May 5, 2025 • 26 mins
Matty & Cooper with big issues from Magic Round including Bumpy Broncos & Top 3 Wahs. Plus they'll preview Bulldogs-Raiders top of the table clash.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
As you, Coop, you enjoy magic ground, survived it, survived
it better than you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm good mate, Good Coop. I'll tell you my philosophy
in life. I don't want my last rights and.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Ministered to me. And I'm sitting there thinking I should
have just had one more beer.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So how many times did you say that yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Get plenty of count three times, sad day.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was I
thought some of the performances were bringing. Let's talk about
some of the individual performances they Coop metcalf Geezy playing
good football.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
For a guy afterwards at nine rounds and the inexperience.
We're in the seven jersey. He's got the Warriors in
the part of his hand. And I'm not talking just
the team. He's got the up the Wars and everything
going with them. There's a lot of momentum. And as
a young half, when you're trying to put your fingerprints
on a football team, there's probably two ways you need
to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
One is your defense.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Like if you're going to tell Mitch I had to
run through a brick wall, you've got to put your
head in the spot to gain the respective him and
the other way is the communication about getting the team
around the field.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And he's doing both of it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He's doing it incredibly well.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And I've we have even spoken about his skill and
passing the running game. They're the things that are half
gains respect.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
For the rest of the team.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well, that's the thing in that coop, like what he
is doing at the moment, people got to understand.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You can't underestimate how difficult it is.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Given the fact that as you said, he's organizing the side,
he's owning the side, he's running the side, but he's
not losing that individuality that made him such a good player.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That is that's really hard to do.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And following in Shawan Johnson's footsteps, so that's that's a
difficult thing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
He, I believe, went to Andrew Webster in the off
season said I want to run this team. He said that,
and I heard about him and the wind fletching. HEINDI
they were sitting on the side London the commentary for
KO and they said he was so vocal on the field.
But the great thing about which I really love about
the kid was after the game he went to them
and sat and they had a bit of fun to talk.
But they said off camera he was just talking about football.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They said he is a footing heard this kid.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Really loves his whole life and that I think that's
really important.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I think when you see young half be able
to communicate that to the media and do interviews after
the game. He definitely does that in the film room,
in the review, in the video he's able to tell
everyone and articulating it away. And the Warriors are back
some of those scenes after that game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Down on the.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Crowd, singing, chanting, they travel everywhere, the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fans just turn up.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
But there's something great about the Warriors when they're up
and about the fellows back from last year, but what
they did the year before. They almost might be on
the cast were playing top four footy for the rest
of this view.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
If they can keep up this.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Momentum, Tedesca, I haven't seen him play much better than
at the moment.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He wound a clock back to the point that now
people are talking about him to see if he can
take the jersey off Edwards.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's an amazing comeback.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It is to lose your jersey at that age and
then fight your way back.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I think the one thing when Tedesco puts it together,
he's probably got the best balance of all the fullbacks
of that hard work in the yardage part of the
field and then the finesse at the other end. So
when you can have twenty runs have two hundred meters,
ten of those runs helping the kick return, the other
ten setting up tries, that's where the balance is. Like
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you think about Turbo and Edwards when they put it together,
they've got that good balance and Tedesco pinball mentality, good skill.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, he was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
A big decision coming after Lorrie because Edwards was good
on the weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, look, I think Edward Edwards is the fullback and
Teddy's doing all the right things, but I think Edwards.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, we're going to talk about toe in a minute
as we move on Nathan Cleary, but I can see
Edwards has really missed tie that that's a really good
one two combination. Oftentimes you see I'll get there on Bryan,
I'll bring it back on a kick return, Edwards will
go play two, to go play three.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Like they just dominate the arding sets.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's funny when origins around the corner, the gunplayers rise
a little bit in club level. Edwards went again, Nathan
went very well. Yeah, I think the origin selection around
the corner just makes good players stand up a little
bit clearer.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
With the other outstanding performance Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
His performance last week we spoke about him with his
cross plays one under two under and how it had
led he lost some thrust upfield to this week, Coop,
I've rarely seen him play so straight. There was a
marked change in his football and it works so well
like he he just kept peeling the Bronco short, particularly
(04:47):
on the left hand side of the field, made a big,
big difference to.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
See that over exaggeration as a half, it's the space
that Alamonti needs to score this one. Here, see how
he just dies back to the right. The space is
created on the left. So when we talk about playing
north south, the whole idea of that is the more
direct you can play in the middle of the field
is the centimeter or the meter that the outside players need.
(05:11):
And I always sort of talk about if you think
you're playing square, you're actually not square enough. So over
exaggerate that squareness actually sets you on game day a
straight compass because he was obviously gun barrel straight and
down that left hand side. It was the difference between
score and tries and not.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Made a big difference to his outside men, made a
big difference to his young players, particularly Blazed to Lungey.
It just gave Blaze just a little bit more room
and it allowed them to simplify their football. Yes, so
there wasn't as many complex sequences that make sense. I've
thought that oftentimes, and I love the complexity of their football.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It's just such it's great to watch the science of it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But bringing a young guy into a team and wearing
the six and trying to find his way, he can
get lost in that and I've seen that. But on
the weekend they're able to simplify, and he was really good.
The combinations coops are starting to form.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I don't think the simplicity of things is probably why
Craig Bellamy has been super successful over a long period
of time, because it doesn't matter if you're a three
hundred game or a new play. If you keep it simple,
there's more understanding of how you want to play.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I think the Panthers did two things.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Nathan played way more direct and they simplified their football
in terms of just keeping it to one or two
things to do well, as opposed to, oh, we really
got these six plays, let's do it. They were just
doing the same things but doing it better than the Broncos.
