Speaker 1: I said at the starting year, I taught Adam Field
Speaker 1: Blake will be by the season and I'll stand.
Speaker 2: By it, but I'll tee it to Rell May. He
Speaker 2: started the season.
Speaker 1: His performance yesterday and seventy three minutes and the quality
Speaker 1: of his work.
Speaker 3: He's been the most dominant forward in the park for
Speaker 3: both the Tigers performances and great yesterday. But that first
Speaker 3: half yesterday made it was. It was uninspiring from both teams,
Speaker 3: like it was there for the taking and all one
Speaker 3: team had to do after about twenty minutes was complete.
Speaker 3: The next five sets, they would have scored one or
Speaker 3: two tries. I thought the Tigers obviously got their game together,
Speaker 3: defended pretty well for the majority of the game. But
Speaker 3: the reason why they got to think it was sixteen
Speaker 3: l at halftime is with fatigue and both teams not
Speaker 3: playing well, anyone with footwork that had energy that went
Speaker 3: to the contest and did.
Speaker 4: Something fast came up with a play.
Speaker 3: Luckie Galvin came up with one, and Durine Buller on
Speaker 3: that kick return all of a sudden just saw tired,
Speaker 3: lazy defenders and went for it. So there's one thing
Speaker 3: that I thought Jerome Lee should have with appy Corus.
Speaker 3: How was there was acres of space in the middle
Speaker 3: third of the field in the paramount of defense if
Speaker 3: they had have just used some of that forward momentum
Speaker 3: from Tyrell may quick play the ball, run scoot run
Speaker 3: as opposed to pass past pass because there was a
Speaker 3: couple of players. I just thought from the Tigers that
Speaker 3: was static, it was slow. It was just this is
Speaker 3: a training run. Will stop pass, stop pass, stop pass.
Speaker 3: Paramatta's defense ate them up and there was an error,
Speaker 3: but just needed to be more dynamic as opposed to
Speaker 3: has been.
Speaker 4: Yeah, passes the ball become runners.
Speaker 1: What we're seeing, coops, with the tendencies in the game,
Speaker 1: I'm looking where these upsets are driven by and good
Speaker 1: performances are driven by. And it's a lot of times
Speaker 1: the outside backs getting into the middle because with the
Speaker 1: fast rucks, I just said, that's where the space and
Speaker 1: making those big opposition middles miss and fatiguing them and
Speaker 1: it all just rolls from there. Yeah, the Tigers in
Speaker 1: the first half, coops, they lack decisiveness in that first
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, watching them and watching them come out of yardage,
Speaker 1: I didn't know whether they want to go forward or
Speaker 1: they want to push it through the hands.
Speaker 2: There was a little bit of this, little bit.
Speaker 1: Of that, and that's a consequence Jerome and Lucky Galvin
Speaker 1: put themselves under a bit of pressure. If the Tigers,
Speaker 1: I think he'd be far better served, no fuss coming
Speaker 1: out of trouble. Right drive, drive, drive, drive, Get yourself
Speaker 1: in a position maybe for an attacking kick.
Speaker 2: Knock it down the other end. If you want to
Speaker 2: push the ball wide and this opportunity, just get it there.
Speaker 2: But there was just at.
Speaker 1: Times in that first thirty minutes they were betwixt and between.
Speaker 3: I like what Lucky Galvin brings like he's energetic, like
Speaker 3: he just wants to be involved. He'll turn up on
Speaker 3: the left hand short side, he'd be two passes wide
Speaker 3: on the right. He's just wanting to be involved in
Speaker 3: the game. He needs to hold onto that. I think
Speaker 3: Jerome Leui doesn't need to fall into this game manager
Speaker 3: with the seventies back where he just shovel pass, shovel pass,
Speaker 3: and when he steps he's stepping sideways. I think he
Speaker 3: needs to go forward. Yeah, all his good stuff at
Speaker 3: Penrith when he was running he had forward momentum and
Speaker 3: then it was left foot, left foot. He just needs
Speaker 3: to get back into being run the ball, because if
Speaker 3: he had a round the ball yesterday, I'm pretty certain
Speaker 3: he scores a try, sets up another and it's a
Speaker 3: more dominant performance.
Speaker 2: Halfway through the year.
