Speaker 1: As you, Coop, you enjoy magic ground, survived it, survived
Speaker 1: it better than you.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 1: I'm good mate, Good Coop. I'll tell you my philosophy
Speaker 1: in life. I don't want my last rights and.
Speaker 3: Ministered to me. And I'm sitting there thinking I should
Speaker 3: have just had one more beer.
Speaker 2: So how many times did you say that yourself?
Speaker 1: Get plenty of count three times, sad day.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was I
Speaker 1: thought some of the performances were bringing. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of the individual performances they Coop metcalf Geezy playing
Speaker 1: good football.
Speaker 4: For a guy afterwards at nine rounds and the inexperience.
Speaker 4: We're in the seven jersey. He's got the Warriors in
Speaker 4: the part of his hand. And I'm not talking just
Speaker 4: the team. He's got the up the Wars and everything
Speaker 4: going with them. There's a lot of momentum. And as
Speaker 4: a young half, when you're trying to put your fingerprints
Speaker 4: on a football team, there's probably two ways you need
Speaker 4: to do it.
Speaker 2: One is your defense.
Speaker 4: Like if you're going to tell Mitch I had to
Speaker 4: run through a brick wall, you've got to put your
Speaker 4: head in the spot to gain the respective him and
Speaker 4: the other way is the communication about getting the team
Speaker 4: around the field.
Speaker 2: And he's doing both of it.
Speaker 3: He's doing it incredibly well.
Speaker 4: And I've we have even spoken about his skill and
Speaker 4: passing the running game. They're the things that are half
Speaker 4: gains respect.
Speaker 2: For the rest of the team.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing in that coop, like what he
Speaker 1: is doing at the moment, people got to understand.
Speaker 3: You can't underestimate how difficult it is.
Speaker 1: Given the fact that as you said, he's organizing the side,
Speaker 1: he's owning the side, he's running the side, but he's
Speaker 1: not losing that individuality that made him such a good player.
Speaker 3: That is that's really hard to do.
Speaker 4: And following in Shawan Johnson's footsteps, so that's that's a
Speaker 4: difficult thing to do.
Speaker 1: He, I believe, went to Andrew Webster in the off
Speaker 1: season said I want to run this team. He said that,
Speaker 1: and I heard about him and the wind fletching. HEINDI
Speaker 1: they were sitting on the side London the commentary for
Speaker 1: KO and they said he was so vocal on the field.
Speaker 1: But the great thing about which I really love about
Speaker 1: the kid was after the game he went to them
Speaker 1: and sat and they had a bit of fun to talk.
Speaker 1: But they said off camera he was just talking about football.
Speaker 3: They said he is a footing heard this kid.
Speaker 1: Really loves his whole life and that I think that's
Speaker 1: really important.
Speaker 4: And I think when you see young half be able
Speaker 4: to communicate that to the media and do interviews after
Speaker 4: the game. He definitely does that in the film room,
Speaker 4: in the review, in the video he's able to tell
Speaker 4: everyone and articulating it away. And the Warriors are back
Speaker 4: some of those scenes after that game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Down on the.
Speaker 4: Crowd, singing, chanting, they travel everywhere, the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Fans just turn up.
Speaker 4: But there's something great about the Warriors when they're up
Speaker 4: and about the fellows back from last year, but what
Speaker 4: they did the year before. They almost might be on
Speaker 4: the cast were playing top four footy for the rest
Speaker 4: of this view.
Speaker 2: If they can keep up this.
Speaker 1: Momentum, Tedesca, I haven't seen him play much better than
Speaker 1: at the moment.
Speaker 4: He wound a clock back to the point that now
Speaker 4: people are talking about him to see if he can
Speaker 4: take the jersey off Edwards.
Speaker 3: That's an amazing comeback.
Speaker 1: It is to lose your jersey at that age and
Speaker 1: then fight your way back.
Speaker 4: I think the one thing when Tedesco puts it together,
Speaker 4: he's probably got the best balance of all the fullbacks
Speaker 4: of that hard work in the yardage part of the
Speaker 4: field and then the finesse at the other end. So
Speaker 4: when you can have twenty runs have two hundred meters,
Speaker 4: ten of those runs helping the kick return, the other
Speaker 4: ten setting up tries, that's where the balance is. Like
Speaker 4: you think about Turbo and Edwards when they put it together,
Speaker 4: they've got that good balance and Tedesco pinball mentality, good skill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was brilliant.
