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Speaker 3: This week on The Big League Podcast, a somber chance
Speaker 3: Nickel krook Star explains another frustrating loss, this time to
Speaker 3: the Paramatta Eels at Mount Smart. Their top eight playoff
Speaker 3: hopes are now into the mathematicals. Alex Powell is back
Speaker 3: to answer the tough questions. How much blame lies with
Speaker 3: coach Andrew Webster, How has a season so heavily anticipated
Speaker 3: gone so terribly wrong? Of course it's not over. My
Speaker 3: name is Nathan Limb. Let's go good b LB. I
Speaker 3: genuinely don't know what to say. It's happening again again.
Speaker 3: I thought this was the Warriors new era. This team
Speaker 3: was tipped by some as the minor premiers. This is
Speaker 3: the same group of players that finished top four last year,
Speaker 3: the same group of players that went to the preliminary final.
Speaker 3: No wait, it's a better group of players. They've also
Speaker 3: got Roger Tui Vasaschek, Kurt Capewell and Chanelle Harris Tavita.
Speaker 3: So how the hell do you explain this every time
Speaker 3: they've come up against a bottom side, a team that's
Speaker 3: failed to pull it together at the best of times.
Speaker 3: The Warriors have face planted Titans at Mount Smart, Titans
Speaker 3: at the Gold Coast. The Eels hadn't won any games
Speaker 3: away from home the entire season. Am I being disrespectful
Speaker 3: to the Warrior's opposition?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I am. They lost six in a row. So where
Speaker 3: does the blame lie? How much of this falls on
Speaker 3: the shoulders of coach Andrew Webster. We've hardly ever criticized
Speaker 3: Webster on this podcast, usually talking about specific players in
Speaker 3: one off situations, but if a team is consistently failing
Speaker 3: to show up on occasions in which they are clear favorites,
Speaker 3: part of that must be down to the culture set
Speaker 3: by the coach. I love Andrew Webster. I think he's brilliant,
Speaker 3: but things have not gone to plan this year and
Speaker 3: there is only so much we can put down to
Speaker 3: player injuries. Alex Powell, New Zealand Heralds right up, where
Speaker 3: do you stand on all this?
Speaker 5: I mean, when you put it like that, I do
Speaker 5: almost agree with you, like there does need to be
Speaker 5: accountability from all areas of this club, including the coach.
Speaker 5: You know, everything Andrew Webster has touched last year turned
Speaker 5: to gold. But this year they look like they're doing
Speaker 5: you know, they're not doing things too dissimilar, but as
Speaker 5: the results just aren't there.
Speaker 3: Is that the problem? Are they too similar to last year?
Speaker 3: We haven't evolved since last year and everyone's gone, Actually,
Speaker 3: you know, I've seen that short ball from Johnson before
Speaker 3: and now we'll tackle the player and this time not
Speaker 3: gonna whip that.
Speaker 5: That's a really great point, YEP, that would absolutely be.
Speaker 3: It is the season done?
Speaker 5: I mean I came on this podcast what two weeks
Speaker 5: go now and we looked at the Raiders, Tigers, Eels
Speaker 5: run and said if they don't win all three, that's
Speaker 5: going to be trouble. And they've won one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so look they can make the act the season
Speaker 3: is not over. If they win every game from here,
Speaker 3: they will put themselves in contention. If you go through
Speaker 3: there's like an NRL you know, results predictor thing and
Speaker 3: you can pick the winger where it tells you the table.
Speaker 5: So with the results you want to happen happen. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the Warriors wouldn't the inter Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if the Warriors, if you go through and do
Speaker 3: it so the Warriors win every game, and then you
Speaker 3: just pick the higher ranked team for all the other games.
Speaker 3: The Warriors will finish one point outside the eight. Chris
Speaker 3: Reeve did this yesterday when were sitting in the news room.
Speaker 5: I did this a couple of weeks ago and had
Speaker 5: the Warriors six. So that shows how close these margins are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they are needing upsets from around the table,
Speaker 3: and I suppose the only good thing about this is
Speaker 3: the teams they are playing over the next few weeks.
