July 21, 2025 • 26 mins
On this episode; recap of Knights-Warriors & the amazing finish, top five form players & status of top 8 contenders.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Coops.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
If when you go sometime through a rough trot in
your head, maybe God hates me.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I know exactly where you're going with this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Knights fans, What a bludger of a week it was
last week. Firstly news that the coach was going to
be sacked, then how star player was about to leave
and get a European rugby. Then it flu just went
right through the camp. They had to basically abandoned captains run.
But with forty seconds left yesterday, all's well, that ends well,
and it was going to be great finish.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Coga won a comp with Penrith, but individual that was
probably his crowning moment.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Let's just let me just experience all the pain and
frustration again. So let's run through this last five minutes.
We'll take pieces out of it. This one for Coggs.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Jeezy hit that well, one of his best moments as a.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So they normally say should be on the other side
of the ruck to kick it, but see how he
leans back into it and just gets good purchase on it,
touches the crossbar, he steps back into it. Nice kick.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Funny when you kick him, you're no straight away off
the boat.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You don't even have to look. You just get that feel?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Are you just the content from experiencing people? By the
way this antenna?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh my goodness, Jesus, isn't that well the conversion quite
as sweet?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Feel sorry for you as much as you know you're
behind you your own team.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
One of Craig Bellamy's greatest lines he always says is
you get what you deserve, but sometimes you don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sometimes full ship cogs is not the attack here and mate,
this is a good play, No seven tackle set, hand
the ball over on their own line.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And they start. This is where I'm sitting.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I'm sitting on the couch last time with Blaze to
laying Mitch Kenny and the boys.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
At this point, I'm starting at this sinking feeling. I
think I've seen this movie before.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
He's in the pocket, so at least he was thinking
about it. Boy, But it comes to this position.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, at this point, I'm going, well, it's game over.
There we go, seven tackle set ship week, great ending beauty,
here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And so here like it just gives it everything you
can and that foot comes off the ground, the left foot,
he doesn't have any balance.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Fisher Harris pay for himself in those last couple of minutes.
Great challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Ye, yeah, well I think it's almost now what this
weekend's provided that you need to have no one semi
final time, you almost should run towards the back end
of the game with one up your sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
This is hard to watch this one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Jerry Evans did it for mainly with Harry Grant, Got
a Fish Harff's did it here.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Got to hate your girl Picker actually watching this. Everyone
goes through this sort of stuff no one would have liked.
Not many people would have liked to have been in
that position there and all of a suddenly this is
where Fisher Harris again, Fisher Harrow takes play one. The
experienced Blakes take over here. This is like way Newcastle
(03:01):
crucially lose control.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of the ruck.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It's just trying to get meters right, So the best
way to do is run straight from the evangel.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And look at the speed and the other experience like Roger,
and then Fish goes will mate.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Some teams try and shift the ball for meters, but
this guy, these guys have just gone power running one
out speed for work.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And this, my friends, is an act of God. God
loves the wires and all the people went to.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That speed break past Bradman Best. Some some players have
just got it, and this kid's got it, like I
don't know what it is, but he's got it. He's
got moments like this at an early age. The speed
to get through that hole with brad and Best there.
It's most other forms of the field that I get there,
(03:48):
and the power to break through the first tackle a
gag guy. But there's just a lot of little things
that ends up being the big thing right there.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Bradman Best probably should have tackled around.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The leak the legs. Traditional tackle, hit the legs.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Ball hits the ground, he can't move it on. But
I'll tell you what, that was a hell of a finish.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's almost as impressive as the left hand carry right
play the ball by producer Scotty Hogarth, who's a Knights fan.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
When I rang him to the top twenty producers in
this building.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes up there and what he did, Coops, He actually
said it's happened a few times before.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Do you want to show him? And I said, hey,
why not?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So this there was a couple before which involved Newcastle
turble endings.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
This one here that Blake Austin there has a shot.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I do remember that, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I remember. God, it's always an awful place for us
to go, like this.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Is the only time it happens to Newcastle Knights and
this one was.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The golden point started the golden Point. It's a classic game,
this one.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh Bka, where are you on the field. I wonder
if jackle I was in Wigan.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh man, you're not the only team that has been
beaten on the bellock out of the times.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Come on, Ianne scott Ogar, Yeah it's right. Yeah, yeah,
it's been tough last twenty years. I mean, the Warriors
can produce a Frikish talent and now we've seen it before.
Ali Lauer Tuti when he hit the serom with his footwork,
he was phenomenal. Went to the englishuper League way too early.
Conrad Hole when Conrad came out, I believe that Conrad
(05:28):
he was an All Blacks young guy coming through the
anks of the All Blacks. And during that period the twenties,
of course, the twenties was started the high profile competition
and some of the best All Blacks students were banging
on the Warrior's doors. So we want to play and
he was one of them.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now, I think the one thing that's impressive about Hala
Sima is like for for a back roller or you
really want to see is some like some footy smarts.
When I say that, like when you come home in
with your half, you want to see that the back
row understands which line to run which part of the whole,
and the way that he runs onto the ball says
to me enough that you could work with this young kid. Yeah,
(06:05):
but then he does a couple of things like you
did on the weekend, and you just can't coach things
like that. There's enough in his little recipe of rugby
league that says like this kid's got it, and under
Webs's coaching, you dare say, the sky's living.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
With where you go And how important is it too coop?
