Speaker 1: Coop the decision ahead for Delia tree Evans where it's
Speaker 1: almost certain that you know he's going to play on
Speaker 1: he's leaving a club he's with for a long time.
Speaker 1: You're in a situation Coop, you're the Meltom's toom for
Speaker 1: a long long time. You can be one club man
Speaker 1: and then right at the back end in your last
Speaker 1: couple of years, you chose to go somewhere else, like
Speaker 1: he's got a couple of options available.
Speaker 2: I think my situation is a little bit different. Reason
Speaker 2: for me to leave Melbourne was pure because my family
Speaker 2: and future in Sydney, So my decision was based around
Speaker 2: family first and then football ended up being second. Whereas
Speaker 2: I think Day sort of said that, you know, financially
Speaker 2: and still wanting to play and compete. There's a guy
Speaker 2: that hasn't played in a Grand Final since twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: so I dare say his next sort of decision we're
Speaker 2: based around. For me, Look, there was a couple of
Speaker 2: clubs involved, a few in the bottom mate, but with
Speaker 2: that been rude like it didn't want to go at
Speaker 2: thirty four years of age and spend the majority of
Speaker 2: my time tackling. So the desire to a couple of
Speaker 2: teams at the top eight approached and put it down.
Speaker 2: I foundly based in Sydney, the Roosters were Cherry right
Speaker 2: for the picking. They had played in three or four
Speaker 2: prelim finals in the leader and didn't need a I
Speaker 2: didn't need a half back to how can I explain this?
Speaker 2: Didn't need a half back the set up more tries
Speaker 2: or score more tries. They needed someone who they could
Speaker 2: rely on and come up with good decisions at the
Speaker 2: right time. So it all fixed up. But I was
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks away from retiring until the Rousters
Speaker 2: came very very late. It just ticked all the boxes
Speaker 2: for me. So if I was guessing about Cherry Evans,
Speaker 2: look he's going to go to a club that he
Speaker 2: was going to chance to win a Grand Final. Okay,
Speaker 2: thirty six years of age, hasn't played one for twelve years,
Speaker 2: only one one in his first year of first grade,
Speaker 2: so most things in the game.
Speaker 1: So if we sit there right and there's Dolphins to
Speaker 1: a certain extent, Titans, but that would really surprise. You've
Speaker 1: got the Roosters, who I still think are the favorites,
Speaker 1: and you've got the Dogs who Guss has come out
Speaker 1: and said no, no, no, But Gus is very clever
Speaker 1: and he's shrewd and there's no way in the world.
Speaker 1: And I said this on the show last night. He's
Speaker 1: not going to stand up and to clear mate, we're
Speaker 1: going for him. And that just intensifies this whole process.
Speaker 2: Well again that we're only speculating here, but guy at
Speaker 2: thirty six y years of age, he's very considered in
Speaker 2: the way he goes about it, very professional. The longer
Speaker 2: he leaves is the less opportunity for maximum money comes
Speaker 2: into play because people start signing. So look it can right.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you, you're daily Cherry Evans. You've got the Titans,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, throwing, the Dogs and the Roosters. Where does
Speaker 1: he go?
Speaker 2: And he's staying here in Sydney, Dogs and the Roosters.
Speaker 2: Of a chance that would come.
Speaker 1: Where would you go if I had all those options available,
Speaker 1: I gather dogs. That's where I go. I think the
Speaker 1: Dogs are on the up, they're looking it's early in
Speaker 1: the season, but they're four from four, they're defending like
Speaker 1: a top four side. I think he'd be pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: But are the dogs if it's those two? Right? And
Speaker 2: I was making a decision around whether to go for Daily,
Speaker 2: I would like to see how he delivers in the
Speaker 2: next four to six weeks. Now he was great the
Speaker 2: other day, terrific, He handled the media, played well and
Speaker 2: then did another media opportunity afterwards. If he can galvanize
Speaker 2: merely the way the mainly is fractured at the moment
Speaker 2: and win the majority of his game, I think he's
Speaker 2: got Melbourne this week, got Penrith are in there somewhere,
Speaker 2: and win the majority of his six games. That's leadership
Speaker 2: and that's a team. That's a player who can take
Speaker 2: your team to a Grand Final.
