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Speaker 1: This is six Tackles with Gus with Matthew Thompson and

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Speaker 1: Gus Good.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to six Tackles with Gas, a special episode of

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Speaker 2: the podcast. This week a review of two outstanding games

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Speaker 2: of State of Origin footy, and we've got a whole

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Speaker 2: round of Rabia League to follow. We are presented thanks

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Speaker 2: to our friends at the tab Bill Gould.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Matthew Thompson. How are you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm fighting fit. You've covered some ground this week.

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Speaker 1: I have.

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Speaker 2: I have.

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Speaker 1: I've been Brisbane Monday night for one hundred percent footy,

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Speaker 1: back to Sydney on Tuesday morning, down to Woollongong Tuesday night,

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Speaker 1: back to Sydney, up to Brisbane on Wednesday for Origin,

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Speaker 1: back to Sydney, up to Newcastle for the game last night.

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Speaker 1: I got home at twelve forty five am. This morning,

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Speaker 1: I drove home from Newcastle after all of that, extremely tired,

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Speaker 1: laid down on the lounge, fell straight asleep and the

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Speaker 1: alarm went off at six because I had an eight

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Speaker 1: am meaning this morning.

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Speaker 2: Right, your scheff is having the week off, is he?

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Speaker 2: So your schaef is having the week off? Is he?

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Speaker 1: I did all the driving myself, Yeah, right.

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Speaker 2: There, You are well, I'd love to have your mileage

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Speaker 2: a quick explainer. So we were going to be here

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Speaker 2: on Monday to do a preview of Origin, but Gus

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Speaker 2: had to go to Brisbane earlier than we thought, and

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Speaker 2: you might have noticed you had a bit on early

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Speaker 2: in the week. So we thought, do you know what

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Speaker 2: we'll do. Let's get together on Friday and review the

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Speaker 2: two Origin games because we had obviously Men's Origin Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: Women's Origin last night, so there's a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 2: On the back of that, we're wondering who's going to

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Speaker 2: back up for their club teams this weekend. When you

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Speaker 2: were coaching New South Wales, Gus, did you always encourage

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Speaker 2: your players to get back there and put him for

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Speaker 2: their club?

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Speaker 1: Was the one thing I said after every Origin game

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Speaker 1: we had was I think the mark of an Origin

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Speaker 1: player is not just to play the game in your origin,

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Speaker 1: but to back up for your club on the weekend

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Speaker 1: if you're asked to do so. They're the players that

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Speaker 1: helped you get this jersey, they're the ones that got

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Speaker 1: you into this representative team, and you need to go

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Speaker 1: back and play well for your club. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's the mark of an Origin player to be able

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Speaker 1: to do that, to back up and go back into

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Speaker 1: club football, and there are some poor games this weekend

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Speaker 1: where they need their stars to back up. Sure Panthers,

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Speaker 1: for example, in recent years, because they've been so well

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Speaker 1: placed come Origin time, they've actually rested their Origin stars

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I'm not sure they'll have

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Speaker 1: that luxury this year. I need to keep winning, so

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Speaker 1: we thought by Friday. By doing it today that we'd

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Speaker 1: have a better read on actually as who is backing up,

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Speaker 1: but we probably won't know till an hour before kickoff

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Speaker 1: with most sides what the representative players are doing well.

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Speaker 2: The great news is that there were no injuries as

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Speaker 2: such out of Origin, so if they can back up well,

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Speaker 2: if they're up to backing up after the grueling nature

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Speaker 2: of that game on Wednesday, that they should be okay

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Speaker 2: to get there. Let's start with the women's Origin though,

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Speaker 2: so the last take the five club games last week

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Speaker 2: and the two origins. You know, six of the seven

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Speaker 2: teams that won were outsiders, including Brisbane. Last night. He

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Speaker 2: the tap had a about five bucks head to head,

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Speaker 2: and they've been able to hold off the three Neil whitewash.

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Speaker 1: I think for the whole season something like forty six

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Speaker 1: percent of underdogs have been winning, which is an extraordinary high. Crazy, yeah, crazy.

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Speaker 1: This competition could flip on its head, honestly for the

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Speaker 1: completely different to what the first half has seen. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of footy do we played just yet.

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Speaker 2: Queensland eighteen, New Southwest fourteen mc donald Jones Stadium, nearly

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Speaker 2: twenty two thousand, fantastic crowd, so it was. It was

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Speaker 2: low scoring in the early stages. Queensland scored in the

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Speaker 2: New South Wales went whack whack whack twenty thirtieth forty

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Speaker 2: Queensland raised an effort and got there by four points

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Speaker 1: Well, the first the first sort of fifty minutes of

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Speaker 1: I mean they'd been beaten thirty two twelve and twenty

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Speaker 1: Wales were playing well and it scored some tries to

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Speaker 1: get to the front fourteen six, and you thought, well,

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Speaker 1: they'll just go on with it from here. Queensland found away.

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Speaker 1: They just kept hanging in in defense. They defended really grimly,

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Speaker 1: They played as physical as they could. They changed their

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Speaker 1: from there you could tell New South Wales then started

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Speaker 1: you do that, you provite the opposition in and that's

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Speaker 1: what Queensland did. It was Chelsea landa Ducci to scored

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Speaker 1: sent off virtually on the full time, Sireen sent to

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Speaker 1: that's a great effort from them. Great Queensland spirit. We've

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Speaker 2: Yep, the three nil clean sweet. Obviously this is only

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Speaker 2: early days for three game series for women, but we've

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Speaker 2: seen it in the men's the men's Origin. It's so

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Speaker 1: Nil, absolutely so hard. Yeah, it's hard. You've either got

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Speaker 1: it's new. South Wales looked like they were going to

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Speaker 1: They had a plan, they executed it well and they

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Speaker 1: their defense was tremendous where they'd been found wanting in

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Speaker 2: So with respect to Ali Briggan, sure she came off

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Chelsea started the game. She went out there

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Speaker 1: She really got stuck into them. She burned herself out

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Speaker 1: when she came off, she actually collapsed on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: She just they've obviously said to her go out there,

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Speaker 1: and she had plenty of runs, plenty of tackles, and

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Speaker 1: took some presidents with us. I'll tell you she was.

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Speaker 1: She was really good. And then she come on at

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Speaker 1: So she had a great game.

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Speaker 2: But Ali's been well an icon of women's rugby league.

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Speaker 1: I think she six pioneer.

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Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt. And you know, probably the best

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Speaker 2: women's player ever that we've had. If she's to retire

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Speaker 2: from rep football, that would be an appropriate stage for her

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Speaker 2: to leave.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We said that right on the full time side,

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Speaker 1: but if that was to be her last game, what

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Speaker 1: a way to go out. And I'm sure she won't

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Speaker 1: up somewhere post career. But if that was her last game,

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Speaker 1: wonderful way to finish.

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Speaker 2: So the stage is set for a great NRLUW season,

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Speaker 2: which you can watch on nine. We've got every game.

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Speaker 2: It's six games around on Nine's Wide World of Sports.