Speaker 1: Last year, when Origin just emerged, he found his best
Speaker 1: football because there was more step accelerate rather than step
Speaker 1: and step, and you know he's you can see at
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 2: There were a few things during the game.
Speaker 1: I watched him and he was trying to corral the
Speaker 1: players into shape and I was struggling getting there.
Speaker 2: There was once from a.
Speaker 1: Scrum, a player was supposed to run a certain line.
Speaker 2: He didn't.
Speaker 1: He missed his cue. I saw Jerome get into him.
Speaker 1: He's wrestling with a lot of that stuff at the moment.
Speaker 1: To come from a system in Penrith where the players
Speaker 1: are locked into position, you see blokes, two or three
Speaker 1: blokes at a time, swinging from edge to wedge. It's
Speaker 1: so coordinated. And to be in that machine for a
Speaker 1: long time then suddenly go into a new team with
Speaker 1: new combinations and trying to corral them, it's very difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a player in the second half earlier.
Speaker 3: It was it was ripped. It was slow, it was bad.
Speaker 3: It was shovel pass. Shovel pass end up being an
Speaker 3: error on the on the on the extreme side. But
Speaker 3: if it had just been maybe dummy half front, just
Speaker 3: forward through us, then Jerome gets it and he might
Speaker 3: bounce off his left and go forward and there's a
Speaker 3: inside pass.
Speaker 1: You know, all these things they'll be able to tinker with.
Speaker 1: I think they'd be Tiger's fans going Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Boys. We did win, which they did, like.
Speaker 1: You know, and I thought, with how coming back dream Buller,
Speaker 1: I had a feeling they're going to do a job
Speaker 1: on paramatter. At the moment, paramatter in a very dark place.
Speaker 1: But but I think there were some things in that game.
Speaker 1: For if your Tiger supporter gives you of optimism where
Speaker 1: their season can go.
Speaker 3: There's something great about our game when the Tigers are
Speaker 3: winning and smiling. Oh yeah, they were through Ofver scored
Speaker 3: a couple, he was pumped up, the crowd was getting involved.
Speaker 4: But what do you make a para matter.
Speaker 2: Look at the moment.
Speaker 1: A lot of those young rookies just find themselves at
Speaker 1: the moment out of their depths. A lot of them
Speaker 1: have come into the side at the same time. I
Speaker 1: don't know many teams in the modern era where all
Speaker 1: young guys just come into his side and suddenly everything clicks.
Speaker 1: You go through hard times. I remember that Manly Side
Speaker 1: and Canberra with a green Machine. Guys come through and
Speaker 1: they sort of picked up and they were surrounded by
Speaker 1: a lot of experience as well. So they're in a
Speaker 1: very very difficult situation and Coops they're operating without their
Speaker 1: steering well, which is Mitchell moses that that makes things
Speaker 1: very very difficult. I feel for Jason Rowles's walked into
Speaker 1: excuse the French a complete shit fight, you know, with
Speaker 1: Dylan Brown leaving and all these other factors.
Speaker 3: I will say this, I picked up something interesting. Lomax
Speaker 3: was the big off season signing. Wanted to play center,
Speaker 3: wants to dominate the center position. He's spent three months
Speaker 3: sort of practicing the yard of defending back in the centers.
Speaker 3: He does get caught out against Melbourne Storm a couple
Speaker 3: of times, but then to start the game on the weekend,
Speaker 3: he's defending on the wing and attacking in the centers,
Speaker 3: which I thought was I don't know if it was
Speaker 3: Lomax's call Jason's call, but that was a little bit
Speaker 3: strange to see that unfolded.
Speaker 1: I actually, if I'm Jason, I like that, Coops, because
Speaker 1: I think Jason Rowles looks at the team and says, right,
Speaker 1: where are my experienced guys?
Speaker 2: Who are the guys that can win a game for me?
Speaker 1: And there's only a couple there, and he's one of them.
Speaker 1: And I think he looks at it rosy and says, look,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to work out a system of play
Speaker 1: where i can get as much as I can out
Speaker 1: of Zach. Look, I don't think Zach has a problem
Speaker 1: doing that. It's the guy he plays alongside, you know,
Speaker 1: he mirrors it. He's got to do the opposite. That's
Speaker 1: typically three young player.
