Catch up on all the Rugby League news from NRL 360, Monday 5th of October, with hosts Braith Anasta and Gorden Tallis.
Buzz Rothfield and Brent Read join the boys for the final show of the year, as they review the 2025 NRL Grand Final.
Tallis reacts to the Broncos finally breaking their premiership drought after one of the greatest finals runs of all time led by superstar Reece Walsh, the ten-year redemption of Ben Hunt and what is next for the Melbourne Storm after back to back Grand Final losses.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The comeback Kings have done it again.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Brisbane Broncos are the premiers for twenty twenty five
after overcoming the Melbourne Storm in front of eighty thousand
fans at the Core Stadium. There was a night of
redemption for their coach and their two veteran halves, and
a night where Rhys Walsh went to a level no
one thought was possible.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here's the third meeting between please do teams this season,
but tonight for the Broncos and the Storm, they're playing
for everything.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Cameron Munster with the boy.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
On the team, they get us underway Reynolds once they
came up quickly, Mos get to the way. Narroner Noness
scores the first.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Try lot to start from the Brisbane Broncos.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Munster run around for Hughes.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Purple Housen meeting.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Look at it go.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What's been the storm, responded Hughes rubbers.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Chasing hard contours.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
There most shows an inside comes outside to back the house,
coats moving.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Quickly quick stairs run off.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Here and a high tackle Recemose Runner because he's forming
that's off.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
There's definite contact with the head, so penalty Warranton, but
that's all they are just hanging on.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Here comes out to Hughes.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Now Katia cut out, ball out to ward Bread good
the line he got there. The Broncos need to find
an answer and very click, very quickly quick playing the
ball they go the wolf in behind the play the ball.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Still going wound.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Pots is my Common Grand Final.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
So we had a plan to stop Reese Walsh. It
didn't work.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think there's some things you can do tackling. Obviously
we didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What a player responsh boy DA's a China half brand
flights Hughes, Dancic back through the middle. Melbourne respond and
at half time in the Grand Finals it's Melbourne plays
him Bunster runners Tabba Jamaker.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Then he plucked the ball down.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Oh he fuck the.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Reynolds for men shiver Saki breaches out. The Broncos very
much in it. Coster Reynolds and Reynolds has a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Unfortunate the Broncos that the good bit uneas of me
and playing the arms in with this meat deal lead.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Then you signal war Rick clops the ball gee.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That was a great shot there for Mesrom. The collision
enough to jop the ball free. Last tackle Pikes.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Host hot out ball out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Tabarna watches everywhere hot out of all Shiver Saki is gone.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
The Broncos have the line.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Chen Housen throws a dummy.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
He poses Walsh.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Inside for warm Wrick.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The ball goes to ground Munster to the left.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Handsel has crown.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
That's gone.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh boy, here I came out.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
He's contact them high turned out on a poe there
and goes to the Sudby two on.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The top and the book goes by four.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Guitar bat to the tackle, still going penn an outer.
What a tackle by race baf Gutura himn goes back
to the middle.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Riga takes it and the cop back Cans have done
it again.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Michael McGuire blames the brock goes in the first previouship
in nineteen long seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
From the time I walked in. We can meet none
of the players.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
They've been challenged, plane's been said, but they believed.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Man just to be here right now, like day one,
Dodger and Magic cause I was too scared.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
To talk to him.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
He demands a lot, as he should demand a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know you're just want a column. It's been nineteen
years and you know we've just asd our names in history.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Welcome to Barols three sixty Rugby League from every angle,
brought to you by Regain joining me for the last
time this year, the great good and Tallergrath. That's been
the jays in buzzrock Field mate and Brent Reid and
the Broncos have broken the drought after nineteen years. What
an epic Grand.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Final it was, Gordy, What a way to do it
has been I think one of the best years I've watched,
certainly the greatest final series and arguably the greatest Grand Final.
Both sides are up for it. There's a lot of hurdles.
Brisbane had their overcome, but they jumped all of them.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It was outstanding both They come back sixteen bige Canbra
fourteen or twelve against Penrith ten last night. Someone told
me today they only led in finals for about thirty minutes,
but they just kept coming home, coming am hard and
deserved premise.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Yeah, it was great game, Breath and obviously we'll get
on the res Falce later that I mean, he was
unbelievable and Melbourne had it in the bag of twenty
to twelve at half time. They probably should have won
it from there, but you can't kick this Brisbane side down.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
They're unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Where does that game rank in terms of Grand finals
over the years, in over the history of.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Our game, our great game, well, most points at halftime,
I thought it was entertaining. I you know, everybody might
have a comment on a referee, but I thought the
players sorted it out.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The fatigue that come into the game later. I know
there was injuries and the guy that got the DLM.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I thought it's probably one of the greatest performances ever,
so I rank it up there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't want to put him.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Above others because I think it's disrespectful to the other
guys at are one Grand Finals, but it certainly would
be on the padium.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I believe what I've watched.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
You talk an individual performances, We're going to get to
Reese Walsh off the charts. It's a Grand Final, wonderful
game of football. We'll talk to ratings in a little
while too, so the fans obviously loved it. It'll be
in my certainly in the top ten in the last
few years, without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Last buzz is quickly, are you feeling all right today?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
What do you mean, am I feeling okay, you know,
just a fit it out? What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I can't do I'm just asking a question, yeah, and
I'm about to answer, but I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I just the reaction today and all that.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What reaction you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You haven't noticed any reaction from I saw.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Jordan Ricky what we started singing a buzz Rothfield song
or something like that. But you know what, and I've
said this to you many many times. I can sit
here on Monday night. I cannot have opinion. I can
become a press release journal and write everything sanctioned, or
I can have an opinion and I'll voice that opinion.
I think I got it right right, I'll tell you
(06:53):
why I got it right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
What do you get right?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Well, I'll tell you what I got right, and we
got to We're going to talk about later how Mad
changed his ways, and that is, in fact, how a
couple of players went to him. They didn't you're right,
they didn't bar about army camps, they didn't up about
Harbor and all that.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But I was just checking in you.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, I'm here to defend myself. I would have taken
but if I was embarrassed, I would have to.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
We'll get into detail a little bit later.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
This is one hundred show hundreds of the year and
I was I was hoping to walk out without having
a stink with you. Well you've got me off.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Just think Tod Meet You're wrong Storm, He'd be loving this.
