WEBVTT - The Final Countdown 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.400 Hello, Welcome to Dawley Telegraph Funeral podcast doc Brent Reid 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.319 johned By for ten two Pam Wyley, it's Origin week. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.560 We're all pumped. You've been up there. You spent a 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.079 bit of time with the Blues, didn't you. That was 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:21.759 a up there. Apart from cold. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:23.560 Yeah, it was very cold. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.960 That was the running theme amongst everybody there. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.400 It was good. It was good. I felt like they. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.040 He can be a bit tense. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:33.839 He was. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:35.279 He was fine to deal with. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:35.760 Uh. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:41.200 The players were very buoyed. They looked confident, They seemed happy. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.159 There was definitely like I don't know if you I 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.120 would agree with this because you've covered a lot of 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.839 camps as well. It felt different. The vibe around the 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.440 players felt different. They didn't feel I as a journo, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.520 which has happened in the past because. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:56.920 Of how bad it. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.480 You know, recent history for the Blues has been in 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.320 Origin you feel like the outsider, like the bad guy, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.120 where he didn't necessarily get that feeling in camp this 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.240 time around. So, but I think that has a lot 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.400 to do with In the past, I felt like players 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.240 were just going through the motions coming into Origin camp, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.880 whereas I think this group of guys actually are enjoying 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:17.360 being there. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.240 You get a field for all when you weren't up. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.600 There, No, I wasn't No, but have been around some 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.520 media sessions and stuff like that. I think that they 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.760 all seem pretty confident. They seem like they're really tired 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.039 kind of group. I'm excited. I think you should, you know, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.240 watch out land in Queensland now they didn't yesterday yesterday. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.840 Yeah, they'll get the usual greeting up there. They'll get 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.040 smashed past Queenslanders and sure, knowing mad she'll circle of 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.440 wagons and fire them up. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.680 Yeah, are you going up? 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.520 I'm going to have Tuesday, right, Yeah, Tuesday. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.840 So what's your travel erin over the next week? 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.720 Up there? Tuesday? Back Thursday, Harris Monday. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:02.840 I think. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.079 Much better trip if the series fools the right way. Hey, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.880 as a new Soul Wells person, obviously they got a 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.680 really poor record up there. I think there was six 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.440 of their past seven at sun Corpse Stad even think 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.440 it's like eleven of the past thirteen and I've lost 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.480 and generally that grounds we call it the graveyard right 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.799 in the cauldroom because of the atmosphere and it's it's 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.840 going to it's obviously a sellout. They got a team 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.400 Queen's end. That's stinging a bit what you're feeling. You're confident. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.320 Because of all that history. It gives you a little 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.240 bit of You've got to be a little bit wary, right, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.800 You've got to be, you know, hold back a little 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.840 bit on that some of that confidence. I think that 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.440 this is a pretty good chance though. I think we're 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.679 we're with a pretty good chance to win up there. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.720 I think, if not now when I think, I do 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.160 believe that these this group of players can do it. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.480 I like the team, obviously, love what they did in 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.440 Game two, and I just think there's just an energy 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.000 about them that is really steely. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.040 At the moment I was gonna say, I could be wrong, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.040 but the two series that they didn't went up there, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:20.440 they lost in game one and then rebounded in game two. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.320 So so that's something. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:24.960 As well. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.120 The news that Bradman Best got through. He didn't train 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.920 until Wednesday, and I mean didn't train. He did some 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.680 warming up, they put his hamstring to the test the 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.920 first couple of days that he was in strapping. The 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.240 on the Wednesday was off by the Thursday. And then 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.800 one interesting thing that you know, Madge is really meticulous 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.040 and people talk about how Billy's meticulous, but I think 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.240 Madge is just as meticulous. And they actually got a 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.839 DJ in to to play. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.640 Crowd noise and drama. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:55.680 Crowd noise. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.200 It was literally crowd noise to emulate that environment. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:09.960 It was a dead send of dejails around. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.200 There was that. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:15.680 Whatever. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.280 There was somebody there, yeah, with a couple of decks. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:24.080 Who was who was? He was just playing like ra warren. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.120 So and I joked whether you know they were going 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.599 to be playing sledges through the speakers, and Frank's like Frank, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.160 their team manager, was like no, no, initially he how 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.920 loud was it was. So this was when their first 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:44.279 contact session against Saint Mary's started and I forgot a 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.240 coffee cup on the ground and I hate to litter. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.919 So we had been kicked out and I thought I 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.599 better go get that coffee cup because it had my 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.080 name on it as well, so they were going to 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.000 know that I was the person who left it, and 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.080 so as I was walking in, it was just the 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.640 noise just sort of hit you and you can hear 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.320 the cheering and they're trying to like, you know, grilled 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.239 me out of there, so I don't see or hear anything, 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:04.400 but yeah, it was. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.800 That was a clever move, but you could a little. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:12.960 So yeah, and I think I did here. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.240 You know, through the through the really loud crowd noise, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.679 there was drums. I kind of heard some calls as well, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.080 and I think that's what that was. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:22.400 Drums at sun called. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:24.640 I did notice that. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.800 I think it was just just to prepare themselves for 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.440 how loud it was going to be and to make 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:35.440 sure that their communication is on point. So yeah, I 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.520 thought that was an interesting addition. I don't think I 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.680 don't know if Freddie has done that in the past, but. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.080 Sure, sure at some point. I don't anything can prepare 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.400 you for some call. I don't think listening to some 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.240 loud music or loud cheering can prepare for what we'll 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.080 greet them at some call. Because Hurricane it's going to 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.240 be really fun. Well it always is, right, it's and 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.600 it's always loud, and you can't hear yourself think out 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.440 there out there from what the players tell us. So 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.280 you know, I like the concept, but I'm not sure 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.560 that you know when you run out and that wall 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.960 of noise hits you, yea and they're just giving it 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.440 to you, and they will be just giving it to them. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.400 Whether anything prepared for that, but some of these guys 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.800 have been through it obviously. Spoke to Angus the other 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.000 day in Angus Crichton and he's one up there in 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:16.680 that atmosphere. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.039 So guys want a Grand Final up there. I know 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.400 that's different, but they have achieved big things, so. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.000 You know they've got that on their side. But will 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:27.600 it be enough? 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.120 This is so yeah, I don't know whether it well, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.479 I don't know whether it will be enough some of 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.360 those guys, even guys like you know, Mitch Moses, who 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.200 has so is going to have so much on his 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.960 plate and after having such a good game in Game 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.560 two down in Melbourne to come up here and he's 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.479 the guy, right, there's always so much pressure in the 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.520 halfbacks to be able to deliver, and you know, win 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.520 or lose, the result kind of rests on them a 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.280 lot of the time, whether that's fair or not. But yeah, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.600 I think someone like him might get a little bit 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.720 of a shock, but he seems like the kind of 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:00.840 person you could handle it too. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:06.320 I think he loves it. What about the the the 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.080 ankst between the two teams. There's been a little bit 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.320 going on with Madge and Madge is now in the 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.960 Gordy tell Us and Gordon's return Serve. There's obviously all 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.080 the talk about Queens and he bullied and bashed and 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.920 in game two, and yeah, I think they were. I 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.720 think it's pretty clear they were. And they need someone 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.560 to stand up in this game. I think that's that's 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.120 the key for them. Need someone to sort of sort 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.600 of return serve, return fire. I think that's for me, 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.160 that's almost their biggest issue, finding someone to do that. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.680 You've got guys, it's really going to come down to 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.560 Lindsay Commons and Paddy Carrigan and those guys because they're 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.680 capable of it. But they just got bullied. They need 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.320 to respond to Leam Martin and Angus Crichton. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:51.080 And just Leny that game he played against the Dragons 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.560 where he looked like a madman running from the back fence. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.480 And but that's going to be the biggest thing for 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.160 both of the sides. So whether whether the Blues can 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.800 maintain that physicality and intense city yeah, and whether the 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.920 Morones can match it. But you know, it's funny because 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.600 we spoke about this idea that the Blues bullied them, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.280 and they did bully them, but interestingly it was talking 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.080 about the tension and the angst. None of the players, 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.120 at least in camp during the week, wanted to buy 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.560 into that narrative that they had bullied them, and I 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.040 thought that was really interesting. I wonder whether it was 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.160 because they were cautious not to give any the Marones 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.360 any ammunition. And I think Corey Parker during the week 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.480 came out and said he just wants, you know, if 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.679 it means ten minutes in the bin, you know, belt 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.079 someone put one on someone's chin and the rest of it. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:37.920 And we put that to some of the players and 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.520 they just went buying into it at all. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.640 Dane Gago has obviously got some form in origin for 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.080 for standing up for himself. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:49.480 Is a gag over Best. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.160 I think it might be, yeah, I. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.640 Think it would be. Yeah. Well the obviously sides of 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.400 club Land, so yeah that yeah, they will come up 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.960 against each other. So Latrell is a huge out for Brown. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.400 It's a good form obviously. That hand many problems in 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.400 terms of Queensland po the ponger on the bench experiment, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.040 and I don't think anyone knows how he's going to play. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.680 Our suspective, come on and reprise that role he's played before. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.800 It's just in the middle of the field and floating around, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.160 and how do you think that how do you think 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.120 that will play out? Having Walsh and pomer on the 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:20.120 field at the same time. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.560 I think that's the scariest thing, right for a New 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.040 South Wales fan. I think that not knowing how he's 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.480 going to play, and obviously New South Wales don't really 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.319 know either. They can have their best guess. I'm sure 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.120 they're very curious to find out. But yeah, that's that's 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.200 the scariest thing because we know how he likes to play. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.480 He just likes to swing around and just pop up 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.600 he can. He's a really good decoy as well, so 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.080 if he's if he's just lingering there, that's where the 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.120 defense puts their attention because they're afraid of him what 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:48.520 he can do. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.920 They're going to have to divide their attention between Reese, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.760 Walsh and Ponger for sure. And I think that's of 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.080 all the changes that Billy made, I think that's the 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.880 one that scares the most. And I think from from 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.120 how they trained during the week, Ponga sort of did 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.040 come on in that sort of that middle middle role 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.640 and worked sort of on the It was the what 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.400 did I have here on the left side of the field, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.720 we didn't and Walsh on the right side of the 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:21.640 field with d C. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.480 So that's a too. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.360 Pronged to pass it on the match giving. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.320 He's a listener of the podcast, so my down. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.280 So yeah, that's that's huge, that that's that's a massive threat. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.240 But I do feel like, you know, the Blues have 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.680 their own sort of X factor players in guys like 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.240 Pride and in guys like Best. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.480 You know, sol I used KP because I'm so glad 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.480 to see him back playing Origin and you know, one 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.600 game back from long term injury, and Billy didn't didn't hesitate, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.640 and I think this was this was the way Billy 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.160 wanted it. Before the series began, there are all these 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.000 whispers that he was going to pick Calen Pong on 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.240 the bench, and obviously Carlen got injured and so when 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.360 Cobbo filled that role in game won. But when he's 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.040 played that role off the bench Calen previously for Queens 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.040 and he's been outstanding. And the pair of them on 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.199 the field, Reese and Carlen at the same time, and 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.560 that's a really exciting proposition. But you want to be 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.679 in the game. I think Queen's got to make sure 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.880 they start well so they can bring on Cale and 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.960 either when the game's in the balance or when they're 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.160 in front, and then you can just unleash him. He's 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.800 a bit of a way when you chase some points. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.840 I suppose as well, he could be handy, but if 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.000 you're not dominant, he's going he's going to find it 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.640 hard make an imprint on the game. So that's why 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.800 that forward pack I reckon for Queens and just needs 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.240 to They just need to aim up because they didn't 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:43.880 aim up the game. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.480 Two, did they make a mistake not picking I would. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.240 Have picked Dave, but Billions obviously go to I didn't 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.840 think I thought Dave in the game before the team 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.480 was picked. I came remember they player was a cron 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.359 I didn't think Dave put his hand up and demanded 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.360 to be picked. I thought he had a quiet game 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.839 by his standards this season, but I still would have 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.000 picked him. I mean, it's such an intimidating well, it's 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.040 just such a big body, and I reckon they lacked 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.960 a bit of that. They did that threat in Origin too, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.920 but they just you know, I think the starts. The 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.840 starts always crucial in Origin, but it's huge in this 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.120 game because you said, well, I need to take the 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.960 crowd out of the game and acquenting and start, Well, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.319 you know that crowd is going to be up and 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.479 about and then it's just going louder and more intimidating 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.600 than you said. Wow, So the first twenty minutes is 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.640 just monumental in this game. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.160 I reckon, where does a decider at Suncorps sit on 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.000 your list of favorite sporting. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.120 Events well as in globally. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.680 That you go to that you cover. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.520 I love I love Decided as Uncle, but I mean 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.040 I went to the maths last year. You can't top 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.640 the US lasting August is pretty amazing. So the rugby 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:02.000 league equivalent of it gust to national sum. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.280 Anybody's ever compared rugby league and Gusta. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.280 I saw your same boltwin gold medals. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.280 So it's you're saying, it's no, it's. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.439 Rugby league nirvana. But I reckon in the sporting you know, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.560 in the in the world sporting nirvana, it's it's sort 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.640 of parallel with those other two. I reckon. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:29.200 So it's equal to yeah, maybe we're going to say 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.720 that in rugby league nothing, but is it in the 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:34.120 top five. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.920 It's been the top five decided a sun Yeah, I 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.160 reckon even you guys. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.679 Yeah, women would have to acknowledge that. You have to 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:45.320 think about. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.160 It's not but the side of it. Sun Corps unbelievable 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.360 because it's crazy that it's just going off and it's 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.080 an experience, right, I mean you walk down Catston Street, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.920 people are spilling over every who. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:01.160 It's the best. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.040 They should let Madge take the bus down Caxon Street. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.520 It's a health hazard. Apparently they tip the bus over 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.360 the lunatics. At least they got rid of the old 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.360 days used to throw the cans at the bus. It's 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:14.680 all plastic cups now, right. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.840 So at least yeah, yeah, you'd be safe. At least 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:18.640 give us a tip. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.560 What do you think? Bye? 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.000 I think I went by ten this morning. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.880 And I have to send my tips through actually to mobs. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.600 I'm going to go New South Wales by. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.400 Two, Queensland by twenty. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.240 I'm just going to say. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.920 The favorite to the book is surprised. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.920 Yeah, well I can Yeah, I know they could get 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:48.440 blasted last game. Yeah, but Trells, d Wells and s 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.400 Corp Stadium. It's obviously what it is, right and the 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.080 past seven man the match only reach I think has 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.440 been pretty quietness where they got knocked down in game one, 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:03.800 but it was pretty quiet game too. So there you go. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:04.480 The match. 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.520 Oh, I think I went with Mitch. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.200 If you have to win, he's got to be the guy. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.080 I hadn't thought about it. Let's go, we'll go Angus Crichton. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.440 Player the series well Angers would player the series player 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:17.800 the match? 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.480 Well, Mitch? 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.800 Yeah, okay, well off Queens And when I don't know 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.880 who's their player of the series, it's hard to call. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:30.640 Maybe d C just he's been very good d club football, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:35.080 let's go back to club footy. We'll start a parapa. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:36.760 It's a bit going on there at the moment. Obviously, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.560 Jason Rowle has been ringing around all the players, just 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.880 trying to calm the farm a little bit because there's 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.920 been a bit, a little bit of instability around Paramatta 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.040 and Roles. He's been ringing around just trying to trying 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.000 to reassure them about the club's direction. Okay, and obviously 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:53.960 the story has come out that he might be with 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.400 him sooner rather than later in some capacity won't be 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.040 coaching them, but you know, he's obviously at Melbourne at 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.960 the moment. Do we like that idea that Jason is 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.520 free to focus on power. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.960 Yeah, I think so. I mean he has a coaching 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.280 consultant role at Melbourne, so like's not instant's none. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.680 Assistant, but obviously he plays it. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.880 He plays a role, but a role where they could 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.000 probably you know, you know, Melbourne don't need him to 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.840 be there essentially and Para do. That's the reality of 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.400 the situation, just as long as I think there are 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.240 clear lines between that. You know, Trent Barrett is still 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.240 the interim coach for the rest of the year because 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.440 you talk about the instability, that's only going to create 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.440 more instability at least internally. But I think for the 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.840 players who are obviously for a roster that has been 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.680 really disappointing this year, knowing that Rolesey's presence is there, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:46.560 you know from we were. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:52.040 Just question did you burst and the tears if you're 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.680 on the end of that, I think I would. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.840 I remember sitting in Kama which Grand Final. It was 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.320 in the press box right next to Craig and it 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:06.840 was intense anyway, just rolese his presence there, even though 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.000 technically he's not going to be coaching the team this year. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.400 I think they probably need it from a morale point 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.840 of view, because where the side is at the moment, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.280 it's not good. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.640 Yeah, well, I think I mean trend boarder of good 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.400 mates as well. We've known each other a long time, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.280 so I'm sure that there won't be an issue there. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:25.760 Yeah, I think so too. But I think he's going 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.760 to need as much time as possible to get a 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.520 grasp on the situation. They're at Paramatta two. All of 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.240 those players that he's going to have to get to 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.360 know that are going to be super important for them 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.840 to have success over next season and beyond, And the 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.000 sooner he can get a start on that, the better. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.879 I spoke to wespect to Clint Guthson the other day 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.480 and he hadn't I think it was the day after 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.679 he was appointed coach and they hadn't spoken yet, but 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.320 he was saying how he's just kind of ready to 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.800 do anything because he knows his job is kind of 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.679 on the line too. He's off contract at the end 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.840 of next year. I think it is same with a 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.800 fair few of those players as well as well. He 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.359 said the same thing. They're very well aware that their 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:13.120 jobs are on the line and there needs to be changes. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.680 There's got to be change. There's got to be a 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.400 change in style. There's got to be something something change 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:19.200 because it's not working. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.600 Obviously, he's obviously one of those goals. And the suggestion 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.080 that maybe a move from fullback next year because they've 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.600 been looking looking for a bit more speed and youth. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:31.840 I guess at the back when. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.159 He said he wants to do like, he would be 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:35.800 happy to do that. He wants to do that if 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.960 that's what if someone wants to putting there. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.840 A little bit depends on this guy, right, Blaze ta Lungy, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.160 who's sure off contract and take up his option free 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.760 to hit there. He's talking, He's out there exploring the 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.359 open market at the moment, and that's he's spoken. Blaze 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.520 he was. I think he had a plan meeting with them. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.480 I can't remember if it went ahead, but the dragons 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:55.160 are in for him. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.919 There'd be a lot of yeah, the roles he's spoken of, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.400 and I think he really wants to keep him, so 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.040 he's a real priority for him, and I imagine if 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.960 he's leaves the Storm and he's in. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.919 At Para, that'll be one of his real focuses on 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.320 trying to convince Blaze to l to Lung. It's the 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.199 right place to be. But he's a Para kid, right, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:18.680 Blaze came through the system. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.480 I think he wants to stay there. I think if 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.160 it's the right situation, that that's what he wants to do. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.320 It's intriguing because his younger brother made this stround school 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.119 boys too, right, it's a long the other day. So 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.760