Speaker 3: And I will say this, I think Junior Barlow needs
Speaker 3: to lead at those stages. Yesterday Did he fly out
Speaker 3: of line and try and rattle the Tiger's defender? Did
Speaker 3: skittle defenders carrying the ball like he just needs to lead.
Speaker 1: The concern Coops in Paramatta is that when the Tigers scored,
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of areas both sides, but Penrith
Speaker 1: dug him defensively and they repelled him a few times.
Speaker 1: But once the Tigers got that first try, you could
Speaker 1: see their defensive effort start to subside, and that tried
Speaker 1: before halftime just killed them.
Speaker 2: On a On another note, what about your Roosters. In
Speaker 2: my time in rugby league, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 2: a bigger upset.
Speaker 1: I remember the Roosters one year winning the competition and
Speaker 1: the goal case sped him in the last game of
Speaker 1: the round, which are about ten eleven to one. But
Speaker 1: who thinks about odds and winning money? But that one
Speaker 1: eleven to one to start the game. The Roosters look coops.
Speaker 1: They scored thirty eight points. But upsets are driven by
Speaker 1: defense and high pressure defense. Defense within defense wins matches,
Speaker 1: defense wins comps because defenses desire.
Speaker 2: That's what it is.
Speaker 1: And you can see they'd burned their bondet after the
Speaker 1: week before, and rightfully so. Their sword had been sharpened
Speaker 1: by all the criticism. And let's not take anything away
Speaker 1: from the Roosters, but they came up against a side
Speaker 1: who all week have been told you're going to win
Speaker 1: by fifty sixty points, eleven to one, twelve to one.
Speaker 1: Is this the biggest despised outsiders in modern history of
Speaker 1: the game. And I got no doubt that bled into them.
Speaker 1: Now what fed that was Alimity scoring that frightfully That's
Speaker 1: where they scored and I thought to myself, wow this
Speaker 1: is and I reckon They probably thought the same thing.
Speaker 3: And one thing for the Roosters was Panthers probably played
Speaker 3: an average game. They still scored thirty two points and
Speaker 3: they went within a centimeter potentially sent it to golden points.
Speaker 3: So the ability for Penrith, even though they're not playing
Speaker 3: well is to still compete on every play.
Speaker 1: We've seen this previous seasons have we you know, they
Speaker 1: build into their year and they have a game like
Speaker 1: this last year they knocked over by Wigan and a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago though they'll beat in the early rounds.
Speaker 3: But I think one thing that the Roosters did well
Speaker 3: is probably the first time in a while, the tall
Speaker 3: timber of say Daniel Tupo and Dominic Young really exposed
Speaker 3: sort of doing Edwards Bryan Tott and the smaller back
Speaker 3: three where they were just jumping up and catching everything
Speaker 3: or competing for things.
Speaker 4: And I think Melbourne actually.
Speaker 3: Did it at Penrith when they beat them basically for
Speaker 3: the minor premiership at home last year too, So that
Speaker 3: might be something that teams with bigger our side bags
Speaker 3: might try and do.
Speaker 1: A lot of Not a lot has been made of this,
Speaker 1: but the move from Penrith Park or Blue Belt Stadium
Speaker 1: to Combat.
Speaker 2: Will be it will be a factor this year.
Speaker 4: How big a fact of that.
Speaker 1: As far as minor premierships like I still see them
Speaker 1: in the top four.
Speaker 2: But put it this way, Coops, I reckon Penrith Park.
Speaker 1: I reckon a lot of size that would travel out
Speaker 1: there on a Friday or Saturday night would be beaten
Speaker 1: before they get off the bus. It's just such a
Speaker 1: tough place to win. And it's just that that's say
Speaker 1: it's a furnace with all the Panthers fans. I liken
Speaker 1: it Coop to the Broncos. In the early nineties, early
Speaker 1: actually right through the mid nineties, they moved out of
Speaker 1: Lange Park while it was getting redone and they went
Speaker 1: to a Q two stadium iet what it was called
Speaker 1: sixty four thousand people.
Speaker 2: It was such it was an awful place to play.
Speaker 2: Although there were.
Speaker 1: Sixty thousand people, it was a long way away, a
Speaker 1: little bit like the old Stadium Australia when it was
Speaker 1: the Olympic track on there. But the Broncos loved it
Speaker 1: because it was such a tough place to go, and
Speaker 1: you did. I didn't like playing there, and the parents
Speaker 1: didn't like playing there. Their win rate was about damn
Speaker 1: good side but coops. Then they moved back to their
Speaker 1: home sun Corp Stadium.