And that was the difference between getting four points.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And getting that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Simplifying the game plan is going to be really really
important during the origin period.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They've got to keep winning.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now they do, and not having Nathan, not have Isaiah,
it's going to find it. You know, they can't play
that complex with the guys they're going to put in.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So and I'll tell you what. Let's talk about what we.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Think of them going forward now, because I imagine after
the weekend's performance a lot of opinions have changed, maybe
not completely, but you know, a lot everyone, a lot
of people putting the lines straight through them. And I
think they adjusted that, particularly when you see miss Kenny
to come back and the one they really liked, the
one they have really missed, and you could see it
(07:24):
early in the game was Brian Tyner. Yeahs, you know,
like just about the best yardage player in the game,
and early in the game against the Broncos, they just
could get forward on play one and two, they couldn't
get traction at all. And that's like watching the first
fifteen twenty minutes yesterday really highlighted to me how much
they've been missing Brian Tyer.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, this one here, Zayo hardly ever gets picked up
and put on his back. The thing I like about
what Brian toal does two sideways here, and this was
after the first twenty minutes of the game, but then
they went more direct. The thing I like about Brian
total is his ability to do it from the first
effort to his last effort in the game. It allows
(08:07):
isaiahoh and Moses Liota like an extra couple of meters
of time and the ability to get some more energy
and refuel in the tank. Because Brian tot is a
lock for twenty runs two hundred meters. If your front
rower has to have an extra couple of efforts, it
just chews up the petrotank quicker does that, yes, yeah,
(08:29):
and defensively it hurts them as well. So not only
will Edwards get the benefit of title, I think Isaiahah
and Moses Leota will definitely see improvement in their game too.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The Raiders, I think Oricky won the competition with the
Roosters in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I think this year, I think it's just about.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
His finest coaching before up to this date.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
One thing I really like about what Ricky and the
Raiders are doing is they have this strong, experienced forward
pack that have been doing what let's be honest, they've
been doing those.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Things for the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, topenhap horse was gone to another level this year,
but then these young outside backs have really taken their
game to another level. And I think the key to it,
and I know he's leaving, but is Jamal Fogerty's kicking
game and decision making. He doesn't overplay his handover, but
he keeps that team on tracked, on track. It's it's
it's good half back play for an older guy who
(09:28):
probably doesn't have the speed in the footwork to break
open a line like a metcalf for a clear or
something like that. But he's doing a lot of the
work behind the scenes to keep that whole operation.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
He binds everything together.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's a lot We've spoken about Adam Reynolds before he
arrived at the Broncos. The Broncos had all this talent,
but had no one to bind it all together. You see,
I did that, and you know, and fair played to him.
And Ricky could have been a difficult week with distraction
with him signing elsewhere. We spoke to him after he
kicked that winning golden Golden Point and he was really chipper.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, you know, and you know that's but the.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Improvement and the development of the young players in this
side is tribute to Ricky ko Weeks. I've seen Kayo
play quite a bit when he was coming through the
grades of Manly and he couldn't quite find his stride there,
couldn't quite get traction.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But he is here. Maddie Nicholson. Nicholson is a special player.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
That try to send it to Golden Point in tough conditions,
bucketing down with rain, Nicholson runs a little sort of
outline on Cameron Munster and just has the ball in
two hands and pops it up to ko Weeks who
was anticipating it. He saw the space and pushed straight
(10:44):
through and for him to take on Pabenhausen one on one.
I think that play, with the game on the line,
sums up exactly where Ricky and the Raiders are at
if they can find the belief to play like that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For the next well fifteen weeks, I'll tell you what, as.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You know, mate, wins like even last week that Dolphins
when the first half they are horrible, but the second
half they just came out and just blitzed and win
the second half thirty. And then to beat the Melbourne
Storm and that all that effort to beat the Dolphins
week before. There's oftentimes you can exhale, absolutely can make
a side like Melbourne, but Ricky had them. It just
(11:22):
shows like they're mentally tough this year.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Do you think a couple of teams like Panthers and
three Tiger's five where they jump out of the pack
yep and catch five right toppy, do you think the
Raiders have something like that?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I would say a fortnight ago, I felt that this
young Raider's site, well, the Raiders side, we've got some
experienced plags, but I thought they're still twelve months away
from being a serious contender.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'm starting to change my mind.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
It's probably why they wanted Jamel Foe to hang around
for twelve months.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
To be honest, yeah, they probably thought the same thing.
