Catch up on all the Rugby League news from NRL 360, Monday 9th of June, with hosts Braith Anasta and Gorden Tallis.
Buzz Rothfield and Brent Read join the boys to unpack Lachlan Galvin's Bulldogs debut as his new side dominated the Eels on Easter Monday.
They also clash in a heated debate over Billy Slater's Queensland Maroons squad after the dropping of Daly Cherry-Evans and the inclusion of Ezra Mam.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome to our row three sixty rae League from every angle,
brought to you by Fort Everest, joining me Gordon Tallis,
Sparz Rothfield and Bratt Reid, sixty thousand fans. The NRL
doing a magnificent job as the Bulldog's been by eighteen points.
Just too strong there that second half. A valiant performance
from the Paramatta Ils. Matt Burton was brilliant. Lachlin Galvin
scores a try for the first time that he wears
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that blue and white jersey. What a game that was
doing him.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
What a weekend of foot he we saw Brisbane Big
Krouse Raiders yesterday and now this. But what's just just
a bit disappointed about the rain about it now out
I'm thinking both sides would a lock to have come
to throw the ball around. But what a contest fourteen
twelve there for a while and the game got broken up.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Amazing then by the Dogs.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Amazing great considering the range as it started a couple
of hours beforehand and coming what it backed off and
watched it from the company of the lounge room. But
Canterbury is just so professional. Their completion rate traps standing
around ninety percent. Now you know, there's and there's now
continuing fascination where the permanent position for lockwwn Galvin and
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that put you to.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Now they go from strength to the strength under the
Dogs and their fans are coming out and force and
was fitting the locky Galvin turned up the score to
throw at the end to just sort of rope the
fairy tale.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
It's a great performance from the Bulldogs. They had a
little bit of pressure on.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Them because of the Lochlan Galvin situation. They had sex
and starting at seven, he moved to nine. Galvin then
played seven. But Matt Burton was the standout today. It
was a great performance by him. Take note too. The
Bulldogs moved back into first position after Canberra had taken
their spot with that win yesterday.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
So the Bulldogs continue to throw.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I've continued to get better and they've set the tone
here with this win under big pressure against an old rival.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Do they get a pass mark? Do you like the changes?
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I even thought sex Sexton was really good at seven
and then when he went to nine he was really good.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I thought the thing with this Cannibig team, what today's show.
They've got twenty three, twenty four players, buying for seventeen spots.
Whoever they put under the park, whether Galvin's there, whether
it's Sexton, whether it's rued Marney, Bailey, Haywood. They have
an outstanding football side with so much depth and the
way camerons around our coaches them, they can cope with
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fiddling around with the team.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We're going to get together a little later. We'll try
and speak to him. I'm pretty sure we're going to.
Let's get to Maddie Burton at the ground. Maddie, what
a performance made yourself in particular? That was one of
your best, if not the best.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
How did it feel?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Yeah, he's going to be back home in front of
the now they sold out crowd and I thought the
boys put on a good performance there. We started a
bit sluggish in their first bit of that second half,
but we got back into the grind and played how
we want to play.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
So we saw there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
When Lachlan Galvin come on, he moved into the seven
role I believe, and then sext and moved to nine.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
How did you feel the dynamic worked?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I thought it was good.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
He obviously come on, added a lot of energy there
through the middle and took him on, so yeah, he'll
only get better as he gets older. So yeah, I
thought he was great on debut tonight. Jade de little
try there, so yeah, but I thought Sexy was real
good in the middle as well.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
How we got put to nine?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Mate? How many times did you train with Lockie Galvin?
Looked like that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You guys combined really well as soon as he come on.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Not too much, to be honest.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
He sort of filled in a few spots during the week,
but he sort of didn't know where he was gonna
come on, so I thought he did a great job
to handle that. And he's obviously been for a bit,
so yeah, he done well to I.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Made sorry Matt, now you go, and all the boys
got around him when he scored the Troy must have
been a great mama for him.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
Yeah, definitely is a great moment for him as obviously.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yea.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
As I said before, he's been a lot of noise
around him, so it's good to just good for him
to come out here, have some fun.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And play for you, Maddy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I was really impressed with Toby Sexton and when Lucky
Galvin came across, he was probably the player under the
spot the potential of losing his spot. My goodness, he
played well this afternoon. He's going to be hard to
leave out.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yeah, definitely has been outstanding for us all year and the.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Way that he goes about his business is second or
nine and I thought he started really well in the
first half two, got us in a good position and
set us up for the second half.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Conyr Burdo, your best performance of the year and the
dog is on top of the ladder. Congratulations, good on,
Thanks followings. All right, let's get Stephen Crichton in. We
be able to get Lochlin Galvin too. Not too long
a time. What a game it was, big.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Fan, sixty thousand fans.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You're back on top of the ladder and a dominant
win over the paramoed Eels.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
How's it feel?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah, feels good.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
But yeah, the boys played really, really good throughout the week.
We had a long eighteen days between two games and
there's a lot of lessons there that we got out
of the Dolphins game.
Speaker 10 (04:48):
And it was.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
Good to come in and the biggest thing was connection home.
I think there was a lot of media stuff around
Locke coming to the club, and the biggest thing was
is connection on and off the field and it was
good to come with off the two points as well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is that what Kevin Serado will be most pleased with
just the connection with the boys completion rate or just
the way you defend it against the Eels today, I.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Think the whole thing overall.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
I think you know how Cameron is his defensive mindset first,
and I think i've in the second half there with
no tries is probably the most pleasing part. But just
like every week, there's always lessons there that we can
look on and see where we can get better as well.
Speaker 10 (05:22):
Steve, you mentioned that connection with Lockie coming in this week.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
How did you get that connection going so quickly given
the limited time you've had together this week?