Speaker 3: Otherwise they're competing with forty eight. So a two point
Speaker 3: when you know you're actually depriving another team of two
Speaker 3: points as well. But again, other results need to go
Speaker 3: the Warriors way. This is unfortunately familiar territory. But let's
Speaker 3: get into the somewhat depressing highlights. Eels thirty, Warriors twenty.
Speaker 4: ARSI Brown quick Hands again, Parameta charts on.
Speaker 3: The lane, tie in the corner.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm gonna throw Congo scores Well, still thought to come.
Speaker 4: Here's Joey Lussack Heaven to Go story, Johnson for Kids,
Speaker 4: Harris to be the Knights, quick Heads parents Tooey baser
Speaker 4: check and the Charter. The short dropout Paramtal with position
Speaker 4: short ball. Here's a chart for USI right up the park,
Speaker 4: Hey Scots, a bit.
Speaker 3: Door for Brown.
Speaker 4: Here's a chance for paramedter up the park to Lundy
Speaker 4: scores under the posts.
Speaker 3: Now Brown Brown through.
Speaker 4: The other side. Brown need some support. Follow the inside
Speaker 4: Hans con Gavison. He'll score for Paramount with little Blake
Speaker 4: Johnson open space here for the Warriors. Nicole Klock's dad
Speaker 4: get Stone, he'll score Johnson. Here's a part of Nilney
Speaker 4: Scots catching the crossfield. What's Eddy's Elizabeth gets the bouts
Speaker 4: Hell get the try. The Warriors will have the final
Speaker 4: side full time thirty voice. That's we eat Parametta win
Speaker 4: this one here at Orford.
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Speaker 3: You' seld Herald writer and friend of The Big League
Speaker 3: Podcast Christopher Reef have a chat to Charles Nickel cookstart
Speaker 3: in the sheds after the game. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 7: Sean's first came back in a few weeks, Segas Versta
Speaker 7: well Man, how'd you feel out there?
Speaker 8: How's the body going You body's feeling pretty good, Thank you.
Speaker 2: May It's it's a little bit hard. The feelings it's
Speaker 2: just a little bit disappointing.
Speaker 8: The results, saying, apart from the result, bodies bodies find thanks.
Speaker 7: I guess looking at tonight, you know, eras were really
Speaker 7: sort of the vane of you guys let the eels
Speaker 7: in and they took advantage. I guess looking back over
Speaker 7: the last few weeks, how frustrating has that been to
Speaker 7: watch on the sidelines, to see the team I guess
Speaker 7: struggle with errors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 8: You know, I feel like we've been our worst enemy
Speaker 8: this year and that game was, you know, perfect, a
Speaker 8: clear picture of that. We need to be a lot
Speaker 8: better with those, with those, with the with the individuals,
Speaker 8: and you know, I think it would have helped us
Speaker 8: collectively as a team. So yeah, bad pool, but to swallow,
Speaker 8: but something that needs to be had, and we're going
Speaker 8: to have a hard look at ourselves.
Speaker 7: We got a few big games coming up. I guess
Speaker 7: the mood and the team. What does tonight's result mean
Speaker 7: for I guess the context of the season moving forward.
Speaker 2: Gotta win, gotta win. We need to win.
Speaker 8: These store an opportunity we feel for us to be
Speaker 8: able to play September footy, and we want to be there.
Speaker 8: We know that we are capable of being there, and
Speaker 8: you know, we just need to finish. I think we've
Speaker 8: got four more games to go, and yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 8: have that self belief.
Speaker 2: And it is there. It is there.
Speaker 8: We just need to cut out those areas and that'll.
Speaker 2: Go a long way to helping us get the win.
Speaker 7: I guess on the other side of that, those four
Speaker 7: games against top eight opponents, do you see these I
Speaker 7: guess there's four point games. You know, you take a
Speaker 7: win off one of these guys, and you know, all
Speaker 7: of a sudden, things start looking better for yourselves.
Speaker 2: On the table. Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 8: Those are things that you know, we're now in control of.
Speaker 2: What it's always been in our control.
Speaker 8: Really, if I'm being honest, we've had a lot of
Speaker 8: games that we've we've lost many a couple of points
Speaker 8: or you know, by by margins, and you know, again
Speaker 8: it's we've been at.