Speaker 1: A big decision coming after Lorrie because Edwards was good
Speaker 1: on the weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I think Edward Edwards is the fullback and
Speaker 4: Teddy's doing all the right things, but I think Edwards.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're going to talk about toe in a minute
Speaker 1: as we move on Nathan Cleary, but I can see
Speaker 1: Edwards has really missed tie that that's a really good
Speaker 1: one two combination. Oftentimes you see I'll get there on Bryan,
Speaker 1: I'll bring it back on a kick return, Edwards will
Speaker 1: go play two, to go play three.
Speaker 3: Like they just dominate the arding sets.
Speaker 4: It's funny when origins around the corner, the gunplayers rise
Speaker 4: a little bit in club level. Edwards went again, Nathan
Speaker 4: went very well. Yeah, I think the origin selection around
Speaker 4: the corner just makes good players stand up a little
Speaker 4: bit clearer.
Speaker 2: With the other outstanding performance Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1: His performance last week we spoke about him with his
Speaker 1: cross plays one under two under and how it had
Speaker 1: led he lost some thrust upfield to this week, Coop,
Speaker 1: I've rarely seen him play so straight. There was a
Speaker 1: marked change in his football and it works so well
Speaker 1: like he he just kept peeling the Bronco short, particularly
Speaker 1: on the left hand side of the field, made a big,
Speaker 1: big difference to.
Speaker 4: See that over exaggeration as a half, it's the space
Speaker 4: that Alamonti needs to score this one. Here, see how
Speaker 4: he just dies back to the right. The space is
Speaker 4: created on the left. So when we talk about playing
Speaker 4: north south, the whole idea of that is the more
Speaker 4: direct you can play in the middle of the field
Speaker 4: is the centimeter or the meter that the outside players need.
Speaker 4: And I always sort of talk about if you think
Speaker 4: you're playing square, you're actually not square enough. So over
Speaker 4: exaggerate that squareness actually sets you on game day a
Speaker 4: straight compass because he was obviously gun barrel straight and
Speaker 4: down that left hand side. It was the difference between
Speaker 4: score and tries and not.
Speaker 1: Made a big difference to his outside men, made a
Speaker 1: big difference to his young players, particularly Blazed to Lungey.
Speaker 1: It just gave Blaze just a little bit more room
Speaker 1: and it allowed them to simplify their football. Yes, so
Speaker 1: there wasn't as many complex sequences that make sense. I've
Speaker 1: thought that oftentimes, and I love the complexity of their football.
Speaker 3: It's just such it's great to watch the science of it.
Speaker 1: But bringing a young guy into a team and wearing
Speaker 1: the six and trying to find his way, he can
Speaker 1: get lost in that and I've seen that. But on
Speaker 1: the weekend they're able to simplify, and he was really good.
Speaker 1: The combinations coops are starting to form.
Speaker 4: I don't think the simplicity of things is probably why
Speaker 4: Craig Bellamy has been super successful over a long period
Speaker 4: of time, because it doesn't matter if you're a three
Speaker 4: hundred game or a new play. If you keep it simple,
Speaker 4: there's more understanding of how you want to play.
Speaker 2: And I think the Panthers did two things.
Speaker 4: Nathan played way more direct and they simplified their football
Speaker 4: in terms of just keeping it to one or two
Speaker 4: things to do well, as opposed to, oh, we really
Speaker 4: got these six plays, let's do it. They were just
Speaker 4: doing the same things but doing it better than the Broncos.
Speaker 4: And that was the difference between getting four points.
Speaker 3: And getting that.
Speaker 1: Simplifying the game plan is going to be really really
Speaker 1: important during the origin period.
Speaker 3: They've got to keep winning.
Speaker 1: Now they do, and not having Nathan, not have Isaiah,
Speaker 1: it's going to find it. You know, they can't play
Speaker 1: that complex with the guys they're going to put in.
Speaker 3: So and I'll tell you what. Let's talk about what we.