When you come to focus off your performances. Well, a
couple confused though you were storeman or a Brisbane broth.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
I couldn't win.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I couldn't lose foot in both camps. I'm a Brisbane
fan of be a long time Brisbane fan.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But you know, you know wins. You had that system
you coming with four six both.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
The system was a historical system that was based on.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Holiday and look the print media press box. I was
sitting here and Brent was sitting here. I know you
were cheering for Storm.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's incorrect.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
This I raised some concerns of some calls early in
that game, got the brawl. They just happened to be
against the Storm.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That was just a quick we'll get to it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But what is important here is the Grand Final smashes
a f L with record ratings. What does this say
about the season and the NRL where it stands right now?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You asked was the best Grand Final. Where is it rank?
I reckon? This is up there with the best final
series I've ever seen. The television rating last night was
four point five million. Now that blew the a fell
out of the park, nearly half a million, more than
the AFL Grand Final with Snoop Dogg and all the
works the week before. Now, high than Maths, which is
(09:10):
one hour shows. It's of yours well, it's among the
top rating shows in the country. High than State of Origin,
even the Decider, higher than the Australian urb and Tennis,
higher than anything we've seen on television this year. The
highest ever rugby league game.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What do you put that down? You've been covering the
game longer than all of us.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I put it down to there's a lot of things
called you take half an hour that the start we
get in Vegas, and the new eyeballs that brings to
rugby league, and there's people stay stay connected.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
To our game.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And you look at the ratings in Melbourne last night,
there are only one hundred and fifty thousand less than Brisbane,
which is an iconic rugby league. So we've won Melbourne over.
And then there's a fellow called Reese walf It is
the most popular player ever.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's a big part of it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The personality is playing the game at the moment, and
a lot of it's got to do with the leadership too,
and Andrew, they've done.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Seriously, we are so lucky and we had Arthurson and
Quay and we had Gallop and we've had all those people.
But the shape the game is in right now.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think the product on the field, like both Gordy.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, so when Souds played, Titans are playing for a
wooden spoon, wining against Daisy and if they were the
two worst teams.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
In the competent, actually get your foot in another kid
flattering shirt.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But anyway, we got a pink shirt on it and
they've got bright green shoes on. Are you colored?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I was just pressing them the power are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I was just telling them how they get game could
be approved next year advice.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Really cared.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
They But you're right about those two guys and missions
there as well. Missus is doing on the great medium
and league dips mate. I mean, Andrew and Peter are
doing an amazing job at the moment. Obviously we're heading
into this era of expansion and they've taken the game
overseas and I think they're doing an amazing job of
the game.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, our top story brought to you by the
by d Shark six And what else would it be?
Reese Walsh what a performance? Take a bow?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Was it the best performance individually by a player in
the history of again in a Grand Final.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I think it's the longest performance. I think there's been
some amazing performances, but not for eighty minutes. From my gotaway,
look Reese. People talk about when Reese doesn't have the footy.
I think his biggest three plays were the chase on Papenhausen,
the collision with Kamakamika, and then the last tackle in
(11:46):
the last minute on Papenhouse and when he threw the
dummy on Katowa and makes it their three amazing defensive plays.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Brody, I'd say it's the best. And to say that
when I saw clearly a couple of years ago, last
seventeen minutes beat Penrith, when he just took an unwinnable
Grand Final away from them, he was That was Billy
Slater and more last night, and people like Ray Warren
on record of saying Billy Slater was better than Changa
(12:16):
Graham Chang of l Englands and Immortal, and that was
up there with anything Billy Slade was ever done in
any game his entire career.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
I think it's the most I called the most complete
performance we're seeing a long time. As you said, Gordy
wasn't just with the balls what he did without the ball.
I looked up the Clive Churchills just perform and there's
a couple of come to mind, g I and seven
outstanding and Joey and O one probably were two that
stand out. But I think this one in terms of
(12:45):
big moments, owing the big moments on the biggest stage.
I mean, no one's done about all that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The only thing they had to do was win at
half time.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I reckon he had enough, like just watching highlights and
moments and big games are about moments, but he had
the middle a half.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
There's such seeing as a one man full team. We
got to tell you something. The three swaths for somebody
in that Brisbane so they get knocked out against Camber
a couple of weeks ago in the Nationally.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
There's no disrespect to any other former five Churchill winner.
And I'll agree with all of.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You, like from every grand follow of watchince I was born,
which is every one of them. This was the best
performance and this was the moment because at this time
Melbourne were in full control, full control, and they needed
someone to stand up.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He stood up all night. But this was one of
the best individual solo efforts tries that you will ever
see in a Grand Final.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
But he was organized so and I saw footage he's
out the back, organized and talking to the center out
there on.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The right, telling him like they come under.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
So he's organized on a play season opportunity and his
reaction time that's one of the.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Greatest business to scored that try that he had no
business to do it. There was enough defense there to
stop a couple of players so brilliant, so strong.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I believe he has a potential to be one of
the best players that's ever played our game.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I tell you back to in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I've said it a few times on this show when
he played over there in Vegas a couple of years ago,
and watching him in the flesh and watching the speed
and the way that he glides and the way he
changes directions at speed, the way that he holds the
ball out in the front, can play short all along
at any given time, and even his only deficiency was
his defense, and last night he was first class. But
again being at the game, which I don't get too
(14:28):
often these days, being in studio here at Fox and
watching him at the speed at which like at halftime,
oh down, And I said to my mate, I was
next to you. I said, this is far from over.
