Speaker 1: Welcome back to another week, different one today. Matthew, you've
Speaker 1: been hidden with a flu that has or a COVID
Speaker 1: or whatever the hell disease has floats for you right
Speaker 1: now that has lasted a lifetime. It feels like influenza
Speaker 1: Omega Alpha Alpha Brother. It is so we we haven't
Speaker 1: had any guests in studio as to not contaminate them. Yes,
Speaker 1: but we do have Hudson Young joining us in in
Speaker 1: just a minute, Origin Hero stut of Origin Hero, and
Speaker 1: we're recording this just before their game, just after State
Speaker 1: of Origin and just before the game on the weekend
Speaker 1: the Raiders are playing.
Speaker 2: Which Jack you're actually going to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm heading out.
Speaker 2: Who's one hundred and fiftieth to someone.
Speaker 3: Stotaro one hundred fiftieth Thomas.
Speaker 4: In writing in recording this too, I'll be in camera
Speaker 4: on my way to Canberra. I've got a function down there.
Speaker 4: It's fundraisers, so I can't really pull out. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll shake it off.
Speaker 3: You will.
Speaker 2: You'll get everyone sick down there. You'll get everyone sick
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 1: We're also going to talk about the breaking news about
Speaker 1: Jerome Luai saying that the tyer obviously sign with the P.
Speaker 2: And G Chiefs. Everyone knows that tax free money money,
Speaker 2: here comes the money. But he is apparently being granded
Speaker 2: release by the West Tigers for next year. Yeah, to
Speaker 2: go across.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit on those one
Speaker 1: year deals as well, which I'm not a big fan obviously.
Speaker 1: Connor Watson he's going to the Dragons for a one
Speaker 1: year deal. Jonah Pezzitt this year went to the Eels
Speaker 1: on a one year deal before joining the Broncos at a
Speaker 1: long term deal.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of it.
Speaker 4: I have no problem with it. I actually think it
Speaker 4: can be pretty good. If the Dragons are going to
Speaker 4: get some really good young players, someone comes in for
Speaker 4: a short stint, teachers have how to win, teacher us
Speaker 4: about professionalism and moves on. I think I think it
Speaker 4: could really benefit the club.
Speaker 1: I think it depends on the player obviously, like it
Speaker 1: does depend on I don't know if the Peasant Eels
Speaker 1: one has really worked as much in their favor they've
Speaker 1: this week, they've actually like Moses comes back in Volkman
Speaker 1: goes to six Pezzants, probably going to play reserve grade,
Speaker 1: but I don't know.
Speaker 2: At the time it was definitely what they wanted with Jonah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I wouldn't maintain Cooper. What makes next year
Speaker 4: more important than this year? You know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like people always go, oh, you know, he's not going
Speaker 4: to be there next year, but they why is next
Speaker 4: year after that more important than than now?
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 1: I'm all mean probably in hindsight now because they haven't
Speaker 1: really used him much this year apart from injury and whatnot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think the Jonah one has worked as
Speaker 4: well because of the very fact coupe they just had
Speaker 4: a lot of injuries and they haven't fired like they
Speaker 4: thought they would. Jonah has had lots of hams during injuries,
Speaker 4: so that one hasn't really worked out. The one I
Speaker 4: like is more, like I said, the experienced guy, where well,
Speaker 4: Irome will go somewhere for a year and you'll someone
Speaker 4: will benefit.
Speaker 1: I look at Conna Watson as well, going to the
Speaker 1: Dragons next year. Yeah, great, play a dragon's side who
Speaker 1: needs probably experience with the youth that they've got right now,
Speaker 1: They've got a very promising young side, but they've also
Speaker 1: got a lot of youth in there that need help,
Speaker 1: Like they need a lot of help and they need
Speaker 1: a bit of experience to help them push them on
Speaker 1: the right path.
Speaker 4: Well, can I give you an example what older players
Speaker 4: do they help younger players are training. The great Eric Cantona,
Speaker 4: when he was at Manchester United and he was sort
Speaker 4: of getting to the end of his career, Young Beckham
Speaker 4: came through and he said after training he made Beckham
Speaker 4: do fifty crosses side for him to hit. He just relentlessly,
Speaker 4: just put it on the spot, put it on the spot,
Speaker 4: put it on the spot. And Beckham says he sighted
Speaker 4: that as one of the cornerstones of his success. That's
Speaker 4: just an example of how can work.
Speaker 2: Did you have a who was your? Who was you?
Speaker 1: And like because you guys had a young crew when
Speaker 1: you were kind of coming through, But who was that
Speaker 1: guy for you guys who sort of like did all
Speaker 1: the extras post session and whatnot and sort of set
Speaker 1: the standard.
Speaker 4: It is a felt called Robbie mcormack. He was really
Speaker 4: good the moth.
Speaker 3: Robbie was incredibly one of the worst nicknames.