Speaker 1: Think of them going forward now, because I imagine after
Speaker 1: the weekend's performance a lot of opinions have changed, maybe
Speaker 1: not completely, but you know, a lot everyone, a lot
Speaker 1: of people putting the lines straight through them. And I
Speaker 1: think they adjusted that, particularly when you see miss Kenny
Speaker 1: to come back and the one they really liked, the
Speaker 1: one they have really missed, and you could see it
Speaker 1: early in the game was Brian Tyner. Yeahs, you know,
Speaker 1: like just about the best yardage player in the game,
Speaker 1: and early in the game against the Broncos, they just
Speaker 1: could get forward on play one and two, they couldn't
Speaker 1: get traction at all. And that's like watching the first
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty minutes yesterday really highlighted to me how much
Speaker 1: they've been missing Brian Tyer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this one here, Zayo hardly ever gets picked up
Speaker 4: and put on his back. The thing I like about
Speaker 4: what Brian toal does two sideways here, and this was
Speaker 4: after the first twenty minutes of the game, but then
Speaker 4: they went more direct. The thing I like about Brian
Speaker 4: total is his ability to do it from the first
Speaker 4: effort to his last effort in the game. It allows
Speaker 4: isaiahoh and Moses Liota like an extra couple of meters
Speaker 4: of time and the ability to get some more energy
Speaker 4: and refuel in the tank. Because Brian tot is a
Speaker 4: lock for twenty runs two hundred meters. If your front
Speaker 4: rower has to have an extra couple of efforts, it
Speaker 4: just chews up the petrotank quicker does that, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: and defensively it hurts them as well. So not only
Speaker 4: will Edwards get the benefit of title, I think Isaiahah
Speaker 4: and Moses Leota will definitely see improvement in their game too.
Speaker 1: The Raiders, I think Oricky won the competition with the
Speaker 1: Roosters in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3: I think this year, I think it's just about.
Speaker 2: His finest coaching before up to this date.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 4: One thing I really like about what Ricky and the
Speaker 4: Raiders are doing is they have this strong, experienced forward
Speaker 4: pack that have been doing what let's be honest, they've
Speaker 4: been doing those.
Speaker 2: Things for the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, topenhap horse was gone to another level this year,
Speaker 4: but then these young outside backs have really taken their
Speaker 4: game to another level. And I think the key to it,
Speaker 4: and I know he's leaving, but is Jamal Fogerty's kicking
Speaker 4: game and decision making. He doesn't overplay his handover, but
Speaker 4: he keeps that team on tracked, on track. It's it's
Speaker 4: it's good half back play for an older guy who
Speaker 4: probably doesn't have the speed in the footwork to break
Speaker 4: open a line like a metcalf for a clear or
Speaker 4: something like that. But he's doing a lot of the
Speaker 4: work behind the scenes to keep that whole operation.
Speaker 3: He binds everything together.
Speaker 1: It's a lot We've spoken about Adam Reynolds before he
Speaker 1: arrived at the Broncos. The Broncos had all this talent,
Speaker 1: but had no one to bind it all together. You see,
Speaker 1: I did that, and you know, and fair played to him.
Speaker 1: And Ricky could have been a difficult week with distraction
Speaker 1: with him signing elsewhere. We spoke to him after he
Speaker 1: kicked that winning golden Golden Point and he was really chipper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and you know that's but the.
Speaker 1: Improvement and the development of the young players in this
Speaker 1: side is tribute to Ricky ko Weeks. I've seen Kayo
Speaker 1: play quite a bit when he was coming through the
Speaker 1: grades of Manly and he couldn't quite find his stride there,
Speaker 1: couldn't quite get traction.
Speaker 3: But he is here. Maddie Nicholson. Nicholson is a special player.
Speaker 4: That try to send it to Golden Point in tough conditions,
Speaker 4: bucketing down with rain, Nicholson runs a little sort of
Speaker 4: outline on Cameron Munster and just has the ball in
Speaker 4: two hands and pops it up to ko Weeks who
Speaker 4: was anticipating it. He saw the space and pushed straight
Speaker 4: through and for him to take on Pabenhausen one on one.
Speaker 4: I think that play, with the game on the line,
Speaker 4: sums up exactly where Ricky and the Raiders are at
Speaker 4: if they can find the belief to play like that.
Speaker 2: For the next well fifteen weeks, I'll tell you what, as.
Speaker 1: You know, mate, wins like even last week that Dolphins
Speaker 1: when the first half they are horrible, but the second
Speaker 1: half they just came out and just blitzed and win
Speaker 1: the second half thirty. And then to beat the Melbourne
Speaker 1: Storm and that all that effort to beat the Dolphins
Speaker 1: week before. There's oftentimes you can exhale, absolutely can make
Speaker 1: a side like Melbourne, but Ricky had them. It just
Speaker 1: shows like they're mentally tough this year.