But that they are doing all the right things.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
To being down the door of teams who finals, teams
who win comps out of nowhere, and you just said
to Panthers No. Three now going into three, A lot
of people had Panthers to get the wooden spoon. I
think the year before that, right toward the bottom might
have been mid second last, I forget, but no one
(12:22):
gave him a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Tigers in five very very similar as the fact they
came out of nowhere. Now, the thing that the Raiders
share in common with.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Those sides, if they've got a crop of just jumblows
coming through that are on the up, they're a fast
team and they play with a unique style. That's what
they share with the Tigers and the Panthers. And you
have to have a unique style if you're going to
win a competition out of nowhere and surprise we' you've
got to have that unique style of football.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
And reference to Panthers, the makeup of that forward pack,
Panthers outside backs that they had to win that comp
Craig gow was the key.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Jamel Fogy. I think Ricky.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Knows that he's got a good team then, but I
think it's probably come a couple of weeks forward and
he's gone, hold, then I might have a team that
could win this comp.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's funny and it coops like I saw Ricky after
the game and the team and Ricky. Ricky was really
emotional after the game that important win. And there's one
school of thought that says, hey, come on, boys, let's
cooper lid on it. But there's the other school of
thoughts that say, mate, we're growing in belief.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Let's just go with this.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, big game this week, Raiders.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Does Raiders Jogs one v two two in Canberra three pm.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mississ and key men.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They have been as well like and they're losing Preston
for this week. They're missus and you can see that
like yesterday, their attack has been the best. But yesterday
I can so sit down on the tape and said,
you know, we played against the Titans side that were
below full strength and we can suited eighteen points. That
part of it were disappointing. I thought Crichton was incredible yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
He and Kraz the Raiders and Dogs are going to
put two parts to both teams in terms of where
this game is one and loss. I think the Raid
is with that sort of young and youthful edge defense.
I'm talking timco and said Chris, they need to have
their best defensive performance because if they don't stop kick
out on the left and crying on the right, the
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Dogs will win. Right on the flip side, I think
the Dog's defense through the middle needs to stop Tarpeny, Parpoley,
Starling has been very good off the back of those guys.
So I think there's two parts defensively that both teams
need to nail.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
If one doesn't, your position wins.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Got a lot of blakes like similar.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Ethan's strange, you know, like it's funny with Ethan because
I saw when you look at look at him like
he appears small in stature, but when you actually see him,
he's a big body, very very stronger that sweet left foot.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
At left side of him. And Hudson young.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Jeez, Hudson's playing good for you.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And Crichton is the best center in the game, best
defensive center, and they're going to you said, if a
team jumps up to win a competition, they need to
have a point of difference with their attack or something
different that catches teams out. If you're going to beat
Stephen Crichton, Hudson Young is probably the key to that
because he as this risky, flairy play that could just
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be that point of difference that they need.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Just from Crichton.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I was talking to Brandy, Yes so watching the game
and Crichton had the ball set and mate, he's got
that sweet left foot. Darryl Halligan said to Brandy, of
all the blokes he's coaching at the moment, Crichton is
by far the best goalkicker, which is saying something you.
Darryl's coach some of the very best or is, including
Nathan Cleary, and he said Crichton's number one, and I
(15:48):
see his taker Burt's coming back, but I believe that
clit will hang on to the goalkick. Broncos, we spoke
about cheese her heart sorted to get it wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I thought your commentary was brilliant too. By the way,
Top Shelf.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I agree. Broncos were.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Such a strange game to watch because at the start
of the game they were just so much energy they
poured into their defense. They were all over the Panthers,
and then something just something just changed. See what was
unusual about the Broncos. They fatigued really quickly. Coops they
when we put that down to coops, I don't know,
(16:34):
but okay, they coughed up a lot of ball. They
made a lot of errors. But I thought almost halfway
through the first half, looks some of these blokes, some
of the forwards are starting to struggle. Here the last
twenty minutes of the game, like some of those forwards
so were out on their feet that the Panters could
just basically do whatever they wanted.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I mean we saw defensively some poor decisions, like when
Nathan Clear is playing straight and Tony Staggs was just
caught out position. He was moving to his left inside
and that's where the space was being created. There is
this talk I think Gazra Man is back or available?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Does he play?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
He hasn't played.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
This is his first Campaig, He's played no Coueensland Capital.
I think he's got to earn his spot.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I agree to.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I think there's there's a lot of talk around Ezra
where he comes straight back in or whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But with players wanting back, players just said publicly, players
wunning back.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
But I expect Madge'll make him earnest I.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Think there's to earn the right to get back in
this team. I'd be keeping Ben Hunt there. And if
he goes back and spends four weeks in the host
plast Cup and he delivers like in a real I
don't mean he needs a chip and chase the score tries,
but he needs to do the kick chase line and
be aggressive defense and all those other things that don't
(17:53):
get picked up. Then he comes through as a fourteen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think he will when he comes into the squad.
He'll give Madge a lot of mid game flexibility. You
put him at fourteen, suddenly you can put him on it,
put him on at six, put a Hunt to nine,
mix around.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I think you might get a reaction out of Ben
Hunt as well if he sees the EZRA there, like
his level of performance will go through the roof as
well too.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
If you go in and have a look at the game,
because you commentated the game before, I'll be interested to
know what you think and we talk about next week.
Bronco has really struggled in the attacking twenty really struggled,
and I know sometimes it could be a hard place
to attack because the defense is on top of you.
I almost my thought on it, and I'm interested yours
(18:38):
for next week. I thought they tried to do too much.