You know? Like we had Luke.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Matcalf on our Sunday night show about a month four
or five.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Weeks ago, and then we asked him about him.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
He said, mate, he just loves it, and he said
he wants to work hard, wants to learn, And that
is just so crucially important because you know, oftentimes guys
who come into Gray that have got these incredible gifts
it almost became like it almost becomes not lazy is
not the word, but.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They just they trust that talent too much.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And you know, it's like, mate, when you get out
like some of those guys who are being big, big
guys in juniors and bullied players, suddenly they get the
NRL and good players relish playing against players like that,
and you've got to find a plan, beach.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And you either have a fork in the road moment
for those talented kids. You either start working really hard
to stay ahead of the pack or you just fall
into complacency and the talented people will overtake you.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
As purely, I'll ask you this question purely as a fan,
as a Rugua League fan, which side in the competition
would you like to see win it. Let's move away
from the storm and the roosters for a second. For me,
it's apologies or the other things. But for me it's
the warrior is because I sort of think they deserve it,
what they've done, what they've done for the game in
(07:35):
the last four or five years. Through that the enormous
grounds will of support for the game over there.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I agree. The other one that sits with me is
I don't have talk poppy syndrome cheez. I'd love to
see better do it, Honestly, I would love to see
them from where they went to where they are.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Let's talk about them.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
He took a punt, I'm going to arrest Nathan and
the rest Isaiah and they got the job done. Still,
they're seven to fifty seven dollars fifty to win the camp.
For me, that's too generous. I'd have them about five bars.
I think they're enormous chance.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Now I think they should rest them again. I think
they should rest a big chunk of them. They've done
it previously where they've just rested the majority of their team.
But I think those Origin players need another week off.
I've been in their shoes where you're not playing great
at club Land, you fight really hard to get back
to it. Then Origin takes out a lot of energy
(08:31):
and then you've realized you've worked really hard and you've
got to go again. They play the Tigers, Titans and
the Knights in the next three weeks. They finish Storm Raiders' dogs.
So I think IV and Clear has got another chance
to do a blanket rest, whether it's in the next
three or maybe their position. They don't have to finish
in the top four for me to win it. They
(08:51):
can finish in part of the eight. So maybe when
Storm Raiders Dogs and it's like nothing can move around,
maybe it's another rest.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, let's run through the sides that I'll play against
through the finals as if they would play them tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
If the if the.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Panthers play the Dogs tomorrow, who do you back Panthers
if they play the Wise your back Raiders?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Raiders?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, Storm Storm, you've defeated anyway, But anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Do you think they can beat the Raiders in the.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Storm I it's well, they are certainly capable. On that
Melbourne Storms discussion. Here three things that were highly unusual.
One is they lose on Old Boys Day. You guys
have an incredible awhen are securely aware of how important
those milestones are and when to really turn it on.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Tell me spoke about that after the match.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And then again we said this a few times. Losing
at night at home that is. Then thirdly losing them
mainly their their record in the last ten years against me,
it's been outstanding in coops watching at the moment, I
mean historically, the thing that was in the DNA of
Melbourne is the ability to apply pressure and just grind
(10:11):
teams down bit by bet. This team is so different.
Their mentality is almost like we'll blow you out of
the water.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Early.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I had this feeling that it didn't really matter
where Melbourne were at as long as they were healthy
and fit and going that way four weeks out from
the finals. But to answer point, there's a couple of
things that are a bit of a red flag, isn't
there The way that they're playing, The fact that Manly
in that period in the first half, I think it's
(10:40):
scored three tries in a quick time. They got to
the edges quickly. Really, Munster and Hughes were under pressure quickly.
That tells me that the four defensive movements, like the
Lion's bid wasn't there. And Craig Bellery knows that he
needs to get that intensity back in the defensive line
if they are to do what they want to do
this year.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Be a tough week for them.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
They will be. And like Craig's got a really good
ability of hitting you between the eyes where it hurts,
like and making sure you fix those things. And you
look at what happened after the Magic Round, it was
Liero and you Takkamano gave Way some penalties, they copped it,
they fixed it right. So he's got a good knack
of fine in the errors and getting them out of
(11:23):
the game. But I've still I've still got them as
my competition favorites. But I'll tell you what they're showing
signs that someone else deserves it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Got some momentum going.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I mean every home game you can see it's becoming
like an occasion Warriors feeling.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
There's a lot of momentum following their way. The one
thing about the Raiders, and I think Ricky Stewart spoke
about it, is they've got patches of form, particularly that
first half where they feel like and I think Ricky
used this word played entitled. They played like they deserve
to be in front and didn't go and earn it.
So they have moments of brilliance. The Raiders, we've seen
(12:03):
second half blowouts, you know, coming down from the Dogs
by twenty odd points, great starts, but I'll tell you what,
on Grand Final Day, you can't have the twenty minutes
of good or bad.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
With Matt Timaker like that.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I think Ricky will look at that at that little
instant and go okay, fellas, somebody's getting ahead of yourselves
here like that with that one over the line. If
we look in the top six, seventh and eighth spot
the four teams that are like you got the Dolphins
or Roosters, the Sharks and the Mainly and mainly two
of those four who you got in.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I think the Sharks and the Dolphins have a buy
yep mainly and Rousters don't.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That helps big time.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think mainly are playing well enough. Like I
know they beat Melbourne on their home deck and things
of that, but there's you know, they're missing ol Ka
tu per second, they're missing some some big guys through
the middle that if they lose momentum, like their defense
is not good enough, and you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
To get a sense it's still get a sense, you know,
without reaching into the off field, there's still stuff going on.
You know, there's always just a little bit of a
distraction around the corner.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
So I don't think manly make it. I think the
Sharks are under craigfiitzkib and they're a finals team. They
are a final team and they've got a decent run.