Speaker 1: I've always been of the mind Cooper that these sort
Speaker 1: of things are an experienced player leaving our club legend
Speaker 1: leaving at the end of the year has Although it
Speaker 1: can be a little bit of distraction, footballer is just
Speaker 1: get on with stuff. But this one, up until probably
Speaker 1: when I went home last night and sat and watched
Speaker 1: the whole press conference, I sort of thought I made
Speaker 1: players would just get on with this. This won't be
Speaker 1: a distraction. But it's getting particularly nasty and.
Speaker 2: That's why I think it's up to Daily to galvanize.
Speaker 2: He's the one because if they beat Melbourne. I think
Speaker 2: Penrith are in there that maybe someone else that's in
Speaker 2: the top four. If they can win. The majority of
Speaker 2: those are at home, by the way too, So if
Speaker 2: they can galvanize and play because their team is on
Speaker 2: the cusp of potentially finishing the top four and winning
Speaker 2: something this year, that's down to Daily bring that group together.
Speaker 2: If they play lack luster football, it's because Daily hasn't
Speaker 2: been able to authentically get that group to focus on
Speaker 2: what's recorded.
Speaker 1: Ok, let's talk about the football yesterday and so far
Speaker 1: this year. When we talk about Manly, we say this
Speaker 1: inc insistencies and that you know, we oftentimes see them
Speaker 1: get away me and Miles now particularly sometimes at home,
Speaker 1: and suddenly you think, you think yourself, they're going to
Speaker 1: put thirty or forty points. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: big win, and then everything sort of comes to a
Speaker 1: bit of a stop or they subside. Now, yesterday it
Speaker 1: was eighteen minutes gone something like that. They fourteen from
Speaker 1: fourteen sets. They're completely at one hundred percent. They're playing
Speaker 1: great football. Their opponents are on the ropes and they're
Speaker 1: leading twelve nil. At that point I sat and not
Speaker 1: third right, boys, what are you going to do with this,
Speaker 1: and again they just pulled back there.
Speaker 2: You want to put foot down and go for it.
Speaker 1: You want to go for it. I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: Melbourne or Penrith at full strength, when they're in that,
Speaker 1: you hand them that situation, what are they going to
Speaker 1: do well?
Speaker 2: I think they did that against the Raiders and the
Speaker 2: Cowboys at different stages. Yes, the Eels, I'm going to
Speaker 2: give them a bit of slack there. The one thing
Speaker 2: I always have question mark around Manly this year and
Speaker 2: last year was can their four pack dominate a good,
Speaker 2: strong opposition forward pack and can they defend for long
Speaker 2: enough against good attacking teams their attack stands up. I'm
Speaker 2: not dismissing that, but that's going to be the question mark.
Speaker 2: They were playing Paramount with all due respect yesterday. They
Speaker 2: just did what they had to do to get the victory.
Speaker 2: But when Paramatta scored late in the second half, Cherry
Speaker 2: Evans stood up, Brooks went to the game. They scored
Speaker 2: those two tries to put it.
Speaker 1: I just think it's bad practice coups. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about Carnal a little late.
Speaker 2: Maybe nine and a half out of ten every week,
Speaker 2: but I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't, you can't. You can't beat the best
Speaker 1: sides when when you get used to playing forty minute football.
Speaker 1: We saw that with last week. We spoke about the
Speaker 1: Caronal like that, that lack of killer instinct and you
Speaker 1: know against our sidior and you go here we go.
Speaker 1: It could be a forty point victory and their second
Speaker 1: half was terrible and that carried on into the Dog's game.
