speaker 1: But isn't it funny how far the club has come.
Speaker 1: I remember that that first day it was like Ciro's.
Speaker 1: It was Siro's first game. He charged with all this
Speaker 1: hope and I thought you guys were strong in the
Speaker 1: first twenty minutes, but you just sue the combination. They
Speaker 1: hadn't form like Berdo and Villi Army were oil and water.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get their combination going. But usually come a
Speaker 1: long way to see them.
Speaker 2: Jacob, Yeah, definitely. I think the obviously we didn't start
Speaker 2: too well in twenty The first game wasn't too good,
Speaker 2: but I think the first five rounds of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three after that we actually played some half decent footy.
Speaker 2: We beat Melbourne and Melbourne and that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Then the year kind of went downhill from there, But
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and onwards it's, yeah, it's definitely gone
Speaker 2: up here.
Speaker 3: You can see like it takes people sometimes when they
Speaker 3: get like a star player overt all club or like
Speaker 3: a new coach and they want instant success. It's like,
Speaker 3: we've got this boat, now we're going to kill it.
Speaker 3: That was a bit like that year with the Dogs,
Speaker 3: where it was like you guys had Foxy come over,
Speaker 3: Birdo kickout and everyone was like that, they're going to
Speaker 3: make an instant impact. But it takes. It takes at
Speaker 3: least a couple of years to get like combinations people.
Speaker 3: I think people underestimate how long it takes to actually
Speaker 3: get a group to understand each other as players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I think that twenty twenty three year it
Speaker 2: was a lot of kind of learning new systems. Obviously
Speaker 2: some of the boys had you've been under zero at
Speaker 2: Panriff but for a lot of the boys at the club,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of learning the system and some kind
Speaker 2: of I guess couldn't really get their heads around it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, another year on twenty twenty four, it kind
Speaker 2: of started to click. And now this year it's got
Speaker 2: even better.
Speaker 1: Jacobs and guys. It's not just even like understanding each
Speaker 1: other's games, understanding the angles to run, how you like
Speaker 1: to receive the ball, all those things. It's as very
Speaker 1: simple sometimes as just catching another person's pass. I always
Speaker 1: say a pass every playmaker's pass has. It's like a
Speaker 1: thumb print. Everyone's just slightly different. And I remember playing
Speaker 1: for it with Andrew for a long time and then
Speaker 1: go to a different halt for inormation and the ball
Speaker 1: just dips a little bit different. Other people throw at
Speaker 1: a certain angle. All those kinds of things you've got
Speaker 1: to get used to, you know, Hence the importance of
Speaker 1: your school works relentlessly over and over and over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even some hearts like catching a little bit wider
Speaker 2: or closer to the rock. So just been tough sitting
Speaker 2: on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I imagine I'm telling you they're missing you that that last game,
Speaker 1: you know, forty four forty four to six, you have
Speaker 1: that Dolphins game. I can see they're really missing you
Speaker 1: out there. Mate. For you, what do you? What do
Speaker 1: you do as far as when you're suspended and you're
Speaker 1: able to run and do everything? What's it? What's the
Speaker 1: typical week for you at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm definitely missing being out there and I
Speaker 2: can't wait to get back when you got one more
Speaker 2: game now. But yeah, because it's quite a long stint.
Speaker 3: I didn't think they gave you enough suspension.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the eye gouging.
Speaker 2: Because it was quite a long stin kind of been
Speaker 2: like a little mini preseason, I guess. So the boys
Speaker 2: got a couple of days off during the by round
Speaker 2: last week, but I've been in most days training hard
Speaker 2: and Travy Tumar.
Speaker 3: Oh it's bloody tough, isn't it. Rehab rehab trainings is
Speaker 3: a lot harder. I mean, sorry, suspension training overheal training.
Speaker 3: When you're not trained with the main group a lot
Speaker 3: of the time because they're playing, it is to they
Speaker 3: flogged out.
Speaker 2: They might match them, so like it's pretty much like
Speaker 2: planning getting the same columber as you're doing the game.
Speaker 2: But you're just doing like.
Speaker 3: Aimless running and I put it up a little bit
Speaker 3: closer to the Yeah there, I'm really on the bit.
Speaker 1: My radio sensibility is kicking a big game against Paramounta
Speaker 1: two traditional rivals up against each other. You know a
Speaker 1: lot about the history of these two clubs up against
Speaker 1: each other.
Speaker 2: In the eighties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a huge and the massive battle the including.
Speaker 1: The fact that when Paramuter won the first premiership in
Speaker 1: nine to eighty one, the fans burnt the old Cumberland
Speaker 1: Oval green Sea into the ground. So that's when they
Speaker 1: had to build so where Paramount of Stadium was now
Speaker 1: it's so combank. Yeah there used to that used to
Speaker 1: be a ground called Cumberland Oval, had a green sea
Speaker 1: in there and it was it was run down, it
Speaker 1: was like decrepit and when they won them their first
Speaker 1: ever competition, the fans just burnt it to the ground.
Speaker 1: Hence they had to build a new ground which which
Speaker 1: would become Paramouter Stadium and now Combink. But in that
Speaker 1: about five I think it was six years, they had
Speaker 1: to share the ground more over with the Bulldogs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you had the two powerhouse sides playing out of belmore.
Speaker 3: So it's like what it's like Penrith and Power this
Speaker 3: year right come back? Yeah, Wow, Wow. Who would you
Speaker 3: say is the biggest rivalry, like, because it feels like
Speaker 3: Bulldogs have a rivalry like everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of clubs, but I'd say probably Big Power.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then obviously Good Friday was always a big game.
Speaker 1: That's a big it's a Jacob. It's such a great club.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that because you're here, say the people,
Speaker 1: it's such a great club. When the Newcastle Knights coming
Speaker 1: in ninety eight, we stole your players, we stole your coaches,
Speaker 1: We tried to steal your culture, everything about it, like
Speaker 1: the Newcastle Knights, the foundations of that club. You know,
Speaker 1: we're if you had an architecture looking after but we
Speaker 1: had the same architect as you, Blake, So we tried
Speaker 1: to copy that culture and it's it. And there's certain
Speaker 1: there's certain things I always find about a Bulldogs player,
Speaker 1: like toughness, you know, not really think about playing around
Speaker 1: and opposition more play through short ball, playing all those
Speaker 1: little things that I think have just stayed in the
Speaker 1: culture of the club for such a long time. And
Speaker 1: bellmore oval Man I tear in the nineties playing a
Speaker 1: Bill Moore oval. It was, it was it was wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bellmore was incredible. I've played a couple of games,
Speaker 2: been lucky enough to play a couple of games there now,
Speaker 2: and it just seems every time we like every game,
Speaker 2: next time we play at Belmo, it gets bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2: There was a game there against Camber last year and look,
Speaker 2: it was crazy at the stadium, but then on the
Speaker 2: streets that the main street of it was going off
Speaker 2: like crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you find that, Like you're a kid from
Speaker 3: the northern beaches, Like you see the scenes over in
Speaker 3: Belmore after you guys win and it's just like DJ's
Speaker 3: in the streets, like Belmore is basically shut down. It's
Speaker 3: like every week's a Grand Final like it basically it
Speaker 3: looks like how Liverpool is at the moment when they
Speaker 3: when they win the football, like they shut the streets down.
Speaker 3: There's like flares going off, like it's insane. Is that
Speaker 3: like just crazy for you being out there?