Speaker 10 (05:31):
With Lockie, I think.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
You're sitting down, it's all between the ears first him
coming into training and sitting down and watching clips of
him first, and we didn't have much time to practice
on the field. But ever since his coming, he's just
learned the system and there's a long way to go
with him, and that was just a little snippet of
how good he can be. So I'm very proud that
he's in the Bulldogs colors now and he's going to
be a massive asset to our team.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
H David.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
As competition leaders, you obviously give up players for origin yourself.
King kurt Man's going to Coinsland, which she deserves. Peter
have the depth though, and then you know you've got
South next week than a bye Penrith, you, Peter have
the depth to cover for it.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
We've always wanted to build a next man up mentality
here at the Dogs and I feel like we're.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Doing that right now.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
And new South Walest Cup team is going really well
as well, and it just gives the opportunity for those boys,
so me, Kingy and Killer do get into those teams
without playing good at Coupland, and it's a mussive credit
to the boys here making us look better than how
we actually are. So credit to them, and it's just
something that we're building at the club.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Hi, Steve, this is a this is a question from
Coenstand how's the body? Are you linked into the first
date of origin? Where I absolutely unbelievable, Mate, how's the body?
And Cameron was so so generous he gave you three
minutes off at the end there.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
No, it's all good.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Uh, yesterday I straighten my neck goal kicking I've never
done that before, but yeah, I just came in, that's
what the team first, and yeah it was pretty funny.
I just had to finish off the game. But it
was good that the boys stood up and I got
the job done.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
To you just a couple of weeks off, mate, I
think you need it. Get on your crew.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Great John Captain and good luck finished South Wales next
Wednesday night.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Let's get Toby sexity in.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Toby, congratulations mate, You're awesome in that first half in particular.
You had a bit of pressure on you in the
last few weeks and boy, if you delivered, you must
be proud of yourself.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Yeah, it's obviously been a few kind of weird weeks
with Lockie coming to the club, but I thought the
moment Lockie come in a kind of all the pressure
just kind of come away and I could just kind
of focus on footy from there. And at the end
of the day, he's a great kid. He's coming from
day dont He just wants to learn and wants to
get better. And he's very young as well, so he's
fitting really well. But yeah, I'm again, I don't feel
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the pressure. I feel like I've just got to play footy.
If I do that, well, that's kind of the rest
is out of my control. And I thought we played
pretty good game tonight and eighty minutes, which is good.
Speaker 10 (07:58):
So we were so swollen to hook or I believe
it was. Is that the long range plan? Is that
how it's going to play out in the future?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Now?
Speaker 10 (08:04):
Was it just for this game?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
I got no idea.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
He kind of come on and say play hooker, and
I thought he was joking for a second and he goes, no,
actually playing hooker.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
I thought, oh right, this will be good. So yeah,
I'm not too sure.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
At the end of the day, whatever's my role on
the team, the coach will decide that and I'm just
going to play to the best of my ability. And again,
we've got lots of striking the team, and they're good
headaches for the coach to have.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Is it hard turning up each week and playing as
well as you did today not knowing where you will
be next year?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Does it play in the back of your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (08:37):
It obviously has its moments, But again I've got a
I've got a great playing group here and a great
staff and coming to training every day, so enjoyable and
it's pretty cliche, but I'm just trying to control what
I can control at the moment and hopefully they will
get sorted sooner rather than later. But yeah, again, another
good win for us tonight and we had sixty thousand
year as well, which is really good. And yeah, times
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like that make you smile.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Toby.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Got to ask you about the fans, as you said,
nearly sixty thousand a day, Another huge crowd, And what's
that like like at the moment, the wave you're on
with this with this footy team, i'mber these fans.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Yeah, Bulldog Bulldogs fans are made at the moment. I
think it started when we come outside the hotel and
there was thousands and thousands of Bulldogs fans out the
front and they.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Clapped us over as we walked over.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
And then it was rainning at the start of the game,
and yeah, the crowd.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Was full and sixty thousand here.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
It's a bit special, but I feel like that's starting
to become the norm for us as a club. And yeah,
they definitely get us up and about for games.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I'm sure the fans are very proud of you, Toby.
You're doing a fantastic job, mate. Congratulations on today's performance.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There is Toby Sexton and didn't the answer today. I
mean there was no one and he said, you know,
he feelt like the pressure went away, but no one
had more pressure on him going into that game than him.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Like they'd be mixed emotions, wouldn't there.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So you don't know if someone's come they signed to
play seven or they've signed the play in the halves
and you know they don't know when you haven't been resigned,
so your futures up in the air, and it'd be
it's such a critically, it's.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
Fair to him.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
He's played with pressure on any weeks now because we've
been talking about his contract. It's not just the past
week since Galvin' been for weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Now he's delivered.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let's get back to the ground where Jake Juke has
been Lucky Galvin.
Speaker 12 (10:21):
Here with the man of the moment, Locky Galvin, Congratulations
on your dog's debut.
Speaker 13 (10:25):
How do you feel now they come out here and
in front of all the home fans and to get
a win like that, that's quite amazing and the support
they showed shoots shown throughout the whole game and throughout
walking here, and that was They're quite unreal and I'm yeah,
very happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
And now I loved every minute of it, not just.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
A win, but a try. What did it feel like
to cross in your first game for the Dog.
Speaker 13 (10:48):
No, it's amazing, you know, all the boys that up
to that me I just finished it off. But now
just to get the win with all these boys have
been so good to me in the past week. And yeah,
I loved every minute of it. And yeah, the club's
building something really special here and yeah, loved being put How.