So I think they finished seventh.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
They're starting to look I mean, they're starting to look
like the side we thought they were going to be
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
They're doing all the right things at the moment, so
I think they'll kick on. So then it comes between
the Dolphins and the Roosters, and looked at the drawer,
they actually play each other around twenty three and the
Roosters have a poor defense points differential compared to the Dolphins,
so I think they need to win that one to
cover up. So I think it comes down to a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I've got sharks and dolphins, the mammal and the fish.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Why you manly know, same reasons.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But they're just so mainly are just so inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
They're so inconsistent, and once again going back to just
those noises that are coming out of the club, I
just I don't like.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I just think we said about the sharks.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
The sharks really finally look like they're starting to find
that consistency. And the dolphins probably part of me because
I want to see the dolphins.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I love watching them.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
They deserve it. There's a couple of reasons why I'd
like to see Christian Wolf of the back away better
go play finals.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Incredible.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I would really like.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That the only fella outside of Tim Sheen's from eighty
seven going to eighty eight that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Will actually supersed what what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And they had they haven't added easy. The Dolphins like
their forward pack has been decimated at different times, and
they score points for fun when they get momentum. So
I'd like to see them.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
What do you make of Avrilla, I look, I liked
it when they when they said averill out of six.
I like it, coops, even if it's only for short stint.
Only for short stint when you take an outside back
and you put them in at six, A little bit
like I get a theory with when wingers go to fullback.
You know, if they play a two three games, they
generally excel.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And I whene avrol I went there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I thought this will suit him because with Katalla can
run the whole field and he can just do what
he don't make run the football and it's good to tries.
He probably should have got three maybe four, very similar
to Fletcher Sharp.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What do you say short term? Well, what are the
things that stop people from doing it? Longer term?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Coops, because what happens is suddenly they think they have
to start playing like halves.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah you know, yeah, like coops. If we go back right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He's an example twenty going into the twenty seventeen season
where Billy returns a Monster Goo to so it goes
to six. And I remember doing some stuff with Monster
and that while you're away, and it just sort of
work different. And he was having enormous anxiety. He said,
I don't know about playing six. He didn't believe he
(15:53):
could do it. And the reason he didn't believe he
could do it was he thought he had to do
the things that you did, had to organize them all
play and then come to the conclusion, Look, I've just
got to play how I do.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I've just got to play unorthodox.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's so true. Well, good athletic ball runners that play,
you know where the fullback outside backs move to a
half position all of a sudden to start becoming a
ballplayer and distributor. Like, I agree with you, it's a
short term philosophy because they just start thinking there need
to be something other than what they're good at. And
I think the one thing that Christian Wolf could do
(16:28):
for Jacob Arrillo is yes, he's wearing six. But I
think he's got to have a fullback mentality the way
that Isaakato runs that ship. He's got two fullbacks. Kurt
Donnie's doing a good job at thirteen your man, and
he's doing a good job at fullback. So I think
he's got a fullback mentality. I think that's the way
(16:48):
to keep him moving as opposed to he should always
be more second receiver out the back than first receiver.
But he's done some good short side stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well this, yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but I
reckon that would that was almost some model for your
bokes twenty seventeen, is it? You're the principal and you've
got Billy and Munster almost playing a dual six one role.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And then you let let's say, if you go into
the left side and you've got the half and the
fullback on one side, you then let Jake Averillo either
sit on the short side or if he wants to
join the long side as a second fullback, call it.
That's the flexibility.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I'm just I'm sorry you saw me smirking there for
a second. I've got I've got Reducers Scott in here
thinking he's coming up with funny lines. When I said
you're the principal ballplayer. He come in and goes, oh, principal,
you know, like Munster be in trouble with Princeville at school.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Scotty, mate, let's just let's just leave it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Stay in your life, mate, and come on.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Blake Brayley most informed player in the competition of the
he's playing Super Football.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
New South Wales team gets picked tomorrow's number nine.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Probably is he would be up there. He is coops.
It probably is.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Way to be impressed with him, just he's I like
what he's just balancing his game really nice.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You know, this gap jumping out, doing bit of ball playing.
But his ability to know when to go, when to run,
no hesitation his game the moment there's a bloke laying
on the deck or its a fast ruck, he's just
picking up and he's gone.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I think that's the difference because sometimes when you play
dumby half and Nico heines or Trindle cor and the
ball and you do see a third man out late
or a single marker, you think, oh, I know the
half wants it and you pass the ball. But he
right now sees something and he goes. He worries about
the consequences later, which is a good sign to have
because at a dummy half, you should always get your
(18:43):
first advantage because you see the ball first, so you
are the one that sees things happen before. And if
the gap is in and around you, he's not even
he's not fluffing around. He's going for it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And it's great because I tilt he's doing when you've
got dummy halves like that, a nine that can just
who's cutting to ask it up and go. He actually
forces his playmakers to get on the foot and play aggressive,
and like that's really I think one of the keys
was with Nicker, the fact that Nicko can't sit back.
He's got to get ready on his bike because Brayley's
going to go.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We used to say that about the older Damien Cooker
and Cody Walker. Like Damien cook was a good igniter
for Cody Walker because he went from ball playing mentality
to ball runner as soon as cook went. And I
also like I think the form of Brayley. I think
I think Adam fanil Blake needs a bit of credit
here because I think he is now instead of maybe
(19:36):
getting a blown rock once a cent, he's getting two.