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Speaker 2: It's the home of Women's Rugby League and we'll have

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Speaker 2: it covered for you right throughout the NRLW season. State

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Speaker 2: of Origin one, sun Corps Stadium Wednesday night, New South

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Speaker 2: Wales eighteen over Queensland six, the first time since ninety

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Speaker 2: seven ninety eight, but New South Wales have been able

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Speaker 2: to win consecutive games at sun Corps Stadium. Obviously a

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Speaker 2: lot of the fallout has been discussions around potential changes

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Speaker 2: for Queensland and daily Cherry Evans is the man who's

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Speaker 1: He was stunning, and even more so when you consider

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Speaker 1: that he hardly trained all week. He was in under

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Speaker 1: special specimen. He's paying hearts, but I thought he was

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Speaker 1: ably supported by all these fords. I think a CEO

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Speaker 1: I had the whole game was that New South Wales

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Speaker 1: to defend smartly, which they did, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: they ever really felt threatened by Queensland. Queensland's only try

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Speaker 1: about that little period later, but it was kind of

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Speaker 1: a lot. We've got the game under control, so let's

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Speaker 1: and turning them all over and giving them a chance

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Speaker 1: It needs to be physical, it needs to be professional.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what they did. Watching the game. There

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Speaker 2: You know what, even from the first set of the game,

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Speaker 1: They got some penalties early which helped it certainly didn't

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Speaker 1: forty nine missed tackles which was incredible, twenty seven ineffective

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Speaker 1: It wasn't what I would call skillful. It wasn't based

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Speaker 1: What are you seeing, Well, I'm not going to say,

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Speaker 1: but there are plenty of opportunities. I mean plenty of

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Speaker 2: You sell it, little Trump, don't get.

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Speaker 1: Called to give you a game planned.

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Speaker 2: Tremendous opportunities, wonderful opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful, more opportunities than I've ever seen. I know.

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Speaker 2: I know about optun nowadays word opportunities than I do.

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Speaker 1: Some say the most opportunities, some say the best opportunities.

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Speaker 2: Oh, very funny, very funny. Your man Max King went.

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Speaker 1: Good, terrific. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: Actually I was up in you know where the studio

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Speaker 1: So I said, he won't have to worry about getting

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Speaker 1: I thought his movements in defense were excellent. I thought

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Speaker 1: his rock control was excellent, and he virtually did what

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's obviously a much faster and more brutal

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Speaker 2: What did you think when he was picked.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was suiting well, he'd earned it. He

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Speaker 1: you know, bulldogs are having a good year. We're not

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Speaker 1: and years and years that New South Wales kind of ignore.

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Speaker 1: He's the bloke that will go out and do that

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Speaker 1: happy to play with humility and he did. And he's

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Speaker 1: a wonderful blood, lovely blood, a lovely family and they

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So he had two years out of the game

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. He had a very bad Achilles injury.

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Speaker 1: He always showed promise. I think he was a Newcastle

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Speaker 1: think he went home to Newcastle and he was working

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Speaker 1: It wasn't right. He didn't have power, he didn't have strength.

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Speaker 1: I've never met a more dead case and disciplined individual.

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Speaker 1: And he's not having much luck with this, but he's

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, where's he been? So he's been in Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: I said, we'll work with him, see what we can do.

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Speaker 1: So we gave him an opportunity. But you know that's

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Speaker 1: I said, your boy's back in work, and I said,

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Speaker 1: I said, listen, I want to I want to sign

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Speaker 1: I said, I want to sign him up for a

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Speaker 1: I said, he's playing Friday night. I said, you'll see

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Speaker 1: You'll see what I mean. And he went out in

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Speaker 1: He lost a lot of weight. Like he gives he

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Speaker 1: He's not small, but he was playing it like one

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Speaker 1: Everything else has been turned over and Max King has

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Speaker 2: He's played nearly I think eighty seventy six games. I

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Speaker 1: It's been and it gets better. He gets better every year,

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Speaker 1: he's training gets better every year. This year he had

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Speaker 2: So that mentality and those attributes is what Lorrie Daily

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Laurie gets it like Lurr gets Auction, gets

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Speaker 1: I think Max King front row is such an important

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Speaker 1: King has got the ability to play long minutes at

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00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,320
Speaker 1: fast pace and keep up and keep finding something extra.

436
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,040
Speaker 1: And he did that. He was absolutely great and I

437
00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 1: hope he gets a chance to go to Perth and

438
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:36,600
Speaker 1: do it all again.

439
00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,520
Speaker 2: A lot of the focal point of New South Wales,

440
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,920
Speaker 2: particularly in the lead, A lot of the analysis was

441
00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,080
Speaker 2: around that left hand side. I think we spoke about

442
00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:49,320
Speaker 2: it last week to or Mitchell Angus Crichton. Mitchell moses

443
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,160
Speaker 2: it was wrong of us to overlook the other side

444
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,520
Speaker 2: because Zach lame. I have never seen a player take

445
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 2: to origin like him, but he is built for it.

446
00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,080
Speaker 2: And this isn't the Bulldogs. You know, we're not blowing

447
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs trump. But I don't think I've seen a

448
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 2: better sounder than Stephen Crouchton.

449
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 1: Good player and he oh. I think with Zach Lamax,

450
00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 1: and I think in commentary I might have been saying

451
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 1: it two years before he got selected. He was struggling

452
00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,800
Speaker 1: at the Dragons were struggling. He was playing center and

453
00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:21,360
Speaker 1: they ended up putting you on the wing. And I've

454
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,640
Speaker 1: said for a lot of years. I think even Brad

455
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: Filer was coaching about someone time I said, don't be

456
00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 1: afraid to pick Zach Lamax. He's an origin player. He's

457
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 1: just got that origin physicality about him. He's got a

458
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,840
Speaker 1: presence about him, and he can make things happen. He

459
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 1: can force errors in the opposition, he can make big plays.

460
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,040
Speaker 1: All bounces for him. He's big and strong and athletic,

461
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 1: and he kicks goals. And when he got his opportunity

462
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,880
Speaker 1: was probably a little bit of a surprise to most people,

463
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 1: I guess, but he certainly proved his worth. And he's

464
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,119
Speaker 1: he's Origin class. He's Origin tough. People ask you what

465
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,160
Speaker 1: an origin player is and it's hard to put into words,

466
00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 1: but when you see it, you see it. The tougher

467
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,680
Speaker 1: the better for him, absolutely loves it, loves the physical confrontation.

468
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 1: He can make things happen, as he did with the

469
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Speaker 1: last try. Stephen Crichton brilliant probably, I think one of

470
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,439
Speaker 1: the best defensive centers I've ever seen in my life. Big, tall,

471
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: long reach. What was interesting when Brian got sent to

472
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,119
Speaker 1: the sin bin just before halftime, I thought, well, I

473
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 1: wonder how they'll manage this. And as soon as they

474
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 1: ran out, Zach Lamax went to the left wing and

475
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 1: I said, well, two things here. I said, what they're

476
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 1: doing is saying to Zach Lamax, you're gonna have to

477
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 1: look after Xavier coach and that high ball. We can't

478
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: put another fillure out there that can't catch or hasn't

479
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: been in that position before, which was very smart strategy.

480
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 1: And number two, we'll leave Stephen Crichton to mark them

481
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:47,199
Speaker 1: other two blocks over there, only it's only Hammersages and

482
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,919
Speaker 1: Valentine Holmes, two of the greatest and fastest ball runners

483
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 1: in the game. We'll just let Stephen Crichton look after

484
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 1: that over there on his own. And when Queensland did

485
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: they score their try, they scored it on the other

486
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: side of the field. They didn't score it down stephenside.