Speaker 2: It is, It's crazy. It's definitely different what I've kind
Speaker 2: of grown up. But then go on and get and
Speaker 2: be part of it. It's so special and I say
Speaker 2: it all the time, but we have the best fans
Speaker 2: in the game and to make them happy. It's unreally,
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 3: A loyal fan. Like someone was telling me the other
Speaker 3: day one of the boys who went to the Bulldogs
Speaker 3: and then a few years later ended up leaving. He said,
Speaker 3: when he went to and this is a very modern
Speaker 3: take on this, when he went to the Dogs, he
Speaker 3: gained like twenty thousand social media followers straight away and
Speaker 3: he said when he left, they all unfollowed him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it shows how loyal these fans are, like to get
Speaker 3: around their players, like the boys that are there. The
Speaker 3: fans just get around you and build you up so much.
Speaker 2: They support you no matter what. Yeah, they're very loyal.
Speaker 2: But yeah they give your stuff, They give your presents
Speaker 2: and stuff at fans honey stuff. I got given a
Speaker 2: shirt the other day, like just at a fan signy.
Speaker 2: Think it's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's good. So that area defined by the football team
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, you know, and vice versa
Speaker 1: is the fans and the people of that community they draw,
Speaker 1: they draw a steam soff esteem by how the football
Speaker 1: side's going. It's just it's just insane and do you
Speaker 1: know what pressure There's been a lot of tough years
Speaker 1: with the Bulldogs and it's not nice going, you know,
Speaker 1: when you've got the foot in your throat all the
Speaker 1: time and you're scrapping away. But it's not bad sometimes
Speaker 1: for a club to experience that, to experience a little
Speaker 1: bit of time down there, because then when you rise again,
Speaker 1: like new blokes have done, everyone appreciates the more you know,
Speaker 1: and it just sends a certain buzz through the community.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely for sure. Like like I was saying in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, it's kind of the opposite end of
Speaker 2: the spectrum. It was very very much as struggle towards
Speaker 2: the back end there. We had a game against Newcastle
Speaker 2: sixty six nil and that was definitely tough times. But
Speaker 2: to see where we've come come from and who we're
Speaker 2: at now, and then the crowds and stuff slowly built
Speaker 2: up along the way, it's very special.
Speaker 3: You see. Like those young blokes who like the Boys,
Speaker 3: are the young fellows that went into that Penricide who
Speaker 3: started winning comp like Burdo Critter, they come into a
Speaker 3: team where you almost expect every year it's going to
Speaker 3: come kind of easy and you're going to win a
Speaker 3: Grand Final every year, Like a lot of you guys
Speaker 3: at the Dogs have come in at a time where
Speaker 3: you understand how hard it is to not just make
Speaker 3: the top eight, but to like get to a Grand final,
Speaker 3: like to get to finals. Now, I imagine you boys,
Speaker 3: it's something that will stop you boys being complacent, Like
Speaker 3: even though he's are at the top end of the ladder,
Speaker 3: you're not taking it for granted like a lot of
Speaker 3: his teams can do sometimes.
Speaker 2: Nah, for sure, we know we've done nothing yet, like
Speaker 2: kind of learned a lot from last year. We kind
Speaker 2: of went on a bit of a run there and
Speaker 2: got to the finals and we kind of burnt out.
Speaker 2: I guess a little bit. It wasn't really how we
Speaker 2: wanted to end the year and to kind of put
Speaker 2: a fire under our belly to go bigger and better
Speaker 2: this year. And I think it's pretty evident with how
Speaker 2: we're training and you're not getting complacent at all.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a mega game against Earls
Speaker 1: because Eels are really starting to form. You can see that, Rosies,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that Rosey tried to put in those
Speaker 1: early rounds with Mitchell Moses coming back in the side,
Speaker 1: you can see that, you know, all the things like
Speaker 1: something last week, you know, Jacob looking at some of
Speaker 1: their little attacking sequences and players were very very classy.
Speaker 1: Yonge's starting to really pick up and find himself. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a cracking game. What sort of crowd
Speaker 1: are we expecting.
Speaker 2: They're trying to beat the Good Friday crowd, which was
Speaker 2: sixty five thousand. That's their goal. Well, they're doing the
Speaker 2: ten dollar tickets again did on Good Friday. That's their
Speaker 2: goal wherever they get there, and I'm not too sure,
Speaker 2: but it would be pretty crazy to see that was
Speaker 2: the biggest regular season crowd ever?
Speaker 3: Is that at a call, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't get like they get it at Origin
Speaker 3: and Finals, but you'd always see when you watch a
Speaker 3: cor on TV and you see like half one side's full,
Speaker 3: the camera goes the other side, it's just completely empty.
Speaker 3: That game when you just played Good Friday, that was
Speaker 3: chaos A like, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was incredible. We kind of we kind of walked
Speaker 2: out of the hotel as well as before the game,
Speaker 2: we stayed at the Pullman and the Bulldogs kind of
Speaker 2: organized a fan get together like, so we walked out
Speaker 2: the hotel when the scenes were incredible, it was like
Speaker 2: see your people one hundred meters worth of people just
Speaker 2: fully bulldogs, kid it up, cheering us on. And it
Speaker 2: was very cool experience as well. And we're told you
Speaker 2: kind of just.
Speaker 1: Embrace it the call walk. So what happen on day game?
Speaker 1: Do you boys stay at the hotel near Homebush the
Speaker 1: night before?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, and then so that you're starting that tradition where
Speaker 1: you walkers turning through the fans to the stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well that was for Good Friday. We don't
Speaker 2: do that every week, okay, but yeah, that was obviously
Speaker 2: a big occasion and we wanted to embrace the big
Speaker 2: crowd and kind of get a taste of it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was very special. And but yeah we do we
Speaker 2: stay out there before games as well.
Speaker 1: Ye right, yeah, it's a good policy. I just love
Speaker 1: staying away the nothing. It's YouTube and I love you.
Speaker 3: I think it gets you a good night's sleep. Do
Speaker 3: you have a roomy? Do you guys do roomy? Still?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I haven't had a roomy, kind of swapped and changed
Speaker 2: a couple, but.
Speaker 3: I've had who's been this year?
Speaker 2: Harry Hayes is how interesting character, but he's a great.
Speaker 3: So Harry Hayes, He's he's not the one who only
Speaker 3: debuted this year, right.
Speaker 2: He debuted last year, but he's been in the team
Speaker 2: ever since. Yeah, yeah, he's been going really well. Actually
Speaker 2: he's actually living at Baga.
Speaker 3: So you see other the Northern Meachs as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a Central Coast boy, but he's he's moved
Speaker 2: down to here and moved to Canal for a bit,
Speaker 2: but he's living Baga.
Speaker 3: Now what's he what's we about him? He's got any
Speaker 3: weird superstitions, No, no superstitions.
Speaker 2: He's just an interesting.
Speaker 1: Humor.
Speaker 3: Yeah said humor, but is talking about weird sense of humors?
Speaker 3: Max King one of the great How he is so
Speaker 3: undercover funny, Like he's so funny for a bloke who
Speaker 3: kind of like seems unassuming and very quiet, and then
Speaker 3: once he gets comfortable in a group, you can't stop
Speaker 3: him from talking.
Speaker 2: Can't he spin a yarn? But like, honestly, I was
Speaker 2: quickly say I want to give a massive shout out
Speaker 2: to Maxie because he's origin Deaby. Was so good to
Speaker 2: see Bloody on real and yeah, so happy for him.
Speaker 1: Got it wrapped for him too when Laurie put him on,
Speaker 1: like the first was first change. Yeah, he came on.
Speaker 1: Of course I didn't kick off to Spencer, kicked off
Speaker 1: the Max. He says, I don't know what it says
Speaker 1: more about Spencer Max but less. But he's terrific.
Speaker 3: Oh man, he's such good and we were at Melbourne together.