Because every time he touched it he was electric. He
was he was always going to play a big part
in this game.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And let's have a look at his defense.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's happened because if anyone has been critical of him,
this was a big moment.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Gordy, Well, they chase, right, said Papenhausen.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
But that's tackle one.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
So Papen has a good numb better but that chase
and on the by and I don't think that it's
all always been and is, but Papa hows and comes
across the field, spots the back rower goes through and
Reese is on his bike and for all money, like
you think, oh he's going to score, and Reeese kept
on coming.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
But it's everything about him.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
No break.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This was a big one because you know it's a
two on one essentially and he makes.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's anticipation.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
You know, that's incredible. Thing is six weeks ago promise
ship Monday night, we're sitting here saying the Blakes rocks
and diamonds. But he's got to become more diamonds and
he has to become more diamonds when it really counts.
He's picking his moments three now, so your developed did
you imagine in two or three years?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, I can't. He's different. Do you think that Margine
guy has had a lot to do with these guys?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Madge McGuire, are we on the Madge I'm talking about
We'll get you.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
And I just talk about Reees. Just for one thing,
I'll tell you Nathan Brown had he met the Warriors,
I'm going to go to a coach and a bloke
and play with, said Gordy. This kid, this was said
like I think he was young. He said, Oh my god,
if he wants to adapt and put his you know,
you get those guys with talent, but to get his
mind to it. You played with guys with so much talent,
So to get him to want to do this right
(16:17):
and be the team player that he's turned out to be.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I think there's all.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Serves a lot of credible. I think one of the
best parts of Reese Welsh's speech last night he paid
tribute to.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
But we're going to get we just give some credit
here because he played under Kevy last year and played
nothing like this, So let's get that straight.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
There's not a Mage beater, right.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
But he got knocked out twice horribly Tailor Maye and
then so like, and then he was injured, so to
come back no is that he had last year. Young
kids need time, and I think getting as many games
underneath his belt this year, and even when he was
injured at the beginning of the year, he Reese wasn't
playing his best. But Madge has done a great job
(17:10):
to watch, I'll tell you it is those two wingers
have turned into first class high performance. I think Mariner
has improved out of side those and when you see
a coach those guys that are on the bench and
of those those one hundred, they've improved, they've probably doubled them.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But I'll also say that if Madge isnt coach, I'm
not sure if those two wings a player in that game,
because Cobbo and Arthur's were the preferred, and he dropped
Cobbo and he dropped Arthur's to put the two wingers
in there.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Magedy that that was Mage's decision.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm anxious to get to Madge and talk about him
and talk him up like you wonders to Mate. I'm
not taking anything away Heathington.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I just I just think he's very important.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's very important to give Madge the credit because I
don't think he's got enough on this panel. That's my opinion.
Can disagree, Yeah, well I do disagree with you, and
that's fine. Let's get to the shot. Reese Walsh, the
hit that he put on I think it was coach,
was it?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Now this was debatable. Maybe I thought he should have
got ten minutes in the bin. I thought any other
game this season, Reese Walsh is straight off.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That was much just my take on it. And Camber
he goes to the bin probably last week he goes, well,
maybe not to the bin.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I thought a head button Canberra.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I thought it was ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Personally, my initial reaction was at the game, SimBin.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I look at it now and.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
There's pretty significant mitigation here. As OVID coaches four, he's
down on one knee when he hits him. Look, he's
fallen a long way, and they take into account mitigation
in these circumstances. And I think in that situation there's
significant mitigation where they.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Didn't fall a long way tee, where they didn't take
mitigation into account. Origin one at the stadium last year.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Not going back to that, no, but just.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
That you listen to mine was off his feet and
lost control over because he was falling. It doesn't matter
with your fault. The onus, as you know, is on
the defender. You just cannot be sitting here as seriously safety.
(19:25):
I'm only doing continue used to stupid analogy.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Super.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Analogy.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Does he get hit in the head? You're comparing the
I've got two things. Does he get hit in the head? Yes,
but shoulders of forget hit gets told every week as
a fan did he get hit in the head?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
But was there enough it was a.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Penalty mitigating circumstances and Brown eight when nineteen players went
to the same being Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
When we come back to that, we learned from that.
We we moved on from that.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Direct contact and force and mitigation mitigation.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
There is maybe it was on one knee, it was
on one need he did.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Your vest ready, one.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Time premiership winner, but the Broncos coach says the best
is yet to come.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yeah, I've talked about about the players. I mean it's
takes it seem really good team to be able to
achieve what they've done, and the leaders through Buddy Paine
when hunting to Tony the probably the mains the leaders,
but I had a lot of boys coming underneath that
that actually really jumped into the expectations standards what they
built so off the eli they're only at the indistry
(20:42):
of where where the starting point is.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We've only had twelve months getting the popcorn out.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's time to talk about Michael McGuire and what a
performance it was this year by the head coach of
the Brisbane Broncos in his first year winning the premiership.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Now did he change throughout the scene?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Oh look, I've got no doubt made change. And look
I had a lot to say and I said it
on at Vegas. We didn't have to shower in Vegas,
and I said, you know, he'd driven them too hard
and you know they started strong and then they went
into this massive slump. Now they lost to South, they
lost tous Saint George. They got beaten thirty four to
six by Manly Brook val Obel. And I'm told, and
(21:22):
I've had it confirmed from journalists in Brisbane, that ben
Hart and Adam Reynolds went and saw Madge not to
complain about cruisers, camps or spit buckets. That wasn't what
it was about. It was about intensity, some of the
stuff we saw in Tales of Tigertown, some of the
stuff that when he finished up at South saying the
players are happy to work hard, nine hour days, not
a problem, but we're just feeling a bit of anxiety
(21:45):
around the place. Would you mind rolling it back. At
the same time, they hired a crisis manager at guy
called Grant Williams. Grant Williams has handled police commissioners, all
sorts of high rollers, and he's what are you laughing at?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm not laughing all right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Anyway, he's gr Grant Williams worked very closely with Madge,
and I can tell you now that Madge pulled back
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
What do you work closely? What do you make specifically?