Speaker 12 (11:03):
Did you feel for the first sixty minutes sitting on
the bench something you're not used to?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
That was quite weird, Actually was freezing.
Speaker 13 (11:08):
It was rainy to tight, but Tom cron I was
trying trying to get serous, attempting to get me on faster.
But no, it was pretty weird. But coming on, and
all credit to our boys. They stuck in there that
first sixty and now we're just finished it off at
the end.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
But oh, yeah, it was a great win.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
How have you handled the pressure?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The talk?
Speaker 12 (11:24):
Everyone, it seems everywhere you go is talking about you.
How did you feel coming into this game.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
I just want to play footy. Shut that out. That's
all over now, and that's all in the past. That's
all in the past now. So yeah, I'm just I
just want to play footy. And I was smiling and
enjoying it out there today, So that's all I really
want to do. And with these bunch of boys, it's
quite amazing. And the fans got right behind us tonight.
It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
How have you felt coming to the club.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
How have they welcomed you in your first week?
Speaker 13 (11:51):
Oh so good. As you can see. When I scored,
they all jumped over me the arm. They've been so supportive,
They've got behind me and that, and now I've loved
every minute of it. Yeah, I just want to keep
building with the boys and the club.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
You came on at half back, but do you know
what the future holds, what position you might feature it
in the next couple of weeks?
Speaker 13 (12:08):
No, no clue. I thought I was coming on at
locks and no we go. I didn't know, so man,
soo time you go into the halves. So yeah, whatever
Surrow wants, whatever the boys need, I'll do And if
we keep winning like that, I'll do anything.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Will you keep the haircut? Yeah? I like him the
haircut everyone's but no takes.
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Makes your time likey, congratulations, thank.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
You, I appreciate it, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I have to keep his haircut after that when it's his.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Signature. When a dream start. It was for Lachlan Gavin.
Very happy there. But why wouldn't he be. He's first,
you know, his first game in a blue and white
jersey for the Bulldogs. Gets a try and was effective
in the roles that he did play.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Combined really well. You saw Burton and he and as
I said, they didn't train a lot together, and it
was all about connection. But the things that I like,
as Toby Sexton spoke about it, so did the next
man up mentality, Yeah, just.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
They'll do whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He didn't know whether he's going to come on and
play wing center in the back row, wherever he was
going to go.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He had to go there and do his job, and
that's a great mindset.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He the money, he thought he was going to play
lot and Toby had no idea he was going to
play nine. And look at the way they played considering
they didn't even know. It does show where the Bulldogs
are at. It shows how good Cameron Serado is as
a coach, and it shows that they trust him and
they will do anything for him, and they continue to
deliver everywhere.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, look, I want to say this. I have been
a critic of Blacklan Galvin. So I didn't like the
way he walked in to see Benji Marshall or the
manager did with a dossia and all that. But I
just don't like seeing nine one year old kids, you know,
in those sort of situations, and to watch him then
with that great smile, to watch the pile on when
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he scored that try that wasn't happening at the West Test.
I remember his last try at the West Tigers dram low.
I didn't join the pilon because there was obvious it's
really nice to see the kid.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
No concerts has nailed this one.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
It was as Guss now this one mate, there was
a long way to go and there it's going to be.
I said at the start breath there's going to be
enormous fascination about where he fits into this side in
the run hand of the final.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
If you've got to ride not they liked the way
it was handled. I didn't like the whales handled either
and it just you know, there's a bit of a smell.
But LIS's come back. He's playing footy.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And keep everybody quiet. And that's if he keeps on
going out and playing the way he does.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I think he'll I think he's young.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And they said a few of the boys when we
interviewed them and said, he's young, you know, And I
think he's probably may regret down the track a few
the ways that he handled certain situations, but he'll he'll
learn from it. But it's still like the playout here, Buzz,
You're right, like this was a great performance and he
did a very good job coming off the bench. The
Bulldogs were starting to dominate that game. They're going to
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come up against some tougher opponents. They're going to come
up against some you know, they've got finals at the
back end of the year, and they've still got to
try and find the best position for him consistently because
they want to have you know, they want they want
to have I suppose they want to gel and have
the right combinations heading into the back end where it's
important in the season.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
So there's still a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
At their draw Brok they got South and a bye
and during Origin. Still they've got Penrith Broncos Cowboys and
they're tough three weeks. But look, as I said, camracks around.
I'm glad I'm not picking Coach of the Year this
year because at the halfway market is impossible to separate him.
And what Ricky Stewart has done with the camber Raiders, I.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Think were Webster's doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
And Andrew Webs, I think we had a glimpset of
the way to play out. I mean I think for me,
long term, me come on the game, the game was
fourteen twelve.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
They're on top. You're right, they're on top.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I think him playing in the harves with Toby Sex
potentially coming on a hooker or playing spinners Tomin hooker.
I think that's the way it's going to play out,
because that's only going to get better. I mean, I
saw the way Galvin gel with those guys that came
on and a lot of the players.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It was very good.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's the great thing is if they don't know
when it's up in the you and I keep on
fighting for their spot and next man up.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I think it's a mate. I think it's a bonus you.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Can see Lachlan Galvin with his family and friends.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He's celebrating his first game for the Bulldogs with a
winner of paramatter. But going back to that is, yes,
Toby did very well and Lachlan did a great job
when he came on, But you wouldn't think they're going
to leave it that way. But they've got to pick
a seven, and they've got to put either sext And
there or Galvin there for the rest of the year
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at some point, like over the next few weeks. Do
you think that's going to happen there? I think that
will happen.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
You're definitely. I think Galvin will be the long term seven.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I think that's the way I understood what it's going
to play out and just what that means for Toby
Sex and I don't know. It probably depends when Bally
Hayward where he ends up because you can't carry hay.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Who is the four guy?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Then because Reed Marney was pulled off the field didn't
go back on, but you're Bailey Haywood and then you
had Sex and moving into nine, who is the four guy?
