WEBVTT - Johns announces MASSIVE NEWS about his future 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Yes, hello and welcome to another episode of Freddy and 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:04.600 the Eighth. Great to have your company, of course, we 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.800 are proudly brought to you by a sports bet and 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:07.600 great to see you. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:08.680 And you're John's bread Fitlin. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:09.440 Hello. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:10.520 Don, How we are. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.040 Feeling midway through the weekend? Midway through the season? 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:19.520 What do they call mid sorry? 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.320 Home way through the season. It's awesome. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.800 What a great year, fantastic and you get the feeling 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.680 that it's gonna get more exciting. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.400 What do you think about the latter? Do you think 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:29.840 the team? 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:30.000 So? 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.960 What do you you got Canterbury Worm, Canbra Worries Melbourne? 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:35.920 Do you think they will change? 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:36.400 No? 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.199 I think that will be There'll be top four. Well, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.960 Raiders have still got three buyers. Raiders are locking. I 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.960 think Melbourne are locking the other two? Well, who's coming fifth? 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.840 The Sharks are two wins out. I think the top 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:49.559 four stays. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.960 The Raiders are interesting with the buyers they're locked in. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.320 Yeah, wow, good job to Ricky's men. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.000 All right, Well, we've got a huge show coming up 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.200 here today on Freddy in the Eighth. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.080 We cannot wait for this one. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.680 One of our best and biggest guests so far, the 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.160 new South Wales premier Chris Mins joins us on the couch. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.040 We also cross into Blues camp with state of origin 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.920 teams name we'll run our eyes over them. Plus we're 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.680 going to be previewing a huge weekend of footy two, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.760 so so much look forward to. And we do have 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.080 some breaking news as well on the great eighth Immortal 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.080 Andrew John's so. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.479 We'll tell you very shortly. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.959 All right, let's get into it and talk about things 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.560 that have been happen. I think that's a shorter list 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.000 around the grounds. What about this Monday we had the 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.040 Bulldogs with another fantastic win the fans. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.800 This is just such a good showing. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.800 We've seen game after game where they've had so many 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:48.640 people out and. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.800 About oh and Air on Monday to watch the game. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.360 Took a couple of schoolmates. Actually one of them is 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.480 a mad Bulldogs fan. And not only the teams obviously 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.200 performing will be you just tell the whole club he's 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.560 doing a fantastic job. The entertainment on the day. You 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.520 know the way the team runs down, they obviously walk 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.680 across from the hotel. You know the way they enter 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.760 the field. There's a light show going on the whole 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.800 thing is just entertaining, and you know the team's just 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.360 actually just capping it off. And I was up the 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.840 Chris Mins was actually a couple of boxes up from 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.160 where I was sitting and just watching them react to 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.400 what was going on. As well as. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.000 Awesome a team response they lift because. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.200 Of it, is it also a smart move as well? 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.679 You're doing this in the season so that maybe potentially 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:34.720 if they do make it to. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.600 The Grand Final, it's not as they're used to exactly. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.840 It's not as overwhelming an event they used to be occasions. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.560 What they said about the first time they walked over, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.400 that was Easter weekend when they played South and that 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:47.960 was I think sixty five thousand. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:48.880 Yeah, good Friday. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.440 So they walked over basically just getting people used to 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.320 get them used to lift in their heart rate. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.440 And the film with there that surrounds it all. Yeah, well, 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.280 good job to all the Bulldogs fans as well. And 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.400 we've also got probably one of the best rugby league 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.800 photos we have ever seen. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:13.919 Have look at this. I don't get it. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:19.760 It's called pure enjoys. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:25.680 Oh I get who is it? 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:26.240 It's our man? 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.360 Is that one of our producers here on fred In 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:34.120 the eighth. He's very excited. That actually took me a 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:34.839 minute to work out. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:35.160 That is. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:38.160 Just give. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.040 If we've got our producer talking to us right now, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.120 he's denying that it's him. So if you at home 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.760 know who that is or no related or anything, send 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.880 us an email. Of course, our email address is still 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:54.480 going f A. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.600 At nine dot com dot au. We've we've had some 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.800 great emails in so far. What we're going to. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.160 Say to is like nah, to say it. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.280 Well, he certainly enjoyed his time at the footy two. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.000 All right, let's talk a bit of a. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.440 State of origin. I don't think he didn't see kickoff, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:14.000 that's for sure. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:21.080 Origin selections, there has been a lot of change for 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.720 Queensland's obviously the big one. A week ago we sat 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.240 here on the lounge and we spoke about Billy Slater 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.159 whether he would choose Tom Didon or Dally Cherry Evans 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.320 for the number seven jersey. You were very strong on 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.200 the fact that you thought that he should have chosen 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.560 didn't But I remember asking you, do you think that 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.680 he'll make that tug put and you didn't think he 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:39.240 didn't think? 