Speaker 1: Nine podcasts.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, welcome to the latest edition of the Billy
Speaker 2: Slater podcast thanks to Tad. But we don't have Billy
Speaker 2: this week. He's coaching a game that goes for eighty
Speaker 2: minutes on Wednesday night, but so he doesn't have time
Speaker 2: to do a podcast. But the man that will put
Speaker 2: him over for at least one hundred of his one
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety tries, Cameron Smith, is filling in.
Speaker 1: Hello, Cam, he sold he great to be here.
Speaker 2: I think Billy's agreed to give up some of his
Speaker 2: fee as well too for you.
Speaker 3: That's good and it'll be plenty as well if I
Speaker 3: know Billy quite well. So yeah, I'll take one little snippet.
Speaker 3: You get some too, don't you? No?
Speaker 2: But I might this week, beautiful, Let's take some exactly,
Speaker 2: all right, we're looking forward to Wednesday night in Perth.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a terrific occasion. Once again, what
Speaker 2: just general terms, what do you think of Queen's Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, clearly they're under a fair bit of
Speaker 3: pressure for this one, going down one nil already at home,
Speaker 3: in particular, losing a few games on the trot. Now
Speaker 3: there's there's sort of there's a lot at stake for this,
Speaker 3: for this footy side, But look, I think they're up
Speaker 3: to it. I think listening to players comments throughout the week,
Speaker 3: you know, listening to Billy talk, they're well.
Speaker 1: Aware of where they went wrong in game one.
Speaker 3: I think they were bitterly disappointed with their performance and
Speaker 3: a bit to do with that was I think their
Speaker 3: attitude towards the foota game and the way they started
Speaker 3: that match. They really didn't put themselves in the game
Speaker 3: at all. And when you're playing against a footy side
Speaker 3: as good as the Blues have at the moment, it's
Speaker 3: a it's a pretty impressive lineup.
Speaker 1: When you give them that.
Speaker 3: Much field position, that much possession of the football, it's
Speaker 3: always going to be really hard to win. So look,
Speaker 3: it's a it's a huge task in front of them.
Speaker 1: But when you look at you know, the names.
Speaker 3: On on the paper for Queensland's lineup, they've got some
Speaker 3: pretty good players there and it's certainly not out of
Speaker 3: their reach to go over there and play well. They're
Speaker 3: going to have to. They're going to have to play
Speaker 3: extremely well to get a victory. So you know, I'm
Speaker 3: really looking forward to It's going to be a cracking match.
Speaker 2: You've seen the new Queensland skipper Cameron Munster grow up.
Speaker 2: Apparently he has grown apparently has grown up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well I was lucky enough to play about
Speaker 3: six seasons with Cam Munster. He come down to us
Speaker 3: as a really young fellow. He's eighteen year old. Actually
Speaker 3: played filled in for Billy Slater in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Billy had back to back shoulder reconstructions and played extremely well.
Speaker 3: I must admit in those two years. We went to
Speaker 3: a Grand Final actually in twenty sixteen. But to see
Speaker 3: him develop into the player that he is now and
Speaker 3: the leader that he is now, you know, I'm excited
Speaker 3: for him. How to get the opportunity to lead Queensland
Speaker 3: out I know it's something that he wouldn't take you lightly,
Speaker 3: you know, the position of captain of the Queensland State
Speaker 3: of origin side. You know, He's the one thing about
Speaker 3: Cam Matster Ritt, He's got this sort of sort of
Speaker 3: facade that he gives off that he's a bit of
Speaker 3: American and all that sort of.
Speaker 1: Stuff, and which he is. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: his footing, he's deadly.
Speaker 3: Serious about getting out there and performing well, particularly when
Speaker 3: he pulls on that Marown jersey.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a.
Speaker 3: He's watched you know, pretty much every state of origin
Speaker 3: since he was a little fella. He's very passionate about
Speaker 3: the jersey. He's passionate about the people of Queensland. So
Speaker 3: I think I think this a little bit of extra
Speaker 3: responsibility for him. It just gives him that that much
Speaker 3: greater ownership of this footy side.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'd love for him to go out
Speaker 1: there and play really well.