Speaker 3: But he when he heard his achilles, it was like
Speaker 3: borderline retirement, like king, he was. He was so like
Speaker 3: low mentally he was. He do like nine months of rehab,
Speaker 3: come back first run and he just gets so much
Speaker 3: pain in it again that he couldn't even like they
Speaker 3: just couldn't. They just had him on a what bike
Speaker 3: for so long and he was like so the physios
Speaker 3: didn't even know what to do. They were like, we
Speaker 3: don't know how to fix this. It's so it's actually
Speaker 3: a miracle that he's even back on the field playing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: The other thing about Max is and everybody's different, everyone
Speaker 1: has their different bullies. But he is a man of faith.
Speaker 1: He says that all the time. For him to go
Speaker 1: through a really difficult period like that, there must have
Speaker 1: been times that he was questioning going, oh like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, to help me or what yeah, yeah, I know
Speaker 3: what you mean, I know what you mean. He's a
Speaker 3: big believer. I think he gives a lot of Well
Speaker 3: I've seen his partner come out even when he made
Speaker 3: his day Bill and was like, obviously they're very into
Speaker 3: their faith and they gave a lot of that sort
Speaker 3: of gratitude back to God.
Speaker 2: Good on him.
Speaker 3: Since you've been to church, me in school, probably since school.
Speaker 3: We impressed. They went the same school. It was a
Speaker 3: Catholical Christian.
Speaker 1: Ridden right yeah, okay, well okay, what were.
Speaker 3: You doing rest? They can't read all right?
Speaker 2: Catholic school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're a few years younger than me because I
Speaker 3: was in your brother's year.
Speaker 2: Dana was in your ye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually saw your old man at seven eleven the
Speaker 3: other day. Yeah, but your you have a youngest brother
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Yes, it would have been my stepdad.
Speaker 3: Yeah but yeah, yeah, yeah he would have come up.
Speaker 3: I was young in him for ages.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's a good fellaw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was for you. Hey, what's ages for you?
Speaker 3: The chat? Yeah, we sat there probably forty five minutes
Speaker 3: in the seven eleven minutes are.
Speaker 1: Forty five minutes and the seven eleven Yeah, we're there
Speaker 1: for mate.
Speaker 3: We were there for ages. We were literally spinning yards
Speaker 3: for so long like that with people because we just
Speaker 3: filled up and there was cars like banking up behind
Speaker 3: where our cars were filling up and just like waiting
Speaker 3: for us to leave.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's the conversation, can you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: A lot of it was about Jacob, and then we
Speaker 3: started talking about Dane, who I went to school with.
Speaker 3: He was in my age. And then we started talking
Speaker 3: to your youngest and he was telling me how much
Speaker 3: you love footy. He had like footy he had. I
Speaker 3: think he had bulldog shorts on.
Speaker 2: Actually he actually last year was the ball boy for
Speaker 2: the dogs. But was he He actually tackled at Streaker,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 3: Streaker like he's like eight or nine? Though?
Speaker 2: Is he he's fifteen?
Speaker 3: Now fifteen? She's not a bad judge of I cannot
Speaker 3: pick kids age anymore. I was watching these kids trained
Speaker 3: down at Cholera the other day and I was watching
Speaker 3: train for ages and I was like, how good are
Speaker 3: these guys going? Like I thought they were under seventies
Speaker 3: because they look quite big. They were like under eleven's
Speaker 3: The kids are getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1: Sure yeah, yeah, sure good on them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eating the old church talking about that before, I just
Speaker 1: I think the only time I go to church to
Speaker 1: these days is funerals, even weddings. I sort of way
Speaker 1: to get there, sort of stayed head towards the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty morbid, pretty morbid thing to bring up your.
Speaker 1: Sure, you know, as you get older, you know, as
Speaker 1: you get older and you sort of you get off
Speaker 1: more of the depressing sort of things. I find drinking
Speaker 1: after a funeral is actually fun the way I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say the word be fun. I'd probably get more of
Speaker 1: a shine or a buzz, like you know, they get
Speaker 1: that sort of feeling that comes of it's hard to explore.
Speaker 3: Well, I suppose, like me and pressed those age right now,
Speaker 3: it's like birthdays and weddings is like the big events
Speaker 3: I suppose for you, Like you're done really celebrating birthdays
Speaker 3: and weddings. Your only real time to get together as
Speaker 3: a group is funerals. So that I suppose is like
Speaker 3: your weddings now.
Speaker 1: Right, man, that's true, It's it's actually it's actually very
Speaker 1: very true. Yeah, yeah, it is actually quite depressing. You
Speaker 1: get there sometimes. But but I didn't mean that when
Speaker 1: you go to twenty first or stuff there or weddings
Speaker 1: and that you have a beer afters. But when you
Speaker 1: go to a funeral and everyone's emotions are on edge
Speaker 1: and things are down there. After a few beers, everything
Speaker 1: just really starts to pack up. Well, Hence wedding crashes.
Speaker 1: Wedding crashes compared to Chaz, you.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen wedding crashes.
Speaker 1: I have, But yeah, Will Ferrell's characters, so Vince fitz
Speaker 1: Vawn and Owen Wilson their characters. They crash weddings to
Speaker 1: pick birds, ladies and uh, and they come across Will Ferral.
Speaker 1: He's a bandoned weddings. He goes, man, I've got a funerals.
Speaker 1: He goes, women there are so hard.
Speaker 3: I should watch it. Press that's good.
Speaker 2: I did I remember watching him?
Speaker 3: I was, yeah, watching tonight watch last Treament watch it is.
Speaker 1: Now impressed it now pressed her. Let's now, let's keep
Speaker 1: this tight. You know, I absolutely understand. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to ask you this. I'm not going to ask you
Speaker 1: about what position he may play against Paramatt or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Lachlan Galvin, how's he how's he doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's only been in for a couple of days,
Speaker 2: but he's been really good. He's a really nice fella.
Speaker 2: He's been ripping in at training and he's really can
Speaker 2: learn all the systems and stuff, and yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: really good kid.
Speaker 1: Impressed her with the football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely lots of skill there, lots of it.
Speaker 3: Looks like you played against him a lot.
Speaker 2: I actually had never played against him. Last time we
Speaker 2: played the Tigers, I was injured, which was last year,
Speaker 2: and I haven't had the chance.
Speaker 1: You didn't play one thirty. A lot to you more
Speaker 1: three o'clock.
Speaker 3: What's because he's got what I want to talk about
Speaker 3: it because you've you're known, you had a lot of
Speaker 3: great haircuts and the Bulldogs, right, you have an excellent haircut.
Speaker 3: The Northern Beach is mullet, it's great. A bit of
Speaker 3: blonde through it. I'm sure you squirt lemon and when
Speaker 3: you're when you're home alone. Lachlan Garvin's haircut now it's
Speaker 3: making a lot of headlines at the moment. Is is
Speaker 3: he copying flak at training because he looks at it's
Speaker 3: like the bowl cut.
Speaker 1: Is it too early to take the fish out of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I saw that picture with the ball cut, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't look that bad in person.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, might have just been a bad day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it might have been a bad Engle woman too,
Speaker 2: sure of view commercials, you.
Speaker 3: Know, but yeah it looks like Lloyd Christmas Fro dumb
Speaker 3: and dumber.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 3: He's got that in there.
Speaker 1: He does. Any of the boys, like any any piss
Speaker 1: take or anything like that going on in practical jokes
Speaker 1: on him?
Speaker 2: Yeah no not yet, Yeah, now yet they'll come. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they'll come, for sure, they will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who gets who is like the practical joker in
Speaker 3: the squad? Who gets on top of like like those
Speaker 3: are kind of awkward situa iss when everyone's like, oh hey,
Speaker 3: Lachla must whos the one that breaks the ice?
Speaker 4: For sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Creat is a man and he's awesome and kind
Speaker 2: of breaking the ice and making everyone feel comfortable. We
Speaker 2: think he's done amazing jobs since he came in doing
Speaker 2: that and he connects the group.