Speaker 2: The forefront of that.
Speaker 8: So I'm we're going to fix up, you know, things individually.
Speaker 8: I know that it'll come together collectively.
Speaker 3: From tonight.
Speaker 7: I guess what do you want to see the boys
Speaker 7: take out of this or learn from it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a hard one tonight.
Speaker 8: I think for me, what I'd love the voice to
Speaker 8: do is to go home, enjoy the time with their families.
Speaker 8: It's it's a good opportunity to to really look at
Speaker 8: our loved ones and just enjoy the moment. Enjoy the moment,
Speaker 8: and when we come into training next it'll be that'll
Speaker 8: be the opportunity to look at ourselves, give ourselves a
Speaker 8: hard word and build.
Speaker 2: Build. We need to build.
Speaker 8: We need to look to to improve and we need
Speaker 8: to be better.
Speaker 7: We need to I guess, just lastly, where where was
Speaker 7: it that the Eels were able to exploit you guys tonight?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, I guess all over the all over the
Speaker 8: shot mate. It's it's a team sport, and you know
Speaker 8: we collectively we were good enough. So I think we've
Speaker 8: got to bring it down to the individual and if
Speaker 8: individually we can fix up those those errors, those errors,
Speaker 8: and it all comes together as a team. And that's
Speaker 8: that's the beautifulaying the team spoil of someone in Max
Speaker 8: and their the He's got to be someone there to
Speaker 8: back up, back them up.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it wasn't our best camp tone.
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Speaker 3: Now we like to hold ourselves accountable on the Big
Speaker 3: League Podcast, and unfortunately this week it's my turn to
Speaker 3: eat some humble pie after I previewed the Eels game
Speaker 3: like this. Let me make no mistake when I tell
Speaker 3: you this. The Eels are rubbish. They sit seconds to
Speaker 3: last on the ladder. Four wins, fourteen losses. They've lost
Speaker 3: six in a row. They sacked he'd coach Brad Arthur
Speaker 3: midway through the season. They are without half back Mitchell Moses,
Speaker 3: who's undergone surgery on a bicep rupture. He is out
Speaker 3: for the season.
Speaker 5: You don't want to throw anything out there this season
Speaker 5: because it's just been one of those seasons. But you're
Speaker 5: right one to thirteen they should have too much for yours.
Speaker 3: I love how you are like the voice of reason.
Speaker 3: They're just to Let's not write them off. Let's not
Speaker 3: throw anything out there this season because it has been
Speaker 3: one of these Why did I have to sound so
Speaker 3: arrogant about it?
Speaker 5: Oh? Look, this is between arrogance and confidence. You're confident
Speaker 5: in the Warriors as they should have won that game
Speaker 5: and we all know that.
Speaker 3: Let's go through this game in a little bit more detail. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I thought they started okay. I thought the attack looked
Speaker 3: pretty organized, It looked pretty dynamic. They just weren't punching
Speaker 3: through any holes in those first twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: We said this last week, didn't we They start well
Speaker 5: but don't score and that will kill you at this level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Seann Johnson Obviously coming into halfback after
Speaker 3: all those weeks out, he had a couple of big
Speaker 3: defensive plays early on. I thought the is kicking during
Speaker 3: the game in general play was good, His bombs were threatening.
Speaker 3: Obviously he had a bit of a shocker off the tee,
Speaker 3: but first game back he finished with three triasis. I
Speaker 3: thought he played pretty well on the whole, but just
Speaker 3: as we moved into the back half of that first half,
Speaker 3: and obviously in the second half on one defensive eras
Speaker 3: and silly mistakes again story of the season. Mile of
Speaker 3: Graham Tulfa and Ali Lautao I thought looked really good
Speaker 3: with ball in hands, six and four tackle breaks respectively,
Speaker 3: but they're defensively shaky and the one on one tackles
Speaker 3: there were two tries there where just got blown past
Speaker 3: some instant try for the Eels. I mean it's so
Speaker 3: frustrating to watch.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, the NRL is not a young man's game.
Speaker 5: You do need guys with experience. You need guys who
Speaker 5: know what they're doing, and unfortunately we've got two guys
Speaker 5: in those positions who are lacking that experience.