Speaker 4: Because you went out on the drink one night, no
Speaker 4: one could find him. Was at a house party, no
Speaker 4: one could find him for ages and they thought he'd
Speaker 4: gone home. And then about two o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 4: they had been to cabined and he was Asleepy, I thought.
Speaker 2: The lights were going to come on, and he instantly
Speaker 2: flew to all the little bit.
Speaker 4: He was an unbelievable pro. He's incredibly tough. Here he is, boys,
Speaker 4: he's on okay, talking about unbelievably tough.
Speaker 1: Here we go here Hudson, young mate, we're joined here
Speaker 1: by one of the greats, not just the great blokes,
Speaker 1: but one of the great players of our beautiful state, Hudson.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 4: Mate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, you look, you're probably the only bloke that
Speaker 1: looks more tired than Matthew at the moment. If Dad
Speaker 1: looks like he's been hit by a truck, he's been
Speaker 1: hit by He thinks it's COVID.
Speaker 4: Right now, it's influenza with MEGA. It's a new strain.
Speaker 4: I'm proud.
Speaker 5: I'm just.
Speaker 2: How how did you pull up after the game, honey?
Speaker 6: Yeah, not too bad, mate, Pretty sore, to be honest,
Speaker 6: but I had a few beers in the hotel room
Speaker 6: and enjoyed the win.
Speaker 5: But how to go on and trying end today? What's a
Speaker 5: bit of video and a bit of recovery and get
Speaker 5: ready for not so you.
Speaker 2: Had to straight after the game.
Speaker 1: You had to fly back to camera and get because
Speaker 1: a lot of the boys, you have a couple of days,
Speaker 1: you're straight back.
Speaker 2: In there and preparing for this weekend.
Speaker 5: Did you don't give us a rest? Mate? We went
Speaker 5: straight back in.
Speaker 2: The runners through. What was the feeling like in the
Speaker 2: sheds last night after the game?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was amazing, mate, dream of that that moment
Speaker 6: for many years as a kid, and spent many years
Speaker 6: sitting on the lound dreaming of that.
Speaker 5: To get the opportunity to do that and to see
Speaker 5: the emotion.
Speaker 6: On modes of space and everyone else's face in there
Speaker 6: is soft.
Speaker 4: That's an incredible win, mate, fantastic hard place to get
Speaker 4: up there, and you had to head up there, you know,
Speaker 4: and win in a decider. But mate, like, were you
Speaker 4: blokes stealed by the fact that you're underdogs that everyone
Speaker 4: was saying, Mate, you know, it's there's no chance. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of people slinging Matt. It loves all of
Speaker 4: those things. Like I saw he just winning the rena
Speaker 4: on the field, I just thought it just looked really focused.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could probably feel that building throughout the weed.
Speaker 6: To be honest, Maddie and I like the fact that
Speaker 6: they're talking Queensland up and that they miss a chance,
Speaker 6: and we kind of spoke about that as a chance
Speaker 6: as a team and kind.
Speaker 5: Of use that as our field as well, that we're
Speaker 5: going up there. No one gave us a chance, so
Speaker 5: what do we have to lose?
Speaker 6: But we know what we have internally, and that cause
Speaker 6: a little bit not frustrating, but just our own media
Speaker 6: fashion loves and and players in the team, because we
Speaker 6: picked such a great team and were so connected as
Speaker 6: the team, and we knew what we had and I
Speaker 6: just had to go up there and get it done.
Speaker 4: I was there watching the loves in the build up
Speaker 4: they Hudson to Game three. There just looked a little
Speaker 4: bit more steel in him, like you know, it looked
Speaker 4: like for me, like Hudson I played against Larry Daily
Speaker 4: and made he was just wild when he played, you know,
Speaker 4: And but now he's such a beautiful guy, such a gentleman.
Speaker 4: I think sometimes come on, you know, get away from
Speaker 4: your best self. Is such a great guy. But he
Speaker 4: looked like the use of a term, he had a
Speaker 4: bit of shit on his live in this third game,
Speaker 4: and I think I thought it was great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And to be honest, mate, I probably felt that
Speaker 6: as a player as well. Obviously in games one and
Speaker 6: two I thought he coached excellent. But like you said,
Speaker 6: I can probably see that in his eyes that how
Speaker 6: much he wanted it and how much he wanted to
Speaker 6: prove everyone and more importantly to lead us as a
Speaker 6: team and coach us really well. And I thought, yeah,
Speaker 6: he was outstanding. Throughout the camp and the ten days
Speaker 6: that we had with each other. We got so connected
Speaker 6: as a team and knew the exactly how we wanted
Speaker 6: to play, and then it was up to us to
Speaker 6: go out there in accent.
Speaker 1: Honey as well, did you did you see loss? Did
Speaker 1: you see loss of post match press conference? Because obviously,
Speaker 1: like you said, a lot of New so Wales media
Speaker 1: were getting into him, but you know, in the post
Speaker 1: match press conference it looked like he was just very
Speaker 1: satisfied and he loved to just he gave a little
Speaker 1: bit of cheek back to him with YOWI sort of
Speaker 1: sit next to him giggling.