So he's giving more opportunity to run like the other
forwards are doing their bit. And I'm not to say that,
but I think what Adam Fanil Blake adds more variety
and opportunity for Blake Brayley to do his thing.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, you can around and you can actually build your
set specifically off him, because one thing you know about him,
he's going to didn't the line and every single time
he's going to get your quick playing the ball.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
You can just plan everything behind him.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
So the example of that is, let's say you work
in the two players across the field for the big
shift to come back to the right. You get Adam
Phil black On play too, get him in a smaller man,
quicker play the ball. Then all of a sudden you
get in a lot of movement from your halves and
your big play coming back the other way.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Who's your about Brayley?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
If he's the most informed playing the competition right now?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Who are they for you?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Top five? I'll throw no particularly, I'll throw Bradley in there.
Ellie Cartel for me has been a hell of a standout.
I'll go to his namesake, Isaiah Cartel still doing some
really good things. And then I just got to put
the canber Raiders kids in like Ethan's Strange and Koa works.
Like Ethan Strange has a very good ability of running
(20:49):
the ball and being physical for a young ballplayer, and
just having a little bit of craft with his passing.
He doesn't need the Adam Reynolds or they think clear
pass over the top or anything. He just needs an
If someone turns on him when he runs a ball,
he's a little shovel pass on him. And k Weeks
is just he's lighting it up.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I've got Brayley, I've gone Casey mcclan the Panthers has
been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Tommy Jenkins on that left hand.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Remember when he put a clinic on Stephen Crichton a
few weeks ago. I thought this could be the game
that really takes in the next level. He's done it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Since that he's been he's been fantastic.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Hammer of course, you just doing He can do things
others just can't. I mean, watching him play the other night, honestly,
he was just he was just he was a cruise made.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
He was j to play the game and do those
things so easy.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
How good, Like if there is half a break and
if you ever want anyone in the rugby league world
to be in Kewey of that half break, it's hammer
like he has just got an instinct to know him
where to be and when to catch that last pass.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Weeks is there.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And then lastly I've gone like a hell of sema
and do he couldn't separate him?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Do he's playing? Do he's playing the best football his career?
Rot the month?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Their attack yesterday the Tiger was poor, Like it was
not effective at all. But I actually really like Adam
Dewey playing thirteen.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I did too. I think he's found his spot.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Not everyone is Isaiaho right, but when you've got halves
that sort of like Jerome Lewell's struggling between being the
game breaker and runner as the game manager, and we've
seen that at different stages Fain who he probably doesn't
have all the skills to be a dominant half in
the competition. So there's a couple of gaps that you
(22:37):
need to be filled. And I just feel like when
you get a ball playing thirteen, it allows someone like
Fayne to play a little bit on the overs and
play with a bit more time and space. So I
think it's a good move. But it didn't show yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
At all, that Lachlin Galvin thing. I just want to
show this because I think it's a It's a good
one for I think for young ball players to understand
and shape and how it can help them, but also
players who have got a tendency to almost have that
little bit of run run first past second mentality.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the shape he uses here, it's a split shape.
As you know, coops and split poop is one under one.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
This is the match winner now in essence, when you
look at that, you go, my god, that's a really
difficult complex pass. Well it isn't because what he does,
that shape he runs with kickout dropping underneath him, and
that little as we call it a split shape, it
gives you an extra second site time. So it just
(23:36):
gave him an extra second to watch what Sloan did
and recognize the defensive decision.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It does. It allows you time and space to come
up with a player. Now, the time and space was
exactly what Tyrol Sloan did. Came up in a blink
of an eye too quickly, and it opened the passing lane.
The other part to it is the threat of kickout.
So Jack Debellen's there and should probably track Lachland Galvin
all the way and not give up and pressure him
(24:03):
before he has time to see it to else slow
because of kick out coming underneath. He thinks the game's
online here, I'm gonna toaugh steady and tackle this big man.
But he does and he gives time for Galvin to
find it's.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Such a great shape to give you extra time and
get you and let you skip past the defender to
create that extra number.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
But if the defense is spot on, it can quickly
turn you into could set quickly. So it's a it's
a it's a good play, but yeah, there is some
science to stopping it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And well done too.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And I've got to say this because I just really
like this blok as a footballer and I think in
a lot of ways he's well, I'll explain Toby Sextion mate.
They tell me he was brilliant yesterday and yourself was
cup that had a big win. They said he was
sensational and to be so easy for Toby to you
to drop his bundle in the game. But you know,
playing good football and you don't know what's around the corner.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
A Grand Final week all of a sudden someone goes
down and you've got to be there, and I think
and just quickly Coop, I just want to say this.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think it's really important that is that they.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Keep him, keep him in the fold. Now, I'm just
trying to find the right word. He well, I'll give
you an I think at the moment to justify the
selection of Galvin in seven and dropping Toby, I don't
like some of the things going on. There seems to
be stats that have been released here, there and other
that people are pointing saying, look, he's had only this
(25:27):
when he triassists, he hasn't done this a bit of
respect this kid, mate. He took them to top of
the ladder from where they were when he come into
first grade. What he's done, I just think he deserves
a lot more respect than that.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'll give him a bit of advice too. Don't start
drifting across the field and throwing a cut out pass
like Galvin did and think that's the way you get
back in the sign. Defensively is where he gets back
in the sign. The Dogs are the best defensive team
in the competition and Galvin had some issues defensively inside.
Stephen Crichton so if he wants to stay connected to
that team because the Grand Final hero just could be
(26:02):
around the corner. Definitely tabe Get Your Defense spot
Speaker 2 (26:05):
On excellent, excellent, Save Your Advice, m M.