Speaker 3: Is Turps there, Jakie Turpin as well. He's one of
Speaker 3: the great ice breaker.
Speaker 1: I've never met him before. And then I was at
Speaker 1: a at a pub in Brisbane. There was a long
Speaker 1: lineup and Coopers Mate, there's bloke just out the front
Speaker 1: of Mate out the front. He wants he wants to
Speaker 1: know can you get him in? I looked out and
Speaker 1: it was a little pumpkinheaded turban tine, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I think that was a magic round or
Speaker 3: something and weird, weird sort of night for Terps, dad
Speaker 3: and I. It was karaoke at this bar and brizzy
Speaker 3: and it also managed to come inside with sex Bow.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if if you ever heard of
Speaker 3: sex Bow pressed, it's a perfect and it was like
Speaker 3: it's like a convention where like basically like couples and
Speaker 3: just whoever's like really into that sort of thing go
Speaker 3: there and at the bar when we're all doing karaoke,
Speaker 3: it's like the whole of sex Bow would come into
Speaker 3: this this pub and for whatever reason, I don't know
Speaker 3: how it came up. I don't know if Terps had
Speaker 3: been telling everyone in the thing, but they all thought
Speaker 3: me and Terps were dating. All the couples in at
Speaker 3: sex Bo it's.
Speaker 1: A strange conclusion to reach one a northern hotel.
Speaker 3: But we were sitting around having a beer and then
Speaker 3: like this guy she was asking terms like how long
Speaker 3: we'd be together, and I was like what, and Turfs goes, oh,
Speaker 3: like just to start coming because they're all in there,
Speaker 3: and like the kinky sort of couples and terms have
Speaker 3: been saying the medium been dating for like three years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was. It happened to me and Joey once.
Speaker 1: We were out once and Blake come up and go,
Speaker 1: you guys partners and we're like, what, I've got a
Speaker 1: better taste than that. I mean, we have sex, but
Speaker 1: we are from cesnoch.
Speaker 3: You know that is very true.
Speaker 1: Last thing, unlock you can. I asked you did he
Speaker 1: has he did? They ask him to address the group?
Speaker 1: Do you address the group in any way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: not asking for the contents? No, no, no, no, just
Speaker 1: got on.
Speaker 2: Gott got in and trained and yeah, it's been been
Speaker 2: really good.
Speaker 1: Look do you look nervous?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would have been. It's like anyone's
Speaker 2: first It's kind of like your first day of school.
Speaker 2: You're always nervous. But the boys got around him and.
Speaker 3: You guys got like a pretty mad It looks like
Speaker 3: from the outside looking and he's a mad close group,
Speaker 3: particularly this year. It looks like you celebrate every wind,
Speaker 3: you celebrate all the tries. It looks like anyone gets
Speaker 3: pushed over, you guys back them up and try to
Speaker 3: fight whoever it is is. Do you like I suppose
Speaker 3: it's a professional sport, Like you all get on with it.
Speaker 3: But do you feel like is that like putting is
Speaker 3: Galvin coming like affecting anyone's like head or anything. Everyone's
Speaker 3: pretty sweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's sweet. Everyone just gets on with it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like like you said, we're really connected and we're just
Speaker 2: welcome in, welcomed him in. So yeah, it go out
Speaker 2: there and ye're welcome and it's been really good.
Speaker 1: You get there sometimes within clubs and people on the
Speaker 1: outside will say, oh, mate, this is what's going in
Speaker 1: the club is obviously really expecting the group. From my experience,
Speaker 1: players just get on with it, you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just you get on with the game.
Speaker 3: It's like when it's like when players, it's like when
Speaker 3: fans go, how could he sign for this club in
Speaker 3: twelve months time? But all the boys are off him
Speaker 3: and it's like no one, no one ever cares.
Speaker 1: You all getting a new contract, that's fine, No one ever.
Speaker 3: I've never seen someone go, mate, go up to someone
Speaker 3: and go like pressed, I can't believe you signed for
Speaker 3: them next year. That's it, Like no one ever really
Speaker 3: gives the ship's.
Speaker 1: Yeah a presser, how's Cameron how's coach soeraldo going? Has
Speaker 1: he turned into a coach? Hit? Yeah, because I don't
Speaker 1: think you're not a first grade coach unless you become
Speaker 1: angry and paranoid.
Speaker 4: Is he is?
Speaker 1: He same old sera, same old zero.
Speaker 2: Definitely not angry your parently with it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very calm and collected. And yeah, he's been
Speaker 2: awesome so far. I've kind of had him my whole career.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was talking to Maxi King and Toby
Speaker 1: Sex when they come on the Sunday Show about a
Speaker 1: month or so ago, and was after the Broncos game
Speaker 1: with a bad loss, and he said at halftime, which
Speaker 1: you know, thirty odd thirty od neils how Siro and
Speaker 1: he goes, mate, he was that calm. She was that calm.
Speaker 1: In fact, he was so calm and talking about what
Speaker 1: we had to do on the second half. He said,
Speaker 1: we came out after half time went ashually, we can
Speaker 1: turn this around and maybe be these blokes now that's yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's sort of coach. You can do that conventure.
Speaker 2: We had full confidence we could have come out in
Speaker 2: that second half and won the game. And I think
Speaker 2: we put eighteen points on in that second half, and
Speaker 2: we fully believe you could. And yeah, just the way
Speaker 2: he addresses the playing group really simplifies it, dumbs it down,
Speaker 2: and it was just on us to go out there
Speaker 2: and do it.
Speaker 1: What about the Raiders game?
Speaker 2: That was incredible?
Speaker 1: It was incredible?
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you play that? Was that your first week?
Speaker 2: First week's?
Speaker 1: Oh wow?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's considering like, how could the Raid particularly like Raiders.
Speaker 3: They're in the top four, Raiders aren't. They're on a
Speaker 3: team that they're out of the bottom ete and they're
Speaker 3: beating you by eddy and you come back. Raiders are
Speaker 3: a proper Premiership contender now this year.
Speaker 1: Turn our men up here for a second. We'll tell
Speaker 1: pressed about what took place. Give me five jackair mate.
Speaker 1: Me and Jack got a story about the Raiders Dogs
Speaker 1: Remember that night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are leading to the game.
Speaker 4: The old man just kept saying to me, I've got
Speaker 4: a really good feeling that the Dogs this weekend because
Speaker 4: I think Camera were favorites and it was a big
Speaker 4: game Camera. It was a big crowd, A lot of
Speaker 4: Doggies fans came down and at half time, what was
Speaker 4: the scored half time?
Speaker 1: It was just full half time? Were down about twenty
Speaker 1: or nails. Yeah, And something happened in the game and
Speaker 1: I bumped Jack and run a couple of mates and said,
Speaker 1: just get on the dogs straight away thirty one dollars.
Speaker 1: And they were like, mate, don't be stupid, and I said,
Speaker 1: just do it.
Speaker 4: And Jack at his birthday right, and they had We're
Speaker 4: in We're in BONDI I believe it. Of all places,
Speaker 4: we never go there. And you look over and on
Speaker 4: the screen you see first try from across the room,
Speaker 4: the old man just dead eyed me. Second try, dead
Speaker 4: eyed me, and I've gone the bus is going.
Speaker 1: To get it. We're just dead on across the road.
Speaker 1: I just Ricky raising the overse goun hmmm.
Speaker 2: Put on a bit of a show, didn't you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3: He played out Who was seb Chris?
Speaker 1: Poor Chris.
Speaker 3: You'll have nightmares about him?
Speaker 1: What about? What about him? Before we talk about critic
Speaker 1: you went into Origin camp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. Yeah, I got the chance to go in.
Speaker 2: It was really cool.
Speaker 4: What was that?