Speaker 4: Do you think a couple of teams like Panthers and
Speaker 4: three Tiger's five where they jump out of the pack
Speaker 4: yep and catch five right toppy, do you think the
Speaker 4: Raiders have something like that?
Speaker 1: I would say a fortnight ago, I felt that this
Speaker 1: young Raider's site, well, the Raiders side, we've got some
Speaker 1: experienced plags, but I thought they're still twelve months away
Speaker 1: from being a serious contender.
Speaker 3: I'm starting to change my mind.
Speaker 4: It's probably why they wanted Jamel Foe to hang around
Speaker 4: for twelve months.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: To be honest, yeah, they probably thought the same thing.
Speaker 4: But that they are doing all the right things.
Speaker 1: To being down the door of teams who finals, teams
Speaker 1: who win comps out of nowhere, and you just said
Speaker 1: to Panthers No. Three now going into three, A lot
Speaker 1: of people had Panthers to get the wooden spoon. I
Speaker 1: think the year before that, right toward the bottom might
Speaker 1: have been mid second last, I forget, but no one
Speaker 1: gave him a chance.
Speaker 3: Tigers in five very very similar as the fact they
Speaker 3: came out of nowhere. Now, the thing that the Raiders
Speaker 3: share in common with.
Speaker 1: Those sides, if they've got a crop of just jumblows
Speaker 1: coming through that are on the up, they're a fast
Speaker 1: team and they play with a unique style. That's what
Speaker 1: they share with the Tigers and the Panthers. And you
Speaker 1: have to have a unique style if you're going to
Speaker 1: win a competition out of nowhere and surprise we' you've
Speaker 1: got to have that unique style of football.
Speaker 4: And reference to Panthers, the makeup of that forward pack,
Speaker 4: Panthers outside backs that they had to win that comp
Speaker 4: Craig gow was the key.
Speaker 2: Jamel Fogy. I think Ricky.
Speaker 4: Knows that he's got a good team then, but I
Speaker 4: think it's probably come a couple of weeks forward and
Speaker 4: he's gone, hold, then I might have a team that
Speaker 4: could win this comp.
Speaker 1: It's funny and it coops like I saw Ricky after
Speaker 1: the game and the team and Ricky. Ricky was really
Speaker 1: emotional after the game that important win. And there's one
Speaker 1: school of thought that says, hey, come on, boys, let's
Speaker 1: cooper lid on it. But there's the other school of
Speaker 1: thoughts that say, mate, we're growing in belief.
Speaker 3: Let's just go with this.
Speaker 2: Well, big game this week, Raiders.
Speaker 1: Does Raiders Jogs one v two two in Canberra three pm.
Speaker 3: Mississ and key men.
Speaker 1: They have been as well like and they're losing Preston
Speaker 1: for this week. They're missus and you can see that
Speaker 1: like yesterday, their attack has been the best. But yesterday
Speaker 1: I can so sit down on the tape and said,
Speaker 1: you know, we played against the Titans side that were
Speaker 1: below full strength and we can suited eighteen points. That
Speaker 1: part of it were disappointing. I thought Crichton was incredible yesterday.
Speaker 4: He and Kraz the Raiders and Dogs are going to
Speaker 4: put two parts to both teams in terms of where
Speaker 4: this game is one and loss. I think the Raid
Speaker 4: is with that sort of young and youthful edge defense.
Speaker 4: I'm talking timco and said Chris, they need to have
Speaker 4: their best defensive performance because if they don't stop kick
Speaker 4: out on the left and crying on the right, the
Speaker 4: Dogs will win. Right on the flip side, I think
Speaker 4: the Dog's defense through the middle needs to stop Tarpeny, Parpoley,
Speaker 4: Starling has been very good off the back of those guys.
Speaker 4: So I think there's two parts defensively that both teams
Speaker 4: need to nail.
Speaker 2: If one doesn't, your position wins.
Speaker 3: Got a lot of blakes like similar.
Speaker 1: Ethan's strange, you know, like it's funny with Ethan because
Speaker 1: I saw when you look at look at him like
Speaker 1: he appears small in stature, but when you actually see him,
Speaker 1: he's a big body, very very stronger that sweet left foot.
Speaker 2: At left side of him. And Hudson young.
Speaker 3: Jeez, Hudson's playing good for you.
