Speaker 1: Better than the Lego, better than Lego, Magic Grand Coops.
Speaker 2: How good?
Speaker 3: It was fantastic. You're right, I'm good mate. Now excuse
Speaker 3: me if I'm a little bit vague in I saw,
Speaker 3: I saw plenty.
Speaker 2: What was the best part? Was good answer? The only
Speaker 2: in formnutes and foot you saw.
Speaker 3: So Trish went up, she went up, your wife. She
Speaker 3: went up there to curb my enthusiasm and she failed miserably,
Speaker 3: but it was good fun. We had the Family podcast
Speaker 3: live on the Saturday. Then we went across the road
Speaker 3: to Fletching behind his eighties party one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: Red Dagans.
Speaker 2: So you've got this.
Speaker 4: Jackson Street, let's say lunchtime Thursday, and you're left there
Speaker 4: just before your show on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Something like that, something like that, you know, the good
Speaker 3: thing about like great thing about magic around Coops, not
Speaker 3: one drama, well not drunk, you know, everyone.
Speaker 2: For you or you mean in general.
Speaker 3: General generally generally, it's just like everyone is so buoyed.
Speaker 3: It was. It was fantastic.
Speaker 4: It's good and it's great to see that Brisbane got
Speaker 4: it for another couple of years because it's grown and grown,
Speaker 4: and the fact that it's like the epicenter of the
Speaker 4: rugby league world for a couple of days. Brisbane knocked
Speaker 4: it out of the ballpark. The players delivered to the
Speaker 4: games were great.
Speaker 3: Because a lot of people are saying there's a lot
Speaker 3: of stars missing, what are the games going to be like?
Speaker 4: And talking about stars mission like the moment for me
Speaker 4: of the whole round, like the Warriors were under pressure but.
Speaker 2: D to a pick. Oh, like, did you see that?
Speaker 2: Did you manage to catch? I saw that.
Speaker 4: I thought it was terrific because the kids played only
Speaker 4: a few games of first grade and the Warriors under
Speaker 4: immense pressure against the three time premiers and this kid
Speaker 4: just comes out the back of shape scores a try.
Speaker 4: Not only does he score it first and I'll try,
Speaker 4: he has to take the ball back with a few
Speaker 4: minutes on the clock and nail that kick. So hell
Speaker 4: of a performance because you saw them after the victory
Speaker 4: like it was just that they needed it.
Speaker 3: There they certainly. I'm the guy that David Armstrong for
Speaker 3: Newcastle has been a revelation. It's been incredible. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: did his ACL a couple of years ago and he's
Speaker 3: sort of come out of nowhere. I was watching the
Speaker 3: New South Wales Cup one day he took the ball
Speaker 3: and shot off and I thought, you've got to be
Speaker 3: something this kid. But the way he's elevated himself, come
Speaker 3: into first grade and he's just getting better with every performance.
Speaker 4: He's got a good temperament too, Like you see when
Speaker 4: he gets interviewed after the game, he's not over the top.
Speaker 2: He's pretty humble and.
Speaker 3: When he scores a try, he just turns and he
Speaker 3: just walks back there. He's just booked poker face.
Speaker 4: And you said they're on the upward trajectory last week
Speaker 4: and the fact that it's Kalen's at star right, but
Speaker 4: it's almost like, let's say Kaln's ten out of ten.
Speaker 4: It's almost like every other player's picked up one point
Speaker 4: in their game to cover the loss because they're doing
Speaker 4: all the little basic things that you need to and
Speaker 4: if they can hold on to that, yes and bring
Speaker 4: him back, they strong star in the team somewhere else.
Speaker 2: But it could be a blessing disguis really player with
Speaker 2: their own.
Speaker 4: Nico heines for me, they beat Melbourne last week, had
Speaker 4: roosters on the weekend and there was talk around easy
Speaker 4: in the Origin team Easy Night and he absolutely delivered
Speaker 4: a last class performance. If anyone had some reservations where
Speaker 4: he's in the origent team, not after this.
Speaker 3: He's got the Jewsey.
Speaker 4: I think the one thing that lit it up for
Speaker 4: me is if you go to Magic Around, you're playing
Speaker 4: the roosters and you're own a little bit of pressures
Speaker 4: a halfback, you're probably going to be conservative to get
Speaker 4: in the game. His first touch, ranted on the fifth play,
Speaker 4: got the ball back and sign they scored.