Speaker 2: I know it's only week five, but with Cherry Evans's situation,
Speaker 2: they play Melbourne this week Melbourne lost to the Dragons,
Speaker 2: they will be up and about contest. We will work
Speaker 2: out what Cherry Evans mainly are this weekend if they
Speaker 2: can put a good victory in against Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Yesterday he saw something around Lomax.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a lot of talk around Lomax, winger, center,
Speaker 2: whatever went to the Eels to place center. His performances
Speaker 2: on the wing at rep level and different stages have
Speaker 2: been top shelf. But defensively, if you want to be
Speaker 2: a dominant center in this competition, you need to defend
Speaker 2: ber than Zach. I don't think he's a center. Look
Speaker 2: at this against round one verse Melbourne going to the
Speaker 2: outside just tunnel vision for his off center and create
Speaker 2: space for Munster. Now they didn't get hurt there, But
Speaker 2: you can't have tunnel vision. You to have your head
Speaker 2: on a swivel and make multiple decisions at center position.
Speaker 2: And again on the weekend against Manly, he did exactly
Speaker 2: the same. He only had eyes for Turbo. Here goes
Speaker 2: out of the line, completely opens up a passageway for
Speaker 2: Ben Trovoyvitch to come through. Now, I know he wants
Speaker 2: to play center, but you don't play center making defensive
Speaker 2: decisions like that.
Speaker 1: It's interesting like that coups because when he defends at center,
Speaker 1: like he's pushing himself out of the line of trying
Speaker 1: to make those decisions. When he's playing on the wing,
Speaker 1: if he's got a fault, it's just he's disconnected. He's
Speaker 1: a little bit too far back.
Speaker 2: So to explain, the center is the decision maker defensively
Speaker 2: whether they go up or out, and the winger follows.
Speaker 2: So the reason why he's much better on the wing
Speaker 2: is because he follows what someone else does in terms
Speaker 2: of making decisions. Here he's gone for Turbo completely out
Speaker 2: of the line and just towed Ben Trovoyvitch through the
Speaker 2: whole he's showing me things that he just is a
Speaker 2: winger every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Speaker 1: At the moment, Yeah, Dolphins are still the Dolphins. For
Speaker 1: a second. They played, of course, the Broncos, and our
Speaker 1: knock has been a little bit like their attack has
Speaker 1: been very, very sideways. Outside outside of Isaiah Katowa, some
Speaker 1: of their formations have been awful. And again the other night,
Speaker 1: and I'll show an example here. You know they're on
Speaker 1: the attack. This is early in the game, but Herbie
Speaker 1: Farnworth is almost almost at the far post. Now I
Speaker 1: can understand sometimes you have you set these little trick
Speaker 1: plays up and whatnot, but this this can be the exception.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's basically the rule where they're in
Speaker 1: there and that is just setting up for sideways, sideways
Speaker 1: ball movement. The attorney scat Stags all night defended inside
Speaker 1: out in a slide formation. As you know, that's the
Speaker 1: easiest way to tackle.
Speaker 2: If you're going to beat anyone one on one, you
Speaker 2: have to have the thread of going inside or outside. Here,
Speaker 2: if Herbie Farmers only got one way to go one way,
Speaker 2: and the flip side of that is that's good defense
Speaker 2: from Catoni stags. It doesn't come out of the line,
Speaker 2: doesn't create space exact climax on the other side.
Speaker 1: But as you know, when you're defending, for people to
Speaker 1: actually go up and defend from the inside out, that's
Speaker 1: a really comfortable tackle. It's when someone comes spearing at
Speaker 1: your inside childer, We're going to make the decision like
Speaker 1: am I going to slide or I'm going to go
Speaker 1: in and make that tackle. And they got it right
Speaker 1: once the Dolphins, Yep, Tom Gilber, look at this. This
Speaker 1: is an example. Catoni wants to slide straight through, straight
Speaker 1: through on the inside shoulder there because Katoni wants to
Speaker 1: defend inside out, and they got it right and never
Speaker 1: went back there.
Speaker 2: This was early on in the game of the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, look out, first couple of sets,
Speaker 2: they're up and about for this contest. But as the
Speaker 2: game went on, tough conditions in the weent sideways movement,
Speaker 2: no sort forward thrust from the play the ball, and
Speaker 2: they just got caught out big time. And that's one
Speaker 2: of my issues with the Dolphins is I know about you,
Speaker 2: but I actually give a cart a pass mark. Definitely
Speaker 2: no wins four losses and you're giving a half back
Speaker 2: a tick shows to me that I know they're in
Speaker 2: the conversation for going for Cherry Evans, but they need
Speaker 2: someone explosive in the middle of the field to create
Speaker 2: ruck speed. I think they've got a half back that
Speaker 2: might deliver them a premiership, but they need some forward thrust,
Speaker 2: some big bodies like Finnifiularki is the only real athletic guy.