Speaker 4: And Crichton is the best center in the game, best
Speaker 4: defensive center, and they're going to you said, if a
Speaker 4: team jumps up to win a competition, they need to
Speaker 4: have a point of difference with their attack or something
Speaker 4: different that catches teams out. If you're going to beat
Speaker 4: Stephen Crichton, Hudson Young is probably the key to that
Speaker 4: because he as this risky, flairy play that could just
Speaker 4: be that point of difference that they need.
Speaker 3: Just from Crichton.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Brandy, Yes so watching the game
Speaker 1: and Crichton had the ball set and mate, he's got
Speaker 1: that sweet left foot. Darryl Halligan said to Brandy, of
Speaker 1: all the blokes he's coaching at the moment, Crichton is
Speaker 1: by far the best goalkicker, which is saying something you.
Speaker 1: Darryl's coach some of the very best or is, including
Speaker 1: Nathan Cleary, and he said Crichton's number one, and I
Speaker 1: see his taker Burt's coming back, but I believe that
Speaker 1: clit will hang on to the goalkick. Broncos, we spoke
Speaker 1: about cheese her heart sorted to get it wrong.
Speaker 2: I thought your commentary was brilliant too. By the way,
Speaker 2: Top Shelf.
Speaker 3: I agree. Broncos were.
Speaker 1: Such a strange game to watch because at the start
Speaker 1: of the game they were just so much energy they
Speaker 1: poured into their defense. They were all over the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and then something just something just changed. See what was
Speaker 1: unusual about the Broncos. They fatigued really quickly. Coops they
Speaker 1: when we put that down to coops, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but okay, they coughed up a lot of ball. They
Speaker 1: made a lot of errors. But I thought almost halfway
Speaker 1: through the first half, looks some of these blokes, some
Speaker 1: of the forwards are starting to struggle. Here the last
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the game, like some of those forwards
Speaker 1: so were out on their feet that the Panters could
Speaker 1: just basically do whatever they wanted.
Speaker 4: I mean we saw defensively some poor decisions, like when
Speaker 4: Nathan Clear is playing straight and Tony Staggs was just
Speaker 4: caught out position. He was moving to his left inside
Speaker 4: and that's where the space was being created. There is
Speaker 4: this talk I think Gazra Man is back or available?
Speaker 2: Does he play?
Speaker 3: He hasn't played.
Speaker 1: This is his first Campaig, He's played no Coueensland Capital.
Speaker 1: I think he's got to earn his spot.
Speaker 2: I agree to.
Speaker 4: I think there's there's a lot of talk around Ezra
Speaker 4: where he comes straight back in or whatever.
Speaker 1: But with players wanting back, players just said publicly, players
Speaker 1: wunning back.
Speaker 3: But I expect Madge'll make him earnest I.
Speaker 4: Think there's to earn the right to get back in
Speaker 4: this team. I'd be keeping Ben Hunt there. And if
Speaker 4: he goes back and spends four weeks in the host
Speaker 4: plast Cup and he delivers like in a real I
Speaker 4: don't mean he needs a chip and chase the score tries,
Speaker 4: but he needs to do the kick chase line and
Speaker 4: be aggressive defense and all those other things that don't
Speaker 4: get picked up. Then he comes through as a fourteen.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think he will when he comes into the squad.
Speaker 1: He'll give Madge a lot of mid game flexibility. You
Speaker 1: put him at fourteen, suddenly you can put him on it,
Speaker 1: put him on at six, put a Hunt to nine,
Speaker 1: mix around.
Speaker 4: I think you might get a reaction out of Ben
Speaker 4: Hunt as well if he sees the EZRA there, like
Speaker 4: his level of performance will go through the roof as
Speaker 4: well too.
Speaker 1: If you go in and have a look at the game,
Speaker 1: because you commentated the game before, I'll be interested to
Speaker 1: know what you think and we talk about next week.
Speaker 1: Bronco has really struggled in the attacking twenty really struggled,
Speaker 1: and I know sometimes it could be a hard place
Speaker 1: to attack because the defense is on top of you.
Speaker 1: I almost my thought on it, and I'm interested yours
Speaker 1: for next week. I thought they tried to do too much.
Speaker 1: I thought so. I thought that they haven't a little
Speaker 1: shot here, they haven't shot there.
Speaker 3: They're pushing the ball there there. You know, they just
Speaker 3: didn't build for anything.