Speaker 3: I mean talk about the eras though, like you can
Speaker 3: hear the frustrating We're gonna hear from a clip a
Speaker 3: few clips from Andrew Webster in a second that I've
Speaker 3: compiled into a montage, rather morbid montage from the presser.
Speaker 3: But it's so harrowing to see the Warriors attacking inside
Speaker 3: the Eels and dropping it on the first play, dropping
Speaker 3: it in a try scoring position. Premiership teams just don't
Speaker 3: do it well.
Speaker 5: They're called coach killers for a reason, aren't they. You know,
Speaker 5: these sorts of mistakes and I'm not talking about in
Speaker 5: this instance, but these are the sort of things that
Speaker 5: you know, turn results and in the end get coaches sacked.
Speaker 3: And you talked about the obviously the youthfulness of Tala
Speaker 3: and Moorla, Graham Tulfa, but even Kurk Capewell fell off
Speaker 3: four tackles. I mean, this is experience man, Kirk Capwole's
Speaker 3: done everything. And when you've got your leaders, your senior
Speaker 3: players in the team who are also failing to meet
Speaker 3: you know, you're basic NRL standards, that's a tone setter.
Speaker 5: You're right, And it goes back to what you said
Speaker 5: for about Andrew webisode. Where are the standards being set here?
Speaker 5: Are they being set at the top and going down
Speaker 5: through the coaches? Are they being set by I mean,
Speaker 5: now that toy virus is out, what does the leadership
Speaker 5: on field look like? What does the leadership on the
Speaker 5: training ground look like? Is there anyone taking guys by
Speaker 5: the scruff of the neck and saying no, this is
Speaker 5: not good enough. As that of Mitch Barnett characteristic I mean,
Speaker 5: because I look at him on the surface and think, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's absolutely something he'd do. But do we know that
Speaker 5: he's doing that now as Sean Johnson doing it as
Speaker 5: the most senior player in this club. Probably I'd probably
Speaker 5: say not because he's been out for weeks and that
Speaker 5: was his first game back. So there are just these big,
Speaker 5: you know, not holes on the field, but off the field.
Speaker 3: The point that really was just harrowing for me looking
Speaker 3: back at that game was Dayton on Narsis try as
Speaker 3: before halftime off a Johnson drop goal a dropout rather
Speaker 3: the defensive line should have been set in Clint Gutherson
Speaker 3: just ran left across the field and just pired a
Speaker 3: short ball to Arci who went straight through a hole.
Speaker 3: That should not happen off a short dropout when you
Speaker 3: all lined up on I mean, it's.
Speaker 5: What it comes up all the time when the restarts. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just when the restart controllable, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, how do they where do they go from there?
Speaker 3: What do they need to fix?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean look, I think Andrew Webster and co.
Speaker 5: Can't answer these questions. I don't know how its. Like
Speaker 5: I said, on the surface, that doesn't seem to be
Speaker 5: too much different, But maybe that is the problem that
Speaker 5: teams don't know what they're.
Speaker 9: Going to do.
Speaker 3: Here is the compilation of Andrew Webster from the press conference. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just listen to us. We made an error.
Speaker 9: We didn't defend it and drop their bundle, and then
Speaker 9: we just kept compounding it from there on. And I
Speaker 9: didn't see that resilience and wanting to make those one
Speaker 9: on one tackles to save those tries. We're putting pressure
Speaker 9: them defensively, we're going after them. We make him kick
Speaker 9: from their end, and then on last play we charged
Speaker 9: the ballgame and knocking off. That's one one of many.
Speaker 9: But Ben, Okay, no one's perfect. I'm going to defend
Speaker 9: the next one. And I feel like we dropped our
Speaker 9: bundle just to how many dumb things we saw tonight,
Speaker 9: like things that just weren't good enough, just when r
Speaker 9: else standard.
Speaker 5: I'd tear the sentence and that that really hurts me
Speaker 5: as and now I am blowing the line between being
Speaker 5: a fan and being a journalist. But we didn't see
Speaker 5: the resilience that was I think the thing that made
Speaker 5: Warriors fans most proud last year is that that resilience
Speaker 5: They didn't, you know, because that's part of Warriors fan.