Coops.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
If when you go sometime through a rough trot in
your head, maybe God hates me.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I know exactly where you're going with this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Knights fans, What a bludger of a week it was
last week. Firstly news that the coach was going to
be sacked, then how star player was about to leave
and get a European rugby. Then it flu just went
right through the camp. They had to basically abandoned captains run.
But with forty seconds left yesterday, all's well, that ends well,
and it was going to be great finish.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Coga won a comp with Penrith, but individual that was
probably his crowning moment.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Let's just let me just experience all the pain and
frustration again. So let's run through this last five minutes.
We'll take pieces out of it. This one for Coggs.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Jeezy hit that well, one of his best moments as a.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So they normally say should be on the other side
of the ruck to kick it, but see how he
leans back into it and just gets good purchase on it,
touches the crossbar, he steps back into it. Nice kick.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Funny when you kick him, you're no straight away off
the boat.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You don't even have to look. You just get that feel?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Are you just the content from experiencing people? By the
way this antenna?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh my goodness, Jesus, isn't that well the conversion quite
as sweet?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Feel sorry for you as much as you know you're
behind you your own team.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
One of Craig Bellamy's greatest lines he always says is
you get what you deserve, but sometimes you don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sometimes full ship cogs is not the attack here and mate,
this is a good play, No seven tackle set, hand
the ball over on their own line.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
And they start. This is where I'm sitting.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I'm sitting on the couch last time with Blaze to
laying Mitch Kenny and the boys.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
At this point, I'm starting at this sinking feeling. I
think I've seen this movie before.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
He's in the pocket, so at least he was thinking
about it. Boy, But it comes to this position.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, at this point, I'm going, well, it's game over.
There we go, seven tackle set ship week, great ending beauty,
here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And so here like it just gives it everything you
can and that foot comes off the ground, the left foot,
he doesn't have any balance.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Fisher Harris pay for himself in those last couple of minutes.
Great challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Ye, yeah, well I think it's almost now what this
weekend's provided that you need to have no one semi
final time, you almost should run towards the back end
of the game with one up your sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
This is hard to watch this one.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Jerry Evans did it for mainly with Harry Grant, Got
a Fish Harff's did it here.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Got to hate your girl Picker actually watching this. Everyone
goes through this sort of stuff no one would have liked.
Not many people would have liked to have been in
that position there and all of a suddenly this is
where Fisher Harris again, Fisher Harrow takes play one. The
experienced Blakes take over here. This is like way Newcastle
(03:01):
crucially lose control.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of the ruck.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It's just trying to get meters right, So the best
way to do is run straight from the evangel.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And look at the speed and the other experience like Roger,
and then Fish goes will mate.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Some teams try and shift the ball for meters, but
this guy, these guys have just gone power running one
out speed for work.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And this, my friends, is an act of God. God
loves the wires and all the people went to.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That speed break past Bradman Best. Some some players have
just got it, and this kid's got it, like I
don't know what it is, but he's got it. He's
got moments like this at an early age. The speed
to get through that hole with brad and Best there.
It's most other forms of the field that I get there,
(03:48):
and the power to break through the first tackle a
gag guy. But there's just a lot of little things
that ends up being the big thing right there.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Bradman Best probably should have tackled around.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
The leak the legs. Traditional tackle, hit the legs.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Ball hits the ground, he can't move it on. But
I'll tell you what, that was a hell of a finish.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's almost as impressive as the left hand carry right
play the ball by producer Scotty Hogarth, who's a Knights fan.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
When I rang him to the top twenty producers in
this building.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes up there and what he did, Coops, He actually
said it's happened a few times before.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Do you want to show him? And I said, hey,
why not?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So this there was a couple before which involved Newcastle
turble endings.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
This one here that Blake Austin there has a shot.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I do remember that, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I remember. God, it's always an awful place for us
to go, like this.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Is the only time it happens to Newcastle Knights and
this one was.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The golden point started the golden Point. It's a classic game,
this one.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh Bka, where are you on the field. I wonder
if jackle I was in Wigan.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh man, you're not the only team that has been
beaten on the bellock out of the times.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Come on, Ianne scott Ogar, Yeah it's right. Yeah, yeah,
it's been tough last twenty years. I mean, the Warriors
can produce a Frikish talent and now we've seen it before.
Ali Lauer Tuti when he hit the serom with his footwork,
he was phenomenal. Went to the englishuper League way too early.
Conrad Hole when Conrad came out, I believe that Conrad
(05:28):
he was an All Blacks young guy coming through the
anks of the All Blacks. And during that period the twenties,
of course, the twenties was started the high profile competition
and some of the best All Blacks students were banging
on the Warrior's doors. So we want to play and
he was one of them.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now, I think the one thing that's impressive about Hala
Sima is like for for a back roller or you
really want to see is some like some footy smarts.
When I say that, like when you come home in
with your half, you want to see that the back
row understands which line to run which part of the whole,
and the way that he runs onto the ball says
to me enough that you could work with this young kid. Yeah,
(06:05):
but then he does a couple of things like you
did on the weekend, and you just can't coach things
like that. There's enough in his little recipe of rugby
league that says like this kid's got it, and under
Webs's coaching, you dare say, the sky's living.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
With where you go And how important is it too coop?