Speaker 2: One thing that he's always had is teammates just love
Speaker 2: playing with him. And you know, now that he's got
Speaker 2: the responsibility of leading team. May you think, as he said,
Speaker 2: he'd rallih that, won't he?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so. Look, he's not going to shirk it.
Speaker 3: He's he's a He's a type of guy that really
Speaker 3: doesn't get overawed by too many things. I think he
Speaker 3: understands the size of this occasion and what it means
Speaker 3: for the Queensland side. But you know, I think he'll
Speaker 3: relish the opportunity in front of a big crowd.
Speaker 1: As I said, big occasion.
Speaker 3: Just that little bit of extra responsibility for him, though,
Speaker 3: you know, he doesn't need to go out there and
Speaker 3: do anything different to what he usually does. There's a
Speaker 3: reason why Billy he's made him captain, and that's because
Speaker 3: of what you said, Soldi is that you know, all
Speaker 3: of his teammates love playing alongside him. You know, he's
Speaker 3: a type of guy that you know, when you when
Speaker 3: you look at all the big games that he played
Speaker 3: he's played in throughout his career, you know he's he's a.
Speaker 1: Type of guy that that typically.
Speaker 3: Lifts his team when they look sort of down and out.
Speaker 1: So he's going to have to play that way again
Speaker 1: come Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Now, Cam, I want to talk to you now about
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Speaker 2: own sporting nation. Of course, going to focus on State
Speaker 2: of Origin game two. Why don't we have a look
Speaker 2: first up at Trentley Aero. He's wearing the number thirteen
Speaker 2: jersey off the bench in his debut in game one,
Speaker 2: but starting this week at Lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a lot of people have been
Speaker 3: talking about that decision by Billy, but you know he
Speaker 3: as coach, Billy, he spends a lot of time with Trentley.
Speaker 1: Erro in the Melbourne Storm set up.
Speaker 3: As we know, Billy does a little bit of coaching there,
Speaker 3: so he sees him on a regular sort of basis,
Speaker 3: and he knows a lot about his game.
Speaker 1: I think the reason for starting him is more around
Speaker 1: the work rate and.
Speaker 3: Defense and how reliable he is with his tackling. And
Speaker 3: he comes out of a good system at the Melbourne
Speaker 3: Storm where.
Speaker 1: He's got a high work rate.
Speaker 3: He may not offer what some of the other guys
Speaker 3: on the bench off with the football, but when you're
Speaker 3: looking in those early early periods fifteen twenty minutes, you
Speaker 3: want guys out there that you know exactly what.
Speaker 1: You're going to get from them. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why he's gone with Trent.
Speaker 2: The other one in the team back to play his
Speaker 2: twelfth origin is Kurt Caple, who's been playing well for
Speaker 2: the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know he played in Game three, I
Speaker 3: think it was last year. As we know, that was
Speaker 3: a classic state of origin, was it for all? I
Speaker 3: think until the last fifteen minutes until there's a couple
Speaker 3: of pretty special efforts from Jerome Leui and Mitch Moses
Speaker 3: to break the game open. But you know, again, just
Speaker 3: another reliable guy that I think Billy. I think he
Speaker 3: likes having a couple of those guys in the team
Speaker 3: that they can play multiple positions.
Speaker 1: And you know exactly what you're going to get from them.
Speaker 3: So when you come into a situation like this, I
Speaker 3: must win match, it's good to have.