487
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: He's he's a great, great defensive center. And you know

488
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: when you say that, then you have vision of the

489
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: try he set up for Lomax the first try where

490
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 1: he stepped back against the grain, had four defenders in

491
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 1: front of him and managed to engage them all to

492
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: get Lomas away. I managed to engage the more beat one,

493
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 1: then gather the other three together to get the pass

494
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: away was it was just so classy Latrell Mitchell's play

495
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: on the other side of the field. I mentioned it

496
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: that halftime in the broadcast. Crichton's service to his winger

497
00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:33,360
Speaker 1: Lomax and Mitchell's mid air catch and pass. I've never

498
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 1: seen anyone do that midair catch and pass, quick hands

499
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: to put Brian away with just two great pieces of magic.

500
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: That's what That's what Origin is. That's why the best

501
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 1: are so good. Those elite players are so good they

502
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 1: can come up with big moments like that. I thought

503
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: it was an excellent mentality to take into the game.

504
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,679
Speaker 1: It was a great strategy and the good thing was

505
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: they stuck to it. The two halves stuck to it.

506
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,919
Speaker 1: I thought the two halves were outstanding. I've heard some

507
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 1: people talking about his game and Mitchell maze. They didn't

508
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 1: do this and didn't do that. They played exactly the

509
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 1: way Origin should be played round the ball. I think

510
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: Cleary has now worked out that Origin football is not

511
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 1: club football. I don't play like I play for the club.

512
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: I don't set up with the same shapes and the

513
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: same plays and try to go around teams. His running

514
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: game was reminiscent of what it was in the Grand

515
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: Final last year. He got some offloaders, he had some

516
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: good runs, he dug into the line, he kicked well,

517
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: he had a hand at some player stage of every

518
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: one of the tries we scored. I thought he was outstanding,

519
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: but I just didn't understand the goal kicking and it

520
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: will probably mystify him as well as to what happened there.

521
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: And even he shot at field goal. I mean, I

522
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: didn't have the comment I had the commentary kind of

523
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: in my ear because I was sitting up in the studio,

524
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: so it was very faint. Did Andrew John's question the

525
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: quality of the ball or the ball?

526
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 2: He said it sounded different, and he wondered whether it

527
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 2: was the same ball or whether it was inflated to

528
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 2: the same pressure. I said it sounded different.

529
00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, was coming off the boot different? If general play

530
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: their general play kicking both sides now. Valentine Holmes miss

531
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: kick too, and then he handed over to Zach Lamax

532
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 1: and he missed his kick, which was a much more

533
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: simple kick for a conversion. So I don't know. I

534
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 1: didn't hear in any of the reviews if anyone questioned

535
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: the ball or the quality of the ball. But I've

536
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: never seen Nathan kick like that had he kicked them

537
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: all as hers usually does. I mean it's a pretty

538
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: big score line. Yeah, but New South Wales were very

539
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: very dominant, very very controlled, masterfully executed. I thought the

540
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 1: halves were brilliant, the Fords were outstanding. The outside backs

541
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: did what they have to do. I think the big

542
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: key for New South Wales is if they can start

543
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: the second game exactly the same mentality, they will find

544
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: an increasing number of opportunities to move the ball and

545
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: I think Crichton and Latrell Mitchell, Mitchell Moses are going

546
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: to have a different sort of game in game two.

547
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll be able to run in some points.

548
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 2: Robert Toyer, he said, he go good.

549
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: He's good playman. Yeah, look right at home. Wait'l after

550
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: game three. He's a baby like he's only ten games

551
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: into a career, you know, but he's he's origin class,

552
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: no risk in the world. He's there for as long

553
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: as he wants. Now you think he's going to play

554
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: there for a long long time and you know, hopefully

555
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: injury willing that gets him plenty of games as well.

556
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: But no, he did his job no risk in the world.

557
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: Okay, ask us origin. Addition, we all know what this

558
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: question is going to be from Ben Robbins. If you

559
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 2: were Billy Slater, what changes would you make to the

560
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 2: Queensland team for Game two? Do you want to tell

561
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 2: Billy how to suck eggs?

562
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: No? No, Look, one of the things I said in

563
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: the postmatch Laurie made a comment when they interviewed him

564
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: in the dressing room, and his last comment was, as

565
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: most coaches say when they win the first game of

566
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: the series, we haven't done anything yet, you know. I

567
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: came back and I said, well, I think you have

568
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: done one thing. You've absolutely shattered Queensland. I can see

569
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: it in the coach's face. I can see it in

570
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: their faces. They'll right. Immediately after the game they were

571
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: a bit shell shocked just how far behind they were

572
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: in New South Wales. I don't think there's any hiding

573
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: for the fact that they've come out of that game

574
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: and gone, krikey, what are we in for here? Here

575
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 1: we are at home, in front of our home crowd

576
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: and our opportunity, and we got rilled up for the game.

577
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: We had our best hope, we picked our best team

578
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: possible and we were just never in it. So do

579
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: they panic and make force changes hoping for a miracle

580
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: some of the things they saw as a positive out

581
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: of the game and saying, well, you know, let's put

582
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: did into half back and drop Dady Cherry Evans And

583
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: I made the point. Yeah, it didn't came on and

584
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: showed some flash and looked good when he came on

585
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: the field. But can he be out there for the

586
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 1: first twenty five minutes and make twenty tackles when they

587
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: keep running at him with the ball and still be

588
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: able to give that bit of flare at the back

589
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: end of each half. It's the same with Harry Grant.

590
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: Harry Grant's best performances of Queens that have been coming

591
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 1: off the bench. Ben Hunt gets out there and does

592
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: the hack work early and Harry Grant comes off the

593
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: bench and then does his stuff. You know.

594
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: David Middleton told me a stat before kickoff the other

595
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 2: night that he has Queens that have never won a

596
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: game where Harry Green has started. Yeah, and which he

597
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 2: isn't a knock on Harry Grant. No, he hasn't played

598
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 2: much football early, but they get targeted by the opposition players.

599
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 2: So the more juice you can take out of him defensively,

600
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 2: and remember queens they had little ball for the first

601
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. New South Wales's dominator possession, got some penalties,

602
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 2: dominated field position.

603
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: Harry is out there doing a lot of work, a

604
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: lot of hack work, and normally when he comes on

605
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 1: after twenty twenty five minutes and he's sharp and fresh

606
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: and everyone's getting tired, he's tired at that point he

607
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 1: can't have the impact that he wanted to do. So

608
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: I think if I was Queensland, I don't think Ben

609
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: Hunt's going to be available, so I'd be looking to

610
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: maybe a Reed Marni to start the game for them,

611
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: to get them into the game and to do a

612
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: lot of the hack work early. He's got a kicking game,

613
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,239
Speaker 1: which could be advantageous out of dummy harp. He's got

614
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: a running game and he can roll the forwards and

615
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: get them going forward. He's a busy, eager defender. He

616
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: puts a lot of pressure on other papers, on other players,

617
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: and then you've got Harry to come on fresh. That

618
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: would probably be the first thing that I'm thinking of.

619
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: Could I throw two other names at you that could

620
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 2: feel that role? Yeah, Max Plath yeah, if he's back.

621
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: Yeah.

622
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 2: And Jermaine Hopgood.

623
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly Jermaine, but certainly not as a dummy.

624
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 2: Half, not in the first twenty minutes.