As he worked closely, I just.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Think I just explained he knocked back a bit of
his intensity. They were in big trouble mate. You know
in the first twelve rounds grew they had won five
games of footing, and Madge himself was right over the
appointment of Grant Williams. He wanted from there.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's a Goodison.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
It was a great decision.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And what I wrote this morning that was really really Sittney.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I just thought, ready coming, well, I think we see
what the player.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We saw what the plane.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I don't think this meeting happened.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I think we saw what the plan. Do you think
this meeting got no idea?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Buzz your was you generally generally get things right, so
it suggested.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Last night.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
I just said, you probably generally get things right. What
I'm saying is all the talk about Madge is intensity.
Baseball bat, spewed buckets, army camps. We saw what the
players thought of that commentary, with the reaction after the game.
Hess was getting around with the baseball bat, they were
taking the Mickey O winners.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
That commentary with you respect to you, I don't want to.
I'm not going to.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I don't want to you because you've done far more
than I have in this game. But that commentary was.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Ridiculous, staying quiet last Monday. I'll standwaving that I said
about Mage. My beef was him was when he took
on Billy Slater and the glasshouses, and that's where it started,
right And then I read out his record at the
West Tigers and I said, how does the management come
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up with this guy right with the record that he had?
But they did, and now he's proven me wrong. But
the thing is, I'm not saying that Kevin wouldn't have
the players in the same spot, and I'll never walk
away from that.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
That's fair enough.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
We got in the player.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
We all understand what I.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
So Broncos and I want to congratulate everybody involved because
it's amazing to have that stadium the way it was,
to have it humming, to have those ten thousand people
the other day and those piers that I've watched when
there's wooden spoons and paint.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Has what he's given that Jersey now's been I question
that I've got to I've got to question that. I
got to question the Kevy thing.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Like I love Kevy and I think he's a great coach,
and I can't say you wouldn't have been able to
do what Mad has done, like it's imposed, no one can.
But what I will say is when he got to
the club, he major said that he thought they were unfit, right,
so he trained him hard. Spewed back at Army camps
all that the last they had six comebacks ten plus
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points against top eight teams in from around sixteen onwards.
Now you can question would they have done that this
time last year? I mentioned before he dropped Cobbo and
he dropped Arthurs. Now with the previous coach done that,
we don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Right Shibasaki he plucked from oblivion and gave him the
opportunity this year which was outstanding. And I believe that
he's a big part of the transformation. We cannot sit
here and say that, and he can disagree with me
going and that's fine, And I'm not saying that he
couldn't have done it, but before he's not getting.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Enough credit for this.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
And hold on, you obviously didn't McCollum responded before this
jumped in as I was halfway through explaining it. Madge's
biggest when this year was his lack of stubbornness that
he took aboard what Ben Hunt and Adam Reynolds said
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to him, his leaders behind closed doors and he changed.
He just backed off and uson.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Of the players after the game, every single one that
was in sums it up. He said, he demands a lot.
We just want to camp. Yes, that's all it needs
to be said.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
But I think the reason they got in there was
everything we saw in the latter of stage of the season.
They got in there to add some steel, some starch,
some resilience to that footage club because it didn't didn't
mean to.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Be there last What do you want.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Is a big thing, and that's what they've got.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
That's exactly what the pay. He's done it, and he's
done it.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Do you want me to sit here and say what?
Do you want me to say?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Whatever you want when when.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
They're fired from twelve thirty four to six Beach and
George Beach South, do you want me to just come
in and say good week? And you know what do
you want us to do? Do you want us to analyze?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And you know what Goddy Gordy said that he Madge
proved him wrong just there? Did he prove you wrong?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I said last week he proved me wrong. But I'm
not apologizing as these some people want me to, some
people have and I'm not here. Madge proved me wrong.
Madge deserved his premiership. You're happy.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm very happy.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And you've been wrong to this year. Of course, you
started with Canterbury, started Nick, and then you bounced on
the bridge.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's untrue. But you're the biggest turn case. You did cheer.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
You were cheering Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I saw that, but that Nick is like a father.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And I'm still I've been making the whole time, and
I've spoke to a million times, sorry, spoke in the
gas and all the other guys as well as me
in time.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
So that's actually wrong. But I know you want to
reflect to me. I am not. It's a good player.
It's a couple of broadcast players, Adam Menalds and Ben Hunt.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
What a moment it was for them to get this premiership.
The redemption story behind it was. It was amazing, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I think Ben Hunt the moment in Canberra, the field goal,
Like I know last night was a really tough game,
but the moment that he had he needed big moments
outstanding to war how emotionally he was. Adam Reynold's a
poor old buggery. His body broke down again. But it's
great to see those guys like what. I think they're
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the oldest halves pairing in the history of rugby league
the way they embraced after the game. And that's what
I did, Like I sat back and watched the moments
with those guys.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Ben Harnt if we stuck the contract should still be
feeding the scrums at George Lawira Barton. He wanted a
new opportunity, he got it, sat George didn't fighting and
Adam Reynolds. I was sitting there last night just before
he got carried off. I'm thinking, what is House thinking?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You taking this thinking because there's another number seven players.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
I think it was more significant for Ben because Adam
had a Adam's got a premiership. It was a long
time ago. But for Ben, after what happened in fifteen,
I think that was a huge thing.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Is it redemption?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Well, as close as you get breathon, that's pretty big.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
What about Ezra Man Like you talking about Rhys Walsh
and you talk about two pronged attack, Now you're watching
the game again live and the speed at which Reach
executes and performs his next level. Then you've got this
guy coming off the bench who is electric and dangerous
with every touch, and he made a massive impact in't
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he he's.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Physical two break.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
I think that's the other thing you don't notice about
that he plays a physical game.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
But I thought he was outstanding at the end of
the game.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
It was only half that leapt threat threat of Man
and Reese out there live was unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Still debate boys and not taking anything away. There's a
debate whether he should have played after the off season thing.