Speaker 2: How was he in the sheds after the game? Was
Speaker 2: he just lapping it up?
Speaker 5: Ye know? He was? He was obviously really excited.
Speaker 6: I think he said a few tears at one point,
Speaker 6: and that's what you want as a coach, And well,
Speaker 6: we love him so much and he hasn't dranked for
Speaker 6: four months and we're just trying to get him the
Speaker 6: skull with his.
Speaker 1: See, how was because another bloke under press Well wouldn't
Speaker 1: say under pressure because he's won four Grand finals in
Speaker 1: a row. But another bloke that people were sort of
Speaker 1: turn a lot of their criticism to was Nathan.
Speaker 4: Cleary under pressure for his own standards for sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it's he silenced a lot of critics
Speaker 1: last night. He played a very dominant series, a very
Speaker 1: dominant performance. Was great in Graham one and Game three.
Speaker 1: But how proud are you of Nathan as a teammate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as a teammate, really proud.
Speaker 6: I got to see firsthand over the ten days how
Speaker 6: hard Nathan worked at his game. And I think it
Speaker 6: was what day we placed Wednesday, So Tuesday night, the
Speaker 6: Monday night I was directed late in the team and
Speaker 6: Nathan mcfieldal video when you hear these stories about him,
Speaker 6: and so you actually see it first hand how professionally
Speaker 6: he isn't only see why he's got the accolades he
Speaker 6: does in the game and why he's the player he is.
Speaker 6: The amount of time and he spends on his crafts
Speaker 6: after training and before training.
Speaker 5: He's such a professional and very lucky to have him.
Speaker 5: With your health as well.
Speaker 1: I know in the lead up to this game, you
Speaker 1: just had the nineteen ninety six team had the reunion
Speaker 1: and you guys all sort of you were all sort
Speaker 1: of sitting next to someone. I saw Joey afterward after
Speaker 1: day after. He was that hungover he could barely speak,
Speaker 1: but it looks like they enjoyed themselves.
Speaker 2: Who were you sort of seated next to him that
Speaker 2: ninety sixteen.
Speaker 5: I had, Oh yeah, he was pretty calm.
Speaker 4: To be honest, you played with he didn't get played
Speaker 4: with him A Wigan mate, I reckon he is one
Speaker 4: of the smartest players. I over played alongside mate. He
Speaker 4: could just run shapes, incredible made, brilliant, brilliant player and
Speaker 4: mate to it he can do as well. Hey just made.
Speaker 4: Sometimes in a game you look alongside blokes Hutson and
Speaker 4: dressing room and they give you confidence. If I'm a
Speaker 4: playmaker and I'm looking across and I see pay hass
Speaker 4: and adding for newer Blake, Mate, I'm thinking myself, we
Speaker 4: can't lose. That's what I think. I thought for newer
Speaker 4: Blake was just enormous.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought that as well, mate. I thought he
Speaker 6: changed the game when he come on the way he
Speaker 6: was carrying the ball, he the late f work.
Speaker 5: Into the line and he just gave us an extra
Speaker 5: extra leg there. And I thought he was great defense
Speaker 5: as well. He worked hard all night.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Hudson a lot has been the only thing
Speaker 1: that separates game one, two and three is I me
Speaker 1: personally would say motivation. A certain sumone went in there
Speaker 1: earlier in the in the week and sort of pulled
Speaker 1: a few a few of you enforcers and big name
Speaker 1: players aside and sort of revages up.
Speaker 2: Did my speech have anything to do with the win,
Speaker 2: you reckon?
Speaker 7: I think it did, mate, Oh, I was all people
Speaker 7: were saying, guys, if you aim up, that could be
Speaker 7: your career.
Speaker 4: Who was the players player after the game. I think
Speaker 4: it was Nathan Yeah, right, got everything cleanse we you
Speaker 4: know watching him, Hudson, There's so many aspects to his game,
Speaker 4: but still the most important, core fundamental I still think
Speaker 4: with Nathan amongst all the brands is his running game.
Speaker 4: And you know, did you speak about that through the week,
Speaker 4: because mate, from the first time he got the ball,
Speaker 4: he just challenged a nice and direct Yeah.
Speaker 6: I didn't speak about it too, but I know that
Speaker 6: he always prides himself running the ball, and when I
Speaker 6: seen him carrying the ball early in the game, I
Speaker 6: knew that he was going and it brings other people
Speaker 6: into the ball as well. But I think one part
Speaker 6: of Nasans game that I've noticed anyways, his support play.
Speaker 5: He was supporting the middle really well all night. Turned
Speaker 5: up in the big month.