I thought so. I thought that they haven't a little
shot here, they haven't shot there.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They're pushing the ball there there. You know, they just
didn't build for anything.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And when you're attacking the line, I don't care what
your players, but when you're coming up against twelve defensive
plus the all back in the line, which is thirteen,
you need to be very effective with your middle forwards
in and around the play the ball because, like Nathan
plain Square, if your forwards aren't doing something to the
(19:11):
first four defenders off the ruck, don't even bother passing
the ball out to your center.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well that makes sense because even generally they're attacked, particularly
in the second half Coeps, I thought it just looked
if it was a word, I'd say sloppy. Like as
we know, we've spoken about this numerous times, you know,
is that to make a play work to draw the
defense in, as you said, playmaker's got to get to
that target defender. You've got to start to pull them
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out of shape a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
And everything was just a little sideways.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
To give an example, like halves and centers race off
the triy line on the outside and what you need
to if you just finesse the ball out, they're just
going to make a decision to shut it down. What
you need to do is be effective here because then
they start coming back infield because I feel like those
defenders have been condensed in and that's how you attack
inside the towny.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The Melbourne Storm coup look a bet a month ago
people were saying, you know, there was a bit of
a school of thought, well it's going to be the
Storm's competition, that would just rampaging. But in absence we
get we're seeing how critical Harry Grant is vital to
that fast.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Middle field football they like to play.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Like the last three weeks, three weeks without Harry there,
they've dropped considerably.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think there's two parts to it. I think.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Defenders or defensive team coming up against Melbourne Harry, they
just go eyes to Munster and Hughes, so they don't
have too much of a concern around the middle of
the rock. They'll make their tackles, but as soon as
that pass goes out, it's like push to put pressure
on Monster and Hughes with Garlic or someone else whoever
comes in there. They're just doing their job. They're passing
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the ball, making their tackles, which you probably want from
that position. But when that defense takes their eye off
on Munster and Hughes, the one person takes advantage of
that is Harry Grant.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You watch what they'll do.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
They'll pass, pass, pass, go wide, and then they'll be
Harry Grant with Pabnausen back through the middle of some stuff.
So there's real opportunity to go sort of play with
with then straighten it up, play with wid and straighten up.
But when Harry Grant is not there, there's not that
ability to straighten.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is their most important player?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I know they've got Monster, They've got they've got Jerome,
who's so dangerou to the paps at the back.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Is he there most?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You can make an argument that all of them are
equally important because the skills they bring. But at the
moment there's just a little bit of the big absence
of Harry Grant.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But at times Monster's fallen out.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You missed the opportunity of that ad lib fort of
player the right foot back inside with Jerome, who's the
best running half back in our game. So look right
now you probably say, yes, Harry Grant because.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Of how obvious it is.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Mate, Tigers were lucky. Galvin returned two from two. Luo
come out after the game after and they're forming a
really good combination there. He said, you don't need to
be great mates to win.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
So it's interesting haven't played in the halves we ever
played with?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, I's going to ask you the same thing about
Cameron Smith.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But you walk into that one.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I knew, yes, I knew I was there.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I knew it was coming there.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
He's still one with your brother May We.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Went to beer on the weekend. Fantastic. I've got how
miserable time. I'll tell you what when you're going to Joe,
He's not a twenty twenty game.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
But to lew Ey's point, like Benji's in this position
where he's coming off three wooden spoons, there are signs
of improvement with the Tigers right. So to Lewi's point,
they have to play together because if you don't, you're
going to lose a few more games than you probably
would win. And the whole idea for the Tigers and
(22:43):
Benji's improvement, So I don't mind that Lewis said that
they need to gel and they need to perform well,
they need to find a way to work together. But
ultimately it's all about performance and if you play well,
no one's gonna ask questions. But if you lose games
and there's frustrations when it comes into play, I guarantee
you there'll be questions being.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Playing well to role made too. It might be planning
himself into an origin Jersey just a couple of months
to finish with. Yeah, would I put him in the squad?
I just I'd add there was a bit of talk
against people saying, you know, attitude and everything.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I think since he's.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Been at the Tigers and from what I learned in
the offseason heading to the Tigers, his attitude was second
and Hane mate running marathons obviously marathons and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Phil Bola has been very good for them too, that
ye'd like, He like Tyrell is doing a lot of
good stuff. But I think I think I think he
probably we would have to go through, but he probably Yeah,
maybe in the squad, might miss out, but Phil has
been very good as well.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Very good on the Sharks.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I thought Will Kennedy was really good importantly for the Sharks.
Nico Hines, there's about four try assists on the weekend.
He's starting to get that directness back. He's getting to
that target defender and they look.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
He was a little bit like Nathan. He was way
more north south than east west. He had some nice
touches And I really like what Craig Fitzgibben said about Nico.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
He stood up for his half back.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know, yes he gets attention good and bad at
some stages. But I think for Nico Heines development, Craig
Fitzgibben is absolutely the right coach for him. Like I
think he knows what hard work looks like. He stood
up for him. He'll support Nicko when needed to. So
I was helping out with nick I would say, go
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back and watch some of your good touches on the weekend.
Start feeling that thought of like, okay, when I did
something well, I actually went movement was first forward, not sideways,
I mean the past. To Kevin mckinnis, I think it
was where he had two runners close to the line.
Normally Nico Heines would probably fall into that one under
one under drift across. His first movement was forward. He
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had to play someone out the back. But because he
went forward, the created in the first sort of two
defenders outside his vision.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Just finally, I want to give a rap to a
young bloke as he's sess my boy from my own town,
Fletcher Sharp Fletcher's is a special player. He's showing that
this year. Even the previous couple of weeks where Newcastle
tack has been poor, he's had a spark about him.
Really really, the one concern I do have going forward Fletcher,
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I think he signed an extension for a year or two.