Speaker 2: In the first Yeah, it was a turn.
Speaker 3: I was really impressed young Ethan Strange. I was really
Speaker 3: impressed with him. I was oppressed by the Raiders. We've
Speaker 3: said it many times. The Raiders know who they are.
Speaker 3: They're a tough, gritty side, and I just thought, yeah,
Speaker 3: without Jamal Foggery, Ethan Stranger is really and he's really
Speaker 3: picked up. I love about it. One thing is I
Speaker 3: really look when he came into first grade, see that
Speaker 3: neat left foot and he had really good acceleration. But
Speaker 3: now you see how he's using his spoon and acceleration
Speaker 3: to enhance his ballplayer like put Hudson through very very clever.
Speaker 4: Slow fast, get to the defense quickly and put HUDs
Speaker 4: and three and good defense too. A couple of good
Speaker 4: tackles have got all that, yes as well, and one
Speaker 4: of the performances of the weekend because the ninety four
Speaker 4: Raiders were in the house celebrating and two sinnbins around halftime.
Speaker 4: They're under pressure. Ricky signed an extension during the week
Speaker 4: the emotion of everything came through and they would have
Speaker 4: added one hell of a party on the.
Speaker 3: Talk about the ninety four Raiders in a second tab
Speaker 3: your why feeder watching him how he runs it is
Speaker 3: just I reckon Like you look at him. I'd love
Speaker 3: to see him like a two hundred met or four
Speaker 3: hundred meter like if he had dedicated himself to athletics,
Speaker 3: and you look at it, just the way he moves
Speaker 3: like it looks like a gold medalist.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think anyone who lights it up is look
Speaker 4: like they're doing it in second gear, right. And he
Speaker 4: was good and timely too because a couple of the
Speaker 4: tries that he scored were crucial in the Tiger's game.
Speaker 4: And the other thing too is some injuries and he
Speaker 4: had to come back in case your origin and things
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: So tray Fuller just a little bit of a.
Speaker 2: Just a little bit back and get the job done.
Speaker 3: You ninety four Raiders were great to see the ninety
Speaker 3: four Raiders there we run through their Grand final team.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good. Talk to me Brett Mullins, fullback wingers
Speaker 3: Kenen Aegus and Noan, Andrew Ker, Sanatas, Reuben Wicki and
Speaker 3: malman Inger. They could really beat you.
Speaker 2: I would have got out of the right of the mate.
Speaker 3: He had lur Daily, Ricky Stewart in the halfs. Up front,
Speaker 3: you had Quentin Pongier rest in peace, Steve Walters. Interesting,
Speaker 3: Paul Osborne, I'll go back to that. What Jason Tutsi, Croker,
Speaker 3: Dave Ferner, Bradley Clyde. What was the interesting about that
Speaker 3: side was that Johnny Lomax was upfront for all the
Speaker 3: season but he got suspended for the Grand Final. Really
Speaker 3: cruel bloke Johnny and they and they put Ozzie in there,
Speaker 3: Paul Osbourne and it was just people looked and said,
Speaker 3: you know, it's a surprise selection by Tim Sheens where
Speaker 3: he set up the first two tries in the twenty
Speaker 3: minutes and then got subbed off. So certainly did his job.
Speaker 3: The ninety four Raiders. And we said this from the
Speaker 3: podcast We're far and away the best side I ever
Speaker 3: played against. Coops.
Speaker 2: One of the best in history, right.
Speaker 3: One of the best.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I would actually I'd love to see in your twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: So I'd take them ninety four Raiders. I thought I.
Speaker 4: Would have got to the road of Wicked Mountain. They
Speaker 4: would have just strolled straight through for hat trick each.
Speaker 3: I'd tear what they were good at, Coops. They were
Speaker 3: excellent on both sides of the game. Now when you
Speaker 3: played against them, they just burned out of gas with
Speaker 3: how well they used the football. They played a lot
Speaker 3: of sidelines to sideline Ricky's with just knock it out
Speaker 3: to Laurie Daily. I tell what he needs to do sometimes, Ricky,
Speaker 3: because you've got Meninger and Wiki out there. So you go, mate,
Speaker 3: We've got to get off the line quick. And so
Speaker 3: Ricky would shape long like he was going to go
Speaker 3: to Lorry and you're spread up, and he turned further
Speaker 3: underneath all of a sudden, Yeah, you go on back
Speaker 3: twenty five meters a little bit. The Coops when they
Speaker 3: turned the ball over to you, mate, they just beat
Speaker 3: the hell out of you. They were not just to
Speaker 3: bring it attacking side, But how tough they were defensively
Speaker 3: has been underestimated.