Speaker 2: But everyone else loved me. The other sides love playing
Speaker 2: there as well.
Speaker 4: I'll give you that.
Speaker 3: I think some teams that played pen at Penweth Park
Speaker 3: would have been half beaten before they arrived. But I
Speaker 3: think Penrith, on the other hand, have this mindset of
Speaker 3: they'll play anyone anywhere. I don't know if Penrith would
Speaker 3: suffer from not playing at home because they've just got
Speaker 3: this ability to play the core play at some court,
Speaker 3: play at Las Vegas still get the job done. But
Speaker 3: I'll give you the tip that maybe other teams feel
Speaker 3: a little bit more happier that they don't have to
Speaker 3: go to.
Speaker 1: What about you, blokes, the Old Olympic Park. What a
Speaker 1: mass of a place that was, What an awful place.
Speaker 1: And then you move into Amy Park and like the
Speaker 1: winning continues, but for opposing teams, such a better place
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 3: So in winter at the Old Olympic Park, Bellamy would
Speaker 3: never let us wear a jumper. It's three degrees outside
Speaker 3: on a Saturday night. Refuse for us to run out
Speaker 3: and the warm up and wear a jumper. But he
Speaker 3: always said, if the opposition's wearing a jacket, we've got
Speaker 3: a beat before they start. And you run out for
Speaker 3: warm up and you see maybe six of the guys
Speaker 3: wearing their hoodie or a bit of a jackety go.
Speaker 4: Yep, we've got them tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, another side, who the upsets? Yeah? The upset? Well,
Speaker 2: let's it's Warriors.
Speaker 1: I loved about the Warriors that they robbed to self
Speaker 1: correct themselves after Vegas. I thought in Vegas they just
Speaker 1: they pushed the ball unnecessarily to the edge all the
Speaker 1: time trying to create. When you've got two, you got
Speaker 1: seven and six there in Metcalf and Schnelle who knew
Speaker 1: that are really game managers.
Speaker 2: So you need Wade Eagan to be the.
Speaker 1: Focal point of your attack and lead the attack. And
Speaker 1: they enable to do that because they did less. They centralized.
Speaker 1: They play far more north south, and with Egan running
Speaker 1: the show in the middle, it allowed Metcalf and Chanelle
Speaker 1: to sit back and actually play to their strengths.
Speaker 2: Run the football.
Speaker 3: I thought Egan was good, and I will say this
Speaker 3: about the Warriors. A lot of people wrote them off
Speaker 3: after their Vegas performance, and if you go back and
Speaker 3: watch the manly game, I think Turbo scored within the
Speaker 3: first few minutes. The Warriors actually come up with some
Speaker 3: pretty poor play inside the first ten minutes, like some
Speaker 3: really disconnected play, but the temperament of Egan, but Metcalf
Speaker 3: as well to hold their nerve and then hit the
Speaker 3: gas and come up some pretty good football. Metcalf is
Speaker 3: a running half back and once he loses that strength,
Speaker 3: I think the Warriors will struggle.
Speaker 4: So he needs to run the ball a lot.
Speaker 1: And I like Chanelle too. Chanelle in Vegas really only
Speaker 1: ran the ball once. He's a beautiful, sweet left foot.
Speaker 1: He went bang, went half through and you can see
Speaker 1: he'd gone back. Had to look at his game and
Speaker 1: realized he was just trying to finest the ball around
Speaker 1: get back to his strength. About four or five times
Speaker 1: against mainly he come off the left and went half through.
Speaker 3: So Webster was at Penrith and sort of contribute to
Speaker 3: the attacking system that they run out there, and he's
Speaker 3: bought that to the Warriors and metcalf runs the cleary system.
Speaker 3: You've got Harris Tavita on the left and you've got
Speaker 3: Charms on the right, and the threat of running that
Speaker 3: metcalf provides it opens up some passing lanes for everyone else.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing like oftentimes, Coop.
Speaker 1: We always think traditionally if fords go forward as the
Speaker 1: crowd space for the halves, but sometimes the halves can
Speaker 1: take you forward as well. You know, check off a
Speaker 1: right foot metcalf off of right foot, goes halfway through,
Speaker 1: Wade Egan sweeps the way he goes, you know, just
Speaker 1: building off that fast momentum.