625
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: In the first twenty minutes of a game. Jamaine Hopgood

626
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: is one of those Queensland type players that I would

627
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: have no fear of playing because he's got a high

628
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: work rate in him and he's readmand He's got a

629
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: hell of a lot more experience than those two blocks,

630
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: all right, and he's been in Origin Cans before. He

631
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: hasn't played yet, but he's had a hell of a

632
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: lot more experience than them a club level, and he's

633
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: a real competitor. He's also a niggler. He's also in

634
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: the face of the opposition. He can get them distracted.

635
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: He can have people looking for him, you know, he

636
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: can put people off their game. That's what he does

637
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: really well. And he can if he could get through

638
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: the early part of the game and then give Harry

639
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: Grant opportunity to come into the game when other players

640
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: are tied and there's a bit of fatigue in the contest, well,

641
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: I think that's all. Well, I'm good. Harry had to

642
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: do far too much work early and far too much

643
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: hackwork to have an impact as he normally does. Later

644
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: in the gapment, he hasn't played much football. He really

645
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: hasn't played much football. The Cherry Evans thing, I don't

646
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: I get it. Di Eden's time is close and it's

647
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: probably getting closer.

648
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 2: But Didan hasn't played halfback regally?

649
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: No I would. I wouldn't make that change at the moment.

650
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: I just don't think you can judge Cherry Evans based

651
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: on the way the Queensland forwards were dominated and the

652
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: way the game went early on, and then they got

653
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: themselves behind on the scoreboard and New South Wales were

654
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: able to pressure him and he never he never really

655
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: got into the contest, but his forwards didn't allow him

656
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: to get into the contest either. If they can get

657
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: off to a better start, Cherry Evans will come into

658
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: his own with his experience. So it's easy to find

659
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: fault with some of the things that their playmakers didn't do,

660
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: But there wasn't a lot of opportunity either, and that's

661
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: they've got to get their start right. They've got to

662
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: get into the game right. They've got to stop giving

663
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: away penalties and the come because they're under pressure of course,

664
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: you know they're trying to get up off and get

665
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: in the face of the opposition, or they're trying to

666
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: hold them down a little bit, and they're not getting

667
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: square at marker. All the things that little things they

668
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: got penalized for. I thought there were too many penalties,

669
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: but that's just a personal thing about Origin. I don't

670
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: like penalties in Origin. But it certainly played against Queensland

671
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: and the opening part of the game. And once once

672
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: that happens to you in an Origin game, the fatigue

673
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: level drive rises very very quickly because the opposition is

674
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: so good and it's so powerful, and you feel like

675
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: you're on the back foot the whole time. And then

676
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: you're working the ball out of trouble and you're making

677
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: no meters and your kickers under pressure laid in the

678
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: tackle count. He's kicking the ball and Dylan Edwards is

679
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: catching it on the full under no pressure and roaring

680
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: it back at you, and he's linking up with Brian

681
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: on Zach Lamax. They say you kick the other way,

682
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: and Zach Lomax is passing the ball to Dila is

683
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: getting over to Brian again. So they were able to

684
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: play from the back. Yeah, Queens. Look, they weren't in it.

685
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: They just weren't in it, which means they've got to

686
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: handle the start better. They've got to get themselves into

687
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: the game better. So maybe you look at it up

688
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: the starters.

689
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: Maybe I was surprised Corey Hawes wasn't in the team.

690
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, now was he injured or did he ever? He wasn't.

691
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: He had a HIA and then he come back and play.

692
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: So Corey helayed every ins Inland.

693
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: Yeahy, Corey is the type of Blake who could do

694
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: a bit of the hackwork al so then mofat Awacer

695
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: can have his impact when he comes off what comes on.

696
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: I felt that those fowards just had to work too

697
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: hard early in the game. Yeah, so they would be

698
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: the only things I'd look at. I would definitely try

699
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: to find a way to get Harry Grant back on

700
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: the bench in the early part of the game, and

701
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: maybe maybe another front rower to do a bit of

702
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: the hack work early to have more impact from mofat

703
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: Awaker coming off the bench. Other than that, I don't

704
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: think there's too many other solutions. Pretty much everything else

705
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: was as good as you can get, you know. Reecee

706
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: Walsh is not going to be available. There's always that

707
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: argument between m Ponger Cobbo.

708
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 2: Well that's weird.

709
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: So when Cobbo, I don't, I don't, you know, I don't.

710
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 2: He wasn't even in the Jesse Arthurs was in the

711
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: extended scored.

712
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: But Jesse Arthur has been going good, of.

713
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: Course he has. But has Cobo falling that far down

714
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 2: the pecking water these form hasn't been too bad. I

715
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,719
Speaker 2: know the teams are going that well, but he's been

716
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: playing okay.

717
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I can't knock the selection of the Queensland side,

718
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: I really can't. But the way the game was played,

719
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: that game was over. I felt watching the game that

720
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: game was over after about twenty five minutes. There was

721
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: no coming back for Queensland. The twelve man situation, the

722
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: sin bin gave Queensland some oxygen and the halftime break

723
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: and they came out and they got the try which

724
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: sort of got them on the but New South Wales

725
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: virtually held them at bay. They they just kept them away,

726
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,719
Speaker 1: kept them away, kept them away, comfortable that they were

727
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: leading fourteen six and it wasn't going to go any further.

728
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: And then they got them they try to put it

729
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: out the twelve. I see a lot more tries from

730
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: New South Wales next time on they scored four this time.

731
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: Tremendous opportunities, there's.

732
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: Real tremendous of a lot of opportunities, some say great opportunities.

733
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 2: So Queensland have never won in Perth, but every time

734
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 2: they've gone to Perth they've been one kneel up in

735
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: the series. They haven't been to Perth trying to save

736
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 2: it yet.

737
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't have the exact figures, but their

738
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: records pretty good have been one kneel down on the

739
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: series and leveling up and getting to it a site.

740
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: Most series go to it a side, are you. But

741
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: they're going to have to work hard. We've still got

742
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: to get through two weekends of club football. You said

743
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: that no New South Wales players had a new Stephen

744
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: Crichton's got an elbow injury and that we're sort of

745
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: monitoring hopefully he'll be all right. These players are still

746
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: got to get through two club rounds and then they've

747
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: got to be picked and go again. Queensland. Really, if

748
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: I was not that I want to advise Queensland alone,

749
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: I don't have to abilly you have a welling train.

750
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: But for me, they probably need a rugged forward starter

751
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: they can just burn out for the first twenty minutes,

752
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes to get them in the game, to

753
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: give Fadawaker that impact off the bench, and I think

754
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: I think they should go for someone like a Reid

755
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: Marny to to give Harry grant and easier access into

756
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: the game when he's needed to be able to provide

757
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: what he does. I think it's too hard for Harry

758
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: with the particularly with the little football that he's played too.

759
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: He hasn't played a lot of football.

760
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 2: He played fifty eight minutes against the Sharks, Yeah, after

761
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 2: four weeks out.

762
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's you know, it's not enough to go

763
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: into Origin, and particularly to start when you're playing against

764
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: a really good experience side who knew exactly where he

765
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: was at all times. But the way Payne, Haas and

766
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: Barnett and Yo really took to them, I mean those

767
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: three middle forwards just absolutely took to them. And you know,

768
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 1: Angus Crichton was good, Liam Martin was good, and then

769
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: the fellows that come off the bench did their Joel

770
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: King come on did really well. It was a really

771
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: good solid performance to win eighteen six at Lange Park

772
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: in the first Origin that's a big win. That's a

773
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: four tries to one. That's a big win. Big win.