Speaker 1: And your little clubmate as well, Ethan Strange he was
Speaker 1: he come and ended up coming unluckily at right center
Speaker 1: given the hias in the game, but someone that was
Speaker 1: probably stiff to not be there for game two after
Speaker 1: how good he played in game one, but obviously just
Speaker 1: got to buite his time as a young player with
Speaker 1: Mitch Moses coming back in. How did Strange he what's
Speaker 1: he taken out of the whole experience?
Speaker 6: You could just see each game he was growing in
Speaker 6: confidence and what he takes them back to camera. Even
Speaker 6: today he goes back and speaks so much more in
Speaker 6: the meetings and becomes the leader back in camera and
Speaker 6: the time that he spends with Nathan and Mitchell. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you can just see how much he GRoWES as a player,
Speaker 6: and yeah, I can't wait to see where he can
Speaker 6: get to the nest with you Hudson.
Speaker 4: Mate, You and Liam Martin. Mate. Leading into the game,
Speaker 4: Liam Martin was put there to basically just irritate the
Speaker 4: shit out of camera munster. Mate. I love the fact
Speaker 4: that you came out through the through the weekend, said mate,
Speaker 4: I'm going to get to see him Walker. The first
Speaker 4: couple of games he was allowed to play too comfortable. Mate,
Speaker 4: you got him at the end. You finally got him
Speaker 4: at about five to game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it'll probably look like a bit of an idiot
Speaker 6: coming out in the media, but it's just the way
Speaker 6: the way I try and play the game, Mate, I
Speaker 6: try and play it on agent to have have a
Speaker 6: mad next me and Matto. He's another player that you
Speaker 6: look across at the change, whom we just give you
Speaker 6: confidence to believe and you know he's just going to
Speaker 6: give one hundred and ten percent. And they're the players
Speaker 6: that you love playing with.
Speaker 1: Well, mate, Look, we don't want to take too much
Speaker 1: more of your time, and now you're tired it's a
Speaker 1: day after start of Origin, mate. We appreciate you coming
Speaker 1: on and mate, all three games eighty minut and that's Hudson. Young,
Speaker 1: those young, those young supplements, Mate, they must be and.
Speaker 4: Got to try at the end, I know, the icing
Speaker 4: on the cake.
Speaker 2: The last What was that like?
Speaker 1: Actually, because like the eightieth minute three to one, most
Speaker 1: people they probably just run it into touch or something
Speaker 1: like that. But you guys, a bit of ad lib footy.
Speaker 1: You get the last try of the statu Origin series
Speaker 1: as the hooter goes.
Speaker 2: Was that just a sick feeling?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was an amazing feeling to do it in
Speaker 6: front of the Blues fans there. So yeah, to get
Speaker 6: a lucky dive over try, it's pretty specially Hudson.
Speaker 4: I just got to ask you, alb and is this
Speaker 4: is being played? I'll be in camera. I'm going to
Speaker 4: a function tomorrow night at the Hellenic Club. Is it
Speaker 4: a good place or a hell hole?
Speaker 5: We heard that you were coming to Kim but they've
Speaker 5: got Benners and that down here. Maddy Johnson coming.
Speaker 4: Mate, I'm gonna be there, mate. On battling illness, but yeah,
Speaker 4: that's me.
Speaker 5: It's true grit lady club's actually good. Good there.
Speaker 1: Jack's actually grigs Jack. Jack's actually he's coming. He's coming
Speaker 1: to watch Starlos one hundred and fiftieth to a call,
Speaker 1: and then you're going and then Jack's come back to
Speaker 1: going back to camera, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to drive back with a couple of boys down
Speaker 3: the camera. So I'm gonna hang out with this for
Speaker 3: a few days. It'll be fun.
Speaker 6: Starlo gets two one hundred fIF He gets one this
Speaker 6: weekend next week because he played three minutes in Newcastle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, did you have a message for Hudson's well, Jake,
Speaker 1: what do you got for him?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, it was I was actually going to message him.
Speaker 3: Thanks my technical stuff, if you could possibly leave the
Speaker 3: app open for a couple of minutes as your audio uploads.
Speaker 3: But I'll just set of texting it to you, I'll
Speaker 3: just say it to you. Yeah, there you go, Thanks
Speaker 3: for this and mego by the way as well.
Speaker 4: Mate, just leave that minutes there and let it upload.
Speaker 4: My contribution.
Speaker 2: Good on your Hudson.
Speaker 3: Goode, great cheers.
Speaker 5: Mate, jeers God thanks having me.
Speaker 4: Love you, Jesus, Jesus, good player. He is a good,
Speaker 4: good player. I've set before Jesus, I meant to ask
Speaker 4: him that interview he's ever played through the middle Jack.
Speaker 2: Jack, when you told him to leave it open, I
Speaker 2: don't think you really. I think he's still on.
Speaker 1: And there he is into the distance, Hudson Young with
Speaker 1: I don't know where he goes. He's the lone wolf,
Speaker 1: Mooseheads questa con take your pick.