Speaker 3: And one of the other upsets was the Raiders the
Speaker 3: fancied Broncos.
Speaker 4: That was a coaching.
Speaker 3: Master class from Ricky, like he's been doing it a
Speaker 3: long time. But everyone expected Brisbane to go there and
Speaker 3: dominate like they did the Roosters. And it looks like
Speaker 3: Ricky did the old no tarpany but did the old
Speaker 3: like you know, how you match up the player for
Speaker 3: player and say, hey, you need to dominate your opposition players. Tonight,
Speaker 3: what probably in Hawesbury did to stop pass and Carrigan tremendous.
Speaker 2: And zach Oskin too yep, Zach was very very good.
Speaker 3: Very good, and then Foggy outplayed Reynolds. Like it's almost
Speaker 3: that Ricky did the old individual matchup and so you
Speaker 3: dominate your individual player and we'll go on and win.
Speaker 1: And Jina Coop watching that game, it's like I've always
Speaker 1: been a strong believer, always been a strong believer. Is
Speaker 1: that every team must develop their own unique.
Speaker 2: Style of playing. Right. So if you've got a unique stra.
Speaker 1: Particularly if you're a club who's you know, toward the
Speaker 1: bottom end around the mid table, if you want to
Speaker 1: beat the top size, you can't play Diet Melbourne, Diet Penrith.
Speaker 1: You have to establish your own special style of football
Speaker 1: and then and if you can impose that style on
Speaker 1: the contest, you can cause an upset. That's what the
Speaker 1: Raiders have got. Raiders are playing very different to everyone.
Speaker 1: There's such a fast moving site. Everyone's got footwork. They
Speaker 1: bring those young, fast guys through the middle, make the
Speaker 1: big opposition forwards miss and they just build from there.
Speaker 1: I just like the fact that they have got their
Speaker 1: own style. That is crucial to their success.
Speaker 3: Well said Chris has started really well. Timiko on the
Speaker 3: other side very good. So they've got threat to go
Speaker 3: apart on either side of the park, and they're forwards.
Speaker 4: That's their strength. That's ultimately about strange.
Speaker 1: Just two sides who are on the end of those
Speaker 1: upsets until wet Broncos. And second, but mainly we said
Speaker 1: last week, manly, you've got to be careful about falling
Speaker 1: in love with mainly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when they're on their on and when they're bad,
Speaker 3: they're bad. And we said that against the Cowboys that
Speaker 3: when they get they're attacking mindset on, they are great.
Speaker 3: But can they defend the long periods of time? Can
Speaker 3: they play when slow play the balls?
Speaker 1: All that thing comes to their style of game and
Speaker 1: the Broncos well, I managed said after the game he
Speaker 1: said he's found out some new things about his sight.
Speaker 2: Didn't say what they were.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing that Michael McGuire showed a lot of opportunities
Speaker 3: for the Broncos to score points. This is me guessing
Speaker 3: because he said, I've learned a lot about my team
Speaker 3: and how to get them ready. And sometimes when you
Speaker 3: show a lot of vision to let's say Reese Walsh
Speaker 3: and Ben Han and all those guys, about how much
Speaker 3: opportunity there is a score points if you get the
Speaker 3: roll of sleeves up and do the dirty work first.
Speaker 3: You go straight into try assist mode. And Walsh had
Speaker 3: some errors. But knowing Michael McGuire from his history, I
Speaker 3: think he may have been a bit too how can
Speaker 3: I say, fluffy in his approach maybe and too positive.
Speaker 3: Maybe he had to dial it back and say, hey,
Speaker 3: we're playing at Ricky Stewart here, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a dog.
Speaker 2: For well, that's what Ricky would have done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, regardless of their victory in Vegas, Ricky would have
Speaker 1: found a way through the week be agitated about something
Speaker 1: that puts his sides on their toes.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing, coops. If you're you're a top
Speaker 2: line team and.
Speaker 1: You want to beat an underdog, you beat an underdog
Speaker 1: by playing like an underdog.
Speaker 2: That's what Penrith's is such a great side.