Speaker 5: You know that things are going to go against you.
Speaker 5: You're going to get the dodgy calls, you're going to
Speaker 5: get due to street decisions, just like oh, he's banned
Speaker 5: for four weeks, you know. But being able to put
Speaker 5: that aside last year and just keep going and you know,
Speaker 5: get a top four finish and gets a preliminary final,
Speaker 5: you know, that's what made the fans or go, Yeah,
Speaker 5: this is our team. Again and we've not seen that
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 3: You know what else we haven't seen this year fans
Speaker 3: leaving before full time.
Speaker 5: I don't think obviously there's going to be so much
Speaker 5: made about, you know, the fans, and you get a
Speaker 5: lot of course rempic I remember the Warriors were meant
Speaker 5: to be a threat to rugby, but this is genuinely
Speaker 5: this is something real that's happening at the Warriors now,
Speaker 5: like they have created something. You know, I was getting
Speaker 5: into one with a colleague of ours who I won't
Speaker 5: name on here about why the Warriors were selling out
Speaker 5: each week and the Blues won't, and the Blues are
Speaker 5: a championship team, and it's because at the Warriors you
Speaker 5: feel like you're part of something. You know, it's not
Speaker 5: rugby where you go and you expect to be entertained.
Speaker 5: A lot of these Warriors fans had to suffer, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's great that so many new people are turning
Speaker 5: up each week and they've sold out every game and
Speaker 5: they'll probably keep doing that next year as well.
Speaker 3: Blues fans have had to suffer too, I'll just point
Speaker 3: that out, but you're right, you're right, it's that sort
Speaker 3: of FUNO aspect, almost like the singing of the team
Speaker 3: song after the game. It's it's a togetherness that you
Speaker 3: feel when you're at Mount Smart and you're in that
Speaker 3: sort of what you see someone on the street and
Speaker 3: Warriors kit and to then look at your team have
Speaker 3: that kind of a performance. It hurts because you make
Speaker 3: it part of you. If you're walking around in Warriors jusey,
Speaker 3: it's part of your identity. You're you're you are identifying
Speaker 3: with that club.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think the cool thing here is that
Speaker 5: we don't often come face to face with too many
Speaker 5: fans from rival clubs, like we are all suffering together.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It's not like you you know, if you you know
Speaker 5: you support English football and you you know your team losers,
Speaker 5: and then you're immediately someone in a rival kit. We
Speaker 5: see someone in a rival kit. Sorry, you feel it
Speaker 5: even more, but I mean the Warriors are suffering as one.
Speaker 6: Now Big League.
Speaker 3: Podcast, all right to our rumor desk Alex Powell. We've
Speaker 3: seen some murmurings on social media that Dylan Walker after obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, not long after Jane Stevango announced that he
Speaker 3: would be this will be his last season with the club.
Speaker 3: His bull brother Dylan Walker rumors he's asked for a
Speaker 3: release from the club due to personal reasons. Do you
Speaker 3: have any information on this right?
Speaker 5: So, like you say, this came out on the same
Speaker 5: day that it was revealed Jazz withing the club. I
Speaker 5: put my journalist hat on as opposed to my warrior's
Speaker 5: fan hat message. Dylan said, hey, mate, this is what
Speaker 5: we're hearing is he can filml and I and he
Speaker 5: categorically confirmed.
Speaker 3: That is not true. So he's not leaving the club.
Speaker 5: I mean, look that he's contract until the end of
Speaker 5: next year, which means as of November he can negotiate,
Speaker 5: so that didn't come up. He might want to leave
Speaker 5: the club, but he will not actively seek a release.
Speaker 5: That means he won't plan twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: That's what we do on the Big League Podcast. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Alex Powell. Right. The Warriors face the Dolphins on Sunday,
Speaker 3: a nine day turnaround, which is good because I feel
Speaker 3: like they need it. They need a reset. Hit the
Speaker 3: reset button. They beat the Dolphins twenty four to twenty
Speaker 3: with a Hodge Podge team. Way back in May. That
Speaker 3: was around the time to Mighty Martin was really turning
Speaker 3: it on at half back that was coming off the
Speaker 3: win over the Panthers in Magic Round. The Dolphins are
Speaker 3: coming off a forty to thirty four loss to the Roosters.