The only one that worries me is the position that
the Knights may have put themselves in as far as
vulnerable to someone pinching him with a Dylan Brown contract.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That makes sense, how come?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Because there's no doubt if he's on the market right now,
with how crazy the harvest market has become made, someone
would come out of him seventy fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He played really well, scored three tries. But what are
you like him so much? Half the weekend's performance for
another day?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
The fact that there is the fact that it was
the Knights win. If he scored three tries, it was
two hundred fifty to one.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I don't know. Someone just told me. He says, Fine,
egg scoobs,
As you, Coop, you enjoy magic ground, survived it, survived
it better than you.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're right.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm good mate, Good Coop. I'll tell you my philosophy
in life. I don't want my last rights and.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Ministered to me. And I'm sitting there thinking I should
have just had one more beer.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
So how many times did you say that yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Get plenty of count three times, sad day.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was I
thought some of the performances were bringing. Let's talk about
some of the individual performances they Coop metcalf Geezy playing
good football.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
For a guy afterwards at nine rounds and the inexperience.
We're in the seven jersey. He's got the Warriors in
the part of his hand. And I'm not talking just
the team. He's got the up the Wars and everything
going with them. There's a lot of momentum. And as
a young half, when you're trying to put your fingerprints
on a football team, there's probably two ways you need
to do it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
One is your defense.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Like if you're going to tell Mitch I had to
run through a brick wall, you've got to put your
head in the spot to gain the respective him and
the other way is the communication about getting the team
around the field.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And he's doing both of it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He's doing it incredibly well.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And I've we have even spoken about his skill and
passing the running game. They're the things that are half
gains respect.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
For the rest of the team.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well, that's the thing in that coop, like what he
is doing at the moment, people got to understand.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You can't underestimate how difficult it is.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Given the fact that as you said, he's organizing the side,
he's owning the side, he's running the side, but he's
not losing that individuality that made him such a good player.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That is that's really hard to do.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And following in Shawan Johnson's footsteps, so that's that's a
difficult thing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
He, I believe, went to Andrew Webster in the off
season said I want to run this team. He said that,
and I heard about him and the wind fletching. HEINDI
they were sitting on the side London the commentary for
KO and they said he was so vocal on the field.
But the great thing about which I really love about
the kid was after the game he went to them
and sat and they had a bit of fun to talk.
But they said off camera he was just talking about football.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They said he is a footing heard this kid.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Really loves his whole life and that I think that's
really important.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I think when you see young half be able
to communicate that to the media and do interviews after
the game. He definitely does that in the film room,
in the review, in the video he's able to tell
everyone and articulating it away. And the Warriors are back
some of those scenes after that game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Down on the.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Crowd, singing, chanting, they travel everywhere, the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Fans just turn up.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
But there's something great about the Warriors when they're up
and about the fellows back from last year, but what
they did the year before. They almost might be on
the cast were playing top four footy for the rest
of this view.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
If they can keep up this.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Momentum, Tedesca, I haven't seen him play much better than
at the moment.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He wound a clock back to the point that now
people are talking about him to see if he can
take the jersey off Edwards.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's an amazing comeback.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It is to lose your jersey at that age and
then fight your way back.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I think the one thing when Tedesco puts it together,
he's probably got the best balance of all the fullbacks
of that hard work in the yardage part of the
field and then the finesse at the other end. So
when you can have twenty runs have two hundred meters,
ten of those runs helping the kick return, the other
ten setting up tries, that's where the balance is. Like
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you think about Turbo and Edwards when they put it together,
they've got that good balance and Tedesco pinball mentality, good skill.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, he was brilliant.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
A big decision coming after Lorrie because Edwards was good
on the weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah, look, I think Edward Edwards is the fullback and
Teddy's doing all the right things, but I think Edwards.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, we're going to talk about toe in a minute
as we move on Nathan Cleary, but I can see
Edwards has really missed tie that that's a really good
one two combination. Oftentimes you see I'll get there on Bryan,
I'll bring it back on a kick return, Edwards will
go play two, to go play three.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Like they just dominate the arding sets.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's funny when origins around the corner, the gunplayers rise
a little bit in club level. Edwards went again, Nathan
went very well. Yeah, I think the origin selection around
the corner just makes good players stand up a little
bit clearer.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
With the other outstanding performance Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
His performance last week we spoke about him with his
cross plays one under two under and how it had
led he lost some thrust upfield to this week, Coop,
I've rarely seen him play so straight. There was a
marked change in his football and it works so well
like he he just kept peeling the Bronco short, particularly
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on the left hand side of the field, made a big,
big difference to.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
See that over exaggeration as a half, it's the space
that Alamonti needs to score this one. Here, see how
he just dies back to the right. The space is
created on the left. So when we talk about playing
north south, the whole idea of that is the more
direct you can play in the middle of the field
is the centimeter or the meter that the outside players need.
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And I always sort of talk about if you think
you're playing square, you're actually not square enough. So over
exaggerate that squareness actually sets you on game day a
straight compass because he was obviously gun barrel straight and
down that left hand side. It was the difference between
score and tries and not.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Made a big difference to his outside men, made a
big difference to his young players, particularly Blazed to Lungey.
It just gave Blaze just a little bit more room
and it allowed them to simplify their football. Yes, so
there wasn't as many complex sequences that make sense. I've
thought that oftentimes, and I love the complexity of their football.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It's just such it's great to watch the science of it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
But bringing a young guy into a team and wearing
the six and trying to find his way, he can
get lost in that and I've seen that. But on
the weekend they're able to simplify, and he was really good.
The combinations coops are starting to form.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I don't think the simplicity of things is probably why
Craig Bellamy has been super successful over a long period
of time, because it doesn't matter if you're a three
hundred game or a new play. If you keep it simple,
there's more understanding of how you want to play.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And I think the Panthers did two things.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Nathan played way more direct and they simplified their football
in terms of just keeping it to one or two
things to do well, as opposed to, oh, we really
got these six plays, let's do it. They were just
doing the same things but doing it better than the Broncos.