Speaker 4: And I give Ricky a rap here because sometimes too
Speaker 4: much emotion can be over the top and your players
Speaker 4: sort of lose the impact. But try and tell Ricky
Speaker 4: Stewart that he didn't get it right on the weekend.
Speaker 4: His team had two sinbins around halftime, his team's down,
Speaker 4: the Bulldogs called multiple tries in that period. Isn't it halftime?
Speaker 4: He's got the ninety four Raiders in the back of
Speaker 4: his mind. He was a part of it, and it
Speaker 4: was a gritty, tough performance. Hudson Young comes up with
Speaker 4: Eastern strange, couple of big plays and they put it
Speaker 4: all together and they had the big celebration the next day.
Speaker 2: It was one hell of a weekend if you're a
Speaker 2: Raiders fan, because they.
Speaker 4: Just keep doing it. Like you said, the DNA of
Speaker 4: the Raiders this year. They won't beat themselves. They're going
Speaker 4: to make it really hard for you to win. And
Speaker 4: if their backs against the war they actually go better. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, that is a hell of a quality to have.
Speaker 4: They might not have strike across all the park or whatever,
Speaker 4: but I'll tell you what, you take that most.
Speaker 3: Week not the big week It was a big weekend
Speaker 3: for the Wires too. Had to win that is. I
Speaker 3: think it's probably the bravest win in Warriors' history, and
Speaker 3: it's one of the bravest wins that I've seen for
Speaker 3: a long long time. What's interesting, Coops Nashaw and Johnson
Speaker 3: lost a lot of stars before the game started, but
Speaker 3: then lost Wade Egan And when you're sitting here going well,
Speaker 3: they're certainly under the pump here.
Speaker 4: So basically a whole new spine to a picky wading
Speaker 4: when out off, Roach went in there and they went
Speaker 4: with Martin and kluk Star as the hards parent and
Speaker 4: I thought tomorrow Martin was absolutely brilliant because some of
Speaker 4: the players that he came up with were first class.
Speaker 4: As a ball play, here's the first try they set up.
Speaker 4: Watched this play short to Barnet, that's into Jack Cole.
Speaker 4: The rookie half goes back to the center of the field,
Speaker 4: and watch what he does. Here, goes back to the
Speaker 4: rookie half, pretends to play to by Barnett.
Speaker 2: Out the back, and that's their first try.
Speaker 4: That is ball playing one o one attacking the weakness
Speaker 4: because he just goes back there multiple times, forces a
Speaker 4: kid to get his head in a bad spot, resets
Speaker 4: and the kid now thinks, oh, we have to tackle
Speaker 4: Barnett again and goes in, drags him on and just
Speaker 4: plays out the back and he hesitates that a half
Speaker 4: a second.
Speaker 3: It's an unorthodox pass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he throws this one here just as good too.
Speaker 4: Just get into the line and put him up. So
Speaker 4: Isaao is off the field here. They've got a little
Speaker 4: bit of luck, but if they're going to score points
Speaker 4: against the Panthers, you've got to get on top of
Speaker 4: them while they're down to twelve men. And he comes
Speaker 4: up with two tri cysts in this period of time,
Speaker 4: the first one here and then this one over the.
Speaker 2: Other side of the field. Gets in and just gets.
Speaker 4: Eyes straight to Martin and puts Pompey straight through. So
Speaker 4: he's he stood up when Johnson was out, he stood up.
Speaker 4: And this was the match winter here see.
Speaker 3: That double partly Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Tyron Peachey comes in slightly. The double pump delayser and
Speaker 4: it gives to a Picky a chance to kick the
Speaker 4: goal as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, three tri cysts.
Speaker 4: The first player was brewined and this is a guy
Speaker 4: that wasn't playing at a high level for the month
Speaker 4: prior to.
Speaker 3: This, had been struggling.
Speaker 4: Sewan's gone and he basically just did what Sean's been doing,
Speaker 4: but better than he had been for a period of time.
Speaker 3: And you said before about Callum Pine, how that's benefit
Speaker 3: not having Calen not playing pong and ball as suited
Speaker 3: the Knights and made him strength in other areas.