Speaker 2: They've got workers, real good guys, but mix it up
Speaker 2: a little bit and go after old Glas at paying Harts.
Speaker 1: For someone like that to create be handy. Having a
Speaker 1: really experienced top line half pack around Isaiah tow it's
Speaker 1: really mentoring. You know, someone who's thirty six and there's
Speaker 1: one competitions a long time ago, someone who's played for
Speaker 1: Australia and State of Origin. Do you know anyone let's.
Speaker 2: Be down for four that can bend the line and
Speaker 2: Correctuick play the balls for him.
Speaker 1: We'll talked about Kato last week, some beautiful little bit
Speaker 1: pieces of ballplaying, old school ball playing where he went up,
Speaker 1: he looked in and then played to the outside. The
Speaker 1: other night he's added to this he does a little
Speaker 1: bit of what Jason Smith used to do this a
Speaker 1: little bit, show out, show in, back out again. It's
Speaker 1: almost like, you know, it's a double cross play.
Speaker 2: It's like a game of poker. It is tiding his
Speaker 2: guards and telling a little lie with a look and
Speaker 2: a shape. But then he's doing the flip side of
Speaker 2: defenders out everything the Dolphins are doing right now, has
Speaker 2: Cartea doing something good?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know at some ballplayer scored a try, he's set
Speaker 2: up a couple. There's just not enough around him.
Speaker 1: That's right. And we said before in that instance it
Speaker 1: was like a third movement rather than just look in
Speaker 1: play out. It was one, two three. Now this one
Speaker 1: we're about to see now is more subtle. Now, this
Speaker 1: is very Jason Smith. He goes to the line, he
Speaker 1: looks short, then he feigns like he's going to go
Speaker 1: around the back, and then goes back short again. Just
Speaker 1: it's only a subtle thing. But that man who's the
Speaker 1: decision maker on the outside, you know, that's that's really
Speaker 1: that's a really it's like you see pain just turned
Speaker 1: in there. When you used to play against Jason Smith,
Speaker 1: he dawed loved the line. Then he just pause and
Speaker 1: you'd pause and it was it was unnerving, and Kato
Speaker 1: has got a bit of that in here.
Speaker 2: I think if you play at one speed, you don't
Speaker 2: you're not a threat to the defensive line. And if
Speaker 2: you play it once, you've got to show multiple deception
Speaker 2: with your eyes, your hips, or the way that you
Speaker 2: fake a pass. And Carto then did it perfectly because
Speaker 2: he did the double pump and then when he went
Speaker 2: accelerated paint hussment, Oh, actually I need to lean into you,
Speaker 2: and that crowded the one on one last week.
Speaker 1: Talking about the Dolphins and their sideways ball movement, we
Speaker 1: said to really strip the defense short. You've got that
Speaker 1: initially on the first receiver play. It really helps if
Speaker 1: it's a really tight, fast play, you know, and not
Speaker 1: not a play where there's lag like one past two
Speaker 1: past a shape that you go up there. There's lots
Speaker 1: of bodies of motion and the shape sort of unfurls
Speaker 1: at the last second, and that's what really unnerves the
Speaker 1: defense and makes some clothes in. Adam Rends is very
Speaker 1: very good and he showed it the other night. Just
Speaker 1: a little one here, one past two pass, three bodies
Speaker 1: of emotion and that's how you're stripped short.
Speaker 2: So long field position, big elaborate play. The halfback whose
Speaker 2: first receiver needs that can a lot of players in
Speaker 2: the middle of the field. Way you do that is
Speaker 2: either play arrow, straight and direct with a lot of
Speaker 2: support around you, or if you're doing the crossfield movement.
Speaker 2: But when he goes across here, he hides the ball
Speaker 2: with his rotation of his body, and that thinks Mark
Speaker 2: Nichols turns in because he thinks the ball's gone. So
Speaker 2: the fact that he went slow hid the ball from
Speaker 2: vision of the defenders, then quickly turned a corner made
Speaker 2: the Dolphins defense collapse, and that created the space outside.