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:40.640 What did you make of it? 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:40.800 Then? 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.400 When Bill did pull the trigger. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.080 Well, it's a brave move. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.160 It's one of the bravest moves we've seen for Queensland 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.919 in Origin to drop their captain. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.280 I just think it's Dieddon's time. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.240 He's played four Origin maybe five is twenty four to 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.480 twenty five, but we know dcu's thirty six. Something had 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.520 to change. They scored one try in two games and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.799 that was off an Era, a big tackle from jeremih 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.840 then a So something isn't working. So I had to 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.039 pull the trigger, just had to. But it's a big call, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:13.920 very brave call. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.039 If you look at Tommy Didn's last two games. They 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.880 played Manly and we're in the game and got boot 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.880 and as they played Melbourne where they were in the 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.120 game for about thirty minutes thirty five minutes or so 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.039 and got boot as well. So you know, it's a 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:31.240 big difference coming onto the field as a utility to 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.560 being the starting number seven as well. So it's a 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.640 massive job. But I feel like Billy doesn't learn in 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.000 eagle Queensland don't if they don't pull the trigger, well, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:40.719 this is the game. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:41.000 I think. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.080 Put it under pressure and just see how they go. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.960 You know, obviously he's asking his team to play on 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.840 effort because that's what Tom Didn's all about, his effort. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.920 So it's not going to be about structure and tactics, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.320 is going to be about effort and getting the result 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:56.960 through that way. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.560 And this is the thing as well. The series is 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.040 on the line. This is the time that you are 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:04.800 going to have to make that big call. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.920 Well, you can look at it another way. Everyone's saying 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.680 New South Far is going to win. People are saying 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.120 New Southwar is going to clean sweet. So you can say, well, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.560 there's probably less pressure on Tommy or you're looking the 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:16.120 other way. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.359 The series is on the line. I just think it 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.440 is his time now. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.080 Now if you say in three or four years time 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.640 he's going to be the halfback for Queensland, you're saying 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.320 Tom did or in the halves whether it's him and 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.720 Sammy Walker or him or whatever, but he's going to 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.760 be in the halves for the next probably twenty games. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.520 Now's the time to get him in there. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.240 Another big decision that Queensland had to make this week 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.080 the Captaincy Camra Munster named as captain. What did you 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:41.080 make of this call? 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.160 With this? A no brainer? 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:43.360 It's a smart move. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.440 That mean on screen would have went close Tuna. I 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.400 think also Harry Grant, but I just think we all 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.520 know Munster's monster. He's a alarican and a lunatic, but 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.080 sometimes at this stage of his career, you just need 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.920 a bit of extra motivation and he's played that nut 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.880 painting that. The most famous rugby blue jersey the number 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:09.239 six Queensland jersey, played by Wally Lewis, Jonathan Thurston, Darren Lockyer. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.760 It's a very famous jersey in all those players with 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.920 captain maybe not Jonathan's Thurston, but it's their time number 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:17.920 six Queensland. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:19.920 But to see next to his name, watching with. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.320 And emoture, he needs it. I don't think his form 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.280 has been outstanding. I think his reaction was when he 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.120 got the call from Billy was that he thought he 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.440 might have been getting dropped. So it does in gist, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.880 but I think emotionally needs a little something in the moment, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.720 and their team definitely does. If you give it a Tina, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.520 Tino's on the field for half the game, so you 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.320 miss out on the leadership you're looking for for the 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.640 other half. So I think it's a really it's a 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.640 good move and it's up to him now. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.000 And that's the thing as well with Munster. He's such 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:50.760 a competitor. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.040 I think that obviously he's got quite alarican personality off 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.000 the field and people see that, but he is just yeah, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.440 he cares so much about the result, and I think 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:00.880 a lot. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.320 Of it's smoking, not a lot of it, Some of 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.000 its smoke and mirrors. Also he plays up to it. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.840 He's been made, he's made big changes this year. You 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:13.880 can see looks different, you know's obviously his whole life's change. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.000 He's got three kids now married. It's all you know. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:18.440 Two is it? 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.280 You've got to scoop for us? 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.520 Is only too right. I think I was talking to 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.280 rebout it this morning. I think she told me three. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.880 So I'm going to blame around there. But yeah, now's 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:30.160 the time. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:30.840 Good luck to we. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.320 Yeah, well there you go. It's going to be an 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.400 interesting one, an interesting. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.480 Showdown at ufter Stating in Perth that is now just 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.439 a week away as well, and don't forget as well, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.600 all the action exclusive at live and free right here 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.400 on Nine's Wide World of Sports. We can wait for 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.079 that and we will be chatting all things at New 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.920 South Wales as well. Coming out very shortly, but stick 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.640 around because we are joined by a very special guest, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.280 stub Naxt. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.240 Sorry about the weather yesterday. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.680 We hope it comes good today and I'm sorry about 0:08:58.679 --> 0:08:59.320 the performance of the. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.720 Cowboy running it straight at Chris Mims. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:04.120 Can we tee that up? 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.319 Freddy's Mandy's going to tee it up? 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.520 He's tackling techniques of origin. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.960 One you think, let's tee it up origin New South 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.480 Wales b Queensland for the premiere has got to love it. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.520 Well, there you go. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.679 We are very close to teeing it up because I'm 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.000 pleased to say the New South Wales premier Chrismins joins 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.280 us here on the couch. Great to see you, Thanks 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.720 for joining us as well. Have you heard anything from 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:33.880 the Queensland premiere? 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.120 He didn't mention that. No, he was a bit quiet 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.640 on the run Straight challenge. But we're not close at 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.439 all to that happening and there's no way I'm going 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:43.880 to do that. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.720 But he's good value, he's a good fellow. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.520 Yeah, he's good fun and we text a lot about 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.680 natural disasters or things that need to happen on the 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.679 border and he's very helpful. He sent a ton of 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.080 sees volunteers from Queensland down to the mid North Coast 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.079 during the recent flight, which was genuinely what we needed. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:03.959 It was fantastic. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.680 Is that always a way premier is always working together? 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.400 I think in the past there's been bluing between, you know, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.880 different different premiers, sometimes in the same party he's in 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.000 he's in the other party from me, but mostly mostly 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.640 across Australia, people will put down, you know, their spears 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.240 if there's something that needs to be done, which is 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.240 what I think everyone would expect anyway, right. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.240 Do you have a going for Game two or the 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.920 Origin series as a whole with him? 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.400 Yeah, we were searching around for one and eventually we 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:37.240 came across the idea. We only struck the deal after 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.559 Origin one was completed. Actually, so the loser of Origin 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.559 has to strike or has to record a tourism ad 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.439 for the winner's state, So he'll have to put on 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:57.199 a budget smugglers and they're down the Bond Eye and 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.840 do a vineyard tour of the Hunter Valley. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.840 That be perfect white politics. It looks like such a 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.520 brutal sport politics boy. And then what's the process? You know, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.200 there's councils, state politics, federal. How have you come about 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:11.840 being the premier? 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.560 Yeah, I mean it was probably it was a long road. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.520 I always liked it. I was interested in it when 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.480 I was a kid. My old man was not so 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.199 much interested in politics, but a big labor guy, and 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.599 really he sort of talked about it a lot. We 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.920 my brother and my sister got into it that way. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.640 I was the only one that joined, and he joined 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.120 the party very briefly, but went to a branch meeting 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:37.360 and thought it was just a racket. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.000 I ever thought I'm not getting. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.960 Involved, but I kept at it, and you know, ever 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.079 since I've been seventeen, i've been a member. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:46.920 I've largely enjoyed it. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.160 I mean, it can be stressful and difficult at times, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:49.959 but most of the. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:50.760 Time it's good fun. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.960 And you're a dogs fan, massive dogs must be pumped. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:55.240 That's how they're going. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.400 They played so well. I was just saying the Duneker 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.000 that I don't really want to put the mocker on them. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.760 It's just such a great season. And I was surprised 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.160 that they made such a big move on lockey Galvin, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.160 but you know, seemingly on the basis of Monday's game. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.719 That was the right call and I reckon. I mean, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.360 we were talking about it in the office. There's heaps 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.880 of Bulldogs fans in the office, Sarah and James and 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.240 everybody's ad a mad Dogs fan, and we were talking 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.360 about the move and how he was going to move 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.760 into the halves potentially, and what a big call it 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.640 was given the team was coming first and the fact 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.000 that it went off without a hitch. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:34.720 I reckon. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.319 A lot of the credit should go to Sexton actually, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.920 because there's no social media post, there's no leaking to 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:41.440 the media. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.200 This is just straight. He just gets on with it. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.680 So they seem to have. 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.719 A good culture, and culture is probably what wins premierships. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.559 Well, you would have been involved with some good operators. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:50.400 Phil Goirld. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.240 The way he's turned that club around, what he did 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.200 at Penrith now at the Bulldogs, Yeah, must be a 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:55.840 great operator. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.120 He must admire what he's done. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.360 Yeah, he's seemingly ruthless, but that's what you need to 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.120 win a competition, and you know, as a Bulldogs fan, 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.120 you know it's fantastic to see. Also also the Warriors 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.840 as well, he was involved over there as well, so 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.640 he's obviously knows what he's doing. But yeah, look, I 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.280 think they've got what it takes. But they're obviously a 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.880 young team and they seem to have that grit. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.280 Their back roll was incredible, the whole teams on that. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.160 I may mention after the game and it's like every 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.080 Bulldogs game to go to pick a met of the match, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.760 you're like, really, yeah, they all seem to chip in 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.760 so well, work so hard for each they do. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.040 It's such a team effort there. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.240 I want to know for you in your current job 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.000 at the moment, it does seem like, you know, such 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.240 a high pressure in the position. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.480 What does a day in the life of in New 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.839 South Wales premieer entail. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.040 Well, it's sort of different. Every day. You spend a 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.120 lot of time in the car. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.400 I get up really early. I think Sydney's an early 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.000 morning town. Like if you go down to the beach 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.240 a Cronulla or Bondi, it's full of people. Centennial Park. 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.760 Everybody do an exercise. So I get up early and 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.120 you train early. Yeah, I do a bit of training. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.560 I do a little bit of something every day, so 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.800 it might be just twenty minutes or forty minutes, but 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.520 that's enough. It's more for my mental health, I think, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.520 than my physical health. And then you're into the day. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.200 Sometimes I got things on at night, but usually just 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.480 in the car. One of the good things about politics, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.480 and one of the reasons I'm involved in it, is 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.920 that no two days are the same. So if you 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.680 like variety, it's a good job because it might be 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.120 a disaster, but it's something different. Monday can be different 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.880 to Tuesday, and often if you've had a bad Monday 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.440 Tuesday Wednesday, you luck and turn around by the weekend. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.280 The reverse is true as well. But you. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.440 Seen no luck with rose Hill. Now that was something 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.000 everyone was listening to and everyone was watching. I think 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.640 everyone who knows the area. I could see the benefit. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.600 I couldn't really understand the other side of it. But 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.080 what was it like obviously working with are Peter and 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.560 then the other side is not getting the result, and yeah, I. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.960 Mean, there's no point in lying about it. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.560 I was disappointed, and I think probably the temptation is 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.200 to say I know a big deal. I would have 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.200 loved it. I reckon it would have been great for Sydney. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:15.760 I'm disappointed it didn't go through, but our housing crisis 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.120 is so great. We've got reports into the government that 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.360 show we lose twice as many young people as we 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.080 gain every year in Sydney. And this week Sydney was 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.800 named the most expensive city on Earth. So we've got 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.080 all these commissions and reports that come back and say, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.920 if you don't have young people, then you don't have 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.560 a future. And so rather than sort of crawling up 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.640 in a ball, I think we need to take more chances, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.320 more opportunities for housing, more apartments, more units so that 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.720 people can live near their mum and dad, live near 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.880 their grandparents. Because at the moment, a lot of people 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.600 I grew up with and the generation below mere saying 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.040 I'm packing it in, I'm going to Brisbane, or I'm 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.720 heading going to Melbourne, and that's at a. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:58.400 Big loss for us. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.520 I got a solution for you. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:01.360 Here we go. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:05.120 Off the rest of the. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.240 Shark Park, which isn't too much, but the big one 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.680 is you sell that whole block at Cogra Oval and 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.520 then you build a boutique stadium at Brighton the Sands, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.880 or maybe down at Waterfall or in the Shire or somewhere. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:24.920 Well you have you'd have apartment blocks where Cogra and. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:25.960 Where Hue. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.040 And then your self the rest of the Shark Park. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.640 Then you have a little boutique stadium which is sort 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.000 of towards Wollongong Waterfall there you know the National Park, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.000 and then people from the Shire don't have to travel 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.440 too far. You're what it's like from the Shire. They 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.760 close the gates. But if it's there, we've got the 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:44.840 train line there at water. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:46.200 That's true. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:47.360 What do you reckon? 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.120 I like it? Thank you, hello, Brian. I think bridon. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.320 Imagine the stadium at broad would. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:53.320 Be fair out on the water. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.640 You sell Belmore too, Yeah, we're selling a lot of landed. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.720 Developer go on a bell more so that who Eastern side? 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.280 I did the Dogs do play a couple of games? 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.320 Yeah, one the first train out of there, don't. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.680 Yeah, they need to have a base to the. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.040 Neral W and they also have every they pretty much 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.240 have every grade covered, so they've got a couple of 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:15.399 grounds out of the bag. I was out of there 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.520 the other day actually with the annerl W two they're 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:18.400 doing a really good job. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:19.440 Well, we would look at it. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.240 Probably the big problem with the plan is the Dragons 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.360 fans and the Sharks fans don't don't tend to want 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:25.760 to share a stadium. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:26.040 The Boss. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.080 The Boss, I don't get either of Apparently the Roosters 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.560 and Souse sharing the. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:35.320 Stadium for it, So what's to go there? Like, what 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.000 will happened there anything between the Roosters as. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.680 In the South's going back to more Park. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.280 Look, it's a tough one for us because obviously there's 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.080