Speaker 2: Same with Johnson. Clok Star was good in the sixth too, mate.
Speaker 3: I love what Clark Star did. He run, run, run
Speaker 3: all the time and coops, it's funny having that change
Speaker 3: change the spine. Losing so many stars we said before
Speaker 3: at Camber, and you know what sort of side they were.
Speaker 3: It forced the Warriors to play a more simple game.
Speaker 3: We spoke last week. In my opinion, the Warriors had
Speaker 3: lost their way in the fact that they last year
Speaker 3: in the winning games. They're starting the game quite conservative
Speaker 3: and they're building in well. It was similar.
Speaker 4: Well, the first half they had an avalanche of good
Speaker 4: ball and that only tried to Montour was the only
Speaker 4: try they scored.
Speaker 2: But they didn't look like they were cracking enough.
Speaker 4: And in the second half they got lucky with Ozao,
Speaker 4: but they come up with points when they had to.
Speaker 4: It was a hell of a victory because the emotion
Speaker 4: on every one of their faces afterwards, it was almost
Speaker 4: like a finals match.
Speaker 3: It was really good. Well, in a lot of ways,
Speaker 3: it sort of was. Coops had to arrest that slide
Speaker 3: really really quickly. Sharks prove their serious contender. We said before,
Speaker 3: they've very jigged aspects of their attack Fitsie so that
Speaker 3: can the better chance of winning big games. At the
Speaker 3: back end of the season, thought they were terrific going forward.
Speaker 3: Now Coops, I think that they've got some big games
Speaker 3: the next few weeks. It's going to be a really
Speaker 3: big test. Now I'll tell you why is they've had
Speaker 3: a lot of criticism of like people said, they've had
Speaker 3: a soft draw and sides lived with criticism, right, And
Speaker 3: apparently they spoke about that within the inner circle in
Speaker 3: the dressing room, right, and no one's given us a chance. Everyone,
Speaker 3: you know, we're winning games, but they're saying we're still
Speaker 3: not playing a right soyle of football. That criticism sharpens
Speaker 3: the sword, you know, and that's very much you know,
Speaker 3: you see that in the last few before worrmances. But
Speaker 3: now we're going to see how they handle the praise
Speaker 3: and very often praise weekends resolve and.
Speaker 4: Players should get a huge rap for what they're doing.
Speaker 4: But I think Fitzgibbon is obviously doing a tremendous job too,
Speaker 4: because a couple of weeks back said something about the
Speaker 4: soft draw and he actually came out and said, look,
Speaker 4: we are not Penrith Melbourne or the Roosters. We haven't
Speaker 4: done this over a long period time, but we're striving
Speaker 4: to get there. And he's got that criticism for the
Speaker 4: players's bubbling along that sincepiring, but he's also put a
Speaker 4: reality check and say, hey, listen, if we want to
Speaker 4: win this trophy, we're going to have to keep doing
Speaker 4: this against the good teams. It's easy to do against
Speaker 4: the team's below usk because that's what we have to do,
Speaker 4: but this is the style of play that we play
Speaker 4: and it holds up in big games. So every win
Speaker 4: or every good performance against those big teams just adds
Speaker 4: another layer of confidence, another layer of belief, and they
Speaker 4: are doing everything they have.
Speaker 3: To and coops, it's a really well balanced site given
Speaker 3: the fact a nice big pack of forwards that are
Speaker 3: playing a really good power game that make the back
Speaker 3: five the yardage game, you know, through their backs all ta.
Speaker 4: Jesse Rayman's footwork for that try that he set up
Speaker 4: was brilliant. I really liked that. Talkys the beast off
Speaker 4: the bench as well, like impacted, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 4: skilling defenders and crank quick play the balls there.
Speaker 3: So there, that's a good win. I mean, the Roosters
Speaker 3: had been playing and.
Speaker 2: They went back.
Speaker 4: The Roosters like weren't poor in their performance. They were
Speaker 4: up for it too, and they fought back after the
Speaker 4: poor start and both starts to the halves and it.
Speaker 2: Was a good game of footage, terrific just for all.
Speaker 3: The games were tight, hard from really Melbourne's I mean Melbourne,
Speaker 3: what a tear ceps. They are looking good. They're really
Speaker 3: looking good and particularly well firstly, make the monster he
Speaker 3: had the monster injury. She said. It was awful to watch.