And that was the difference between getting four points.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And getting that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Simplifying the game plan is going to be really really
important during the origin period.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
They've got to keep winning.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now they do, and not having Nathan, not have Isaiah,
it's going to find it. You know, they can't play
that complex with the guys they're going to put in.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So and I'll tell you what. Let's talk about what we.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Think of them going forward now, because I imagine after
the weekend's performance a lot of opinions have changed, maybe
not completely, but you know, a lot everyone, a lot
of people putting the lines straight through them. And I
think they adjusted that, particularly when you see miss Kenny
to come back and the one they really liked, the
one they have really missed, and you could see it
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early in the game was Brian Tyner. Yeahs, you know,
like just about the best yardage player in the game,
and early in the game against the Broncos, they just
could get forward on play one and two, they couldn't
get traction at all. And that's like watching the first
fifteen twenty minutes yesterday really highlighted to me how much
they've been missing Brian Tyer.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, this one here, Zayo hardly ever gets picked up
and put on his back. The thing I like about
what Brian toal does two sideways here, and this was
after the first twenty minutes of the game, but then
they went more direct. The thing I like about Brian
total is his ability to do it from the first
effort to his last effort in the game. It allows
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isaiahoh and Moses Liota like an extra couple of meters
of time and the ability to get some more energy
and refuel in the tank. Because Brian tot is a
lock for twenty runs two hundred meters. If your front
rower has to have an extra couple of efforts, it
just chews up the petrotank quicker does that, yes, yeah,
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and defensively it hurts them as well. So not only
will Edwards get the benefit of title, I think Isaiahah
and Moses Leota will definitely see improvement in their game too.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The Raiders, I think Oricky won the competition with the
Roosters in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I think this year, I think it's just about.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
His finest coaching before up to this date.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
One thing I really like about what Ricky and the
Raiders are doing is they have this strong, experienced forward
pack that have been doing what let's be honest, they've
been doing those.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Things for the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, topenhap horse was gone to another level this year,
but then these young outside backs have really taken their
game to another level. And I think the key to it,
and I know he's leaving, but is Jamal Fogerty's kicking
game and decision making. He doesn't overplay his handover, but
he keeps that team on tracked, on track. It's it's
it's good half back play for an older guy who
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probably doesn't have the speed in the footwork to break
open a line like a metcalf for a clear or
something like that. But he's doing a lot of the
work behind the scenes to keep that whole operation.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
He binds everything together.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's a lot We've spoken about Adam Reynolds before he
arrived at the Broncos. The Broncos had all this talent,
but had no one to bind it all together. You see,
I did that, and you know, and fair played to him.
And Ricky could have been a difficult week with distraction
with him signing elsewhere. We spoke to him after he
kicked that winning golden Golden Point and he was really chipper.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, you know, and you know that's but the.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Improvement and the development of the young players in this
side is tribute to Ricky ko Weeks. I've seen Kayo
play quite a bit when he was coming through the
grades of Manly and he couldn't quite find his stride there,
couldn't quite get traction.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But he is here. Maddie Nicholson. Nicholson is a special player.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
That try to send it to Golden Point in tough conditions,
bucketing down with rain, Nicholson runs a little sort of
outline on Cameron Munster and just has the ball in
two hands and pops it up to ko Weeks who
was anticipating it. He saw the space and pushed straight
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through and for him to take on Pabenhausen one on one.
I think that play, with the game on the line,
sums up exactly where Ricky and the Raiders are at
if they can find the belief to play like that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For the next well fifteen weeks, I'll tell you what, as.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You know, mate, wins like even last week that Dolphins
when the first half they are horrible, but the second
half they just came out and just blitzed and win
the second half thirty. And then to beat the Melbourne
Storm and that all that effort to beat the Dolphins
week before. There's oftentimes you can exhale, absolutely can make
a side like Melbourne, but Ricky had them. It just
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shows like they're mentally tough this year.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Do you think a couple of teams like Panthers and
three Tiger's five where they jump out of the pack
yep and catch five right toppy, do you think the
Raiders have something like that?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I would say a fortnight ago, I felt that this
young Raider's site, well, the Raiders side, we've got some
experienced plags, but I thought they're still twelve months away
from being a serious contender.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I'm starting to change my mind.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
It's probably why they wanted Jamel Foe to hang around
for twelve months.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
To be honest, yeah, they probably thought the same thing.
But that they are doing all the right things.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
To being down the door of teams who finals, teams
who win comps out of nowhere, and you just said
to Panthers No. Three now going into three, A lot
of people had Panthers to get the wooden spoon. I
think the year before that, right toward the bottom might
have been mid second last, I forget, but no one
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gave him a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Tigers in five very very similar as the fact they
came out of nowhere. Now, the thing that the Raiders
share in common with.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Those sides, if they've got a crop of just jumblows
coming through that are on the up, they're a fast
team and they play with a unique style. That's what
they share with the Tigers and the Panthers. And you
have to have a unique style if you're going to
win a competition out of nowhere and surprise we' you've
got to have that unique style of football.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
And reference to Panthers, the makeup of that forward pack,
Panthers outside backs that they had to win that comp
Craig gow was the key.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Jamel Fogy. I think Ricky.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Knows that he's got a good team then, but I
think it's probably come a couple of weeks forward and
he's gone, hold, then I might have a team that
could win this comp.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's funny and it coops like I saw Ricky after
the game and the team and Ricky. Ricky was really
emotional after the game that important win. And there's one
school of thought that says, hey, come on, boys, let's
cooper lid on it. But there's the other school of
thoughts that say, mate, we're growing in belief.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Let's just go with this.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, big game this week, Raiders.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Does Raiders Jogs one v two two in Canberra three pm.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Mississ and key men.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They have been as well like and they're losing Preston
for this week. They're missus and you can see that
like yesterday, their attack has been the best. But yesterday
I can so sit down on the tape and said,
you know, we played against the Titans side that were
below full strength and we can suited eighteen points. That
part of it were disappointing. I thought Crichton was incredible yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
He and Kraz the Raiders and Dogs are going to
put two parts to both teams in terms of where
this game is one and loss. I think the Raid
is with that sort of young and youthful edge defense.