Because it looks like they're not going to move their
centers fall back any of that it's going to.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Be one of them.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I think it would come down to form my imagine both.
But at the moment I would have thought, well, I
don't know who it'll be. I can't imagine be Balie
Hayward because it seemed to have big raps on him.
So I think it comes down to either Read or
Read Money or Toby Sex. And I imagine in that
situation probably Toby's one who missed out long term.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But yeah, the other thing, just away from the football
for a sect, the other thing we've got to give
Canterbury a massive wrap for. And you mentioned the top
that crowd of sixty thousand today and I read a
piece last week that the Bulldogs are on the verge,
are becoming the most powerful crowd drawing franchise in New
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South Wales now. For years the Swans have owned that
they get their forty thousand every week at the SCG.
The Dogs have given them a bath this year and
it's been a fantasms are incredible. They had no fans
two years ago, two or three years ago, they were
just the die hard desperates. But they're celebrating this resurgence.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And look down too like the crewdles A really young.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
When you saw all the fans, I don't know if
you saw it on the socialst Fox League or even
on the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Where do they walk from the corps out there? They
from the hotel is you can barely see the ground.
There are just thousands of fans waiting for them to
walk across.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That's sort of seeing you see in the Premier League.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
And you know why cameon. That was his idea to
do that, and you know why he does it for
these big games. He wants the players to get an
understanding of finals atmosphere. Like a lot of these boys
will never play Origin. They're very good club players, but
having that excitement is going to put him in good stead.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Going back, who is going to be the four guy?
Is it going to be Read Marney?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
No?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
I think it'll be Toby Sex.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And then do you think.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Well, I can't. I can't cope with Toby Sex and
be left out of that side.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is the chief.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Playmaker at the top of the Premiership ladder. If you
if you could find a weakness in that side, it's
probably the ill discipline of Red Marni Baily would could playhooker.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's going to be reads the number nine.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He's a genuine He gives away more penalties, Yeah no,
but sometimes it's at the right time and they're slowing
it down and he does it for He does it
for a reason. I think he is their best number nine,
and I reckon I'll be between sex and and Hayward
to fight it out for the fourteen seven and fourteen Jersey.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Unfore suit looks like sex and may just slide out
of that team. And the fact he didn't even know
he's going to play nine, But I suggest.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You think he's played good enough to get a job
somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I believes that are interested or knocking on the door.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I know particularly that someone like the Titans. I heard
Phil Gold say last week, the day they announced Lachlan
Galvin was coming to the club, Toby Sexton turned up
at Belmore, changed into his training outfit and produced his
best session of the year. He is taking this as
a challenge. I love his attitude.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So do I are the premiership contenders now I've had
We've spoken about.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
This a number of times.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
They keep getting better though, and again with the injection
of Lachlan Galvin, they could take their side to another level.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Now do we have them.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
As genuine Premiership contenders?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
They do? You have it?
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Look both.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I mean I think Galvin, if you can play, be
the player we will think he can be. I think
for me it was Melbourne have been my favorites all
year and I don't think Cannaby has gone past them yet.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Dignipiant there, he.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Said, they've class the sky the majority of the year.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Does this improve that?
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Well, definitely, I think it definitely changes that.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
As I said, I think they lack size.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
But there's guys four or five contenders. Melbourne can could
win the comp. I'll tell you something. The canber Raiders
could win the comp too. The way the Warriors are playing.
Who would write them up.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well because of the way Melbourne had been beaten by
the Dragons, Dolphins beat them the other week and the Sharks.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But your side.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Don't start me on the Storm.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
If I'm Keeren Surrealdo, we'll get to the Sharks of
the later. If I'm yeah, I'm watching that game from
Matt Burton and I'm saying, mate, this is how I
want you to play every week. He rent the ball,
he took the line on, he broke defenders. He threw
off loads, his kicking game was great, and he took
the pressure off sext and he took the pressure and
the focus even off Galven and the rest of the
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team because he was the dominant half and the dominant six.
And that just shows how good he is when he's
at his best.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And you know what, brave. It's another example of the
depth in New South walesh state of origin right now
that Matt Burton cannot even make the extended squad. I
know he's on standby last week, but my goodness, any
other era he's an Origin player.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
What about the Eels now? They have improved out of sight.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I mean they lost the game by eighteen points and
they fell away a little bit at the back end.
They lacked possession and field position in that game, but
they tried so hard and in my eyes, they've come
a long way. I was still impressed with today's performance.
Are up in class I think we'd all agree there,
But where do we see them at the moment?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I really like the way they've built this. At the
beginning of the year, I thought they were a basket case.
Now they're starting to get what Jason Rolls and Nathan
Brown are putting in them. There is they're a bit
light on, like coming off the bench. They didn't have
much impact, but for sixty minutes to be in a
contest against the Dogs in front of that crowd, I
don't reckon that.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
They're building nicely.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, they're a long way off being you know, but
from where they were at the start of the year.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah, well Mitch's back then.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Even with Mitch's kicking game today and I had brand in,
the commentators continue to say it he was kicking out
of his own thirty.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
They forward, they need they thought they need better. They
need more to sign some forwards.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
There's no doubt.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And the preasure is they've got all this money and
there's an opportunity to find some under replace. Stillan Brown
in mind, you I thought at a very quiet game
today it was quite so. They need to identify that
playmaker who's going to take pressure off Moses and turn
that football side around next year.