Speaker 4: If you look at the monster injury, it looks horrendous,
Speaker 4: like he ripped something off the bone or whatever. But
Speaker 4: I've had a similar injury that what he's going through,
Speaker 4: and it was really weird to see that because it's
Speaker 4: not really a cute pain. It's literally just a numbing
Speaker 4: pain that gets worse and comes sometimes gets better and
Speaker 4: he's going to have to deal with this for the
Speaker 4: rest of the season.
Speaker 2: He needs to be on the field for Melbourne.
Speaker 3: They've been saying, well, it's been a problem all season,
Speaker 3: and I heard that he's been playing games, getting on
Speaker 3: the field, but then not training the first couple of
Speaker 3: days of the week.
Speaker 4: I've had exactly injury after a game because of all
Speaker 4: the running and all the hits and knocks. You literally
Speaker 4: struggle to walk for two or three days, and then
Speaker 4: by the end of it you start to come good.
Speaker 2: But then you're back in that vicious cycle again.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of the recovery and rehab work
Speaker 4: that goes into monthster plane every week.
Speaker 3: And when we talk about like we said about Crinulla
Speaker 3: being well balanced, Melbourne very well balanced, and they're played
Speaker 3: their football was varied for a while, they're playing a
Speaker 3: bit of sideline to sideline, then they start drilling the
Speaker 3: middle of the field.
Speaker 4: I will say this, Niko hines and was brilliant, Tomato
Speaker 4: Martin was good, but Harry Grant's performance So no Papenhausen,
Speaker 4: no Hughes. Months to goes off and I know the
Speaker 4: paramatter of paramatter, right, but his ability to just go okay,
Speaker 4: it's a little bit on me here and I'm going
Speaker 4: to have an impact craft out of dumby half speed
Speaker 4: his try like he probably shouldn't have got there, but
Speaker 4: his tenacity and.
Speaker 2: His will to compete got him there. He was good.
Speaker 2: He was up there as one of the players of
Speaker 2: the round.
Speaker 3: And we had him on the show after it and
Speaker 3: he's right up on his toes at the moment and
Speaker 3: he was saying about the captaincy, how much he enjoys
Speaker 3: the captaincy. It's been a great decision, great Bellamy and
Speaker 3: the other Blake t He's playing good Tyren Wishart because
Speaker 3: he knows his game, and a lot of young playmakers
Speaker 3: or young footballers it takes some while to really understand
Speaker 3: their game. And I just thought the last couple of performances,
Speaker 3: you see a kid who finally understands his strengths and
Speaker 3: how to play it on him because there's no you know,
Speaker 3: no subtle passes. He's just bull at the gate. Run
Speaker 3: the football.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter what position you play. Always bring your strengths
Speaker 4: to the fall like stick. If you're a runner, run
Speaker 4: the book. If you've got a good pass or kick
Speaker 4: do those things. But the other thing that underpins it
Speaker 4: is a bit like Harry Grant's example, But he just
Speaker 4: competes like he's in every frame that the Stormer in.
Speaker 4: There's every frame, if there's a line break from the opposition,
Speaker 4: he's just there.
Speaker 2: And that's a good mentality to have.
Speaker 3: A para matter. Okay, there's no ga, there's noses, but
Speaker 3: that's not good enough. Another weekend, a Brad Arthur after
Speaker 3: the game, he said, second half was just embarrassing. And
Speaker 3: now you know, like Brad finds his self under immense pressure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really hard to see what happens here from Paramatta.
Speaker 4: And the worst thing for me is that this has
Speaker 4: been trending for let's say, the best part of twelve months,
Speaker 4: eighty months. They got to that Grand Final and haven't
Speaker 4: recovered truly. He's been there for a long time. He's
Speaker 4: had his finger p all over that team, and that
Speaker 4: power game that they were known for has fallen away
Speaker 4: big time. RCG and Barlow aren't contributing a lot.
Speaker 2: So again it's yeah, I think it's waiting to sign
Speaker 2: that contract.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what's happening there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 4: They just like get like the forty minutes was that
Speaker 4: the space in the defensive line, it was exactly like
Speaker 4: the Dolphins.
Speaker 5: It was exactly like it was like dramatically, this is
Speaker 5: too hard and there was no monster from the second half,
Speaker 5: like you know, they operak without muster and they're just
Speaker 5: completely carving them up.