I'm talking timco and said Chris, they need to have
their best defensive performance because if they don't stop kick
out on the left and crying on the right, the
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Dogs will win. Right on the flip side, I think
the Dog's defense through the middle needs to stop Tarpeny, Parpoley,
Starling has been very good off the back of those guys.
So I think there's two parts defensively that both teams
need to nail.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
If one doesn't, your position wins.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Got a lot of blakes like similar.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Ethan's strange, you know, like it's funny with Ethan because
I saw when you look at look at him like
he appears small in stature, but when you actually see him,
he's a big body, very very stronger that sweet left foot.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
At left side of him. And Hudson young.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Jeez, Hudson's playing good for you.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And Crichton is the best center in the game, best
defensive center, and they're going to you said, if a
team jumps up to win a competition, they need to
have a point of difference with their attack or something
different that catches teams out. If you're going to beat
Stephen Crichton, Hudson Young is probably the key to that
because he as this risky, flairy play that could just
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be that point of difference that they need.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Just from Crichton.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I was talking to Brandy, Yes so watching the game
and Crichton had the ball set and mate, he's got
that sweet left foot. Darryl Halligan said to Brandy, of
all the blokes he's coaching at the moment, Crichton is
by far the best goalkicker, which is saying something you.
Darryl's coach some of the very best or is, including
Nathan Cleary, and he said Crichton's number one, and I
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see his taker Burt's coming back, but I believe that
clit will hang on to the goalkick. Broncos, we spoke
about cheese her heart sorted to get it wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I thought your commentary was brilliant too. By the way,
Top Shelf.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I agree. Broncos were.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Such a strange game to watch because at the start
of the game they were just so much energy they
poured into their defense. They were all over the Panthers,
and then something just something just changed. See what was
unusual about the Broncos. They fatigued really quickly. Coops they
when we put that down to coops, I don't know,
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but okay, they coughed up a lot of ball. They
made a lot of errors. But I thought almost halfway
through the first half, looks some of these blokes, some
of the forwards are starting to struggle. Here the last
twenty minutes of the game, like some of those forwards
so were out on their feet that the Panters could
just basically do whatever they wanted.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I mean we saw defensively some poor decisions, like when
Nathan Clear is playing straight and Tony Staggs was just
caught out position. He was moving to his left inside
and that's where the space was being created. There is
this talk I think Gazra Man is back or available?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Does he play?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
He hasn't played.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
This is his first Campaig, He's played no Coueensland Capital.
I think he's got to earn his spot.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I agree to.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
I think there's there's a lot of talk around Ezra
where he comes straight back in or whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But with players wanting back, players just said publicly, players
wunning back.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
But I expect Madge'll make him earnest I.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Think there's to earn the right to get back in
this team. I'd be keeping Ben Hunt there. And if
he goes back and spends four weeks in the host
plast Cup and he delivers like in a real I
don't mean he needs a chip and chase the score tries,
but he needs to do the kick chase line and
be aggressive defense and all those other things that don't
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get picked up. Then he comes through as a fourteen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I think he will when he comes into the squad.
He'll give Madge a lot of mid game flexibility. You
put him at fourteen, suddenly you can put him on it,
put him on at six, put a Hunt to nine,
mix around.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I think you might get a reaction out of Ben
Hunt as well if he sees the EZRA there, like
his level of performance will go through the roof as
well too.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
If you go in and have a look at the game,
because you commentated the game before, I'll be interested to
know what you think and we talk about next week.
Bronco has really struggled in the attacking twenty really struggled,
and I know sometimes it could be a hard place
to attack because the defense is on top of you.
I almost my thought on it, and I'm interested yours
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for next week. I thought they tried to do too much.