Speaker 2: There's probably only those two places. Are the only two
Speaker 2: places to go on camera?
Speaker 4: The private bin, yes.
Speaker 2: Public gloryholes your favorite place.
Speaker 1: I've got a special little game for us at the
Speaker 1: end as well to play because I know you're not
Speaker 1: well and I know were lifted spirits just a little bit,
Speaker 1: but as had some sort of emerged in there. We
Speaker 1: were talking about the Jerome Leui situation. The question I
Speaker 1: want to ask you, Jerome Leui, where what club could
Speaker 1: use his services for the year. I know it's on
Speaker 1: the spot. I know it's on the spot, but I
Speaker 1: mean off the top of my head. I look at
Speaker 1: a team like a team like the Dragons probably don't
Speaker 1: need him, given they're going to have drink water and Metcalf,
Speaker 1: they're the obvious one. But a team that's probably looking
Speaker 1: four or five eight potentially, I mean, is it Paramatta
Speaker 1: is it paramata given that Peasant's going to go there
Speaker 1: and Mitch Moses and Dry and Leui that that another
Speaker 1: one year potentially?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean absolutely, I you know, he and
Speaker 4: Mitchell Moses forming combination. If it's only for one season,
Speaker 4: like I said, make one season, what makes one season
Speaker 4: more important than the next and the one after that?
Speaker 1: So definitely, I mean, could you even see potentially a
Speaker 1: Canny Bankstown Bulldogs. There's obviously that Panters connection with Truitter
Speaker 1: and whatnot at the Bulldogs. Once they've been looking for
Speaker 1: someone to play six, a Burton go back to center,
Speaker 1: and is it a Lui that goes there?
Speaker 4: That that absolutely could be? You know, like I you know,
Speaker 4: there could be you know, you throw one out there,
Speaker 4: a little one left field, and you know, I just
Speaker 4: say this frivolously, But sometimes look at the Sharks and
Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, they've got to mix it
Speaker 4: up a little bit. Maybe you know, you could have
Speaker 4: a situation where Lui goes to six and you put
Speaker 4: Nico back to fullback for a season. But William Kennedy's
Speaker 4: he's playing good. But you know, it's just that's that's
Speaker 4: just an idea. A lot of clubs could use him, mate,
Speaker 4: you know, the one that might just come out of
Speaker 4: nowhere and say we're using for Well.
Speaker 1: They could there's no I mean, if we don't know
Speaker 1: I DC's gonna play it or not. But you would
Speaker 1: think that. You would think for a bloke like Hugo
Speaker 1: Savala who's been sitting there sort of waiting, you know,
Speaker 1: to get his time at six. If they were to
Speaker 1: then buy Jerome Leui and say Hugo just another year
Speaker 1: in the centers, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they got that yet.
Speaker 4: It would be big, but I know they've got to.
Speaker 4: They've got a number of halves here. But the Wars
Speaker 4: you know, he's not the Wis, but he Andrew Webster
Speaker 4: looks like the type of guy that wouldn't do that,
Speaker 4: disrupt his players and put a bloke in there for
Speaker 4: just one.
Speaker 1: Can I saw a crazy statement out there? I just
Speaker 1: think I think a lot of people will probably when
Speaker 1: they think, where's Rome Loui? Who's going to need Dromon
Speaker 1: Louis for a year. Let's go look at the bottom
Speaker 1: eight clubs. Why don't we flip our mental Let's look
Speaker 1: at the top eight clubs. Could it potentially be a
Speaker 1: homecoming for a year where Jerome Leui goes back to
Speaker 1: the Penrith.
Speaker 3: Wow, I was thinking that. I was about to say
Speaker 3: that before. I was like Ivans last year, why not
Speaker 3: before he goes to PNG, Like is that with the
Speaker 3: rest of them? Links back up with links back up
Speaker 3: with Nathan Cleary, but also place to Lungy who's been
Speaker 3: going good. But he's also versatile enough where he can
Speaker 3: play center, he can play for he can play a
Speaker 3: number of different positions.
Speaker 2: Place to Lungey.
Speaker 4: Yep, Bunnies, He's going to be an option there. I
Speaker 4: think I think they're looking to sign Cody on for
Speaker 4: another for another year or two. But I mean that's
Speaker 4: you monitor that pretty closely. He's like, I think he's
Speaker 4: the sort of guy that Wayne would enjoy coaching. Like
Speaker 4: you said, you know, Eels, who knows Broncos. You know,
Speaker 4: there's so much going on the Broncos. Who knows. But yeah,
Speaker 4: he'll be good pick up for twelve months. It's a
Speaker 4: really interesting one, you know what. I applaud I applaud
Speaker 4: Tigers for this. You know they've looked at this whole
Speaker 4: situation and said, you know what, Jerome, after this season
Speaker 4: is going to go away. Mate, my understanding, I was
Speaker 4: told this a few weeks ago. They're trying to sign
Speaker 4: resign a number of really good plays on the phone,
Speaker 4: New Brothers. They're they're tight, like as far as made
Speaker 4: tight on the cap. They're getting. It's they've had to
Speaker 4: let a few. Look like, I'm going to have to
Speaker 4: let a few players go. I mean, Jerome's going to
Speaker 4: go to Poonage this going, mate, This is this is easy.