Speaker 1: What what'd you take that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was awesome. It was awesome to kind of
Speaker 2: get to know all the boys, kind of kind of
Speaker 2: soak up the experience and just.
Speaker 1: Kind of learn off Hawley what a champion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was awesome. He's such an easy blot to
Speaker 2: kind of talk to and he did a great job.
Speaker 1: What about Craig Bellamy? Do you have a conversation with Craig?
Speaker 2: You had a brief convert not too much, but he
Speaker 2: seems really cool as well.
Speaker 1: Let me get a bit. You come up there, shook
Speaker 1: your hands to congratulations where you're going.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what he said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the kind of guy he used.
Speaker 3: I could see you now, he would love he'd love
Speaker 3: to coach you, like you're right up his alley as
Speaker 3: a player. But you know, I had dinner with Himole
Speaker 3: last night as well, and he'd never even spoke to Craig,
Speaker 3: and he said the exact same thing. He was like,
Speaker 3: I didn't know how to take him or approach him
Speaker 3: because I've watched him for so long and kind of
Speaker 3: being like he's got a bit of a scary aura. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 3: you know, like you don't know how to cop him.
Speaker 3: And he said the same thing. He's like that come
Speaker 3: up and he was just the nicest bloke. I imagine
Speaker 3: it'd be pretty sick for like a lot of those
Speaker 3: boys who have never had anything to do with him
Speaker 3: to it breaks down a little bit of a wall
Speaker 3: because you've just been coached against him for so long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you've been coached against him, and you've also
Speaker 2: kind of grown up watching him coach all his dominant teams,
Speaker 2: So to kind of be able to meet him and
Speaker 2: understand how he kind of works, it is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Was he very hands on? Did he get his hands
Speaker 3: or did he kind of sit back like was he
Speaker 3: talking in video? He just like just kind of sit
Speaker 3: back and just let Laurie do his thing and then
Speaker 3: just chime in if you had to. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: more so he just sat back and chimed in every
Speaker 3: now and then. Laurie and the assistant coaches did the thing.
Speaker 1: Did you have the game pressod? They take you to
Speaker 1: the game?
Speaker 3: Na, So I left.
Speaker 2: I was there from Tuesday to the Saturday a though,
Speaker 2: and then they left to Brisbane on the Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: So you you blokes were in there, of course for
Speaker 1: the experience. You stand its cord. Did you do a
Speaker 1: post against the team? Did they have you blows here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So we kind of did a couple of opposed sessions.
Speaker 1: The weather.
Speaker 2: The weather. The first couple of days was horrendous at
Speaker 2: Blue Mountains, and then we actually had to move training
Speaker 2: to Penriff on the fourth day just because the weather
Speaker 2: was so bad and we got some sun and some
Speaker 2: sun finally and we got to They did like a
Speaker 2: post session against Ride and I just jumped in the
Speaker 2: right side and played against him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Yeah, when you're on the camp sometimes you
Speaker 1: get a whole new appreciation of the guys you play against.
Speaker 1: Who did you when you went in the camp firstly
Speaker 1: on the field, who did you look at and just
Speaker 1: go man like, who really stood out for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was obviously all of the boys are pretty impressive,
Speaker 2: but I think Nathan Cleary the way he goes about
Speaker 2: his business is pretty special. And Isaiah how he kind
Speaker 2: of addresses the group as well, and yeah, summarizes everything.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Nathan lots of extras.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he's the last man on the field always.
Speaker 3: What about like, because you said I've got so many
Speaker 3: good backroll Like you were before your suspension, you were
Speaker 3: being tossed up to be in the side as well,
Speaker 3: you know, Angus Crichton, Liam Martin, Hudson Young was on
Speaker 3: the bench, and then yourself and Dylan Lucas were kind
Speaker 3: of being tossed up as well. What did you learn
Speaker 3: from some of the other experience background was in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just how they train as well, how they prepare
Speaker 2: training like Angus Kricht and he goes one hundred percent
Speaker 2: at everything, which is yeah, which I actually really like it.
Speaker 2: I embrace that and probably take that to my training
Speaker 2: now and kind of try and make sure I do
Speaker 2: that as well. Yeah, cool to see.
Speaker 3: Paul Samuel Walker Apparently it's just just hate it every
Speaker 3: day because every day there's always someone at club level
Speaker 3: who just goes like you want to go in and
Speaker 3: you do your body sore, and there's always someone that's
Speaker 3: going one hundred and ten percent when you're wanting to
Speaker 3: go fifty At our club at Melbourne, it used to
Speaker 3: be Dalphanuken would just like on a day where everyone
Speaker 3: was sore, he just would still be sore, but he'd
Speaker 3: just want to kill everyone. Matt Lodge was that at
Speaker 3: Manly as well, would just run and Ethan Bullymore Bitcoin
Speaker 3: Bully Moore, you know Bullymore. He's I don't know, he
Speaker 3: loves his but loves his big cooin. He's an accountant, by. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he works at a firm every day, every day off
Speaker 3: he goes in there.
Speaker 2: And Harry on well unusual man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's quirky individual, but same thing Bull. I've never
Speaker 3: seen anyone score so many tries at training, but they're
Speaker 3: not in the game as many.
Speaker 1: Tries, but Make scores a lot in the garden he does.
Speaker 3: But at training. Mate, if you if if you watched
Speaker 3: him at training, you'd think he's going to go out
Speaker 3: and school eight tries.
Speaker 2: He scores a lot like push your support.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he reads me. You read he's a
Speaker 3: stock man. You'd see he's a full stock man figures. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he loves numbers.
Speaker 1: What about blakes. Whenever you going to camp, you always
Speaker 1: strike up a really good relationship someone like I'm in
Speaker 1: Origin camp. I room with Lorry a couple of times
Speaker 1: and made he was a dream roommate. Apart from the
Speaker 1: fact used to walk around naked all the time. I heard, Yeah, neist,
Speaker 1: total nudist. What about yourself when you went to camp,
Speaker 1: was there anyone you really sort of went, yeah, you
Speaker 1: didn't think that, Like, well, you're surprised. What a good
Speaker 1: bloke they were.
Speaker 2: All the fellows are really good fellas to be honest. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: everyone was really good fellas. I was hanging out Obviously
Speaker 2: the Dogs boys are fair bit Gritter and Maxie King,
Speaker 2: but I got to know all the boys really well,
Speaker 2: and yeah, they're all really good fellas. And yeah, just
Speaker 2: tried to take a lot from what they did at
Speaker 2: training and their preparation and.
Speaker 3: Who wasn't who wasn't a good fellow. I'm a pretty
Speaker 3: easy go I know, impressed those two. He's too good
Speaker 3: of Blake. Wouldn't even if someone was an asshole, you'd
Speaker 3: find a way to get along with him.
Speaker 1: That Stephen Crichton, I think he has got the his
Speaker 1: trajectory at the moment, twenty four years of age. What
Speaker 1: he's doing, he's on the trajectory to be like a
Speaker 1: Malma Ninger type figure for you, Boke something his leadership.
Speaker 1: Can you just give us some insight in the leadership
Speaker 1: day by day?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to experience origin camp kind of see
Speaker 2: where he kind of picked some stuff off Yoe and stuff,
Speaker 2: And I'm getting to see him do that at Woodogs
Speaker 2: in Clubland every every day. Is pretty special. The way
Speaker 2: he kind of connects the group through his through his words, obviously,
Speaker 2: but also for his actions. Yeah, it's pretty cool to
Speaker 2: be a part of.
Speaker 1: When he first went to the club, did he walk
Speaker 1: Did he walk in straight away just have a presence
Speaker 1: and took leadership.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he kind of came in a little
Speaker 2: bit later just because of how Penrif had gone the
Speaker 2: year before. But he walked straight into an army camp.