Speaker 1: Defense. Defense wins competitions, and defense is a little bit attitude.
Speaker 1: And the Dogs are defending like the top four side.
Speaker 1: They've got the best defense in the competition at the moment.
Speaker 1: Do you think they finished top four if well, it's
Speaker 1: a lot way out. But if you say to me, Maddie,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a four to one about the Dogs
Speaker 1: finishing top four, I take it he saw all of
Speaker 1: that money well here, handsome over there, But yeah, I would, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: That's one of the more impressive performances I've seen under
Speaker 2: their desperation, their ability to squeeze and frustrate the Sharks.
Speaker 2: A couple of individual efforts. There was one from Harry
Speaker 2: Hayes in the first half with the ball got sort
Speaker 2: of the backfield, he dived on it. Another one from
Speaker 2: Marni and Montoya really late. You can build a season
Speaker 2: on these efforts and this cohesion. And I like the
Speaker 2: way that Sereraldo went about the game because they played
Speaker 2: the Titans, Eels and the Dragons in the first three weeks.
Speaker 2: They did the fundamentals of terms of completion, generate good
Speaker 2: kicking game, and defend well. You can beat most teams
Speaker 2: in the first month doing that, but they knew they
Speaker 2: had to go up another level against the Sharks, who
Speaker 2: at that stage were playing very good, and they delivered.
Speaker 2: They defensively went to another level. I like what Preston
Speaker 2: did on the left edge with no kickout. Hayward was
Speaker 2: good as well. Yeah, they were very impressive. I think
Speaker 2: that was the best performance of the weekend. The Dogs.
Speaker 1: You played with Till, I mean they brought him for
Speaker 1: his leadership, obviously in his.
Speaker 2: Experience, presence and physicality.
Speaker 1: He made his physicality.
Speaker 2: He runs the ball, he pumps those legs like he's
Speaker 2: just fighting for every inn.
Speaker 1: Some of the shots. He put that shot on.
Speaker 2: Trindle like, yes, he's been charged and suspended and I've
Speaker 2: been in Trindle's position before. That hurts. That's not cool.
Speaker 2: But he puts the threat and the ballplayer to go
Speaker 2: close to the line. It almost thinks I'm going to
Speaker 2: play a meter and a half earlier and therefore your
Speaker 2: defense can layer off and make a better decisions. But
Speaker 2: he's intimidating people at the moment.
Speaker 1: I'll give you three to one on the Sharks making
Speaker 1: top forty. You take it.
Speaker 2: I like him. Do you buying or selling?
Speaker 1: I didn't really buy at the start, so I can't sell.
Speaker 1: I'm just undecided. Coops their football so far that she
Speaker 1: has been really it's been inconsistent. There's been a couple
Speaker 1: of things to worrying me. In Vegas. They're in a
Speaker 1: position to beat Penrith that night, couldn't do it. The
Speaker 1: game against the Cowboys was very strong. They were good
Speaker 1: there got to say Cowboys at that point really struggling,
Speaker 1: but fair played. They were very very good first half
Speaker 1: against South Sydney the best half of football so far
Speaker 1: this year. Their second half was average and they're come
Speaker 1: up against the dog site who's playing with that dogs
Speaker 1: of war mentality with physicality, and they're beating them. They've
Speaker 1: just dogs controlled the whole contest through aggression.
Speaker 2: I thought the Sharks were up for it for forty minutes,
Speaker 2: but then came out and got sort of frustrated and
Speaker 2: didn't perform. Yes, I understand what you're saying, but I'm
Speaker 2: back in Fitzgibbon to manipulate this team the way he
Speaker 2: wants to like. They've played finals under him every year.
Speaker 2: They won a big final last year to get that
Speaker 2: monkey off their back. Adam phanil Blake brings something. Trindle
Speaker 2: and Heinz are still working, but I like where they're at.