Speaker 2: One that that we haven't mentioned yet.
Speaker 1: Is it is it time for the NRL to almost
Speaker 1: step in and say, all right, Jerome, like we want
Speaker 1: you to go to Perth Bears for a year.
Speaker 2: Perth Bears need a big fish.
Speaker 4: That's so true. Well, I think it's dangerous the NRL
Speaker 4: stepping in and trying to force that, but they can
Speaker 4: probably probably plant the seed after everything we've just said.
Speaker 4: Because I was looking at the ladder and the one
Speaker 4: team that's not on the ladder are the Perth Bears.
Speaker 4: Perth Bears. That's that's the that's the perfect it's the
Speaker 4: perfect one because he goes there and make the most
Speaker 4: important thing with the Perth Bears is they've got to
Speaker 4: sell themselves early and Jerome can.
Speaker 1: Do that's marketable and they haven't got that that marketable
Speaker 1: face yet. You know that their biggest names probably you know,
Speaker 1: you'd think is Wishy, the contautionist, Tyrone, Wishart, who's but
Speaker 1: again not not someone who has the long term experience
Speaker 1: like Jerome Leui. I mean, he very and I think
Speaker 1: they're looking at Wish as a nine over there.
Speaker 4: So well. The other thing too, for the Tiger's point
Speaker 4: of view, you know, they've got to get you know,
Speaker 4: they don't want to be kicking too much in Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the thing, you know, I think be a situation.
Speaker 4: I think the team that will probably offer the most
Speaker 4: will be Perth Bears for twelve months. I think that'd
Speaker 4: suit the Tigers, and maybe it'll suit Jerome as well.
Speaker 3: And they just got that extra five hundred k allowance
Speaker 3: they're allowed to have. But yeah, now now I'm starting
Speaker 3: to think now with that salary, I don't know if
Speaker 3: he'd be able to even fit in the Penwrith cap
Speaker 3: even with it's a bit of help from the Tigers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. The Tiger's not going to let a
Speaker 4: play of his quality go and they'd have to kick
Speaker 4: in five hundred thousand dollars. They're not going to do that.
Speaker 2: There's no way.
Speaker 1: I've never understood that, like, you know, wanting to wanting
Speaker 1: to have to pay someone's salary to play against you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never really thought that was a Yeah.
Speaker 4: I sometimes think about that and go mate, if you're
Speaker 4: a like if you head of football, and they're going,
Speaker 4: oh mate, we're kicking four hunder grand for this guy
Speaker 4: to be playing somewhere else and play against us, it
Speaker 4: must hurt that.
Speaker 2: Does that happen in many other sports?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's huge in an American sport. I mean there's scene
Speaker 4: in there's the scene in Moneyball. So he's standing there,
Speaker 4: Brad Pitton, he's talking to the veteran player and he
Speaker 4: walks over and the veteran player was used to be
Speaker 4: with the your Yankees, and he says, you know, he's
Speaker 4: talking about you know, I need you to do this,
Speaker 4: and the players just doing his bat and practice, not
Speaker 4: even looking at him. And he said, wait, why do
Speaker 4: you think you're different? What do you think you're special?
Speaker 4: And he goes, well, you're paying me nine million dollars
Speaker 4: a year. I guess that does make me special. And
Speaker 4: he says no, no, no, the Yankees are playing five
Speaker 4: men at that. The Yankees think so little of you,
Speaker 4: they're paying five million dollars just to play.
Speaker 2: Against against true. Yeah, I remember that saying. But in
Speaker 2: Osi sports Ossie rules, are they doing it? AFL?
Speaker 4: Not sure? I think I think so, Coop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, because I mean it's it's when you look
Speaker 1: at a lot of players who sort of dig their
Speaker 1: heels in when they sign long term deals, like Jerome Leui.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to leave, you don't want to, but
Speaker 1: you kind of get the you kind of get the
Speaker 1: vibe like you will.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, people are.
Speaker 1: Saying that's been granted permission to leave, not really expecting
Speaker 1: that Jerome would have gone up to them and said, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to leave somewhere for next year. They've done
Speaker 1: it to free app Salo Cat's base. But I've never
Speaker 1: really understood clubs going to players and say, oh, you
Speaker 1: can look somewhere else to try to free up cap
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 4: What's really interesting with Jerome and P and G is
Speaker 4: I don't believe he's got a ratchet deal, a ratchet clause.
Speaker 4: P and G. I don't think so. I think they're
Speaker 4: avoiding that because that's how the tax three dollars being enough.