774
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: And it's only twelve points, but that's a big win.

775
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 2: Peter Simms is very switched on. He says, well, he asks,

776
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 2: was having Craig Bellamy as an advisor a genius move,

777
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 2: especially considering it's likely he taught Billy everything he knows

778
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 2: about coaching.

779
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: He taught a lot of them blokes what they know.

780
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 1: I actually we were one hundred percent foot of the

781
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: other night. I asked Munster. I said, I said, your

782
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: club coach is helping out with the Origin side in

783
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: New South Wales. My male is that he's going to

784
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: do a tip sheet on all the opposition players when

785
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: he gets the number six. What's he going to say

786
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: about you? You know? He said, don't hang around with me,

787
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: he said he was his tip Yeah. So when Laurie

788
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: Daly is really good mates with our Bulldog chairman Adam

789
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: drewser Yeah. And when Adam was saying that Rory really

790
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: wanted to apply for the job, and I said, it's

791
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: really important that he has experienced coaches and you know,

792
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: whether it's Ivan Cleary or Ricky Stewart or Craig Bellamy,

793
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: some fellas that are actually coaching all day every day

794
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: just to be around just as a sounding board and

795
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: all that and all. It's really pleased that he picked

796
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: up Craig Bellamy and he really agreed to do it.

797
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: What a huge cup.

798
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: It's a huge cup, and it's just and I don't

799
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: know what the relationship was like, you know, for the

800
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: fellows that are in camp. You know, Craig Bellamy didn't

801
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: have a lot to say and didn't have a lot

802
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: to do, but he was always around. It was nice

803
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: to talk to good to talk to him. I'd imagine

804
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: in their quiet moments, Laurie's talking to Craig. But it's

805
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: just nice to know that he had that experienced bloke

806
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: on his shoulder there in case they need to be

807
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: a decision around inner change or around changing positions. And

808
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: you know, if they got down to twelve men and

809
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: just a calm voice at a time, because it's not

810
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,720
Speaker 1: something if you're not coaching regularly every day every week,

811
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: things like in a change and sin bins and all

812
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: these sort of things can get you a little bit

813
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: frantic and even in the organizing of training sessions, the

814
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: way the place communicated players this year, the nuances in

815
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: the rules and how referees are looking at the game.

816
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: So he put together a really good team Matt King Young,

817
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: Dean Young from Saint George, who he knows really well,

818
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: and Craig Bellamy, who's probably the greatest coach of all time.

819
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: To have them in his corner, I think that was

820
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: really astute from Laurie to call on those people. And

821
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: we know all know louri knows origin and Laurie's got

822
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: the passion and Laurie can pull people together like no

823
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: other than people play for Laurie. There's never been a

824
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: question on that. But I really pleased he took someone

825
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: like Craig Bellamy with him into that arena. And it's

826
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: a greatst set to have.

827
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,319
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828
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829
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832
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 2: just before we go to a break and come back

833
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: to have a look at Round thirteen, I would like

834
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 2: to take this opportunity to congratulate my colleagues at nine's

835
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: World of Sports. The ratings for both women's and men's

836
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: Origin have been unbelievable. Women's State of Origin one nine

837
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven thousand, Women's State of Origin WHO

838
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 2: one million, sixty seven thousand Last Night nine hundred and

839
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: ninety five thousand. Series average nine hundred and ninety six thousand,

840
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty three people per game throughout the

841
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,760
Speaker 2: entire series. A brilliant production and well done to everyone

842
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 2: associated with nine and also the players themselves and on

843
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 2: Wednesday Night GUS. From a ratings perspective, it was the

844
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: best Game One result since twenty sixteen. It was Australia's

845
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: number one program with total people and all key demographics.

846
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 2: It secured a total national television reach of five point

847
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: four four to nine million and a total TV audience

848
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 2: of three point seventy five five million, up eleven point

849
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 2: two percent year on year. The broadcast was fantastic. The

850
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 2: tape pieces leading into Origin they were always a highlight,

851
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 2: but they were really special leading in the Game one

852
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: the other night. So to everyone that I work with

853
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: at NI, congratulations to you. Has often said it's as

854
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: good as any team he's been involved in. That that was.

855
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 2: That was a brilliant broadcast, and the numbers I think

856
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 2: are reflective of the quality.

857
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: Channel nine makes the game bigger than it is, makes

858
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: it better than it is. Very very talented people there.

859
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: As I've said, I've been in team sport my whole life.

860
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: The best team I've ever been involved with is Channel nine.

861
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: The people there, and the talent and the work ethic

862
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: and the quality of work, and how dedicated they are

863
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: to their work. You know, they're inspiring people, really great people.

864
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the great thing being part of the team

865
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 2: too is that we all we all genuinely love what

866
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 2: we do and we all get on famously. There's even

867
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 2: a little less tension between the Queenslanders and the New

868
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 2: South Walster and these all.

869
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

870
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: I saw Fatty before the game.

871
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 2: Was he there?

872
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: You know, he was at the Sophotl Hotel. I went

873
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: over there to meet the King family just to wish

874
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: them luck for Max's debut, and Faddy had been doing

875
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: a funk there. Probably talking about nineteen ninety five.

876
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: You can talk about it endlessly and it never gets

877
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: any less funny.

878
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: The stories get better. And I've actually got to go

879
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: up and do a luncheon in a couple of weeks.

880
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: It's a thirty year since the nineteen ninety five and

881
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: they want me to come up. I said, what to

882
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: sit and listen Fatty talk about it again. I've got

883
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: nothing to say.

884
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 2: It's hilarious. So one of the pieces before the game

885
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 2: the other night was Fatty apparently that they set him down.

886
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 2: He took for an hour. We had to cut it

887
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 2: into three minutes. But truly take out your role in it.

888
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: I think it's the best origin story ever.

889
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: Oh it's great. It's one of the great It's look

890
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: and at the time the game needed it. At the time,

891
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: the game really needed it. You know. I'll elaborate on

892
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: that story more one day. But at the time, and

893
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: I said, I went to him after Game three. I

894
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: so that's one of the greatest coaching coaching performances I've

895
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: ever seen, Absolutely brilliant.

896
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,479
Speaker 2: Direct So Wayne Bennett stood down because this was all

897
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 2: at the start of the Super League. Yeah, do you

898
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: reckon Wayne Bennett would have won with that team. With

899
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 2: that team, Yeah, Look, the point I'm getting it was

900
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 2: a team perfectly suited to Fatty.

901
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look wayn Bennett's a great coach, but I don't

902
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: think in that environment at that time anyone could have

903
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: done it other than Fatty. It's just amazing, Yeah, because

904
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 1: when that Origin series that year, You've got to remember

905
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: that earlier in the year there was the Super League

906
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: coup and they came in and one of the things

907
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: that the Aarl had was its representative football and I

908
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: remember Bob Fulton and I were responsible for signing the players.