Speaker 10 (22:59):
There's a green shoots. They buzzed me.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
It only looks like a really good footballer. I think
Jack William has been a good signing for them. There's
Riley Smith merger this year and looks look he's going
to be a decent player. So there's some green shoots,
but you're right, they need to take some pressure off Mitch.
They need to find a sixth and know they're in
the market for some six Well, the names are out there,
Santon Smith, Jonah Peasant, those sort of guys that they're
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looking at.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
And they need some forwards big time.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
More important than any forwards I think. So who could
they go for? Is there any front rollers?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
And the only thing you can say is they've got
this fabulous junior league now and they had three therefore
junior teams in Grand finals this year, but it's not
going to happen. Next year might be the year after
these SG ball keeps.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
We've heard about their junior league well, as long as
I've been covering league, we've heard about these great more.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Medical than any one of their fairly land big name signature,
more critical than any one, and their management of the cap,
all the clauses they put in it with Moses and
allowed Brown to go.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Mate.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
They've got to land a statement, so.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I bruth, I mean, if I find them, I think
they made a mistake when they chased Lachlan Galvin. They
should offer him Minion dollars straight up and tried to
blow kick Kennibry out of the water.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
They didn't do that. They went around seven.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Fifty and then slightly up to throw them in a
half of pain. Halfs if you got it, and you
mightn't get him, but I understand that buzz, but it's
worth having a go and make him an offer he
can't refuse.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's the problem we got is they've got to try
and attrack the big name player now and are they
in a position to do that?
Speaker 6 (24:30):
And will players want to go there?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Right now?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
They're improving and I don't think they're an unattractive club.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Don't either, but they're not quite where they need to
beat to attract those They're getting there, and I think
Rosie's doing a great job.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
But let's move on to some origin.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Queensland Cage Billy Slater has opened up on his huge
decision to drop Dally Cherry Evans as the Maroons try
and level the series in Perth.
Speaker 14 (24:53):
Yeah, obviously Daily wanted to play and he was disappointed
that he wasn't going to get the opportunity. You won't
hear a negative word from me about Daily Cherry Evans.
What he's given this jersey and what he's done. But yeah,
we just feel that you earn every opportunity to play
in this jersey, and we just feel that Tom Dion
is the opportunity to play in the number seven jersey
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and we feel it's the right thing for the footy.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Team both as well.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
And we got seventeen minutes or so in game one.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
Yeah, we just felt that, you know, Kirk Capewell was
doing really well at club level and his actions that
earn'ed an opportunity to come into the team. So we
feel that's the best for the team.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (25:32):
So obviously today, you know, we announced the squad. Teams
don't need to be announced until tomorrow lunchtime, so we'll
make everyone aware of who the captain is tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
What was you thinking about bringing israel Man into the camp.
Speaker 14 (25:44):
Yeah, again, he's the right person for that position right now.
I'm sure people will have their speculation. He's been doing
a great job over the last few weeks since he's returned,
and yeah, we feel that the squad will benefit from
him being here. It was great to see Reese back
playing the way that he was. He he's got a
real spring in his step and real energy about him.
We just feel that the ones that we have at
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the moment of the right ones.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And this is a rare position for you as a coach.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
How do you feel?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
How do you approach it?
Speaker 14 (26:12):
As in like you've never lost back to back?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Seal?
Speaker 14 (26:16):
Okay, well, I'm only still pretty new as a coach.
I felt pressure the first day I stood here. It's
a pressure situation, It's a pressure position to be in,
but that pressure is also a privilege.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Billy's bombshell Marion's captain d C. He has been dropped
for game two and Tom did will take he spot
in the number seven Jersey big call possibly, Well, I'd
say Billy Slater's biggest call as a coach.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
I don't even doubt that.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Thoughts on this state and loyalty, Gordy, state of loyalty. Well,
you've dropped your captain. We lost the last and this
has been giving it to us.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
You to where's your captain from last year?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Didn't you captain?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
He's fit for it's fit for games?
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Front roller.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
I remember you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Got pay has, so was Stephen Crichton. You took them
in the camp.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Where's your I remember you guys saying if we had
jakeing our team. Queensland wouldn't drop him because Queensland don't
drop the captains.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Because you guys have.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Said that you won, because you won last we lost DC.
He gets we lost, like he gets the chopping to change.
I give you a lesson in how it works.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
It feels like I've got to give.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
You a letter because your pick and stick when you win.
What you guys have done the past.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
If you've won and dropped blakes, you won last year,
you've won last year.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Your captain of that team was he's fit now he
was lost the front roller.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
He's fit now you lost the front round.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
What you do him ignored?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You won't listen, that's your problem. That's the fact we
won the first game of the series and we're retaining
the side that one the first game.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
The captain.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Backup.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, it's okay to change your captain.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
It's all right. You don't need to get you.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
But you guys always talking about this.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Today we've the only reason to score points, right. I
think we were four and six in the last two games, right,
so we struggled. I think Diedan's a better running threat
and we saw with the Broncos Whenezra Men and Rees.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Walls come back.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You need a running threat, like you need some unpredictability,
and I think that he might bring and d C.
I think he's been amazing. I think twenty six origins,
he's played a lot of good ones. He won that
series when Dog said it was our worst ever side.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You do feel sorry for him? Did he did? He
deserve to, But it's where we are at now and
it's a must win.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
That that's really interesting. You say that because he was
sacked on the back of that fantastic game Brookie sat day.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Before he was actually because of the first dat.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Of yeah yeah, last year, just let me finish round
three when he announced he was leaving manly his forms been.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Terrible one week.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Okay, so if you're going to that's if you're going
to drop him, Well, that's probably So.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
That goes back to your first question, where was our
loyalty lord? He was giving him his last shot to
see whether he's still up to it, and we lost them.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, we yes, we did. Probably made I.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Thought we should have kept him. I'm not stressed.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I said I thought he should have played in game
two because I thought he deserved it, But I understand
why that he's been dropped because the whole concept of loyalty,
you're not law to players and teams that lose. And
we lost our last three games in State of Origin
with Daly there, And you're right, I think his forms
were really inconsistent this year. I would like to have
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seen him, but I completely understand why he's been dropped.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's a new year. You know, he's getting on in age.