And I wrote a story on the weekend about him
getting a flight by the NRL, getting a flight by
the Broncos, And I spoke to the poor mother the
victim he play out his car and doing and I
spoke to the uber driver, you know, and they're still
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struggling and seeing him on TV, seeing him with his
life back together. But I did stress in this column,
and I'm not aiming this at Ezra Man. I'm aiming
at the system where we didn't have a system, where
we'd be outed for twelve months. That's what I thought
should have happened, something that serious.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
But yeah, a lot of people agree with you.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Buzz
The comeback Kings have done it again.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Brisbane Broncos are the premiers for twenty twenty five
after overcoming the Melbourne Storm in front of eighty thousand
fans at the Core Stadium. There was a night of
redemption for their coach and their two veteran halves, and
a night where Rhys Walsh went to a level no
one thought was possible.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here's the third meeting between please do teams this season,
but tonight for the Broncos and the Storm, they're playing
for everything.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Cameron Munster with the boy.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
On the team, they get us underway Reynolds once they
came up quickly, Mos get to the way. Narroner Noness
scores the first.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Try lot to start from the Brisbane Broncos.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Munster run around for Hughes.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Purple Housen meeting.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Look at it go.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
What's been the storm, responded Hughes rubbers.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Chasing hard contours.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
There most shows an inside comes outside to back the house,
coats moving.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Quickly quick stairs run off.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Here and a high tackle Recemose Runner because he's forming
that's off.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
There's definite contact with the head, so penalty Warranton, but
that's all they are just hanging on.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Here comes out to Hughes.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Now Katia cut out, ball out to ward Bread good
the line he got there. The Broncos need to find
an answer and very click, very quickly quick playing the
ball they go the wolf in behind the play the ball.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Still going wound.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Pots is my Common Grand Final.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
So we had a plan to stop Reese Walsh. It
didn't work.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I think there's some things you can do tackling. Obviously
we didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What a player responsh boy DA's a China half brand
flights Hughes, Dancic back through the middle. Melbourne respond and
at half time in the Grand Finals it's Melbourne plays
him Bunster runners Tabba Jamaker.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Then he plucked the ball down.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Oh he fuck the.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Reynolds for men shiver Saki breaches out. The Broncos very
much in it. Coster Reynolds and Reynolds has a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Unfortunate the Broncos that the good bit uneas of me
and playing the arms in with this meat deal lead.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Then you signal war Rick clops the ball gee.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That was a great shot there for Mesrom. The collision
enough to jop the ball free. Last tackle Pikes.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Host hot out ball out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Tabarna watches everywhere hot out of all Shiver Saki is gone.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
The Broncos have the line.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Chen Housen throws a dummy.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
He poses Walsh.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Inside for warm Wrick.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The ball goes to ground Munster to the left.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Handsel has crown.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
That's gone.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh boy, here I came out.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
He's contact them high turned out on a poe there
and goes to the Sudby two on.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The top and the book goes by four.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Guitar bat to the tackle, still going penn an outer.
What a tackle by race baf Gutura himn goes back
to the middle.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Riga takes it and the cop back Cans have done
it again.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Michael McGuire blames the brock goes in the first previouship
in nineteen long seasons.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
From the time I walked in. We can meet none
of the players.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
They've been challenged, plane's been said, but they believed.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Man just to be here right now, like day one,
Dodger and Magic cause I was too scared.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
To talk to him.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
He demands a lot, as he should demand a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You know you're just want a column. It's been nineteen
years and you know we've just asd our names in history.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Welcome to Barols three sixty Rugby League from every angle,
brought to you by Regain joining me for the last
time this year, the great good and Tallergrath. That's been
the jays in buzzrock Field mate and Brent Reid and
the Broncos have broken the drought after nineteen years. What
an epic Grand.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Final it was, Gordy, What a way to do it
has been I think one of the best years I've watched,
certainly the greatest final series and arguably the greatest Grand Final.
Both sides are up for it. There's a lot of hurdles.
Brisbane had their overcome, but they jumped all of them.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It was outstanding both They come back sixteen bige Canbra
fourteen or twelve against Penrith ten last night. Someone told
me today they only led in finals for about thirty minutes,
but they just kept coming home, coming am hard and
deserved premise.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Yeah, it was great game, Breath and obviously we'll get
on the res Falce later that I mean, he was
unbelievable and Melbourne had it in the bag of twenty
to twelve at half time. They probably should have won
it from there, but you can't kick this Brisbane side down.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
They're unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Where does that game rank in terms of Grand finals
over the years, in over the history of.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Our game, our great game, well, most points at halftime,
I thought it was entertaining. I you know, everybody might
have a comment on a referee, but I thought the
players sorted it out.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The fatigue that come into the game later. I know
there was injuries and the guy that got the DLM.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I thought it's probably one of the greatest performances ever,
so I rank it up there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't want to put him.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Above others because I think it's disrespectful to the other
guys at are one Grand Finals, but it certainly would
be on the padium.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I believe what I've watched.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
You talk an individual performances, We're going to get to
Reese Walsh off the charts. It's a Grand Final, wonderful
game of football. We'll talk to ratings in a little
while too, so the fans obviously loved it. It'll be
in my certainly in the top ten in the last
few years, without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Last buzz is quickly, are you feeling all right today?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
What do you mean, am I feeling okay, you know,
just a fit it out? What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I can't do I'm just asking a question, yeah, and
I'm about to answer, but I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I just the reaction today and all that.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What reaction you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You haven't noticed any reaction from I saw.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Jordan Ricky what we started singing a buzz Rothfield song
or something like that. But you know what, and I've
said this to you many many times. I can sit
here on Monday night. I cannot have opinion. I can
become a press release journal and write everything sanctioned, or
I can have an opinion and I'll voice that opinion.
I think I got it right right, I'll tell you
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why I got it right.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
What do you get right?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Well, I'll tell you what I got right, and we
got to We're going to talk about later how Mad
changed his ways, and that is, in fact, how a
couple of players went to him. They didn't you're right,
they didn't bar about army camps, they didn't up about
Harbor and all that.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
But I was just checking in you.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, I'm here to defend myself. I would have taken
but if I was embarrassed, I would have to.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
We'll get into detail a little bit later.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
This is one hundred show hundreds of the year and
I was I was hoping to walk out without having
a stink with you. Well you've got me off.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Just think Tod Meet You're wrong Storm, He'd be loving this.