909
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: Our first job was to get an Australian team and

910
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: the New Zealand team so we could have Test matches,

911
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: and to get a new South Wales team and a

912
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: Queensland team to get Origin matches. We wanted to put

913
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: the representative football on, so we virtually picked those the

914
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,479
Speaker 1: best we could do earlier in the season and signed

915
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: them all up. And then of course we had injuries

916
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: and all sorts of things during the course of the

917
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: year and it was it was a wonderful series. Two

918
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 1: of the fellows who played in that Queensland side, Adrian

919
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: Lamb and Matt Singh. I was coaching at the Roosters

920
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: at the time, and it was important for the game

921
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: that we put on a great Origin series and it

922
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: went even though it was painful to lose, but it

923
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: was great to be a part of that history. In

924
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: the years since, I look back on it as a

925
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: really one of the great series for Origin football and

926
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: what it did for rugby league at that time.

927
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: M I elaborate best stories in Australian sports.

928
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: I'll elaborated more on it one day. But he did

929
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: a great job for it was absolutely wonderful.

930
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 2: And the first game of the series it was too nil. Yeah,

931
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 2: a Wayne Bartram penalty goal.

932
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: We bombed about six tries. Yeah, it was just but

933
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: they kept turning up Queens and they kept finding away,

934
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: they kept finding. The second game, we had have tried

935
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: this allowed with a minute to go that would have

936
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: put us in front the level of the series.

937
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 2: He called it back a forward pass.

938
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: I don't think it was, but now the funny gods,

939
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: the past went that far and he called it forward

940
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: and from the next play the ball Brett Dallas picked

941
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: it up and running round ninety meters. But we would

942
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: have won the game with one pass if that pass

943
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: wasn't called forward. So and then I went into the

944
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: dressing room after the game to congratulate them, you know,

945
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: because I knew a lot of the kids. It was

946
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: difficult time, the super League woman and all that, And

947
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: I said, I said, now, don't rest on your laurels.

948
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: I said, we're coming after in game three. Don't let

949
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: us peach you, you know, make sure you really sayeah.

950
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: I said, make sure we go back to Queensland and

951
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: you blokes do it again. Don't rest on your laurels

952
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: because you're tuned all up in the series. But they

953
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: didn't need my encouragement, Fatty who already got into them,

954
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: and you know, we busted our neck to beat him

955
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: in game three and couldn't do it. They just I

956
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: think we got to the front twice in game three

957
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: and they just kept finding away. There was everything about

958
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: Origin that we love, everything that we talk about and

959
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: we talk about it not being about talent and being

960
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: about courage and all those things that recommends that Queensland spirit.

961
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: That there wasn't anyone better to articulate that to that

962
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: group of players than what Faddy did at that time.

963
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 1: And it was an incredible time. It was a difficult

964
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: time for the game, but it was an incredible result.

965
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: For the game and went a long way towards I

966
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: believe the AARL surviving and the support that we got

967
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: from the people in the public. I think the public

968
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: were inspired by it and that's why the ARL had

969
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: a lot of support in that particular confrontation.

970
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 2: And there I say it had New South Wales it

971
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 2: won that series. We don't even think about it again,

972
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 2: would never.

973
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: Get another mention. Look, had New South Wales that won

974
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: that series, the game might be different today. Like I

975
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: had a lot of things sliding doors moments, remember the

976
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: movie Sliding Doors. I call them sliding doors moments. I

977
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 1: just think at that time it was so important. And

978
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: then when the two competitions split, I think the Newcastle

979
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: went over merely in the Grand Final in our competition.

980
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: The way that final series was played and there was

981
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: roosters in North Sydney and Manly and Newcastle and all

982
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: the games were sort of seventeen sixteen sixteen all and

983
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: Newcastle winning their first ever premiership and the way they

984
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: did it with the Darren Albert try, it was kind

985
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,479
Speaker 1: of like an inspiration for the way the game should

986
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: be and the way the game people wanted it to be.

987
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: And I think that's what held the arl together. To

988
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: be honest, around that time. It's a long time ago,

989
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: and I've got to think back in the memory bank

990
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: about everything that happened.

991
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people listening to us wouldn't even

992
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: know about this.

993
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: Players don't know it's thirty years ago.

994
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 2: Well, you know, in two time, it's thirty years and

995
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: two years. So we're gonna to do a documentary.

996
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, our players, our players, Our players weren't born.

997
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 2: I remember it too well.

998
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: The vast majority of players in the world today weren't

999
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: born back then. They don't know what Super League was.

1000
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to the game back then.

1001
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 2: Well, we're handing out clawed. It's the colleagues. It's an

1002
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 2: absolute travesty. Fatt He isn't in the Hall of Fame,

1003
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 2: an absolute travesty.

1004
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: He'll be there one day.

1005
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 2: He should be there now. If they don't put him

1006
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: in this year.

1007
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: They should get g out. Is there a Media Hall

1008
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame?

1009
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could be in both.

1010
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: You should be in the Media Hall of Fame. But

1011
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: he also should be in the Rugby League Hall of Fame.

1012
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 2: Forty It is a player and a coach.

1013
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 1: He played twenty odd Origins.

1014
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 2: Captain coins and't you want a Captain Australia Once he's

1015
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 2: the funniest man ever. But when he tells the story

1016
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 2: of how he got the job, he said, I've just

1017
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 2: been filming an antiid for the Footag Show and I'm

1018
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: sitting in my car wiping off my lipstick.

1019
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: And Ross livermore Riggs asked.

1020
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: Me if I want to coach the Queens, then team.

1021
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 2: He goes a what number am I?

1022
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: Ross?

1023
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 2: Four? Five six? How many people have you?

1024
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: You know where I first met Fatty? I don't think

1025
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: Fatty remember this? You know where I first met Fatty?

1026
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: Back in the old days, this is in the seventies.

1027
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: You go and play against an opposition team. You go

1028
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: and play some Georgia Coger, or you play Manly at

1029
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: brook Fa, or you play Norse at Norse Sydney, Albuna

1030
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: at Cronulla or Western Suburbs at Income. You know, and

1031
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: you'd go and play and then you'd have your shower

1032
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: and then you go back to the Lages Club and

1033
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: have a few beers.

1034
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 2: That's what you do.

1035
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: And there were great days and then when you'd have

1036
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: a few beers and you'd meet the opposition players and

1037
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: then you know, you kick on back to the r

1038
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: Leagues Club and go try it back to a few

1039
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: more beers. And it was the most enjoyable on the

1040
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: social part of the game. And I think it might

1041
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: have been my first game at Brookville Oval in first grade.

1042
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: I can't remember. And anyway, I went back to Mermi mate,

1043
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: we went back to Manly Lee's Club and we were

1044
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: standing in Manley Lee's Club and just sort of a

1045
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: few of the Penrith boys were there, and you know,

1046
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: we could see sort of manly blokes in the distance

1047
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: and my mate and I were standing there playing a

1048
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: poker machine. We were standing on the corner. Anyway, this

1049
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: red edded thing comes over. He said hello, mate, haw

1050
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: you going I said good. He said Paul, Hey, Paul,

1051
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: are you going by? And he introduced us to the

1052
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: Manly boys and all that. But he came over welcomed us,

1053
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to the club, had a beer,

1054
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: and that's where I met Paul Vaughton for the first

1055
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: time back then. And you wouldn't believe it all those

1056
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: years later working together and he's coaching State of Aria.

1057
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just incredible how life goes and what

1058
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: rugby league can do for you. But that was the

1059
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: first time I met Paul Vaughton. He went out of

1060
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: his way to come and introduce himself and introduce us

1061
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: to the Manly players that we played against on that day.