I think we can all we can all agree to that.
And he's still a fine player, if not a great player.
But you've got tom Didn who's just chomping at his heels,
who is looking dangerous, look dangerous at last ten minutes,
very creative, he's fast, you know, he brings a little
bit of unpredictability, but he's also very consistent.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
And his time is now. You know that they nearly
did it in the game one.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That's obvious by them dropping him after game one, and
he's got his opportunity now. It's a changing of the guard.
There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just having a bit
of fun with you. It's just a little you're bagger that.
Speaker 12 (30:37):
Look.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
The bottom line is, if you had to make a
change because the hammers.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
You agree with it now, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But I just can't understand you're banging on bat Lord.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
We are really I said, you gave him a change.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
You didn't even give you a captain two years disloyal.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Don't talk about it.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
You can't give us lessons in life. I'm just trying
to say, you're winning captain. Sitting on the sideline, I'm.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Just trying to say, and you're going to rolls Royce
Center there the hammer right, yes, and he hardly saw
the football in game one and that requires and Robert
Toy didn't get a lot of clean space. And I
think it's fun reason you had to change your heart.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
I'll tell you what the forwards a going to be?
You know, like this is what happens in Origin.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
It's always the six and seven and if you lose,
it's it's the bulls eye on six and seven.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Now and looks at the forwards.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
How many meters they rent on, how fact they were,
but that we all know that we Gordon, the forwards
have got to do as you man, surprise call up
into the squad.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
How do we take this and are we happy or not?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Look he's part of the extended squad. He's not playing.
I understand why they brought him in because he's part
of the future. I think long term he'll be part
of the plan. It's not a great look, so I
understand why people are upset with the breath.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Why isn't it a good look?
Speaker 10 (31:50):
Well, given what's happened Gordian.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Hold On system, Yeah, I understand right hit him with
the punishment. The game was way harsh, Sharon.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, but look then, I can the CEO of the
Queens and Rugby League and Billy Slater have not read
the room under these circumstances. So when he ran onto Brookie,
the entire crowd bood him.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
He there too.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
He is very very lucky to be playing NRL football
this year, very lucky through.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
The crime again. But has he served his punishment?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
No, I think, I think, and we've had to wear
him coming back to play n RL this year. The
n r L made the mistake there, so did the Broncos.
But to put him on the highest stage of our
game show piece, extendard bench or not, I don't blame
the fans.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Don't blame he's he's playing the game. He should be
but he's not going to play. Sued so off field
discretions to stop you from any games.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
This was the most serious off field in discretion for
a very long period of time, driving with drugs and
Drek and his system and putting a little girl into hospital.
He does not deserve to be any part of Origin
this year, that's my view.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
So you can play a game but not get the
rewards from it.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
In this situation, I think he was entitled to a
greater punishment. I would have been happy if he didn't play.
I'm not saying that God once surprised Ben, Aicken of
all people, so spart, so clever, has not read the
fans on this occasion.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Once the NRL gave him the sanction he was given
and he's clear for Origin. I don't think he's playing
the q r L.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
It's their team, but.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
The last two weeks in the NRL, the q r
L he's on the extended be Do you think.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Q r L understands the fan outrage that he's even
playing for the this year?
Speaker 10 (34:06):
You have to be head in your sand not to
understand it.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
He's usually got leglessly go under the fans up yours.
Speaker 10 (34:13):
Do you think they're only concerns the Queensland fans.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Bus will he playing?
Speaker 10 (34:16):
In the Queensland fans, I don't think it's an issue.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
For them will he play? So you're saying he's not
going to play, he's just an extended squad. Well, that's
my understanding. But if you actually look, there's an injury, what.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
You're in the week, maybe he comes in. Then maybe
yeah he does because in the extend it's not a good.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Look for rugularly, if you think about it, if they're
not going to play, it's a fair point you may
why even sort of expose him to that at this
point in his career if he's not going to play.
If he's going to play, it's probably different. But if
he's not going to play, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
If they pick him, the same situation flaming.
Speaker 10 (34:50):
But fans do you think do you think queens And
fans are upset about him being selected?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I haven't.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I haven't had a look at the reaction today you've
asked me. From my opinion, that is my opinion. He's
very lucky to be playing for the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
It is not his You make all valid points, not
his fault.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Well, the game should have come down harder on him,
but if he's playing in the NRL, he deserves to
get selected.
Welcome to our row three sixty rae League from every angle,
brought to you by Fort Everest, joining me Gordon Tallis,
Sparz Rothfield and Bratt Reid, sixty thousand fans. The NRL
doing a magnificent job as the Bulldog's been by eighteen points.