When you come to focus off your performances. Well, a
couple confused though you were storeman or a Brisbane broth.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
I couldn't win.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I couldn't lose foot in both camps. I'm a Brisbane
fan of be a long time Brisbane fan.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
But you know, you know wins. You had that system
you coming with four six both.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
The system was a historical system that was based on.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Holiday and look the print media press box. I was
sitting here and Brent was sitting here. I know you
were cheering for Storm.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That's incorrect.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
This I raised some concerns of some calls early in
that game, got the brawl. They just happened to be
against the Storm.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That was just a quick we'll get to it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But what is important here is the Grand Final smashes
a f L with record ratings. What does this say
about the season and the NRL where it stands right now?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You asked was the best Grand Final. Where is it rank?
I reckon? This is up there with the best final
series I've ever seen. The television rating last night was
four point five million. Now that blew the a fell
out of the park, nearly half a million, more than
the AFL Grand Final with Snoop Dogg and all the
works the week before. Now, high than Maths, which is
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one hour shows. It's of yours well, it's among the
top rating shows in the country. High than State of Origin,
even the Decider, higher than the Australian urb and Tennis,
higher than anything we've seen on television this year. The
highest ever rugby league game.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
What do you put that down? You've been covering the
game longer than all of us.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I put it down to there's a lot of things
called you take half an hour that the start we
get in Vegas, and the new eyeballs that brings to
rugby league, and there's people stay stay connected.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
To our game.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And you look at the ratings in Melbourne last night,
there are only one hundred and fifty thousand less than Brisbane,
which is an iconic rugby league. So we've won Melbourne over.
And then there's a fellow called Reese walf It is
the most popular player ever.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's a big part of it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The personality is playing the game at the moment, and
a lot of it's got to do with the leadership too,
and Andrew, they've done.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Seriously, we are so lucky and we had Arthurson and
Quay and we had Gallop and we've had all those people.
But the shape the game is in right now.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think the product on the field, like both Gordy.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, so when Souds played, Titans are playing for a
wooden spoon, wining against Daisy and if they were the
two worst teams.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
In the competent, actually get your foot in another kid
flattering shirt.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
But anyway, we got a pink shirt on it and
they've got bright green shoes on. Are you colored?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I was just pressing them the power are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I was just telling them how they get game could
be approved next year advice.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Really cared.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
They But you're right about those two guys and missions
there as well. Missus is doing on the great medium
and league dips mate. I mean, Andrew and Peter are
doing an amazing job at the moment. Obviously we're heading
into this era of expansion and they've taken the game
overseas and I think they're doing an amazing job of
the game.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, our top story brought to you by the
by d Shark six And what else would it be?
Reese Walsh what a performance? Take a bow?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Was it the best performance individually by a player in
the history of again in a Grand Final.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I think it's the longest performance. I think there's been
some amazing performances, but not for eighty minutes. From my gotaway,
look Reese. People talk about when Reese doesn't have the footy.
I think his biggest three plays were the chase on Papenhausen,
the collision with Kamakamika, and then the last tackle in
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the last minute on Papenhouse and when he threw the
dummy on Katowa and makes it their three amazing defensive plays.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Brody, I'd say it's the best. And to say that
when I saw clearly a couple of years ago, last
seventeen minutes beat Penrith, when he just took an unwinnable
Grand Final away from them, he was That was Billy
Slater and more last night, and people like Ray Warren
on record of saying Billy Slater was better than Changa
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Graham Chang of l Englands and Immortal, and that was
up there with anything Billy Slade was ever done in
any game his entire career.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
I think it's the most I called the most complete
performance we're seeing a long time. As you said, Gordy
wasn't just with the balls what he did without the ball.
I looked up the Clive Churchills just perform and there's
a couple of come to mind, g I and seven
outstanding and Joey and O one probably were two that
stand out. But I think this one in terms of
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big moments, owing the big moments on the biggest stage.
I mean, no one's done about all that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The only thing they had to do was win at
half time.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I reckon he had enough, like just watching highlights and
moments and big games are about moments, but he had
the middle a half.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
There's such seeing as a one man full team. We
got to tell you something. The three swaths for somebody
in that Brisbane so they get knocked out against Camber
a couple of weeks ago in the Nationally.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
There's no disrespect to any other former five Churchill winner.
And I'll agree with all of.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You, like from every grand follow of watchince I was born,
which is every one of them. This was the best
performance and this was the moment because at this time
Melbourne were in full control, full control, and they needed
someone to stand up.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He stood up all night. But this was one of
the best individual solo efforts tries that you will ever
see in a Grand Final.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
But he was organized so and I saw footage he's
out the back, organized and talking to the center out
there on.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
The right, telling him like they come under.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
So he's organized on a play season opportunity and his
reaction time that's one of the.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Greatest business to scored that try that he had no
business to do it. There was enough defense there to
stop a couple of players so brilliant, so strong.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I believe he has a potential to be one of
the best players that's ever played our game.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I tell you back to in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I've said it a few times on this show when
he played over there in Vegas a couple of years ago,
and watching him in the flesh and watching the speed
and the way that he glides and the way he
changes directions at speed, the way that he holds the
ball out in the front, can play short all along
at any given time, and even his only deficiency was
his defense, and last night he was first class. But
again being at the game, which I don't get too
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often these days, being in studio here at Fox and
watching him at the speed at which like at halftime,
oh down, And I said to my mate, I was
next to you. I said, this is far from over.
Because every time he touched it he was electric. He
was he was always going to play a big part
in this game.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And let's have a look at his defense.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's happened because if anyone has been critical of him,
this was a big moment.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Gordy, Well, they chase, right, said Papenhausen.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
But that's tackle one.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
So Papen has a good numb better but that chase
and on the by and I don't think that it's
all always been and is, but Papa hows and comes
across the field, spots the back rower goes through and
Reese is on his bike and for all money, like
you think, oh he's going to score, and Reeese kept
on coming.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
But it's everything about him.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
No break.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This was a big one because you know it's a
two on one essentially and he makes.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's anticipation.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
You know, that's incredible. Thing is six weeks ago promise
ship Monday night, we're sitting here saying the Blakes rocks
and diamonds. But he's got to become more diamonds and
he has to become more diamonds when it really counts.