1062
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: And yeah, wonderful times, I tell you. I ran into

1063
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: the other day Terry Randall, Right, yeah, I was able

1064
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: watching a reserve grade game at Brookball Label Bulldogs were

1065
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: playing against Manly and Chad Randall, Terry's son, coaches. He

1066
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: coaches in our system and he was there because it

1067
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: was locally come over to watch the reserve g plan

1068
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: his dad come with him. Terry Randall hadn't seen him

1069
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: for Yonks, one of the great Manly players.

1070
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 2: So there's the Hall of Fame for players and coaches,

1071
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 2: I think, and there's a contributor category to do.

1072
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: They have a Hall of Flame? Do they have a

1073
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame for comedians? We could make that one too,

1074
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: He could make that one. Is the funniest many of

1075
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: them met. Well, you look at what he did primetime

1076
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: TV show, The Footy Show Went was iconic. That's Graham

1077
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: Kennedy class Don Lane like they were the people that

1078
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: ran You wouldn't remember all those shows. Yeah, they were

1079
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: to night shows. And you know some of the biggest

1080
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 1: performers in Australian television and international television ran those shows

1081
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: and held an audience for years and years and years

1082
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: in primetime television, nighttime television, in variety entertainment and all

1083
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: that type of thing. And what fad he did. No

1084
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: one could have done what he did. No one could

1085
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 1: have run that show the way he did as absolute

1086
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: chaos and comedy.

1087
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 2: We just took the piss out of himself with hel Carey.

1088
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, people, what do you.

1089
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 2: Say, You've got to be smart to play the fool.

1090
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: It takes a smart man to play the fool. He's

1091
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: a very smart man.

1092
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 2: He's a great bloke. So they can contribute a category.

1093
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 2: James Gilton, J. J. Gilton, George Piggins, Ken Arthurson, Peter

1094
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 2: frolingos Ian Heads, John Quayle, Rabs, Frank Hayden. My late

1095
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 2: friend David Morrow, who I missed dearly as well, was

1096
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 2: inducted just before he passed last year, so Fatty could

1097
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 2: be qualify for all of it. Very good. This is

1098
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 2: six Tackles with Gasia, our Origin review episode. We'll do

1099
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 2: some previewing on the other side, do you know of

1100
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 2: the last seven games that have been played, all the

1101
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 2: club games last week in the two origins has been six?

1102
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 2: Outside has been the at the start, I probably did.

1103
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 2: I think I'm getting Alzheimer's a break and we'll come

1104
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 2: back and have a look at round thirteen. All right.

1105
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 2: Our preview of Round thirteen thanks to our good friends

1106
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 2: at the Tab Friday Night Football from Jubilee the Red

1107
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 2: at Jubilee Guss he Yes from seven thirty tonight on

1108
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 2: Channel nine. The Dragons are a dollar fifty, the Nights

1109
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 2: are two dollars sixty. Now I'm going to go to

1110
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 2: my team list here. Oh yes, So for the Dragons,

1111
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 2: young Nathan Lawson, well, I don't know how young he is.

1112
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: I've got to have a look at that yet because

1113
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 2: i'm calling the game. But he's a dual Olympian in

1114
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 2: the Australian rugby sevens team. He's going to make his

1115
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 2: deboo on the wing for the Dragons, who outside of

1116
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 2: that are unchanged and we're expecting Kaylen Ponger to back

1117
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 2: up for Newcastle, who unbelievably again have changed our halves.

1118
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 2: Jack cogg Is out Gambles at seven Fletcher Sharp played

1119
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 2: fullback last week, goes back into the six. He was

1120
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 2: great at fullback, wasn't he? He's a lifewhile they almost

1121
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 2: looked more dangerous with him.

1122
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: Well, different type of game, but you know Caln pomer

1123
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: is obviously the mainstay of the team. But yeah, very

1124
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: interesting one red V at Jubilee. I see the red

1125
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: V at Jubilee probably been successful tonight.

1126
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 2: What's it worth typic anymore? Seriously, what we've been bothering for?

1127
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: As I said last week, anyone who knows anything about

1128
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 1: rugby league should be none out of five this week.

1129
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 2: Some breaking news right here as we as we record

1130
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 2: this at three point thirty on Friday, Harry Grant and

1131
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 2: Xavier Coates won't back up for Melbourne. So there's a

1132
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: bit of news with respect to our next game, which

1133
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 2: is the Titans versus Melbourne. The Gold Coast. Talking to

1134
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 2: te Karen Forn is going to start, Tom Weaver is

1135
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 2: going to play halfback. Jaden Campbell's going to fall back

1136
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 2: right and where's where's mate Brimston? He's out, So that's

1137
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 2: the change. Britt Campbell to fall back four and five

1138
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 2: eighth Weave that are half back Jack Howe is going

1139
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 2: to make his return menjury on the wing bronze and

1140
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 2: Garlic's going to play at hooker for the Melbourne Storm.

1141
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 2: That's three o'clock on Saturday.

1142
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I've got some memory of the Titans actually

1143
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: beating the Storm. I've been Brisbane at Lang Park at

1144
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: some stage in the last couple of years. Yeah, I reckon.

1145
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: I remember the game was like thirty six thirty four something,

1146
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: but it was a few years back then. Yeah, a

1147
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: few years back there. Anyway, sometimes those are memories are

1148
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: good ones.

1149
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't fall over the Titans won this.

1150
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: No, well, I wouldn't fall off if they beat anyone.

1151
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: You know what I think of the Titans and where

1152
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: they're going. So who's out? So Xavier Coats is out?

1153
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: And did you say Harry Grant's out?

1154
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 1: Harry Grant's out? Okay, I'll go Storm, Okay.

1155
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 2: Queensland Country Bank Stadium the Cowboys versus the Tigers. Todd

1156
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 2: Payton confirmed on Friday his team would be one through

1157
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 2: seventeen with all their origin reps to take their place.

1158
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: So there you are. They're all going to play for

1159
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 2: the West Tiger. Samuela Faye, who is on track the

1160
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 2: players he recovers from a knee injury suffered in Round

1161
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 2: eleven before the bye last week. Young gun Heath Mason

1162
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 2: will play his first NRL game since around one after

1163
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 2: being named to replace Lachlan Galvin.

1164
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: Yep, ah, again a difficult one. I don't think West

1165
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: Tiger's uh coras so our throll may cowboys up and down?

1166
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: Is NANOI going to play? We definitely playing one through seventeen. Yep,

1167
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: They're all there, They're all going to play. I'm going

1168
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: to go cowboy with no confidence.

1169
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 2: Lachlan Galvin just came up there. Has he signed officially?

1170
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: Ah No, No, not at the moment.

1171
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 2: Okay, seven point thirty Saturday Night Manly versus Broncos. We

1172
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 2: know Turbo is not there and another blow because Jason

1173
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 2: Saba has been ruled out with illness. Guss So Clayton

1174
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 2: for Larlow is his likely replacement. Anthony Sebold will carefully

1175
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 2: manage daily cherr Cherry Evans through the origin period. He

1176
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 2: has been named, but a decision will be made on

1177
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 2: game day as to whether he plays, which gives us

1178
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 2: absolutely no help whatsoever and making you tip today. LeHo

1179
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: Hopawadi goes to fall back and Jake still out because

1180
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 2: of a head knock. Brisbane coach Michael Maguire says Payne

1181
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 2: Hears and Pat Carrigan a definitely played well. Payne arsonially

1182
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 2: didn't make it to the start line on Wednesday. He's

1183
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 2: got to back up. So they're intact, but mainly have

1184
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 2: got quite a few changes.