Speaker 1: Regardless over the last four years, who've they've come up
Speaker 1: against is the generally exception the other night, but they
Speaker 1: have an established style of football. They're ruthless with working
Speaker 1: down the field, kick down the far end, pin the
Speaker 1: opposition against their line and just beat the shit out
Speaker 1: of them and take your game from there. A little
Speaker 1: bit like talking about the sports is like Jordan's Chicago
Speaker 1: bulls would come up against sides who will be all
Speaker 1: fired up to beat them, but Jordan riding those bulls.
Speaker 1: The nature of Jordan and what a competitor he was. Again,
Speaker 1: they would beat underdogs with an underdog mentality.
Speaker 4: What about the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Dolphins, they've been really disappointing the first week. You could
Speaker 2: forgive it, Coops, because all.
Speaker 1: The circumstances with the floods and keymen didn't come down.
Speaker 1: But they'll pour against Newcastle. The concern, Coop was how
Speaker 1: slow moving it was. I could see what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do a little bit like we said about the
Speaker 1: Warriors in their first round in Vegas, is that they
Speaker 1: are trying to find creativity and points by going wide
Speaker 1: all the time. And if you're going to strip numbers, Coop,
Speaker 1: as you know, is that the immediacy is that whether
Speaker 1: it's off the seven or the nine or the six,
Speaker 1: that first little bit that your play to the sweep
Speaker 1: option has got to be so tight and so fast
Speaker 1: to start that stripping process.
Speaker 2: They are so loose and so slow they just ended
Speaker 2: up in the green stand.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: They look like they are working to a field position,
Speaker 3: just slowly and one out and then they run their
Speaker 3: main play and they go, why didn't that work. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you why it didn't work. There's zero rock speed
Speaker 3: ability to create a quicker play the ball, and it
Speaker 3: just was sidewise, sideways, sideways, and Cartower set up one
Speaker 3: and scored one. And if you go back and look,
Speaker 3: he actually changes speed and that's the reason why he
Speaker 3: scores and sets one up because he goes from slow
Speaker 3: to fast and it catches his defense out.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: So they need a little bit more athleticism play the
Speaker 3: ball speed and just something to get the fence not
Speaker 3: moving forward, staying back.
Speaker 2: It was interesting that game just was watching trends.
Speaker 1: Newcast most and Newcastles tries come as a result of
Speaker 1: a certain shape called split shape, which is one under
Speaker 1: one short he can go out the back with. It's
Speaker 1: a really good run pass option play. And both both
Speaker 1: the Dolphins tries come of that same shape. It's good
Speaker 1: for Katoa and it's good for players like Calum Ponga
Speaker 1: and the Fletcher Sharp because it enables you to run
Speaker 1: still that pass option.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if Carto hadn't changed speed, he doesn't go
Speaker 3: through through that That was the thing for me, seeing
Speaker 3: that everything else was slow, but he went fast and
Speaker 3: that changed the play.
Speaker 2: Got some concerns around the Cowboys season that sort.
Speaker 1: For the game, Toddy Peyton said, they asked what are
Speaker 1: you looking for? He used words to the extent of
Speaker 1: I want my side looking for collision, chase the collision,
Speaker 1: which means he wants them to play physical, he wants
Speaker 1: them to play tough. And I don't think they got
Speaker 1: the mema.
Speaker 4: No they are.
Speaker 3: They are so inconsistent, Like they beat the Melbourne Storm
Speaker 3: in the last week of the preseason and looked good
Speaker 3: and then there are two round games this year, I
Speaker 3: mean very poor. I will say this that defensively, that's
Speaker 3: ultimately where it sits that they need to be way
Speaker 3: better one physical but also decision making on their edges.
Speaker 3: But when you've got people like Eden and drink Water,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, I think you need back rollers that
Speaker 3: are arrow straight going down the field, catching the eye
Speaker 3: of defenders. So Didon can do his show and go
Speaker 3: and go through and drink Water can do his thing
Speaker 3: as well. When you've got back roles that want to
Speaker 3: be passed the ball early or want to go underneath
Speaker 3: all the time. It's not good for someone's dynamic like Didon.
Speaker 3: So defensively, they need to improve one thousand percent one
Speaker 3: of their attacking stuff. They need straight runners to help
Speaker 3: Diden and drink water do their.
Speaker 2: Thing to sink coops getting the ball.
Speaker 1: Players were wandering across the field, Players were overrunning them.
Speaker 1: Players were running the wrong running the wrong gaps. They
Speaker 1: are running into.