Speaker 2: And I guess we were like we had captains and
Speaker 2: like our leaders read in Berdo and stuff, Kingy, but
Speaker 2: then Creator at the army camp just kind of just
Speaker 2: blew everyone away with how he kind of handled it all.
Speaker 2: And yeah, from there it's just yeah, I guess it's
Speaker 2: that aura we.
Speaker 3: Had zero on the potty. Uh that year after he
Speaker 3: named Cruder as captain, and he actually said that army camp.
Speaker 3: He'd never even thought Creta was in contention to really
Speaker 3: be captain. He was looking at Berdo and Marnie and
Speaker 3: then he said that army camp when he when he
Speaker 3: watched him, how he came in, how we had the group,
Speaker 3: how we communicated with everyone. That was when he was like, well,
Speaker 3: I think credit has got to be our skipper.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was. It was actually incredible to kind of
Speaker 2: kind of witness it and be part of it. He
Speaker 2: kind of just brought everyone together, got everyone for everything.
Speaker 2: And just like I said, connection, connection, like the way
Speaker 2: he connects the group. I haven't really been I haven't
Speaker 2: really experienced that before. I don't I don't know really
Speaker 2: how to explain it. But he understands each individual for
Speaker 2: who they are and knows how to get everyone connected.
Speaker 1: And it isn't so important like not just on the field,
Speaker 1: not just some dressing, but even just when you're out
Speaker 1: on the training field, that connectivity, because when you're doing fitness,
Speaker 1: I remember, if you got good leadership out there, everyone
Speaker 1: drags each other along, Everyone looks after each other. And
Speaker 1: I've found a lot of times with fitness, when you
Speaker 1: do fitness almost as an individual pursuit and you ignore
Speaker 1: everyone else, it makes it ten times harder when you
Speaker 1: actually take on the role of come on, presso let's go,
Speaker 1: come on, coop, push, you know, Jack, come on, catch
Speaker 1: up a little bit. It actually it actually makes everything
Speaker 1: easier for everybody.
Speaker 2: That connection. It makes everything easier, but it also holds
Speaker 2: everyone accountable. I guess that just rises the intensity and
Speaker 2: I guess the level of fitness. Everyone's kind of get
Speaker 2: into and yeah, it's something he's done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he seems like it seems like a bloke that
Speaker 3: rarely gets tired. Like you can tell he's trained at
Speaker 3: a high intensity for a long time. The difference between
Speaker 3: the best teams and the worst teams is how the
Speaker 3: best teams react when they're tired and under fatigue, right,
Speaker 3: Like the communications. The first thing that goes when anyone's tired,
Speaker 3: and you can tell crit is the blow that is
Speaker 3: just he drills it into himself every day when he's
Speaker 3: tired in pre season, he just forces himself to talk.
Speaker 3: So that's a comes habit.
Speaker 2: He's constantly communicating at training or on the field like
Speaker 2: it's just yeah, it's next level communication. And I think
Speaker 2: that comes out on the field the way he defends.
Speaker 2: I think you know that Origin most recent Origin game,
Speaker 2: how he defended was pretty incredible, and I'd say it's
Speaker 2: up there with one of the best Origin. You depend
Speaker 2: alongside you heart yeah, oh yeah too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yet he what blows me away is sometimes a
Speaker 1: ballger pinned out and the critter and and you winger
Speaker 1: carraz and it's two on two with them and they're
Speaker 1: on the attack, attack and him it'll be over like
Speaker 1: a thirty minute space. A lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: players will feel rightfully feel isolated. He just goes bang,
Speaker 1: goes up there and just hits them.
Speaker 2: No hesitation, doesn't panic, just back himself, which comes from
Speaker 2: his preparation. He does it at training so he knows
Speaker 2: that when it's time to do what he has to do,
Speaker 2: he just use it backs himself.
Speaker 3: It's pretty sick like going historically, going from a lot
Speaker 3: of the boys that left Penrith or even back in
Speaker 3: the day that you would have seen like blokes that
Speaker 3: used to leave like the Melbourne Storm when they had
Speaker 3: the Big three there. They usually go. When they signed
Speaker 3: a different club on more money, people go, oh, you
Speaker 3: know they're going to make a big difference, and then
Speaker 3: they kind of fall off a cliff. They rarely do
Speaker 3: see him get better. I don't think one of recent times,
Speaker 3: like when nicka Heinz left and he wanted the Dalim
Speaker 3: the next year, Like it's very rare to see him
Speaker 3: leave such a good club and then go get better.
Speaker 3: Whereas critics like crit is another one left Penrith off
Speaker 3: the back of a couple of premierships. You and you go,
Speaker 3: is he going to get better? Or is he going
Speaker 3: to sort of plat o out leaving such a good club.
Speaker 3: But he's just gotten better and better every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Just I think he's put it down to his
Speaker 2: work ethic, how hard he's willing to train, the amount
Speaker 2: of preparation he does, the amount of a video he does. Also,
Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's that elite level. And yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: when he goes down in the field, that shows.
Speaker 1: And the bloke, as far as performance is concerned, in
Speaker 1: the last thirty months, it's not too far off him.
Speaker 4: Who.
Speaker 1: I think he's been a revelation. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: he could. I think he could play Straight of Origin.
Speaker 1: State of Origin now if you needed him. Was Bronson
Speaker 1: Cherry Bronson, Cherry has burned. He's just Buren fantastic for
Speaker 1: you blokes, great finisher, great work ethic, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: a bloke who works hard off the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Bronson has been awesome. Obviously, he came back
Speaker 2: from Fay to time out and as soon as he
Speaker 2: got to the club he just had this willingness to
Speaker 2: rip in and he got he got there, he did
Speaker 2: all the hard work and then I guess critic came
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks later and has helped him heaps
Speaker 2: as well in terms of defensive movements and stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been great for us. He does a lot of
Speaker 2: the dirty work people don't really see at times, but
Speaker 2: us players on the field do see that, and we
Speaker 2: really do appreciate that. And yeah, that's pretty pretty cool
Speaker 2: to have them both.
Speaker 3: We had just had a car a few weeks ago
Speaker 3: on the potty, and you just sparked my memory of
Speaker 3: what he said when you would have been there this
Speaker 3: year Whence Critic came to the club, they particularly the
Speaker 3: defensive movements on the edge. Zero had a system that
Speaker 3: he knew worked leaving leaving Panoris, but you guys worked
Speaker 3: so hard at it for so long, but it never
Speaker 3: really clicked. It wasn't until Critter came and showed you
Speaker 3: guys like it actually works and showed you guys how
Speaker 3: to sort of do it. Did you experience that as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I feel like in twenty twenty three, some
Speaker 2: of us trusted the system and I was probably didn't
Speaker 2: showed enough respect, I guess. And the system relies on
Speaker 2: everyone going after it and everyone kept doing their job.
Speaker 2: But then when Critic came, we kept working at it,
Speaker 2: and we had players buy into it at all, players
Speaker 2: brought into it, and for it to work, everyone has
Speaker 2: to be buying into it. And then yeah, him just
Speaker 2: showing I guess outside backs that they sticked to it
Speaker 2: with the process that it will it will work out.
Speaker 1: So it's very honest for Josh Josh Josh Ocari gas
Speaker 1: men were working on it, gains, but even I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure I was going. I was just gonna it. But
Speaker 1: he certainly he certainly turned that around a couple of
Speaker 1: those us. I'm gonna ask a few questions here before
Speaker 1: I do. How's Gus going good?
Speaker 2: I was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's done. He's done a remarkable job now with
Speaker 1: a number of clubs club He doesn't get credit for
Speaker 1: the Wars. Remember he had about six months of he
Speaker 1: went over there. He was that behind the scenes, did
Speaker 1: recruiting for him and tidy a few things up in
Speaker 1: their organization and left. But he had a fair impact there.