1185
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed in the Paramounta game the

1186
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: other night. The way Manly Paramatta were really good. I

1187
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: don't want to take anything away from their performance, but

1188
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: that was a bit of a shock to the system Manly.

1189
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: I guess if Cherry Evans plays that makes a hell

1190
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: of a difference and they are back at home and

1191
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: the Broncos well, they haven't been incintillating form themselves. But

1192
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: if Payne Hears is going to back up, and so

1193
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: to Patrick Harrigan Patty Carryigan, yeah I think I'll go.

1194
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: I don't know, no, I'm going to go. SEAgel to

1195
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 1: bounce back at home, Okay, depleted Siegel still.

1196
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 2: The win Saturday night YEP, two o'clock Sunday rabbit Oz

1197
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 2: versus Warriors at a course stadium. Now my understanding is

1198
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 2: Latrell won't play he's aggravated a knee in the Origin opener,

1199
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 2: so it seems Joy Gray is going to go to

1200
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 2: full back and Fletcher Myers will come on to the wing.

1201
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 2: Campbell Graham was eighteenth man on Wednesday night, but we'll

1202
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 2: play in the centers for the Warriors. James Fisher Harris

1203
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 2: back from suspension having missed one week last week the

1204
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 2: loss to Canberra. Mitch Barnett is going to back up Gus.

1205
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 2: So that's at the Course Stadium at two o'clock.

1206
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, difficult one now without Latrell. Warriors in good

1207
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 1: That was a great game the other day the Warriors

1208
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: than Raiders Chesu was finals quality class there. They're a

1209
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: good side. Another went down last week, but I think

1210
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: the Warriors are going better at the moment and I'll

1211
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 1: bet to beat the Rabbit.

1212
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 2: Four o'clock on Sunday. What a massive game. This is

1213
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 2: the old Battle of the West, baby. It's a combat stadium,

1214
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 2: but it's a Penwrith home game. Ivan Cleary has named

1215
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 2: all five of his Origin stars and he expects they

1216
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 2: will all play. Isaac Tungell returns to the centers with

1217
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 2: Scott Sorenson returning from suspension, while rookie Harrison Hassett retains

1218
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 2: his place on the bench Bratch night as eight eighth man,

1219
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 2: but would come out if Nathan Cleary doesn't play. Sean

1220
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 2: Russell will shift to the centers as the Eels work.

1221
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 2: Welcome Zach Lomack's back from Origin, but they've lost Will

1222
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 2: Pennescini because of concussion and Mitch Moses is likely to

1223
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 2: back up. So they played together on Wednesday night and

1224
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,240
Speaker 2: they'll be opposites in the number seven Cleary and Moses.

1225
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 2: Penrith power.

1226
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, we spoke about this earlier in the podcast. Penrith

1227
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,800
Speaker 1: in previous years have been able to rest their Origin

1228
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: players a couple of reasons. They've always been very well

1229
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: placed on the latter so they could afford it, and

1230
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: number two, they had a lot of depth with young

1231
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: players coming in that were on the verge of playing

1232
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 1: NRL football. I don't know that the depth is as

1233
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: strong as it's been in previs years, and certainly their

1234
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: position on the ladder means that they have to keep

1235
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: backing them up, which could tell on both Penrith and

1236
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: New South Wales as this series goes on. If they've

1237
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: got to keep playing club football, you know, I don't

1238
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: know what their buy situation is going through.

1239
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 2: I think they're got to buy it next week. Yeah.

1240
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: I thought Paramatta were excellent last week against mainly, like

1241
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: really good.

1242
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 2: They're notice getting noticeably better every week every week.

1243
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: And you know that was without Zach Lamax and Mitchell Moses.

1244
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if they back up, it makes them even stronger.

1245
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: And I look at the two benches, Dylan Walker, Lucam already,

1246
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 1: Ryan Madison and Joe s paper Lee. I just I

1247
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: think they've got a little bit of an edge off

1248
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: the bench. I think Paramata can beat them. They beat

1249
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: them earlier in the year, didn't They didn't Para beat

1250
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: Penrith earlier in the year. I think they did. I'm

1251
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: going to go eel okay, I was going to.

1252
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: Ask you if you thought maybe I thought all the

1253
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 2: parentth goes. I was played well in Origin on Wednesday night.

1254
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 2: They bounce off that does that become infectious within the team?

1255
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 2: I wanted they could well be. You know, oh yeah,

1256
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 2: Pandris get it right, they'll probably beat them. But I'm

1257
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 2: just wondering just how much fatigue is in that. And

1258
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 2: Paramatta going particularly well at the moment and strong off

1259
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 2: the bench. So if Origin players have got to be

1260
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 2: replaced through in the course of the game, yeah, the

1261
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 2: answer is I don't know, but I think Paramata got

1262
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 2: a chance of winning. And then Sunday Nights a round

1263
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 2: us out and what a good game of football. This

1264
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 2: is speaking of improvement. After the Rooster's got flogged in

1265
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 2: round one, everyone's going.

1266
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 1: They can't make the finals. They're going to make the finals, baby, Yeah,

1267
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: how good have they gone? They've still got Sam Walker

1268
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: to come back. I know so, which was why I

1269
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: was a little bit shocked that they let Brandon Smith go.

1270
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: I know that he was going to South Sydney, but

1271
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: I thought, well, your windows not finish this year yet

1272
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: going forward. But anyway, they made the decision. Connor Watson

1273
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: playing particularly.

1274
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 2: Well, so they're saying all the Rooster's origin players are

1275
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 2: going to back up. And similarly, Hudson Young have only

1276
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 2: played twenty six minutes for the Blues on Wednesday night.

1277
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: Yep, but this is a this Raiders team. They're going

1278
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: particularly well. They're fast and they're fit, they don't give up.

1279
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: This will be a cracking game. When's this Sunday night.

1280
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 2: Six fifteen allion cracking game?

1281
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:20,439
Speaker 1: I'm going to go, Raider to beat Rooster.

1282
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 2: All right, so let's go through it. I've given you

1283
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 2: the odds. Mostly you're tipping Dragon.

1284
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: Let me go through a wait, I've got to bring

1285
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: him up. So I've got them all on the one page. Okay,

1286
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: Dragon to beat night Storm, to beat Titan, Cowboy to

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00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: beat Tiger.

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00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 2: Cowboys dollars thirty eight. Tiger's three to ten on the tab.

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00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: Siegal to beat Bronco or that might change, depends who players.

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00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 2: I suppose many Tittle is fifteen, Broncos dollars seventy at

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00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 2: the moment. Warrior to beat Rabbit dollar sixty seven to twenty.

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00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 2: Warriors favorites Eel's a real chance against the Panther, real

1293
01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 2: chance Paneth dollar fifty eight, Paramatta two forty.

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01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: And Radar against Rooster the toss of the coin anyway. Yep,

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01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: thanks Gus, Thanks Matthew.

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01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 2: It's been a very busy, busy week and we've still

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01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 2: got Club forty to come.

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01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: Yep.

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01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 2: That's six tackles with gas this week. We're back to

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01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 2: our normal timeslot of Wednesday, and we look forward to

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01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 2: your company then Friday night forty Tonight Sunday footy from

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01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 2: Combat the Battle of the West. The Panthers versus the

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01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 2: Eels have a great weekend.