Speaker 2: I think they can put it together. Do they win
Speaker 2: a big prelim final playing their first grand final for
Speaker 2: a while. I don't know, but I think they're a
Speaker 2: team that we're thinking about after twenty rounds going down
Speaker 2: a chance.
Speaker 1: Some little things he last week we spoke about halves
Speaker 1: combinations working This combination oftentimes not in the same player,
Speaker 1: but one after the other. We use an example Lucky
Speaker 1: Galvin and then lew I took the next play and
Speaker 1: complimented what he did. Good example here a J Brimston
Speaker 1: and Jayden Campbell. If you go back and have a
Speaker 1: look at the first try from the gold Coase, Campbell
Speaker 1: puts a dentinum Aj follows it straight up.
Speaker 2: As a half, normally you pick a front rower that
Speaker 2: when they carry the ball and they create rock speed,
Speaker 2: you'll definitely follow them next. It's like you're fullback following
Speaker 2: someone who can offload. But I think for the Titans,
Speaker 2: once Campbell goes, I think Brimston needs to touch the
Speaker 2: ball the next vice versa. It's almost like when you're
Speaker 2: having sort of fullbacks in the halves position, you need
Speaker 2: to What fullbacks do better than most players on the
Speaker 2: field is they find space. So they'll drift across field
Speaker 2: looking for space and then they'll attack it. What the
Speaker 2: Titans shouldn't do is play from confined field positions. They
Speaker 2: don't need to play from short field positions and expect
Speaker 2: Brimson and camel to do something a lot of second
Speaker 2: phase play long field positions. Let them drift across and
Speaker 2: once they find something, a show and go might break
Speaker 2: him open. If one gets tackled, the other half goes
Speaker 2: after that.
Speaker 1: Just on tour with some of the young blows coming
Speaker 1: through at the moment. Little mention of the dragons still
Speaker 1: an egan coming off the bench. Well donder him really
Speaker 1: had an impact in the other For South Synty, Leon LeBlanc,
Speaker 1: I've seen him in the extended bench and that was
Speaker 1: first time I've really seen him have some serious time
Speaker 1: and he was really impressive. Make canbra He got a
Speaker 1: batch of young blokes coming through camera. There's eight or
Speaker 1: nine of them that which might be behind the foggedy
Speaker 1: situation was soon at the moment, I reckon it's the
Speaker 1: best patch of young blokes Camera brought through in decades.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they went down the England recruiting system and that
Speaker 2: got benefits. Played some prelim finals, got to a Grand Final.
Speaker 2: It seems as though they've gone and targeted, whether it's
Speaker 2: in their system or externally, the next crop who was stuck.
Speaker 1: Behind coops talking about young players to a state of
Speaker 1: origin and I'll talk from a new South Wales perspective.
Speaker 1: You for Queensland, give me three emerging players you reckon
Speaker 1: could break into the next couple of seasons.
Speaker 2: I don't know if these guys will play this year,
Speaker 2: but in terms of the future, I like what Peter
Speaker 2: kur has done at Brisbane, like played a lot more
Speaker 2: football last year and the kevy and you struggling to
Speaker 2: find his spot on imagine. But when he puts it together,
Speaker 2: his physical he's intimidating. He's got leg speed. I think
Speaker 2: he's got a good engine that can play on the edge.
Speaker 2: I think Howeth from the storm he sort of sits
Speaker 2: in that sort of like a big body who has
Speaker 2: learned the art of playing center and may move into
Speaker 2: the back right some stage, but I think playing the
Speaker 2: grand finally, him having that combination of monster, he might
Speaker 2: be something. And I'll tell you what, young rong toy
Speaker 2: from the roosters center. He's got some athleticis.
Speaker 1: He's been good. I think might not.
Speaker 2: Be this year, but at some stage I think those
Speaker 2: three guys that play.
Speaker 1: Next cup mate, tell what blake for me. Jacob Preston. Firstly,
Speaker 1: he's been terrific the last two seasons, but he's gone
Speaker 1: to another level now. He's really fulfilling his potential. I
Speaker 1: think he's I actually think he's a future captain New
Speaker 1: South Wales.