You know? Like we had Luke.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Matcalf on our Sunday night show about a month four
or five.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Weeks ago, and then we asked him about him.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
He said, mate, he just loves it, and he said
he wants to work hard, wants to learn, And that
is just so crucially important because you know, oftentimes guys
who come into Gray that have got these incredible gifts
it almost became like it almost becomes not lazy is
not the word, but.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They just they trust that talent too much.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And you know, it's like, mate, when you get out
like some of those guys who are being big, big
guys in juniors and bullied players, suddenly they get the
NRL and good players relish playing against players like that,
and you've got to find a plan, beach.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And you either have a fork in the road moment
for those talented kids. You either start working really hard
to stay ahead of the pack or you just fall
into complacency and the talented people will overtake you.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
As purely, I'll ask you this question purely as a fan,
as a Rugua League fan, which side in the competition
would you like to see win it. Let's move away
from the storm and the roosters for a second. For me,
it's apologies or the other things. But for me it's
the warrior is because I sort of think they deserve it,
what they've done, what they've done for the game in
(07:35):
the last four or five years. Through that the enormous
grounds will of support for the game over there.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I agree. The other one that sits with me is
I don't have talk poppy syndrome cheez. I'd love to
see better do it, Honestly, I would love to see
them from where they went to where they are.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Let's talk about them.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
He took a punt, I'm going to arrest Nathan and
the rest Isaiah and they got the job done. Still,
they're seven to fifty seven dollars fifty to win the camp.
For me, that's too generous. I'd have them about five bars.
I think they're enormous chance.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Now I think they should rest them again. I think
they should rest a big chunk of them. They've done
it previously where they've just rested the majority of their team.
But I think those Origin players need another week off.
I've been in their shoes where you're not playing great
at club Land, you fight really hard to get back
to it. Then Origin takes out a lot of energy
(08:31):
and then you've realized you've worked really hard and you've
got to go again. They play the Tigers, Titans and
the Knights in the next three weeks. They finish Storm Raiders' dogs.
So I think IV and Clear has got another chance
to do a blanket rest, whether it's in the next
three or maybe their position. They don't have to finish
in the top four for me to win it. They
(08:51):
can finish in part of the eight. So maybe when
Storm Raiders Dogs and it's like nothing can move around,
maybe it's another rest.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Well, let's run through the sides that I'll play against
through the finals as if they would play them tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
If the if the.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Panthers play the Dogs tomorrow, who do you back Panthers
if they play the Wise your back Raiders?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Raiders?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, Storm Storm, you've defeated anyway, But anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Do you think they can beat the Raiders in the.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Storm I it's well, they are certainly capable. On that
Melbourne Storms discussion. Here three things that were highly unusual.
One is they lose on Old Boys Day. You guys
have an incredible awhen are securely aware of how important
those milestones are and when to really turn it on.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Tell me spoke about that after the match.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And then again we said this a few times. Losing
at night at home that is. Then thirdly losing them
mainly their their record in the last ten years against me,
it's been outstanding in coops watching at the moment, I
mean historically, the thing that was in the DNA of
Melbourne is the ability to apply pressure and just grind
(10:11):
teams down bit by bet. This team is so different.
Their mentality is almost like we'll blow you out of
the water.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Early.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I had this feeling that it didn't really matter
where Melbourne were at as long as they were healthy
and fit and going that way four weeks out from
the finals. But to answer point, there's a couple of
things that are a bit of a red flag, isn't
there The way that they're playing, The fact that Manly
in that period in the first half, I think it's
(10:40):
scored three tries in a quick time. They got to
the edges quickly. Really, Munster and Hughes were under pressure quickly.
That tells me that the four defensive movements, like the
Lion's bid wasn't there. And Craig Bellery knows that he
needs to get that intensity back in the defensive line
if they are to do what they want to do
this year.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Be a tough week for them.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
They will be. And like Craig's got a really good
ability of hitting you between the eyes where it hurts,
like and making sure you fix those things. And you
look at what happened after the Magic Round, it was
Liero and you Takkamano gave Way some penalties, they copped it,
they fixed it right. So he's got a good knack
of fine in the errors and getting them out of
(11:23):
the game. But I've still I've still got them as
my competition favorites. But I'll tell you what they're showing
signs that someone else deserves it.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Got some momentum going.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I mean every home game you can see it's becoming
like an occasion Warriors feeling.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
There's a lot of momentum following their way. The one
thing about the Raiders, and I think Ricky Stewart spoke
about it, is they've got patches of form, particularly that
first half where they feel like and I think Ricky
used this word played entitled. They played like they deserve
to be in front and didn't go and earn it.
So they have moments of brilliance. The Raiders, we've seen
(12:03):
second half blowouts, you know, coming down from the Dogs
by twenty odd points, great starts, but I'll tell you what,
on Grand Final Day, you can't have the twenty minutes
of good or bad.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
With Matt Timaker like that.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I think Ricky will look at that at that little
instant and go okay, fellas, somebody's getting ahead of yourselves
here like that with that one over the line. If
we look in the top six, seventh and eighth spot
the four teams that are like you got the Dolphins
or Roosters, the Sharks and the Mainly and mainly two
of those four who you got in.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I think the Sharks and the Dolphins have a buy
yep mainly and Rousters don't.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That helps big time.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I don't think mainly are playing well enough. Like I
know they beat Melbourne on their home deck and things
of that, but there's you know, they're missing ol Ka
tu per second, they're missing some some big guys through
the middle that if they lose momentum, like their defense
is not good enough, and you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
To get a sense it's still get a sense, you know,
without reaching into the off field, there's still stuff going on.
You know, there's always just a little bit of a
distraction around the corner.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
So I don't think manly make it. I think the
Sharks are under craigfiitzkib and they're a finals team. They
are a final team and they've got a decent run.