Speaker 2: Each other at points. It was for a team.
Speaker 1: My knock always in the last few years on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys is that they defend like they're just waiting to
Speaker 1: get the ball back. Hasn't been a problem with their attack.
Speaker 1: They love attacking. But the other night their attack was shocking.
Speaker 3: But that's so hard to fathom because the year was
Speaker 3: it twenty twenty two. They were all about defense was
Speaker 3: they were all about chasing.
Speaker 2: It had the balance right, yep.
Speaker 3: And now if you put attack above defense for some
Speaker 3: reason since nineteenla, being attack mined doesn't help your defense,
Speaker 3: but being defense minded helps your.
Speaker 2: Attack most definitely.
Speaker 1: And the Warriors, the Warriors have wrestled that the last
Speaker 1: couple of years as well. When they had that really
Speaker 1: successful season in twenty twenty three, if you look at
Speaker 1: the way they started the season. It was very conservative football.
Speaker 1: It was let's conserve most of our energy by getting
Speaker 1: into defensively, and things stemmed off that. I thought last
Speaker 1: year they ventured away from that round one against the Raiders,
Speaker 1: they ventured away round two. They get back to that,
Speaker 1: get back to that blueprint that work served them so well.
Speaker 4: Another zero to two team, the Dragons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Flane's comments about luck nearly is he would have liked
Speaker 1: to take those words back.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it was really strange and it's hard to
Speaker 3: comment because you're not in the sanctum.
Speaker 4: You don't know.
Speaker 3: Lachlan Newis didn't play his best game. It's round two,
Speaker 3: young half back, new to the club, and he had
Speaker 3: a little crack at him. Well, no, it didn't. He
Speaker 3: actually he didn't defend him when a reporter asked, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I find it strange. He knows Elie is better than
Speaker 3: you and I, but he also knows what it takes
Speaker 3: to when a young half gets criticized, how hard that
Speaker 3: can be to come back.
Speaker 1: From, particularly with Lachlan because you can see he's pretty sensitive.
Speaker 2: Young Blake.
Speaker 1: You just get the sense of playmakers. There's some playmakers
Speaker 1: like a munster, like if you go with him all
Speaker 1: you want, go on the press conference, kick him out
Speaker 1: the ass, whatever. He'll just respond to it. But there's
Speaker 1: other players who don't respond to that. And Lachlan's had
Speaker 1: a very difficult last eight months at saus you know,
Speaker 1: leaving there, he's gone through through a lot.
Speaker 2: And so I know that I know Flannel has rung
Speaker 2: him and apologize. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I don't think a private apology equates to.
Speaker 3: A public's interesting to see how that happens, because you know, again,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just judging from the outside looking in,
Speaker 3: Like him and Flannagan bent Hunt had.
Speaker 4: Their issues whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and let's see if flaklands Maybe he just.
Speaker 1: Doesn't like half backs Flanner, who knows he doesn't like you?
Speaker 1: And I yeah, well after tonight, I reckon he won't. Hey,
Speaker 1: just before we go, well under the Bulldogs they have
Speaker 1: with a lot of expectation on their shoulders. Two tricky games.
Speaker 1: First up, they've looked fantastic kick out Burton kick out button. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a test. Interesting to see what
Speaker 1: they'll do. If Toby Sexton then Drew Hutcheson can work together,
Speaker 1: play together, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Might a little bit pass happy.
Speaker 1: He might look to put a big, big, rugged, strong
Speaker 1: body in the six jersey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like from defensively, I think they still have
Speaker 3: the mojo to work for each other and stop up opposition.
Speaker 3: But just confidence and belief and presence that you know,
Speaker 3: Toby Sexton or someone else looks over the other side
Speaker 3: of the field on their left side and there's no
Speaker 3: Burton kickout there. When they put it together, the left
Speaker 3: side is red hot with a threat to kick out.
Speaker 3: A good balance of what Burt was doing before he
Speaker 3: got in.
Speaker 1: Cherry ye yeah, yeah, Burton, that's such such a weapon.
Speaker 1: We talked about how Penris Breton butter is kick long
Speaker 1: or kick high and pin.
Speaker 2: Them on their own line.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what Burton's good at, those satanic bombs he
Speaker 1: puts up.
Speaker 2: Please leave me out of that