Speaker 4: But that's that's interesting that he's not on ratchet clause there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's an interesting development. But you know, the
Speaker 4: Tigers have obviously sat down thought about this a lot.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting development. He in Benji's relationship. I don't
Speaker 4: think there's been any fall out at all. It's purely
Speaker 4: professional decision.
Speaker 2: We're going to finish with the game. Mathink.
Speaker 1: We haven't got a long episode today. Given you know,
Speaker 1: you're very crooked.
Speaker 3: Your voice is sexy, though.
Speaker 4: I'm just getting them so emotional.
Speaker 1: You kind of sound like a like a sick Rabs like,
Speaker 1: there's like substance to you.
Speaker 3: There is a lot of substance and a lot of it.
Speaker 4: They call that timber, A lot of timber in your voice. Yeah, well,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 1: Well I do a lot of commentating. Well, hang on,
Speaker 1: you do a lot of master No with Chris Warren.
Speaker 1: Rabs is young Chris who's also the media manager at Manly.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Chrissy boy.
Speaker 1: But mate, it's almost like when Rabs is DNA went
Speaker 1: into an egg and that egg ended up forming too
Speaker 1: a baby. His voice went with it. Because they have
Speaker 1: the same voice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I reckon with Rabs was born. They came out
Speaker 4: and just Jesus Christ, Jesus that took a while to
Speaker 4: get out.
Speaker 2: Turned the lights off in here, so bright.
Speaker 4: Mate, he Jenna Rabs. A lot of young commentators do this.
Speaker 4: Rabs when he was younger, used to smoke, used to
Speaker 4: smoke a lot, and used to drink whiskey. And that's
Speaker 4: part of the reason of his voice. If you listened
Speaker 4: to Rabs commentated in the seventies and eighties, his voice
Speaker 4: is very different than what it was into the late
Speaker 4: nineties into two thousands. So a lot of the commentators,
Speaker 4: including Dean Ganan, they drink whiskey and smoke cigars to
Speaker 4: get that timber in their voice.
Speaker 1: Ah, it's weird that, like all the disc jockeys, you know, commentators,
Speaker 1: like the real radio.
Speaker 4: Radio Yeah, real radios.
Speaker 2: They all it's like they all strive to have that voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah they do, you know they all really you know
Speaker 1: John Law's col san Land, They've got that real Timbrey voice,
Speaker 1: like it's coming straight from the back of that throat goat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome to twenty two FM. This is spooky tooth break.
Speaker 4: Here's the power of love with Huey Lewis and the news.
Speaker 2: You got to talk. Yeah, right up to the it's
Speaker 2: called right up to.
Speaker 1: The post anyway, it's radio talk and post. Now, Matthew,
Speaker 1: you'll see you have a clipboard next to you. You
Speaker 1: actually wrote on that clipboard because Hudson's audio was a
Speaker 1: little bit off.
Speaker 2: But so what happens is.
Speaker 1: I'm going to explain the game to you. This is
Speaker 1: called an auction draft. So we've done drafts before. It's
Speaker 1: a bit of a trend online at the moment.
Speaker 2: Auction draft. It's basically the category for this.
Speaker 1: Is the best State of Origin back line, So one
Speaker 1: to five and we have twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: So Jack will Jack's put.
Speaker 1: Together a list of stat of Origin players one by one.
Speaker 1: He will say it, we don't know who's coming next,
Speaker 1: and we bid and whoever gets him, you can put
Speaker 1: him in your back line.
Speaker 2: But you don't know who's coming next.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you run out of your money, basically the
Speaker 1: other person can pick and you get whoever's left at
Speaker 1: the end.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 1: There might be some really high quality set of our
Speaker 1: and stars, there might be some ones who didn't play
Speaker 1: that much.
Speaker 3: So I've just gone new South Wales here South Wales considered,
Speaker 3: you know, celebrating the win as well. Sure, okay you
Speaker 3: read for the first one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right?
Speaker 3: First name Andrew Eddinghausen.
Speaker 2: Can I be first? I'll be a dollar for e
Speaker 2: T Yeah. Well it goes back and forward made.
Speaker 4: I'll go four dollars.
Speaker 2: I'll go five. You won't.
Speaker 3: It's yours.
Speaker 2: I'll put him as my is he more of a center?
Speaker 4: You can play center wing or full bay played bit
Speaker 4: of full back for Origin, I'll put it.
Speaker 2: I'll put et in this in my centers.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna okay, next one, next one, We've got Brett Hodgson.
Speaker 4: I'll go three dollars.
Speaker 2: You can have him.
Speaker 4: You can watch Joe's when he played in that two
Speaker 4: thousand and five Tiger's Grand Final made. There's much to
Speaker 4: do with winning it. As Princey and Benji. He was superb,
Speaker 4: very smart.
Speaker 1: So make sure you keep track of your funds as well.