Speaker 2: What I like about him as a back rower sometimes
Speaker 2: as a half you want like a big kick out
Speaker 2: who's intimidating scary and you can use up as as
Speaker 2: a weapon. But he is so reliable, Preston, when you
Speaker 2: go to the line as a half, he is in
Speaker 2: exactly the right position at exactly the right time. And
Speaker 2: you can pick apart teams if you've got that someone
Speaker 2: who's rock solid and will be there for you. So
Speaker 2: he was.
Speaker 1: He was tremendous, tremendous. Bronson Cherry on the same side
Speaker 1: he has been since he's come in to that side.
Speaker 1: Came in last year. He was fantastic. I would have
Speaker 1: possibly thrown him in last year. I think he's I
Speaker 1: think he's got the physique and the mentality to be
Speaker 1: a State of Origin player. Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'll remind you that later in the year, Latrell Mitchell, anything.
Speaker 1: Else, I'll throw a couple of mores. Okay, this one
Speaker 1: and the other bloke just on classes like he might
Speaker 1: be a few more years away. But Lehigh HOBBLEWARDI Lehigh
Speaker 1: has just that bit of magic about him. I heard
Speaker 1: Brandy say that yesterday when one of the players held
Speaker 1: the ball up and he said, if it was anyone
Speaker 1: other than Lehigh HOBBLEWARDI, I'd say he got it down.
Speaker 1: He's just made the hands like there was that one
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago where it was the cross
Speaker 1: kick coming across for the try. He just caught it
Speaker 1: on the run and threw it back in. And on
Speaker 1: the weekend Coop, early in the game Paramount knock one
Speaker 1: down field in the wet and Lehigh just went caught
Speaker 1: it like that. He's phenomenal talent. Lastly, Cop, want to
Speaker 1: say this the return of well, it's an abbreviated kangaroo too.
Speaker 1: It's the Ashes series, the return in England. Coop, it'll
Speaker 1: be boy. This bring brings back some memories.
Speaker 2: Stuart Line break tips, Melmuran Inger in.
Speaker 1: Best Game all the Time Wembley Maybe second No, that
Speaker 1: was Second Test ninety ninety at Old Trafford, Manchester. But
Speaker 1: eighty two and eighty six coups like, there's a book
Speaker 1: written about the eighty two tour. It was called it
Speaker 1: was I think it was. It was written by English guys.
Speaker 1: It's called the Tour that changed rugby forever, not just
Speaker 1: rugby union but rugby league. You know, Si, when you
Speaker 1: look back in the history of Australia going over and
Speaker 1: touring having an Ashes series, it was always real tough,
Speaker 1: like you know, it would be really tough. Hartford Series
Speaker 1: seventy eight was a really tough series. Then we arrived
Speaker 1: in eighty two and whatever had happened between those four years,
Speaker 1: when when the Kangaroos got there, like they were just
Speaker 1: streets of head of in England were just not prepared.
Speaker 1: I think in that time state of origin a bit
Speaker 1: invent vented, but the standard I think as far as training,
Speaker 1: as far as skill work, that eighty two side, when
Speaker 1: you watch the football they played over there, it was
Speaker 1: just remarkable. It was incredible for the game over there.
Speaker 1: All these tours, thirty thousand registrations already for priority tickets
Speaker 1: in England, thirty thousand sold already First Test at Wembley,
Speaker 1: which for the players would just be so special. Second
Speaker 1: Test Everton's new ground in Liverpool, Third one headingly Leeds.
Speaker 1: So I urge people who love the game, like guys
Speaker 1: who are younger demographic is, go back and watch that
Speaker 1: eighty two and eighty six tours. Have look at the
Speaker 1: test matches, you know, combinations like you know, well, I'll
Speaker 1: see you how good eighty two was?
Speaker 2: It was that good at sight in eighty two?
Speaker 1: Please you didn't make it, Yes, eighty two was so
Speaker 1: good that Wally lew was on the bench. You had
Speaker 1: guys like Wally Lewis eighty six mal come off the bench,
Speaker 1: so they were just powerhouse sides and yeah, very great memories.
Speaker 1: I loved it just getting up at one o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning watching those games. Taste taste the right Backs,
Speaker 1: the reason I love the game. Put on your man