Speaker 3: They sit ninth overall with nine wins ten losses, one
Speaker 3: of the teams vying for the eighth. So, as we
Speaker 3: heard in the interview between Cross Reeve and Charles Nikal
Speaker 3: course earlier, kind of a four point game, the Dolphins
Speaker 3: have been good this year out of his power. I mean,
Speaker 3: they've been a little bit up and down, but overall
Speaker 3: they've been certainly more solid than the Warriors. How do
Speaker 3: they approach this game?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think first off, they're going to want
Speaker 5: to right the wrongs of that loss. Amount smart, aren't they.
Speaker 5: They like men like we was saying about the Warriors
Speaker 5: indo the eals, the Dolphins shouldn't have lost that game,
Speaker 5: So they'll want to go out there and prove that
Speaker 5: they are aside. I mean, the fact that the top
Speaker 5: eight's on the line will add another string to their bow.
Speaker 5: They'll want to get up, can get mathematically into the
Speaker 5: eight and into finals for the first time, because let's
Speaker 5: not forget they are very young as a club. But
Speaker 5: also you look at you know, This is wayn Bennett's
Speaker 5: last year at the Dolphins foundation coach as an NRL side.
Speaker 5: Obviously the Dolphins existed before that. They'll want to get
Speaker 5: up here. They'll want to send their coach out on
Speaker 5: a high. They've got players that should be playing finals football.
Speaker 3: And the Warriors away from home as well. That's we've
Speaker 3: only got one more home game. So that's just another
Speaker 3: thing that I guess I have to contend with because
Speaker 3: the Dolphins fans will really get into it. They're on
Speaker 3: the version that they've never met made the eight in
Speaker 3: an NRL competition here before, They're only in their second season,
Speaker 3: they're at home. It's all on the line. The Warriors
Speaker 3: are struggling. This is a game the Dolphins shouldn't lose.
Speaker 5: No, but let's not also forget the Warriors are very
Speaker 5: well supported in Brisbane.
Speaker 3: No, a very very good point. Now, last week we
Speaker 3: had obviously a few returns named as Shawn Johnson named
Speaker 3: in the team. Chance Cookstar was back at fullback, but
Speaker 3: Luke Metcalf played his first New South Wales Cup game
Speaker 3: since returning from a surgery on his leg fracture way
Speaker 3: early in the season. Back in round four. He picked
Speaker 3: that up, and so he played alongside to Martin Martin
Speaker 3: in the halves in the forty six to ten demolition
Speaker 3: of the Eels reserve grades side. He played the first
Speaker 3: half and was rested the secondest stance showed fifty five
Speaker 3: meters from eight runs, five tackle breaks, seventeen kick receipts,
Speaker 3: four tackles without a miss, seventy meters from two kicks
Speaker 3: and no errors. They were thirty zero up after thirty
Speaker 3: one minutes. So I would say that's a resounding success.
Speaker 3: Alex Powell, how will I guess? Do you expect Luke
Speaker 3: Metcalf to be named? I don't think Janelle Harris Tavitas
Speaker 3: been playing badly. Obviously off the tee. He had a
Speaker 3: miss a couple of weeks ago, but apart from that,
Speaker 3: I think he's played pretty well, apart from a couple
Speaker 3: of defensive eras. Maybe do you expect Metcalf to be
Speaker 3: straight back in there.
Speaker 5: Just because it was only forty minutes? I'd probably say not.
Speaker 5: I might think, oh, really well, I mean, look, you
Speaker 5: can't play one half of reserve great and expect to
Speaker 5: be ready for the NRL at this point in the season.
Speaker 5: The thing I will give Luke Metcalff in his favor though,
Speaker 5: as I do think all up here is Sean Johnson's
Speaker 5: best partner. I think those two compliment each other the
Speaker 5: best out of all four Warriors halves. You know. Johnson
Speaker 5: wants to sit back and manage Metcalff wants to get
Speaker 5: the born hand, take it on, run at it, you know.
Speaker 5: So I think if that's what they think they need,
Speaker 5: then that's what they'll do.