He's picking his moments three now, so your developed did
you imagine in two or three years?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
No, I can't. He's different. Do you think that Margine
guy has had a lot to do with these guys?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Madge McGuire, are we on the Madge I'm talking about
We'll get you.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
And I just talk about Reees. Just for one thing,
I'll tell you Nathan Brown had he met the Warriors,
I'm going to go to a coach and a bloke
and play with, said Gordy. This kid, this was said
like I think he was young. He said, Oh my god,
if he wants to adapt and put his you know,
you get those guys with talent, but to get his
mind to it. You played with guys with so much talent,
So to get him to want to do this right
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and be the team player that he's turned out to be.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I think there's all.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Serves a lot of credible. I think one of the
best parts of Reese Welsh's speech last night he paid
tribute to.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
But we're going to get we just give some credit
here because he played under Kevy last year and played
nothing like this, So let's get that straight.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
There's not a Mage beater, right.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
But he got knocked out twice horribly Tailor Maye and
then so like, and then he was injured, so to
come back no is that he had last year. Young
kids need time, and I think getting as many games
underneath his belt this year, and even when he was
injured at the beginning of the year, he Reese wasn't
playing his best. But Madge has done a great job
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to watch, I'll tell you it is those two wingers
have turned into first class high performance. I think Mariner
has improved out of side those and when you see
a coach those guys that are on the bench and
of those those one hundred, they've improved, they've probably doubled them.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But I'll also say that if Madge isnt coach, I'm
not sure if those two wings a player in that game,
because Cobbo and Arthur's were the preferred, and he dropped
Cobbo and he dropped Arthur's to put the two wingers
in there.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Magedy that that was Mage's decision.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I'm anxious to get to Madge and talk about him
and talk him up like you wonders to Mate. I'm
not taking anything away Heathington.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I just I just think he's very important.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's very important to give Madge the credit because I
don't think he's got enough on this panel. That's my opinion.
Can disagree, Yeah, well I do disagree with you, and
that's fine. Let's get to the shot. Reese Walsh, the
hit that he put on I think it was coach,
was it?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Now this was debatable. Maybe I thought he should have
got ten minutes in the bin. I thought any other
game this season, Reese Walsh is straight off.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That was much just my take on it. And Camber
he goes to the bin probably last week he goes, well,
maybe not to the bin.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I thought a head button Canberra.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I thought it was ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Personally, my initial reaction was at the game, SimBin.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I look at it now and.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
There's pretty significant mitigation here. As OVID coaches four, he's
down on one knee when he hits him. Look, he's
fallen a long way, and they take into account mitigation
in these circumstances. And I think in that situation there's
significant mitigation where they.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Didn't fall a long way tee, where they didn't take
mitigation into account. Origin one at the stadium last year.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Not going back to that, no, but just.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
That you listen to mine was off his feet and
lost control over because he was falling. It doesn't matter
with your fault. The onus, as you know, is on
the defender. You just cannot be sitting here as seriously safety.
(19:25):
I'm only doing continue used to stupid analogy.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Super.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Analogy.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Does he get hit in the head? You're comparing the
I've got two things. Does he get hit in the head? Yes,
but shoulders of forget hit gets told every week as
a fan did he get hit in the head?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
But was there enough it was a.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Penalty mitigating circumstances and Brown eight when nineteen players went
to the same being Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
When we come back to that, we learned from that.
We we moved on from that.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Direct contact and force and mitigation mitigation.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
There is maybe it was on one knee, it was
on one need he did.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Your vest ready, one.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Time premiership winner, but the Broncos coach says the best
is yet to come.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yeah, I've talked about about the players. I mean it's
takes it seem really good team to be able to
achieve what they've done, and the leaders through Buddy Paine
when hunting to Tony the probably the mains the leaders,
but I had a lot of boys coming underneath that
that actually really jumped into the expectations standards what they
built so off the eli they're only at the indistry
(20:42):
of where where the starting point is.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We've only had twelve months getting the popcorn out.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
It's time to talk about Michael McGuire and what a
performance it was this year by the head coach of
the Brisbane Broncos in his first year winning the premiership.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Now did he change throughout the scene?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Oh look, I've got no doubt made change. And look
I had a lot to say and I said it
on at Vegas. We didn't have to shower in Vegas,
and I said, you know, he'd driven them too hard
and you know they started strong and then they went
into this massive slump. Now they lost to South, they
lost tous Saint George. They got beaten thirty four to
six by Manly Brook val Obel. And I'm told, and
(21:22):
I've had it confirmed from journalists in Brisbane, that ben
Hart and Adam Reynolds went and saw Madge not to
complain about cruisers, camps or spit buckets. That wasn't what
it was about. It was about intensity, some of the
stuff we saw in Tales of Tigertown, some of the
stuff that when he finished up at South saying the
players are happy to work hard, nine hour days, not
a problem, but we're just feeling a bit of anxiety
(21:45):
around the place. Would you mind rolling it back. At
the same time, they hired a crisis manager at guy
called Grant Williams. Grant Williams has handled police commissioners, all
sorts of high rollers, and he's what are you laughing at?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I'm not laughing all right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Anyway, he's gr Grant Williams worked very closely with Madge,
and I can tell you now that Madge pulled back
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
What do you work closely? What do you make specifically?
As he worked closely, I just.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Think I just explained he knocked back a bit of
his intensity. They were in big trouble mate. You know
in the first twelve rounds grew they had won five
games of footing, and Madge himself was right over the
appointment of Grant Williams. He wanted from there.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's a Goodison.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
It was a great decision.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And what I wrote this morning that was really really Sittney.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I just thought, ready coming, well, I think we see
what the player.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We saw what the plane.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I don't think this meeting happened.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I think we saw what the plan. Do you think
this meeting got no idea?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Buzz your was you generally generally get things right, so
it suggested.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Last night.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
I just said, you probably generally get things right. What
I'm saying is all the talk about Madge is intensity.