Speaker 2: Those reliable And we spoke about Leiro starting in thirteen
Speaker 2: means Pat Carrigan off the bench. How do you think
Speaker 2: that changes things from Patty's point of won of Wally
Speaker 2: Lewis Medal basically coming off the bench.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the mindset from Billy is that,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: I think through his time as coach of the Queensland Morons,
Speaker 3: I think he looks at that series where Pat Carrigan
Speaker 3: won the Waally Lewis Medal and sees that as his
Speaker 3: best series so far, and the entire series was from
Speaker 3: the bench. So I think he's looking for a bit
Speaker 3: of impact from him and I think probably just trying
Speaker 3: to take him out of those early exchanges where you know,
Speaker 3: you get bashed up a little bit. You know, he'd
Speaker 3: be making plenty of tackles you playing in the middle
Speaker 3: of the field. Yeah, he does that in NRL, but
Speaker 3: this is a huge step up state of origin. So
Speaker 3: I think maybe he's just trying to protect him a
Speaker 3: little bit from those early exchanges and then unleash him
Speaker 3: around the twenty minute mark to go and play the
Speaker 3: remaining sixty and hopefully he can bring that form that
Speaker 3: he had from a few series back where we took
Speaker 3: out the Willy Lewis medal.
Speaker 2: All Right, So that's enough on origin. Now each week
Speaker 2: on the Billy Slatter podcast. I know you'd know this
Speaker 2: because you listen to it religiously, but there's the Billy
Speaker 2: m Awards that Billy does do. We're not going to
Speaker 2: look at any of any of the games from the
Speaker 2: weekend or anything like that, but just which team has
Speaker 2: impressed you. By the way, Billy came up with the
Speaker 2: name of those.
Speaker 1: Awards, but the Smithy Ms, the Smithy Ms.
Speaker 2: Okay, which teams impressed you the most in the first
Speaker 2: half of the season.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the obvious one is the Dogs.
Speaker 3: I think they are a serious footy team. You know,
Speaker 3: when you look at some of the other clubs in
Speaker 3: the competition, you know, the I guess there's probably more
Speaker 3: sort of high profile players running around, but they're just
Speaker 3: getting the job done at the moment, and they're doing
Speaker 3: a fantastic job.
Speaker 1: I love the way they play.
Speaker 3: I guess the surprise packet for me though is as Raiders.
Speaker 3: I didn't have them anywhere near the top four this year.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many people did. But again, they're
Speaker 3: they're fine and away. They've got their own unique style
Speaker 3: of playing footy and they're playing tough and when they
Speaker 3: get a bit of a roll on, they're really hard
Speaker 3: to stop.
Speaker 1: Like that. They've got a big, aggressive footy.
Speaker 3: Side and their back line like their entire back line
Speaker 3: like they are athletes. So you know, Ricky Stewart and
Speaker 3: all of the Canberrader players, they're they're up and about
Speaker 3: at the moment. So I guess at this point they've
Speaker 3: been the surprise packer for me.
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Speaker 1: Which players have stood out for you?
Speaker 3: Name one or two, probably Luke metcalf I reckon over
Speaker 3: at the Warriors and they are another team sort of
Speaker 3: going about their business pretty quietly but effectively.
Speaker 1: I guess and Warriors there.
Speaker 3: For me, I think they've surprised many by how lofty
Speaker 3: position they've got at the moment on the table. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he's doing a fantastic job. But I love
Speaker 3: the way he just takes the game on as a half.
Speaker 3: Don't see too many of those type behalves.
Speaker 1: These days, you know.
Speaker 3: They tend to spend a lot of the time sort
Speaker 3: of passing pre line and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But this, this young fellow is a runner. He loves
Speaker 1: getting high involvement.
Speaker 3: Taken on the defensive line, and he's doing some great
Speaker 3: things for the Warriors.
Speaker 1: He certainly is.
Speaker 2: Now, this won't surprise you, or might surprise you, but
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 1: We're done.
Speaker 2: I know you're used to doing three hour podcasts and
Speaker 2: the like, but that's it.
Speaker 1: Oh mate, I don't even break a sweat.
Speaker 2: You're just getting warmed up.
Speaker 1: Seriously, and what you're saying, Billy gets paid for this.
Speaker 2: He usually goes a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: This is a joke, right, Hey, good luck Bill, and
Speaker 1: you're welcome. Thanks care