Just too strong there that second half. A valiant performance
from the Paramatta Ils. Matt Burton was brilliant. Lachlin Galvin
scores a try for the first time that he wears
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that blue and white jersey. What a game that was
doing him.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
What a weekend of foot he we saw Brisbane Big
Krouse Raiders yesterday and now this. But what's just just
a bit disappointed about the rain about it now out
I'm thinking both sides would a lock to have come
to throw the ball around. But what a contest fourteen
twelve there for a while and the game got broken up.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Amazing then by the Dogs.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Amazing great considering the range as it started a couple
of hours beforehand and coming what it backed off and
watched it from the company of the lounge room. But
Canterbury is just so professional. Their completion rate traps standing
around ninety percent. Now you know, there's and there's now
continuing fascination where the permanent position for lockwwn Galvin and
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that put you to.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Now they go from strength to the strength under the
Dogs and their fans are coming out and force and
was fitting the locky Galvin turned up the score to
throw at the end to just sort of rope the
fairy tale.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
It's a great performance from the Bulldogs. They had a
little bit of pressure on.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Them because of the Lochlan Galvin situation. They had sex
and starting at seven, he moved to nine. Galvin then
played seven. But Matt Burton was the standout today. It
was a great performance by him. Take note too. The
Bulldogs moved back into first position after Canberra had taken
their spot with that win yesterday.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
So the Bulldogs continue to throw.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I've continued to get better and they've set the tone
here with this win under big pressure against an old rival.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Do they get a pass mark? Do you like the changes?
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I even thought sex Sexton was really good at seven
and then when he went to nine he was really good.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I thought the thing with this Cannibig team, what today's show.
They've got twenty three, twenty four players, buying for seventeen spots.
Whoever they put under the park, whether Galvin's there, whether
it's Sexton, whether it's rued Marney, Bailey, Haywood. They have
an outstanding football side with so much depth and the
way camerons around our coaches them, they can cope with
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fiddling around with the team.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We're going to get together a little later. We'll try
and speak to him. I'm pretty sure we're going to.
Let's get to Maddie Burton at the ground. Maddie, what
a performance made yourself in particular? That was one of
your best, if not the best.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
How did it feel?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Yeah, he's going to be back home in front of
the now they sold out crowd and I thought the
boys put on a good performance there. We started a
bit sluggish in their first bit of that second half,
but we got back into the grind and played how
we want to play.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
So we saw there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
When Lachlan Galvin come on, he moved into the seven
role I believe, and then sext and moved to nine.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
How did you feel the dynamic worked?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I thought it was good.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
He obviously come on, added a lot of energy there
through the middle and took him on, so yeah, he'll
only get better as he gets older. So yeah, I
thought he was great on debut tonight. Jade de little
try there, so yeah, but I thought Sexy was real
good in the middle as well.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
How we got put to nine?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Mate? How many times did you train with Lockie Galvin?
Looked like that.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You guys combined really well as soon as he come on.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Not too much, to be honest.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
He sort of filled in a few spots during the week,
but he sort of didn't know where he was gonna
come on, so I thought he did a great job
to handle that. And he's obviously been for a bit,
so yeah, he done well to I.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Made sorry Matt, now you go, and all the boys
got around him when he scored the Troy must have
been a great mama for him.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
Yeah, definitely is a great moment for him as obviously.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yea.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
As I said before, he's been a lot of noise
around him, so it's good to just good for him
to come out here, have some fun.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And play for you, Maddy.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I was really impressed with Toby Sexton and when Lucky
Galvin came across, he was probably the player under the
spot the potential of losing his spot. My goodness, he
played well this afternoon. He's going to be hard to
leave out.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yeah, definitely has been outstanding for us all year and the.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Way that he goes about his business is second or
nine and I thought he started really well in the
first half two, got us in a good position and
set us up for the second half.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Conyr Burdo, your best performance of the year and the
dog is on top of the ladder. Congratulations, good on,
Thanks followings. All right, let's get Stephen Crichton in. We
be able to get Lochlin Galvin too. Not too long
a time. What a game it was, big.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Fan, sixty thousand fans.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You're back on top of the ladder and a dominant
win over the paramoed Eels.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
How's it feel?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah, feels good.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
But yeah, the boys played really, really good throughout the week.
We had a long eighteen days between two games and
there's a lot of lessons there that we got out
of the Dolphins game.
Speaker 10 (04:48):
And it was.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
Good to come in and the biggest thing was connection home.
I think there was a lot of media stuff around
Locke coming to the club, and the biggest thing was
is connection on and off the field and it was
good to come with off the two points as well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Is that what Kevin Serado will be most pleased with
just the connection with the boys completion rate or just
the way you defend it against the Eels today, I.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Think the whole thing overall.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
I think you know how Cameron is his defensive mindset first,
and I think i've in the second half there with
no tries is probably the most pleasing part. But just
like every week, there's always lessons there that we can
look on and see where we can get better as well.
Speaker 10 (05:22):
Steve, you mentioned that connection with Lockie coming in this week.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
How did you get that connection going so quickly given
the limited time you've had together this week?
Speaker 10 (05:31):
With Lockie, I think.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
You're sitting down, it's all between the ears first him
coming into training and sitting down and watching clips of
him first, and we didn't have much time to practice
on the field. But ever since his coming, he's just
learned the system and there's a long way to go
with him, and that was just a little snippet of
how good he can be. So I'm very proud that
he's in the Bulldogs colors now and he's going to
be a massive asset to our team.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
H David.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
As competition leaders, you obviously give up players for origin yourself.
King kurt Man's going to Coinsland, which she deserves. Peter
have the depth though, and then you know you've got
South next week than a bye Penrith, you, Peter have
the depth to cover for it.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
We've always wanted to build a next man up mentality
here at the Dogs and I feel like we're.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Doing that right now.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
And new South Walest Cup team is going really well
as well, and it just gives the opportunity for those boys,
so me, Kingy and Killer do get into those teams
without playing good at Coupland, and it's a mussive credit
to the boys here making us look better than how
we actually are. So credit to them, and it's just
something that we're building at the club.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Hi, Steve, this is a this is a question from
Coenstand how's the body? Are you linked into the first
date of origin? Where I absolutely unbelievable, Mate, how's the body?