Speaker 4: And when you're attacking the line, I don't care what
Speaker 4: your players, but when you're coming up against twelve defensive
Speaker 4: plus the all back in the line, which is thirteen,
Speaker 4: you need to be very effective with your middle forwards
Speaker 4: in and around the play the ball because, like Nathan
Speaker 4: plain Square, if your forwards aren't doing something to the
Speaker 4: first four defenders off the ruck, don't even bother passing
Speaker 4: the ball out to your center.
Speaker 1: Well that makes sense because even generally they're attacked, particularly
Speaker 1: in the second half Coeps, I thought it just looked
Speaker 1: if it was a word, I'd say sloppy. Like as
Speaker 1: we know, we've spoken about this numerous times, you know,
Speaker 1: is that to make a play work to draw the
Speaker 1: defense in, as you said, playmaker's got to get to
Speaker 1: that target defender. You've got to start to pull them
Speaker 1: out of shape a little bit.
Speaker 3: And everything was just a little sideways.
Speaker 4: To give an example, like halves and centers race off
Speaker 4: the triy line on the outside and what you need
Speaker 4: to if you just finesse the ball out, they're just
Speaker 4: going to make a decision to shut it down. What
Speaker 4: you need to do is be effective here because then
Speaker 4: they start coming back infield because I feel like those
Speaker 4: defenders have been condensed in and that's how you attack
Speaker 4: inside the towny.
Speaker 1: The Melbourne Storm coup look a bet a month ago
Speaker 1: people were saying, you know, there was a bit of
Speaker 1: a school of thought, well it's going to be the
Speaker 1: Storm's competition, that would just rampaging. But in absence we
Speaker 1: get we're seeing how critical Harry Grant is vital to
Speaker 1: that fast.
Speaker 3: Middle field football they like to play.
Speaker 1: Like the last three weeks, three weeks without Harry there,
Speaker 1: they've dropped considerably.
Speaker 2: I think there's two parts to it. I think.
Speaker 4: Defenders or defensive team coming up against Melbourne Harry, they
Speaker 4: just go eyes to Munster and Hughes, so they don't
Speaker 4: have too much of a concern around the middle of
Speaker 4: the rock. They'll make their tackles, but as soon as
Speaker 4: that pass goes out, it's like push to put pressure
Speaker 4: on Monster and Hughes with Garlic or someone else whoever
Speaker 4: comes in there. They're just doing their job. They're passing
Speaker 4: the ball, making their tackles, which you probably want from
Speaker 4: that position. But when that defense takes their eye off
Speaker 4: on Munster and Hughes, the one person takes advantage of
Speaker 4: that is Harry Grant.
Speaker 2: You watch what they'll do.
Speaker 4: They'll pass, pass, pass, go wide, and then they'll be
Speaker 4: Harry Grant with Pabnausen back through the middle of some stuff.
Speaker 4: So there's real opportunity to go sort of play with
Speaker 4: with then straighten it up, play with wid and straighten up.
Speaker 4: But when Harry Grant is not there, there's not that
Speaker 4: ability to straighten.
Speaker 3: Is their most important player?
Speaker 1: I know they've got Monster, They've got they've got Jerome,
Speaker 1: who's so dangerou to the paps at the back.
Speaker 3: Is he there most?
Speaker 4: You can make an argument that all of them are
Speaker 4: equally important because the skills they bring. But at the
Speaker 4: moment there's just a little bit of the big absence
Speaker 4: of Harry Grant.
Speaker 2: But at times Monster's fallen out.
Speaker 4: You missed the opportunity of that ad lib fort of
Speaker 4: player the right foot back inside with Jerome, who's the
Speaker 4: best running half back in our game. So look right
Speaker 4: now you probably say, yes, Harry Grant because.
Speaker 2: Of how obvious it is.
Speaker 1: Mate, Tigers were lucky. Galvin returned two from two. Luo
Speaker 1: come out after the game after and they're forming a
Speaker 1: really good combination there. He said, you don't need to
Speaker 1: be great mates to win.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting haven't played in the halves we ever
Speaker 3: played with?
Speaker 1: Well, I's going to ask you the same thing about
Speaker 1: Cameron Smith.
Speaker 3: But you walk into that one.
Speaker 2: I knew, yes, I knew I was there.
Speaker 3: I knew it was coming there.
Speaker 2: He's still one with your brother May We.
Speaker 1: Went to beer on the weekend. Fantastic. I've got how
Speaker 1: miserable time. I'll tell you what when you're going to Joe,
Speaker 1: He's not a twenty twenty game.