Speaker 1: Does when the boys have a win? Does he ever?
Speaker 1: Because what we used to do in Origin it sounds weird.
Speaker 1: I find it sort of weird that players these days
Speaker 1: would do it, but we used to, right, everyone, let's
Speaker 1: go get around the piano and we get a blake
Speaker 1: pulled the piano out and we all just sit around
Speaker 1: with with books. Gus hand out with shoot and we
Speaker 1: just we reheard the words typed out for all the
Speaker 1: songs we want to see like piano man like that.
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, great tracks was for it was at least sick
Speaker 1: for sing along.
Speaker 2: I'd love a sing along. But it hasn't.
Speaker 3: He hasn't done it.
Speaker 4: No, no not.
Speaker 1: You got to get on to it. Yeah, get on him,
Speaker 1: say Gus, come on mate, he made his You got
Speaker 1: to get the piano and do some single.
Speaker 2: Where did you get the piano from? That's a good question.
Speaker 3: You're in Belmore. I'm pretty sure they can find it.
Speaker 2: Is he is?
Speaker 3: He kind of scary?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's one of those guys that has that aura
Speaker 2: about him some other I guess Craig Bellamy, you kind
Speaker 2: of grow up in their massive figures in the game.
Speaker 2: And I remember when I first met him when I
Speaker 2: was I was at the Roosters at the time, and
Speaker 2: he's looking to bring me able to the dogs, and
Speaker 2: I remember how nervous I was walking into Jabelle's Cafe,
Speaker 2: which is in Bellmore there, and I was just like well,
Speaker 2: it's sat down with him and feel good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: crazy and he still has that aura to this day.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't think that will ever change.
Speaker 1: You could give a blasts coach ninety five origin third game,
Speaker 1: we're playing them up in Queensland and they'll beating us
Speaker 1: at halftime, and I've beat us at full time. But
Speaker 1: it'd been a nod serious with the Super League war
Speaker 1: and Gus had sort of been distracted. He'd been dragged
Speaker 1: from here, left, right and center. And the first two
Speaker 1: games that he got beid he was sort of philosophical.
Speaker 1: A third game, by half time he had an half
Speaker 1: and just got there and just went around the group
Speaker 1: and just came right out you know what I do?
Speaker 1: He goes, I just look at this group?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: And just took everyone and he went to a million
Speaker 1: and goes, mate, have you ever fucking done a two
Speaker 1: on one? You're fucking out there, you're going through it's
Speaker 1: a fuck on two and one, and to give it
Speaker 1: early and he just goes round, just giving it to Blakes.
Speaker 1: And he got to one of the players last and
Speaker 1: he goes, and you last, He said, yous mate, I
Speaker 1: sit there every fucking morning and once you come downstairs
Speaker 1: for breakfast, your fucking hair's never done, your breath steaks.
Speaker 3: Do you have any silf respect at all? Jesus nippicking
Speaker 3: towards the end.
Speaker 1: Well, a black guy played with a Newcastle who ended
Speaker 1: up going down in there Penrith. He had a tough time,
Speaker 1: he didn't play well, out of form and he wasn't
Speaker 1: he admits himself. He said he wasn't really toe on
Speaker 1: the line. And he said he got there once playing
Speaker 1: Newcastle at Penrith and Gus just come into the sheds
Speaker 1: at halftime and he goes, he come here and pulled
Speaker 1: his wallet out, got a heap of coins and just
Speaker 1: threw the man and said, get the fucking train back
Speaker 1: to Newcastle.
Speaker 2: You're done.
Speaker 3: I remember the year when I left Melbourne and signed it.
Speaker 3: Mainly right before I signed it, mainly I met with
Speaker 3: Syra camp Serroundo at that cafe.
Speaker 1: Mate.
Speaker 3: It was how stupid, zero, how dumb of you. Anyway,
Speaker 3: he goes, mate, me jo Bell's tomorrow, me and Gus
Speaker 3: will be there and I was like sweet, and I
Speaker 3: was kind of like and I don't know. You used
Speaker 3: to work with Gus quite a bit at Channel nine,
Speaker 3: but I don't know if I if I met him.
Speaker 3: I was really young. I can't remember meeting him. So
Speaker 3: I was kind of nervous because obviously he's I got
Speaker 3: an aura around him, and I was like, sort of
Speaker 3: hype myself up all day. I don't get too nervous
Speaker 3: to meet me. People just kind of nervous that I've
Speaker 3: gone in, right. I thought about a couple of jokes
Speaker 3: to sweeten it up. Walked in and it's just Row.
Speaker 3: Then I went, oh, where's Gussie. Guess no, they just
Speaker 3: texted me. Then he said, no, you can do it
Speaker 3: on your own. That must have gave you the feeling that.
Speaker 2: Said.
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, so Ciro's just CIO's just taken.
Speaker 3: This meeting is a charity meeting, and there's no chance
Speaker 3: of getting you signed to this club. To be fair,
Speaker 3: they had thirty two players signed in their top thirty
Speaker 3: at this stage. They actually had to cull two or
Speaker 3: three people.
Speaker 1: Isn't a wonderful, but that's a wonderful excuse in this
Speaker 1: surly cap age. Mate, we're desperate to sign you, we
Speaker 1: can't fit, we haven't got a spot left or the
Speaker 1: salary cap iss squooze are hard, brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the best way you can get away with murder.
Speaker 1: Okay, on your teammates, yep, give us some insights for
Speaker 1: the Doggies fans. Who's the fastest in the squad?
Speaker 2: The fastest? I think Bronson, Yeah, I think in precesson
Speaker 2: you've got the fastest time. Roger for bree take a bow,
Speaker 2: Roger strongest, Oh, pound for pound to be Curtis Myron. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's Yeah, he's little beast. He's a little beast in
Speaker 2: the gym. You met the old man, you met his
Speaker 2: dead his uncle Brad, his uncle Brad.
Speaker 1: Good here. He's a tough player, very very good player.
Speaker 1: Good fella too, really good fellow, bad head, bad head
Speaker 1: on it. But you don't get a little Blake. Look
Speaker 1: at Blake's head and you don't like. But he bucked
Speaker 1: that train. He was a good fella.
Speaker 2: Most annoying team mate, Oh, most annoying. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty nice. I just throw Harry Hayes under the
Speaker 2: bus we drive together, so you can be honest. I
Speaker 2: love listening to Maxicans.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I've got I went back to you know, when
Speaker 3: you go back to your camera roll, just go back
Speaker 3: and just like reminisce on some years.
Speaker 2: Mate.
Speaker 3: We've just got some the funniest videos of King. He
Speaker 3: just in his budget smugglers in the sheds, just chewing
Speaker 3: everyone's ears off. He was just reminded me how big
Speaker 3: a pest he was when we all went on a
Speaker 3: team trip to Bali as well. Yeah I've heard about
Speaker 3: I really have heard about that trip. Yeah, yeah, those
Speaker 3: were Nelson started to punch someone's face. Mate, King he
Speaker 3: was he was, he was so funny man, he was
Speaker 3: just he was driving him. He's such a good good
Speaker 3: for Team Raley vibe. But if you get him on it,
Speaker 3: if you're in a bad mood on a day and
Speaker 3: King corners, oh it's a long day.
Speaker 1: Who's the most okay, who's there's obvious places who are
Speaker 1: really skillful. Who's a bloke that would who surprises you?
Speaker 1: Trained with the dogs as far as their skills consumed, I.
Speaker 2: Say it wouldn't surprise me. But Bailey Hayward's very skillful
Speaker 2: and he puts a lot of work into it. He's
Speaker 2: a good touch footy player, right, yeah, he was growing
Speaker 2: he growing up is really good. Yeah, I've heard stories.
Speaker 3: Got played against him back in touch.
Speaker 1: You've played against everyone in touch.