I thought so. I thought that they haven't a little
shot here, they haven't shot there.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
They're pushing the ball there there. You know, they just
didn't build for anything.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
And when you're attacking the line, I don't care what
your players, but when you're coming up against twelve defensive
plus the all back in the line, which is thirteen,
you need to be very effective with your middle forwards
in and around the play the ball because, like Nathan
plain Square, if your forwards aren't doing something to the
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first four defenders off the ruck, don't even bother passing
the ball out to your center.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Well that makes sense because even generally they're attacked, particularly
in the second half Coeps, I thought it just looked
if it was a word, I'd say sloppy. Like as
we know, we've spoken about this numerous times, you know,
is that to make a play work to draw the
defense in, as you said, playmaker's got to get to
that target defender. You've got to start to pull them
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out of shape a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
And everything was just a little sideways.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
To give an example, like halves and centers race off
the triy line on the outside and what you need
to if you just finesse the ball out, they're just
going to make a decision to shut it down. What
you need to do is be effective here because then
they start coming back infield because I feel like those
defenders have been condensed in and that's how you attack
inside the towny.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The Melbourne Storm coup look a bet a month ago
people were saying, you know, there was a bit of
a school of thought, well it's going to be the
Storm's competition, that would just rampaging. But in absence we
get we're seeing how critical Harry Grant is vital to
that fast.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Middle field football they like to play.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Like the last three weeks, three weeks without Harry there,
they've dropped considerably.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think there's two parts to it. I think.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Defenders or defensive team coming up against Melbourne Harry, they
just go eyes to Munster and Hughes, so they don't
have too much of a concern around the middle of
the rock. They'll make their tackles, but as soon as
that pass goes out, it's like push to put pressure
on Monster and Hughes with Garlic or someone else whoever
comes in there. They're just doing their job. They're passing
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the ball, making their tackles, which you probably want from
that position. But when that defense takes their eye off
on Munster and Hughes, the one person takes advantage of
that is Harry Grant.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You watch what they'll do.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
They'll pass, pass, pass, go wide, and then they'll be
Harry Grant with Pabnausen back through the middle of some stuff.
So there's real opportunity to go sort of play with
with then straighten it up, play with wid and straighten up.
But when Harry Grant is not there, there's not that
ability to straighten.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is their most important player?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I know they've got Monster, They've got they've got Jerome,
who's so dangerou to the paps at the back.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Is he there most?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
You can make an argument that all of them are
equally important because the skills they bring. But at the
moment there's just a little bit of the big absence
of Harry Grant.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
But at times Monster's fallen out.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You missed the opportunity of that ad lib fort of
player the right foot back inside with Jerome, who's the
best running half back in our game. So look right
now you probably say, yes, Harry Grant because.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Of how obvious it is.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Mate, Tigers were lucky. Galvin returned two from two. Luo
come out after the game after and they're forming a
really good combination there. He said, you don't need to
be great mates to win.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
So it's interesting haven't played in the halves we ever
played with?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, I's going to ask you the same thing about
Cameron Smith.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But you walk into that one.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I knew, yes, I knew I was there.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I knew it was coming there.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
He's still one with your brother May We.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Went to beer on the weekend. Fantastic. I've got how
miserable time. I'll tell you what when you're going to Joe,
He's not a twenty twenty game.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
But to lew Ey's point, like Benji's in this position
where he's coming off three wooden spoons, there are signs
of improvement with the Tigers right. So to Lewi's point,
they have to play together because if you don't, you're
going to lose a few more games than you probably
would win. And the whole idea for the Tigers and
(22:43):
Benji's improvement, So I don't mind that Lewis said that
they need to gel and they need to perform well,
they need to find a way to work together. But
ultimately it's all about performance and if you play well,
no one's gonna ask questions. But if you lose games
and there's frustrations when it comes into play, I guarantee
you there'll be questions being.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Playing well to role made too. It might be planning
himself into an origin Jersey just a couple of months
to finish with. Yeah, would I put him in the squad?
I just I'd add there was a bit of talk
against people saying, you know, attitude and everything.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I think since he's.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Been at the Tigers and from what I learned in
the offseason heading to the Tigers, his attitude was second
and Hane mate running marathons obviously marathons and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Phil Bola has been very good for them too, that
ye'd like, He like Tyrell is doing a lot of
good stuff. But I think I think I think he
probably we would have to go through, but he probably Yeah,
maybe in the squad, might miss out, but Phil has
been very good as well.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Very good on the Sharks.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I thought Will Kennedy was really good importantly for the Sharks.
Nico Hines, there's about four try assists on the weekend.
He's starting to get that directness back. He's getting to
that target defender and they look.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
He was a little bit like Nathan. He was way
more north south than east west. He had some nice
touches And I really like what Craig Fitzgibben said about Nico.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
He stood up for his half back.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know, yes he gets attention good and bad at
some stages. But I think for Nico Heines development, Craig
Fitzgibben is absolutely the right coach for him. Like I
think he knows what hard work looks like. He stood
up for him. He'll support Nicko when needed to. So
I was helping out with nick I would say, go
(24:32):
back and watch some of your good touches on the weekend.
Start feeling that thought of like, okay, when I did
something well, I actually went movement was first forward, not sideways,
I mean the past. To Kevin mckinnis, I think it
was where he had two runners close to the line.
Normally Nico Heines would probably fall into that one under
one under drift across. His first movement was forward. He
(24:56):
had to play someone out the back. But because he
went forward, the created in the first sort of two
defenders outside his vision.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Just finally, I want to give a rap to a
young bloke as he's sess my boy from my own town,
Fletcher Sharp Fletcher's is a special player. He's showing that
this year. Even the previous couple of weeks where Newcastle
tack has been poor, he's had a spark about him.
Really really, the one concern I do have going forward Fletcher,
(25:24):
I think he signed an extension for a year or two.
The only one that worries me is the position that
the Knights may have put themselves in as far as
vulnerable to someone pinching him with a Dylan Brown contract.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
That makes sense, how come?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Because there's no doubt if he's on the market right now,
with how crazy the harvest market has become made, someone
would come out of him seventy fifty.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He played really well, scored three tries. But what are
you like him so much? Half the weekend's performance for
another day?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
The fact that there is the fact that it was
the Knights win. If he scored three tries, it was
two hundred fifty to one.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
How do you know that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I don't know. Someone just told me. He says, Fine,
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