So I think they finished seventh.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
They're starting to look I mean, they're starting to look
like the side we thought they were going to be
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
They're doing all the right things at the moment, so
I think they'll kick on. So then it comes between
the Dolphins and the Roosters, and looked at the drawer,
they actually play each other around twenty three and the
Roosters have a poor defense points differential compared to the Dolphins,
so I think they need to win that one to
cover up. So I think it comes down to a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I've got sharks and dolphins, the mammal and the fish.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Why you manly know, same reasons.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But they're just so mainly are just so inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
They're so inconsistent, and once again going back to just
those noises that are coming out of the club, I
just I don't like.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I just think we said about the sharks.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
The sharks really finally look like they're starting to find
that consistency. And the dolphins probably part of me because
I want to see the dolphins.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I love watching them.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
They deserve it. There's a couple of reasons why I'd
like to see Christian Wolf of the back away better
go play finals.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Incredible.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I would really like.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That the only fella outside of Tim Sheen's from eighty
seven going to eighty eight that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Will actually supersed what what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
And they had they haven't added easy. The Dolphins like
their forward pack has been decimated at different times, and
they score points for fun when they get momentum. So
I'd like to see them.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
What do you make of Avrilla, I look, I liked
it when they when they said averill out of six.
I like it, coops, even if it's only for short stint.
Only for short stint when you take an outside back
and you put them in at six, A little bit
like I get a theory with when wingers go to fullback.
You know, if they play a two three games, they
generally excel.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And I whene avrol I went there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I thought this will suit him because with Katalla can
run the whole field and he can just do what
he don't make run the football and it's good to tries.
He probably should have got three maybe four, very similar
to Fletcher Sharp.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
What do you say short term? Well, what are the
things that stop people from doing it? Longer term?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Coops, because what happens is suddenly they think they have
to start playing like halves.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah you know, yeah, like coops. If we go back right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
He's an example twenty going into the twenty seventeen season
where Billy returns a Monster Goo to so it goes
to six. And I remember doing some stuff with Monster
and that while you're away, and it just sort of
work different. And he was having enormous anxiety. He said,
I don't know about playing six. He didn't believe he
(15:53):
could do it. And the reason he didn't believe he
could do it was he thought he had to do
the things that you did, had to organize them all
play and then come to the conclusion, Look, I've just
got to play how I do.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I've just got to play unorthodox.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's so true. Well, good athletic ball runners that play,
you know where the fullback outside backs move to a
half position all of a sudden to start becoming a
ballplayer and distributor. Like, I agree with you, it's a
short term philosophy because they just start thinking there need
to be something other than what they're good at. And
I think the one thing that Christian Wolf could do
(16:28):
for Jacob Arrillo is yes, he's wearing six. But I
think he's got to have a fullback mentality the way
that Isaakato runs that ship. He's got two fullbacks. Kurt
Donnie's doing a good job at thirteen your man, and
he's doing a good job at fullback. So I think
he's got a fullback mentality. I think that's the way
(16:48):
to keep him moving as opposed to he should always
be more second receiver out the back than first receiver.
But he's done some good short side stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well this, yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but I
reckon that would that was almost some model for your
bokes twenty seventeen, is it? You're the principal and you've
got Billy and Munster almost playing a dual six one role.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And then you let let's say, if you go into
the left side and you've got the half and the
fullback on one side, you then let Jake Averillo either
sit on the short side or if he wants to
join the long side as a second fullback, call it.
That's the flexibility.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I'm just I'm sorry you saw me smirking there for
a second. I've got I've got Reducers Scott in here
thinking he's coming up with funny lines. When I said
you're the principal ballplayer. He come in and goes, oh, principal,
you know, like Munster be in trouble with Princeville at school.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Scotty, mate, let's just let's just leave it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Stay in your life, mate, and come on.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Blake Brayley most informed player in the competition of the
he's playing Super Football.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
New South Wales team gets picked tomorrow's number nine.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Probably is he would be up there. He is coops.
It probably is.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Way to be impressed with him, just he's I like
what he's just balancing his game really nice.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You know, this gap jumping out, doing bit of ball playing.
But his ability to know when to go, when to run,
no hesitation his game the moment there's a bloke laying
on the deck or its a fast ruck, he's just
picking up and he's gone.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I think that's the difference because sometimes when you play
dumby half and Nico heines or Trindle cor and the
ball and you do see a third man out late
or a single marker, you think, oh, I know the
half wants it and you pass the ball. But he
right now sees something and he goes. He worries about
the consequences later, which is a good sign to have
because at a dummy half, you should always get your
(18:43):
first advantage because you see the ball first, so you
are the one that sees things happen before. And if
the gap is in and around you, he's not even
he's not fluffing around. He's going for it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And it's great because I tilt he's doing when you've
got dummy halves like that, a nine that can just
who's cutting to ask it up and go. He actually
forces his playmakers to get on the foot and play aggressive,
and like that's really I think one of the keys
was with Nicker, the fact that Nicko can't sit back.
He's got to get ready on his bike because Brayley's
going to go.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
We used to say that about the older Damien Cooker
and Cody Walker. Like Damien cook was a good igniter
for Cody Walker because he went from ball playing mentality
to ball runner as soon as cook went. And I
also like I think the form of Brayley. I think
I think Adam fanil Blake needs a bit of credit
here because I think he is now instead of maybe
(19:36):
getting a blown rock once a cent, he's getting two.