Speaker 3: Footy though under fifteens or something, because one of the
Speaker 3: boys said, we was playing the other day and they
Speaker 3: were like, we played against him up at State Cup somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, up in Port Macquarie. Skillful player, very skillful and
Speaker 2: yeah he's obviously he was a touch back background. It
Speaker 2: kind of kind of helps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, skill, but he should tip offizes those players in
Speaker 1: your middle field and like Kurt that can do a
Speaker 1: bit of everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can play a variety of different positions, and he's
Speaker 2: been doing a really good job for us this year.
Speaker 1: How's Kirk going, Jack is a question because I know Kurk,
Speaker 1: but I don't know him well. Killer a bit of
Speaker 1: an odd ball Jack, odd ball.
Speaker 4: No, No, he's a good fella, Kurt. He's a good fella.
Speaker 4: A bit old school Killers old school that's what I
Speaker 4: me and him got along with it well because he's
Speaker 4: he's he's yeah, he's a bit more old school. He's funny,
Speaker 4: sort of lad. He's maybe getting on along in the
Speaker 4: tooth now. He might be one of the oldest in
Speaker 4: the club.
Speaker 2: He's the oldest. He's the oldest. He was actually my
Speaker 2: roommate last year, was Killing. He's from the middle of
Speaker 2: nowhere in Queensland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, from Collinsville.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know is there's like a dinosaur museum there.
Speaker 3: That's a random thing, Jack. Can you google where they
Speaker 3: might be a dinosaur museum in.
Speaker 2: Queen Winter Winston, that's the one Winter.
Speaker 3: And you know he's a good bike and a good
Speaker 3: teammate because he's always been want to help his teammates out,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean up in Newcastle, was helping Kat
Speaker 3: a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Less leave that one alone. Teachers pet like zero apart
Speaker 1: from Critter, who's like, who's always.
Speaker 2: You know, teachers pet. I wouldn't say that teachers teachers
Speaker 2: Petre's there's a couple of boys are really good relationships,
Speaker 2: like his son.
Speaker 1: Who's the whol now? Who is a term using used
Speaker 1: in wrestling, which is someone who is the bad guy
Speaker 1: or people take the piss out of all the time,
Speaker 1: who's the who's the whipping boy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll cop I'll cop that wrap myself. I find
Speaker 2: myself under the bus?
Speaker 3: Are you joking? How dare they do that to the
Speaker 3: nicest guy?
Speaker 2: Sometimes I probably deserve some of it, but it's good.
Speaker 3: It keeps right now just quite just up that you
Speaker 3: know how everybody says, oh, you know, who would you
Speaker 3: want to date your sister? Who's a nice spoke in
Speaker 3: the NL, and everyone goes Jake Turovitch all the time.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you right now, Presto, after this, I think
Speaker 3: you're going to take that title. I didn't realize just
Speaker 3: how nice you were until we've come on.
Speaker 1: Here, let's bringing a Let's bring a cousin, Kate.
Speaker 3: It's actually a dating show.
Speaker 1: I just finished, just to finish with Presto. Now a
Speaker 1: little bit more about yourself. Who's support growing up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was a Manly fan obviously, growing up on
Speaker 2: Norm Beaches. So and me and we were very dominant
Speaker 2: at the time. Kind of seven to thirteen fourteen was
Speaker 2: kind of the peak of their power.
Speaker 3: It was your favorite player.
Speaker 2: I used to love Bred Stewart obviously and Jamie Lyon,
Speaker 2: but then I got to know Chuck everything what mos
Speaker 2: throughout the years as well.
Speaker 3: He took Quirky cat.
Speaker 1: A good players during that here were fifty fifty's Jamie Lyne.
Speaker 1: You talk about, you know, best presence being coming. I
Speaker 1: don't know it's going to say ugly wrapping. It's not
Speaker 1: the right but you look at him and you go
Speaker 1: and then as soon as the ball hits his hands
Speaker 1: and everything, he's just yeah, junius football.
Speaker 2: He would have played a lot more kind of rep games.
Speaker 2: I think he stopped playing for a bit there as well.
Speaker 1: He just he just got to the point he said,
Speaker 1: I don't need it and he was happy being a
Speaker 1: club football. I got a bit of criticism at the time,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day he just goes.
Speaker 1: I just I love playing football, love playing with the mates,
Speaker 1: and that's why I did. I mean, he quit Paramatta
Speaker 1: and went for twelve months, went back to we War
Speaker 1: and just did pig shooting and played for the local side.
Speaker 3: I think I think Bozo and those books at Manley
Speaker 3: basically had to go out there and convince him to
Speaker 3: come to Manley. I think he was happy just.
Speaker 2: To not to stay out there.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure he was happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he came back to Manley. He went to St Helens. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: James Grahams so he turned up and they went look
Speaker 1: at this bloke like he's he's been basically strapped himself
Speaker 1: to the Sizzler buffet for the last six months. And
Speaker 1: then they he said, mate, listen'd fitness nearly lapping him,
Speaker 1: and as soon as they started to do boor work
Speaker 1: and everything, they just went, oh my god, look at
Speaker 1: this guy.
Speaker 3: Because you're a man. You played Did you play Howard
Speaker 3: mats and SG ball at Manley?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I played all my junior reps for the North in
Speaker 2: the beersh did you play it?
Speaker 3: But they didn't get you here.
Speaker 2: I played one development game and was ball average and
Speaker 2: really didn't really get an opportunity.
Speaker 3: It seemed like there was a late developer, right, Yeah
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably didn't start growing that much until I was
Speaker 2: about sixteen seventeen. How Matt's at the time was sixteen.
Speaker 2: But I was definitely smaller kids.
Speaker 3: Manly's all but always been in love with. They love
Speaker 3: the biggest kids at the younger stage. Sometimes they missed,
Speaker 3: they missed some blokes falling through the crack.
Speaker 1: So that's pressed her talk a couple before who they've
Speaker 1: missed out on, who they've missed of late that's gone.
Speaker 3: Through the Sammi v Sami Verrels.
Speaker 1: Semi Verels. But who was just before to Marlay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't even know he was a local until
Speaker 2: until recently.
Speaker 1: Cramer Kingfish.
Speaker 3: I didn't, Yeah, because his mum has the barbershop. She cuts,
Speaker 3: she owns a barbershop, she does Auntie Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And Keyle Weeks, Yeah he was he was a manly
Speaker 2: played first grade so my first yeah, they let him go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my first ever Bears game. Me and Kyle were halves,
Speaker 2: half partners really under fifteen. Yeah you play half. I
Speaker 2: was playing five at the time. I played how Mates
Speaker 2: at five eight and I broke my leg.
Speaker 1: And you know what press out when you just said
Speaker 1: that about North Sydney. I've soon you play for North
Speaker 1: Sydney somewhere. I don't know where it was, but I
Speaker 1: actually when you say about North Sydney, I've soon you play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: soon you played there. I don't know where it was.
Speaker 3: You might have been at Harrod Matt when I was
Speaker 3: at s G Ball maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I played all my actually played power Matt's STU
Speaker 2: Ball flag and then Cup with North Sydney, so played
Speaker 2: he might have.
Speaker 1: You might have had a call from the Bears.
Speaker 3: Yeah mate. Yeah, what a great advertisement. Twenty seven ladies.
Speaker 3: In January, the Dogs Tical Sun returns.
Speaker 1: Stay of the Dogs. I think you're about to win
Speaker 1: a few Premiership a pressed Thank you so much mate,
Speaker 1: and we said this before your congratulations mate, on what's
Speaker 1: going on in your career, how you handle yourself off
Speaker 1: the field, and mate, good luck against the Earls.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for Thanks Christo, thanks for finding replying,
Speaker 3: thanks for having me on list.