Speaker 3: I feel bad for Tomainie Martin too, because he's effectively
Speaker 3: been dropped there, which is obviously given up on the
Speaker 3: Johnson Martin combination, which I think is the right move
Speaker 3: at this point in the season, just because it hasn't
Speaker 3: worked so far and they don't have time to get
Speaker 3: it working. So I'd love to see Luke Metcalf back
Speaker 3: into starting side. But you do make a very good
Speaker 3: point about probably needing a full game of New South
Speaker 3: Wales Cup before he's ready for the NRL as well.
Speaker 3: So of course the alternative is he starts this weekend
Speaker 3: and we have Chanelle on the interchange and Chanell plays
Speaker 3: the sort of dummy five eighth interchangeable role, so that
Speaker 3: could be a possibility as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I absolutely think that's you know, that's a very
Speaker 5: good option to have. You know, Schanell's probably the most
Speaker 5: verstile player in this team.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Alex Pout Quick Fire Predictions, Round twenty three. I'm
Speaker 3: going to come at you with eight games. You're going
Speaker 3: to tell me who's your winner and why. First up,
Speaker 3: Rabbit O Storm Storm.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna get into we do this every week.
Speaker 5: I think the Storm a better team.
Speaker 3: Just we'll pick the Storm, Titans, Sharks.
Speaker 5: I'd really liked the look at the Titans the last
Speaker 5: few weeks. I think at home, I think they'll do it.
Speaker 3: Titans absolutely demolished the Broncos forty six eighteen. They've really
Speaker 3: come alive in the second half of the season. The Sharks, well,
Speaker 3: they beat the Barons twenty points to six. The Titans
Speaker 3: are at home, you game with the Titans.
Speaker 5: I'm going Titans.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Titans. I can't believe
Speaker 3: I'm saying this, but Titans to beat the Sharks on
Speaker 3: the Gold Coast Eels Panthers.
Speaker 5: Out of the West. Let's go Panthers.
Speaker 3: I'm going to agree with you there, Panthers getting the
Speaker 3: job done over Newcastle on Sunday evening. Don't think the
Speaker 3: Earls will have enough for them. They think Cleary scoring
Speaker 3: the winning try. Raiders Seagulls.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go Raiders.
Speaker 3: See the Raiders had a close lost to the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: The Seagulls coming off the bye again. Two teams in
Speaker 3: and around that top eight, I'm gonna disagree with you
Speaker 3: here and go for the Seagulls to win this one.
Speaker 3: Seventh spot on the lader, Dragon's Bulldogs, Bulldogs, Bulldogs, they're
Speaker 3: having a season. Man Camera s Eraldo Coach of the
Speaker 3: Year Swan.
Speaker 5: He has to be. I mean, I don't think anyone
Speaker 5: else gets close to him, and you look at where
Speaker 5: he's you know, Andrew Webster came in straight away from
Speaker 5: that Panthers system and you know took the words the
Speaker 5: top four one coach of the year. Cameras are. They
Speaker 5: had a really tough year last year. They had players
Speaker 5: that they probably shouldn't have signed on money they shouldn't
Speaker 5: have spent, and he's really just managed to turn it around.
Speaker 3: Bulldogs fifth on the ladder and the Dragons are eighth.
Speaker 3: Also in that fight, I'm going to go with the
Speaker 3: Bulldogs as well, and Dolphins versus the Warriors, Alex Powell,
Speaker 3: They've still got all the players back.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm I don't want to just be deluded and
Speaker 5: say Warriors, but I think that's what I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to do.
Speaker 3: You're going to go for the Warriors.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go for the Warriors.
Speaker 3: I'm going to pick the Dolphins. It pains me to
Speaker 3: say it, but given the circumstances, given that they're at home.
Speaker 3: Although actually it would be like the Warriors to completely
Speaker 3: mess up the game, They're expected to win, head into
Speaker 3: the tough one and produce an absolute master class. So really,
Speaker 3: who knows? Knights Tigers?
Speaker 5: Probably the Knights, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Knights as well to
Speaker 3: win that one. Also in the fight for the top eight,
Speaker 3: well a competition. Thank you so much Alex Pale for
Speaker 3: your time, you're wisdom, your insight on the Big League
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