So he's giving more opportunity to run like the other
forwards are doing their bit. And I'm not to say that,
but I think what Adam Fanil Blake adds more variety
and opportunity for Blake Brayley to do his thing.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, you can around and you can actually build your
set specifically off him, because one thing you know about him,
he's going to didn't the line and every single time
he's going to get your quick playing the ball.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
You can just plan everything behind him.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
So the example of that is, let's say you work
in the two players across the field for the big
shift to come back to the right. You get Adam
Phil black On play too, get him in a smaller man,
quicker play the ball. Then all of a sudden you
get in a lot of movement from your halves and
your big play coming back the other way.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Who's your about Brayley?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
If he's the most informed playing the competition right now?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Who are they for you?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Top five? I'll throw no particularly, I'll throw Bradley in there.
Ellie Cartel for me has been a hell of a standout.
I'll go to his namesake, Isaiah Cartel still doing some
really good things. And then I just got to put
the canber Raiders kids in like Ethan's Strange and Koa works.
Like Ethan Strange has a very good ability of running
(20:49):
the ball and being physical for a young ballplayer, and
just having a little bit of craft with his passing.
He doesn't need the Adam Reynolds or they think clear
pass over the top or anything. He just needs an
If someone turns on him when he runs a ball,
he's a little shovel pass on him. And k Weeks
is just he's lighting it up.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I've got Brayley, I've gone Casey mcclan the Panthers has
been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Tommy Jenkins on that left hand.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Remember when he put a clinic on Stephen Crichton a
few weeks ago. I thought this could be the game
that really takes in the next level. He's done it.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Since that he's been he's been fantastic.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Hammer of course, you just doing He can do things
others just can't. I mean, watching him play the other night, honestly,
he was just he was just he was a cruise made.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
He was j to play the game and do those
things so easy.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
How good, Like if there is half a break and
if you ever want anyone in the rugby league world
to be in Kewey of that half break, it's hammer
like he has just got an instinct to know him
where to be and when to catch that last pass.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Weeks is there.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And then lastly I've gone like a hell of sema
and do he couldn't separate him?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Do he's playing? Do he's playing the best football his career?
Rot the month?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Their attack yesterday the Tiger was poor, Like it was
not effective at all. But I actually really like Adam
Dewey playing thirteen.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I did too. I think he's found his spot.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Not everyone is Isaiaho right, but when you've got halves
that sort of like Jerome Lewell's struggling between being the
game breaker and runner as the game manager, and we've
seen that at different stages Fain who he probably doesn't
have all the skills to be a dominant half in
the competition. So there's a couple of gaps that you
(22:37):
need to be filled. And I just feel like when
you get a ball playing thirteen, it allows someone like
Fayne to play a little bit on the overs and
play with a bit more time and space. So I
think it's a good move. But it didn't show yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
At all, that Lachlin Galvin thing. I just want to
show this because I think it's a It's a good
one for I think for young ball players to understand
and shape and how it can help them, but also
players who have got a tendency to almost have that
little bit of run run first past second mentality.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the shape he uses here, it's a split shape.
As you know, coops and split poop is one under one.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
This is the match winner now in essence, when you
look at that, you go, my god, that's a really
difficult complex pass. Well it isn't because what he does,
that shape he runs with kickout dropping underneath him, and
that little as we call it a split shape, it
gives you an extra second site time. So it just
(23:36):
gave him an extra second to watch what Sloan did
and recognize the defensive decision.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
It does. It allows you time and space to come
up with a player. Now, the time and space was
exactly what Tyrol Sloan did. Came up in a blink
of an eye too quickly, and it opened the passing lane.
The other part to it is the threat of kickout.
So Jack Debellen's there and should probably track Lachland Galvin
all the way and not give up and pressure him
(24:03):
before he has time to see it to else slow
because of kick out coming underneath. He thinks the game's
online here, I'm gonna toaugh steady and tackle this big man.
But he does and he gives time for Galvin to
find it's.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Such a great shape to give you extra time and
get you and let you skip past the defender to
create that extra number.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
But if the defense is spot on, it can quickly
turn you into could set quickly. So it's a it's
a it's a good play, but yeah, there is some
science to stopping it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And well done too.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And I've got to say this because I just really
like this blok as a footballer and I think in
a lot of ways he's well, I'll explain Toby Sextion mate.
They tell me he was brilliant yesterday and yourself was
cup that had a big win. They said he was
sensational and to be so easy for Toby to you
to drop his bundle in the game. But you know,
playing good football and you don't know what's around the corner.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
A Grand Final week all of a sudden someone goes
down and you've got to be there, and I think
and just quickly Coop, I just want to say this.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think it's really important that is that they.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Keep him, keep him in the fold. Now, I'm just
trying to find the right word. He well, I'll give
you an I think at the moment to justify the
selection of Galvin in seven and dropping Toby, I don't
like some of the things going on. There seems to
be stats that have been released here, there and other
that people are pointing saying, look, he's had only this
(25:27):
when he triassists, he hasn't done this a bit of
respect this kid, mate. He took them to top of
the ladder from where they were when he come into
first grade. What he's done, I just think he deserves
a lot more respect than that.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
I'll give him a bit of advice too. Don't start
drifting across the field and throwing a cut out pass
like Galvin did and think that's the way you get
back in the sign. Defensively is where he gets back
in the sign. The Dogs are the best defensive team
in the competition and Galvin had some issues defensively inside.
Stephen Crichton so if he wants to stay connected to
that team because the Grand Final hero just could be
(26:02):
around the corner. Definitely tabe Get Your Defense spot
Speaker 2 (26:05):
On excellent, excellent, Save Your Advice, m M.
Popular Podcasts
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com