Speaker 4: And free coach that Brad Arthur to me, isn't a
Speaker 4: coach that sits back and says you boys, you take
Speaker 4: care of it like he's a drill sergeant. Feels like
Speaker 4: he's into into any and he's not getting a response
Speaker 4: from them at all.
Speaker 3: We said, Nico's a lock new south Wale outside him all,
Speaker 3: well with him in the halves. Well, there's no guarantee
Speaker 3: Moses going to play next week. I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 3: And Jerome Lewi, Jerome almost become the forgotten man. I
Speaker 3: thought he was outstanding. Jerome Lewi in a beaten.
Speaker 2: Let's say, if Moses plays this weekend, is he in or.
Speaker 3: It's not like the thing with Mitch. It's not like
Speaker 3: having a broken hand where you can do all your
Speaker 3: running and everything like that, you can do your kicking.
Speaker 3: Is the very fact that's been a broken foot and
Speaker 3: it hasn't been able to run. It makes it It
Speaker 3: makes it really difficult.
Speaker 2: I will say this about Jerome Leui.
Speaker 4: The most interesting person out of his performance on the
Speaker 4: weekend for me would have been Benji Marshall. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: Jerome's got this whole sort of penis system where he
Speaker 4: stays on the left hand side. Nathan does everything and
Speaker 4: he just waits for the ball and calls it whatever.
Speaker 4: But sometimes you've got to play the game to the
Speaker 4: strengths the way the game is trending, and then you're
Speaker 4: half back compliments that. But the way that he plays,
Speaker 4: like I'm thinking Benji Marshall's going, well, hold on a minute.
Speaker 4: He dominated both sides of the ball. He kicked on
Speaker 4: the left and he was first receiver, second receiver, he
Speaker 4: was floating around. Maybe he has a very big impact
Speaker 4: in the way of the Tiger's attack next year because
Speaker 4: he looked comfortable and he scored that try and he
Speaker 4: was aggressive, like you could see what it meant to him,
Speaker 4: like he went, Okay, my main man's out, I'm actually
Speaker 4: going to stand up here. And Cole was there but
Speaker 4: didn't really have an impact on the game, but he
Speaker 4: was very good. I think he's one of Jerome Lewi's
Speaker 4: best performances, even in like they lost.
Speaker 2: But I think he did a really good job. You're
Speaker 2: picking him.
Speaker 4: I think he is there with Heines. But I think
Speaker 4: right now, if I'm Michael maguire, Moses' performance, if he
Speaker 4: plays this weekend, determines it for me. If he comes
Speaker 4: back and he has as poor Nick goes my half
Speaker 4: back and louis in, but if he comes out and
Speaker 4: blitzes it, I'm thinking that it's Hines and my.
Speaker 3: Just the last one. On Jerome watching his football this year,
Speaker 3: I thought himself, he's lost a little bit upfilled thrust.
Speaker 3: Now I don't mean he's a lot speed and it's
Speaker 3: like that, and he's still got his footwork, but getting
Speaker 3: the ball step step step where on the weekend stepping
Speaker 3: excellent step forward?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: He was good on that try the line break. But
Speaker 4: he had variation too, like some of that sideway stuff.
Speaker 4: He did drop off one, drop off two and he
Speaker 4: almost got through in the corner with a double drop
Speaker 4: off and go.
Speaker 2: So he had he had good mix in his game.
Speaker 4: And yeah, what his kicking game was solid for a
Speaker 4: guy that doesn't do a lot of kicking.
Speaker 2: Went a week.
Speaker 3: He was excellent. Interesting one of the Queensland six. Now
Speaker 3: Monster's out. You know the two leaders? You got Tom did?
Speaker 3: And who was? He's played there before? He look Coop,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking it'd be a miracle friend to play.
Speaker 4: He does carry on a little bit like he rolled
Speaker 4: around as if he was shut.
Speaker 3: I've got the producer Scott in the air. They're saying
Speaker 3: he's out for eight weeks? Is he eight to ten weeks?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 4: No surgery, No surgery, just got stressed it up breaking.
Speaker 4: He's here on the podcast.
Speaker 2: You love it?
Speaker 3: You heard it here?
Speaker 2: All right? Who played six? Tell me? You tell me who?