Baseball bat, spewed buckets, army camps. We saw what the
players thought of that commentary, with the reaction after the game.
Hess was getting around with the baseball bat, they were
taking the Mickey O winners.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
That commentary with you respect to you, I don't want to.
I'm not going to.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I don't want to you because you've done far more
than I have in this game. But that commentary was.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Ridiculous, staying quiet last Monday. I'll standwaving that I said
about Mage. My beef was him was when he took
on Billy Slater and the glasshouses, and that's where it started,
right And then I read out his record at the
West Tigers and I said, how does the management come
(23:44):
up with this guy right with the record that he had?
But they did, and now he's proven me wrong. But
the thing is, I'm not saying that Kevin wouldn't have
the players in the same spot, and I'll never walk
away from that.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
That's fair enough.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
We got in the player.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
We all understand what I.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
So Broncos and I want to congratulate everybody involved because
it's amazing to have that stadium the way it was,
to have it humming, to have those ten thousand people
the other day and those piers that I've watched when
there's wooden spoons and paint.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Has what he's given that Jersey now's been I question
that I've got to I've got to question that. I
got to question the Kevy thing.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Like I love Kevy and I think he's a great coach,
and I can't say you wouldn't have been able to
do what Mad has done, like it's imposed, no one can.
But what I will say is when he got to
the club, he major said that he thought they were unfit, right,
so he trained him hard. Spewed back at Army camps
all that the last they had six comebacks ten plus
(24:46):
points against top eight teams in from around sixteen onwards.
Now you can question would they have done that this
time last year? I mentioned before he dropped Cobbo and
he dropped Arthurs. Now with the previous coach done that,
we don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Right Shibasaki he plucked from oblivion and gave him the
opportunity this year which was outstanding. And I believe that
he's a big part of the transformation. We cannot sit
here and say that, and he can disagree with me
going and that's fine, And I'm not saying that he
couldn't have done it, but before he's not getting.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Enough credit for this.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
And hold on, you obviously didn't McCollum responded before this
jumped in as I was halfway through explaining it. Madge's
biggest when this year was his lack of stubbornness that
he took aboard what Ben Hunt and Adam Reynolds said
(25:42):
to him, his leaders behind closed doors and he changed.
He just backed off and uson.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Of the players after the game, every single one that
was in sums it up. He said, he demands a lot.
We just want to camp. Yes, that's all it needs
to be said.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
But I think the reason they got in there was
everything we saw in the latter of stage of the season.
They got in there to add some steel, some starch,
some resilience to that footage club because it didn't didn't
mean to.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Be there last What do you want.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Is a big thing, and that's what they've got.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
That's exactly what the pay. He's done it, and he's
done it.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Do you want me to sit here and say what?
Do you want me to say?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Whatever you want when when.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
They're fired from twelve thirty four to six Beach and
George Beach South, do you want me to just come
in and say good week? And you know what do
you want us to do? Do you want us to analyze?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And you know what Goddy Gordy said that he Madge
proved him wrong just there? Did he prove you wrong?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
I said last week he proved me wrong. But I'm
not apologizing as these some people want me to, some
people have and I'm not here. Madge proved me wrong.
Madge deserved his premiership. You're happy.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I'm very happy.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And you've been wrong to this year. Of course, you
started with Canterbury, started Nick, and then you bounced on
the bridge.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's untrue. But you're the biggest turn case. You did cheer.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
You were cheering Brisbane.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I saw that, but that Nick is like a father.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And I'm still I've been making the whole time, and
I've spoke to a million times, sorry, spoke in the
gas and all the other guys as well as me
in time.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
So that's actually wrong. But I know you want to
reflect to me. I am not. It's a good player.
It's a couple of broadcast players, Adam Menalds and Ben Hunt.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
What a moment it was for them to get this premiership.
The redemption story behind it was. It was amazing, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I think Ben Hunt the moment in Canberra, the field goal,
Like I know last night was a really tough game,
but the moment that he had he needed big moments
outstanding to war how emotionally he was. Adam Reynold's a
poor old buggery. His body broke down again. But it's
great to see those guys like what. I think they're
(28:09):
the oldest halves pairing in the history of rugby league
the way they embraced after the game. And that's what
I did, Like I sat back and watched the moments
with those guys.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Ben Harnt if we stuck the contract should still be
feeding the scrums at George Lawira Barton. He wanted a
new opportunity, he got it, sat George didn't fighting and
Adam Reynolds. I was sitting there last night just before
he got carried off. I'm thinking, what is House thinking?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You taking this thinking because there's another number seven players.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
I think it was more significant for Ben because Adam
had a Adam's got a premiership. It was a long
time ago. But for Ben, after what happened in fifteen,
I think that was a huge thing.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Is it redemption?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Well, as close as you get breathon, that's pretty big.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
What about Ezra Man Like you talking about Rhys Walsh
and you talk about two pronged attack, Now you're watching
the game again live and the speed at which Reach
executes and performs his next level. Then you've got this
guy coming off the bench who is electric and dangerous
with every touch, and he made a massive impact in't
(29:14):
he he's.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Physical two break.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
I think that's the other thing you don't notice about
that he plays a physical game.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
But I thought he was outstanding at the end of
the game.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
It was only half that leapt threat threat of Man
and Reese out there live was unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Still debate boys and not taking anything away. There's a
debate whether he should have played after the off season thing.
And I wrote a story on the weekend about him
getting a flight by the NRL, getting a flight by
the Broncos, And I spoke to the poor mother the
victim he play out his car and doing and I
spoke to the uber driver, you know, and they're still
(29:52):
struggling and seeing him on TV, seeing him with his
life back together. But I did stress in this column,
and I'm not aiming this at Ezra Man. I'm aiming
at the system where we didn't have a system, where
we'd be outed for twelve months. That's what I thought
should have happened, something that serious.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
But yeah, a lot of people agree with you.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Buzz
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