Speaker 4: But to lew Ey's point, like Benji's in this position
Speaker 4: where he's coming off three wooden spoons, there are signs
Speaker 4: of improvement with the Tigers right. So to Lewi's point,
Speaker 4: they have to play together because if you don't, you're
Speaker 4: going to lose a few more games than you probably
Speaker 4: would win. And the whole idea for the Tigers and
Speaker 4: Benji's improvement, So I don't mind that Lewis said that
Speaker 4: they need to gel and they need to perform well,
Speaker 4: they need to find a way to work together. But
Speaker 4: ultimately it's all about performance and if you play well,
Speaker 4: no one's gonna ask questions. But if you lose games
Speaker 4: and there's frustrations when it comes into play, I guarantee
Speaker 4: you there'll be questions being.
Speaker 1: Playing well to role made too. It might be planning
Speaker 1: himself into an origin Jersey just a couple of months
Speaker 1: to finish with. Yeah, would I put him in the squad?
Speaker 1: I just I'd add there was a bit of talk
Speaker 1: against people saying, you know, attitude and everything.
Speaker 3: I think since he's.
Speaker 1: Been at the Tigers and from what I learned in
Speaker 1: the offseason heading to the Tigers, his attitude was second
Speaker 1: and Hane mate running marathons obviously marathons and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Phil Bola has been very good for them too, that
Speaker 4: ye'd like, He like Tyrell is doing a lot of
Speaker 4: good stuff. But I think I think I think he
Speaker 4: probably we would have to go through, but he probably Yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe in the squad, might miss out, but Phil has
Speaker 4: been very good as well.
Speaker 3: Very good on the Sharks.
Speaker 1: I thought Will Kennedy was really good importantly for the Sharks.
Speaker 1: Nico Hines, there's about four try assists on the weekend.
Speaker 1: He's starting to get that directness back. He's getting to
Speaker 1: that target defender and they look.
Speaker 4: He was a little bit like Nathan. He was way
Speaker 4: more north south than east west. He had some nice
Speaker 4: touches And I really like what Craig Fitzgibben said about Nico.
Speaker 2: He stood up for his half back.
Speaker 4: You know, yes he gets attention good and bad at
Speaker 4: some stages. But I think for Nico Heines development, Craig
Speaker 4: Fitzgibben is absolutely the right coach for him. Like I
Speaker 4: think he knows what hard work looks like. He stood
Speaker 4: up for him. He'll support Nicko when needed to. So
Speaker 4: I was helping out with nick I would say, go
Speaker 4: back and watch some of your good touches on the weekend.
Speaker 4: Start feeling that thought of like, okay, when I did
Speaker 4: something well, I actually went movement was first forward, not sideways,
Speaker 4: I mean the past. To Kevin mckinnis, I think it
Speaker 4: was where he had two runners close to the line.
Speaker 4: Normally Nico Heines would probably fall into that one under
Speaker 4: one under drift across. His first movement was forward. He
Speaker 4: had to play someone out the back. But because he
Speaker 4: went forward, the created in the first sort of two
Speaker 4: defenders outside his vision.
Speaker 1: Just finally, I want to give a rap to a
Speaker 1: young bloke as he's sess my boy from my own town,
Speaker 1: Fletcher Sharp Fletcher's is a special player. He's showing that
Speaker 1: this year. Even the previous couple of weeks where Newcastle
Speaker 1: tack has been poor, he's had a spark about him.
Speaker 1: Really really, the one concern I do have going forward Fletcher,
Speaker 1: I think he signed an extension for a year or two.
Speaker 1: The only one that worries me is the position that
Speaker 1: the Knights may have put themselves in as far as
Speaker 1: vulnerable to someone pinching him with a Dylan Brown contract.
Speaker 3: That makes sense, how come?
Speaker 1: Because there's no doubt if he's on the market right now,
Speaker 1: with how crazy the harvest market has become made, someone
Speaker 1: would come out of him seventy fifty.
Speaker 2: He played really well, scored three tries. But what are
Speaker 2: you like him so much? Half the weekend's performance for
Speaker 2: another day?
Speaker 1: The fact that there is the fact that it was
Speaker 1: the Knights win. If he scored three tries, it was
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty to one.
Speaker 4: How do you know that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Someone just told me. He says, Fine,
Speaker 3: egg scoobs,