Speaker 4: For?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: You think Tom didn't? So I had a discussion with
Speaker 3: my with my favorite son the other day and I said,
Speaker 3: if I was picking aside to save my life.
Speaker 2: Can we put a name to the favorite side?
Speaker 3: No, I can't if I if I'm picking sort of
Speaker 3: playing my life, I picked did because he turns up
Speaker 3: all the time. Even though the Cowboys have been struggling,
Speaker 3: he performs every week. He cares. He just made his effort.
Speaker 3: And of course you got Ezra there, who's proven himself
Speaker 3: in the big stage. Hat trick in a grand final.
Speaker 3: But what do you think.
Speaker 2: I'm with Diddon.
Speaker 4: I think Man has done a tremendous job even when
Speaker 4: Reynolds is gone. He looks like he can run that
Speaker 4: team by himself, and he's never shirked his responsibility when
Speaker 4: he's on the big stage. But when you're talking about
Speaker 4: character and you're talking about origin, the fact that Munster
Speaker 4: was ruled out a day or two before that decider
Speaker 4: and dead and comes in and played a terrific game,
Speaker 4: that shows me he's got a good temperament.
Speaker 2: The other moments that show me.
Speaker 4: That he's ready for it is the chase on Selwyn
Speaker 4: Cobbo right now that he didn't have to do, but
Speaker 4: he wants to do it. There's a desire inside that
Speaker 4: little fella that he just wants to be.
Speaker 2: There when the moment happens. And the try that he
Speaker 2: scored on the weekend. The Cowboys haven't been playing great.
Speaker 4: He's a rookie captain and he's been their best player
Speaker 4: all year, and the try that he scored was crucial.
Speaker 4: It was a try that got them in front end
Speaker 4: up being the difference. But again, he didn't have a
Speaker 4: lot of reasons to score that. He's small, there was
Speaker 4: more defenders around the ball trying to stop him, and
Speaker 4: his toughness, his tenacity, his determination will was enough that
Speaker 4: he GMed that ball down.
Speaker 2: So I would be saying that did and is the
Speaker 2: man I.
Speaker 3: See he was weekend and he's been terrific. That Adam
Speaker 3: Reynolds is job Madden really impressive Broncos thirty and twelve, tough,
Speaker 3: gritty game. I reckogonize it's exactly what the Broncos needed.
Speaker 4: Every week that Adam Reynolds is out, Madden's sheer price
Speaker 4: goes up. I think the fact that they're working around
Speaker 4: what does it look like? Madden is a very good replacement.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what I really liked about him
Speaker 4: is that when the game is in the balance there
Speaker 4: at twelve twelve they got the penalty, a lot of
Speaker 4: halves will overcook it and try and score and make
Speaker 4: it look fancy.
Speaker 2: He literally just went one to three less side of
Speaker 2: the post, Give me the ball and I'll kick it.
Speaker 4: Sometimes in those moments, particularly less than around five minutes ago,
Speaker 4: the more passes, the more chaos that comes into play,
Speaker 4: the more chances for error, and how many times do
Speaker 4: we see that where.
Speaker 2: It doesn't get there, someone knocks it on or whatever.
Speaker 4: Simplicity when the game is on the line is the
Speaker 4: best way of executing it.
Speaker 3: So it's an open competition.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Penrith dropped a couple of injuries to big players.
Speaker 4: The Sharks are there, their consistent storm have this reel up,
Speaker 4: but they've got some question marks around some of their
Speaker 4: Interis it.
Speaker 2: Is open this week?
Speaker 3: HODI? You like both coming to the comp nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 4: I was a little disappointed in Penrith because they got
Speaker 4: to I think it was sixteen or at some stage there,
Speaker 4: and the way that Isaiah scored. I thought, okay that
Speaker 4: the grinding nature which Penrith play out is going to
Speaker 4: make the Warriors tap at some stage here. But they
Speaker 4: fought back a lot of errors in the Panthers game
Speaker 4: for the first time. A little bit complacent. Well, I
Speaker 4: don't know what it is, but I like the Sharks.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: I cannot turn away from what the Sharks are doing.
Speaker 4: They are just doing all the right things.
Speaker 3: As are you, Coop?
Speaker 2: How are you mate?
Speaker 3: You? It's time mister Matt has a bit of a sleep.
Speaker 4: We might have to change the name of this podcast
Speaker 4: after when you've Done podcast.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you that will never.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what sho