Speaker 1: For three dollars, so that takes you to twenty two
Speaker 1: and where you.
Speaker 4: Put in full back at the moment, I well, well,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm going to put them all down
Speaker 4: and rearrange them how like?
Speaker 2: Okay, right, sort of inventing your own rules, all right.
Speaker 3: Next one, Daniel Tupo.
Speaker 2: I'll bet, I'll bet, I'll be two dollars, big aerial,
Speaker 2: I'll take him. I'll take I've got et and d T's.
Speaker 4: We're making some enemies.
Speaker 1: Well, no, it's fine because you've got to think tactically,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, sure, and it's an origin like
Speaker 1: it's not their club land. It's not how they are
Speaker 1: as a player, but it's how much origin they play.
Speaker 2: Sure, but I like DT.
Speaker 3: Next player, James Tedesco.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a I'll be fair. I'll go I'll go
Speaker 2: to dollar.
Speaker 4: I'll get two bucks, I'll go four.
Speaker 2: You're gonna let me have him?
Speaker 1: Bread Hudson, It's true, okay, d T E t jt Oh,
Speaker 1: that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Right, Next player, Josh ado Car Oh.
Speaker 2: I love that boy.
Speaker 4: I've got three dollars.
Speaker 2: I'll go, I'll go five dollars.
Speaker 1: You're gonna let me have him? Wow, mate, I've got
Speaker 1: nine dollars remaining.
Speaker 4: You're heavy with dad.
Speaker 2: It's it's one to five. It's a back line all
Speaker 2: we're doing. You didn't listen.
Speaker 4: That's what I'll get some good ones coming, okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, are you ready? Next one? We've got next one,
Speaker 3: Matt King.
Speaker 4: Two bucks.
Speaker 2: You can I don't need him in my side.
Speaker 4: Jesus, very dismissive.
Speaker 2: I'm not not going after King. He shout out to
Speaker 2: the garber.
Speaker 3: There's only three more, four more players left. Can we
Speaker 3: get a funds check too.
Speaker 2: I've got nine dollars remaining in one.
Speaker 4: Position, like twenty bucks left.
Speaker 2: Look at you, you're so tight, even with imaginary money,
Speaker 2: you're so tight.
Speaker 3: Okay, Next one, Latrell Mitch six dollars, seven dollars, eight dollars,
Speaker 3: nine dollars. You just spent it is that what you
Speaker 3: got left?
Speaker 2: You gotta get him for ten? Okay, well that's my team.
Speaker 4: I can't do ten.
Speaker 2: You are so tight, it's imaginary.
Speaker 4: I don't care. I'm tough on the cap.
Speaker 3: We're seven players in.
Speaker 2: You've spent five case, so Dad gets everyone else.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So next player is Nick Contrick.
Speaker 4: That's play good football.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Nicky, go to you love that man.
Speaker 2: He's a great re good player.
Speaker 4: A couple of really strong news.
Speaker 3: Next player is Josh Morris.
Speaker 2: Morris excellent slippery son.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so can we read out your side so far?
Speaker 3: Matthew before his last name.
Speaker 4: Red Hodson, Matt King, Nick Cotrick, and Josh Morris. Okay,
Speaker 4: so you got one more spot on shagging your boost man.
Speaker 3: Okay, last player is Jared Haynes.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, alright, that level things up.
Speaker 1: So can we can get I still feel like you
Speaker 1: just this is this is your problem. It's like you
Speaker 1: looked at the twenty five and you sort you just
Speaker 1: got you let me have steals for like three. You
Speaker 1: might me have James Tesco four, But this is.
Speaker 3: The best seven of the year.
Speaker 2: I reckon, I love it.
Speaker 1: I'll read out see John's team because we want the
Speaker 1: listeners to decide who's who would you rather? Yeah, James
Speaker 1: Tedesco would fall back the wings Daniel Tupo and joshadow
Speaker 1: Carr and My Senners, Andrew Rettinghausen and Latwell Mitchell pretty good.
Speaker 4: I'm full back on Jared Haynes on the wings, I'll
Speaker 4: go Brett Hodson and Nick Katrick and the senters, Josh Morrison, Maddi.
Speaker 2: King not bad, it's not bad, it's not bad. I
Speaker 2: still leave it to the listeners. I don't want to
Speaker 2: persuade them, but like it's it's a good it's fun.
Speaker 4: It's like Monday Rock song. If the chemistry is rape,
Speaker 4: don't know it, certainly know the other.
Speaker 3: Monday Rost do the spine next time? Maybe, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 4: It's a great game.
Speaker 1: It's fun when you get to like have fake money.
Speaker 1: I'll give you more next time, is it.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That needed fifty bucks?
Speaker 2: Yeah right out. Everyone, have a good rest of you week.
Speaker 2: Matthew Rest. I'm worried about you, you know, because I
Speaker 2: want to get back to wear best stuff you're in.