And Cameron was so so generous he gave you three
minutes off at the end there.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
No, it's all good.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Uh, yesterday I straighten my neck goal kicking I've never
done that before, but yeah, I just came in, that's
what the team first, and yeah it was pretty funny.
I just had to finish off the game. But it
was good that the boys stood up and I got
the job done.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
To you just a couple of weeks off, mate, I
think you need it. Get on your crew.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Great John Captain and good luck finished South Wales next
Wednesday night.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Let's get Toby sexity in.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Toby, congratulations mate, You're awesome in that first half in particular.
You had a bit of pressure on you in the
last few weeks and boy, if you delivered, you must
be proud of yourself.
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Yeah, it's obviously been a few kind of weird weeks
with Lockie coming to the club, but I thought the
moment Lockie come in a kind of all the pressure
just kind of come away and I could just kind
of focus on footy from there. And at the end
of the day, he's a great kid. He's coming from
day dont He just wants to learn and wants to
get better. And he's very young as well, so he's
fitting really well. But yeah, I'm again, I don't feel
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the pressure. I feel like I've just got to play footy.
If I do that, well, that's kind of the rest
is out of my control. And I thought we played
pretty good game tonight and eighty minutes, which is good.
Speaker 10 (07:58):
So we were so swollen to hook or I believe
it was. Is that the long range plan? Is that
how it's going to play out in the future?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Now?
Speaker 10 (08:04):
Was it just for this game?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
I got no idea.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
He kind of come on and say play hooker, and
I thought he was joking for a second and he goes, no,
actually playing hooker.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
I thought, oh right, this will be good. So yeah,
I'm not too sure.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
At the end of the day, whatever's my role on
the team, the coach will decide that and I'm just
going to play to the best of my ability. And again,
we've got lots of striking the team, and they're good
headaches for the coach to have.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Is it hard turning up each week and playing as
well as you did today not knowing where you will
be next year?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Does it play in the back of your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (08:37):
It obviously has its moments, But again I've got a
I've got a great playing group here and a great
staff and coming to training every day, so enjoyable and
it's pretty cliche, but I'm just trying to control what
I can control at the moment and hopefully they will
get sorted sooner rather than later. But yeah, again, another
good win for us tonight and we had sixty thousand
year as well, which is really good. And yeah, times
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like that make you smile.
Speaker 10 (09:00):
Toby.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Got to ask you about the fans, as you said,
nearly sixty thousand a day, Another huge crowd, And what's
that like like at the moment, the wave you're on
with this with this footy team, i'mber these fans.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Yeah, Bulldog Bulldogs fans are made at the moment. I
think it started when we come outside the hotel and
there was thousands and thousands of Bulldogs fans out the
front and they.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Clapped us over as we walked over.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
And then it was rainning at the start of the game,
and yeah, the crowd.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Was full and sixty thousand here.
Speaker 11 (09:27):
It's a bit special, but I feel like that's starting
to become the norm for us as a club. And yeah,
they definitely get us up and about for games.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, I'm sure the fans are very proud of you, Toby.
You're doing a fantastic job, mate. Congratulations on today's performance.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There is Toby Sexton and didn't the answer today. I
mean there was no one and he said, you know,
he feelt like the pressure went away, but no one
had more pressure on him going into that game than him.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Like they'd be mixed emotions, wouldn't there.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So you don't know if someone's come they signed to
play seven or they've signed the play in the halves
and you know they don't know when you haven't been resigned,
so your futures up in the air, and it'd be
it's such a critically, it's.
Speaker 10 (10:08):
Fair to him.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
He's played with pressure on any weeks now because we've
been talking about his contract. It's not just the past
week since Galvin' been for weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Now he's delivered.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let's get back to the ground where Jake Juke has
been Lucky Galvin.
Speaker 12 (10:21):
Here with the man of the moment, Locky Galvin, Congratulations
on your dog's debut.
Speaker 13 (10:25):
How do you feel now they come out here and
in front of all the home fans and to get
a win like that, that's quite amazing and the support
they showed shoots shown throughout the whole game and throughout
walking here, and that was They're quite unreal and I'm yeah,
very happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
And now I loved every minute of it, not just.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
A win, but a try. What did it feel like
to cross in your first game for the Dog.
Speaker 13 (10:48):
No, it's amazing, you know, all the boys that up
to that me I just finished it off. But now
just to get the win with all these boys have
been so good to me in the past week. And yeah,
I loved every minute of it. And yeah, the club's
building something really special here and yeah, loved being put How.
Speaker 12 (11:03):
Did you feel for the first sixty minutes sitting on
the bench something you're not used to?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
That was quite weird, Actually was freezing.
Speaker 13 (11:08):
It was rainy to tight, but Tom cron I was
trying trying to get serous, attempting to get me on faster.
But no, it was pretty weird. But coming on, and
all credit to our boys. They stuck in there that
first sixty and now we're just finished it off at
the end.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
But oh, yeah, it was a great win.
Speaker 12 (11:22):
How have you handled the pressure?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The talk?
Speaker 12 (11:24):
Everyone, it seems everywhere you go is talking about you.
How did you feel coming into this game.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
I just want to play footy. Shut that out. That's
all over now, and that's all in the past. That's
all in the past now. So yeah, I'm just I
just want to play footy. And I was smiling and
enjoying it out there today, So that's all I really
want to do. And with these bunch of boys, it's
quite amazing. And the fans got right behind us tonight.
It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
How have you felt coming to the club.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
How have they welcomed you in your first week?
Speaker 13 (11:51):
Oh so good. As you can see. When I scored,
they all jumped over me the arm. They've been so supportive,
They've got behind me and that, and now I've loved
every minute of it. Yeah, I just want to keep
building with the boys and the club.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
You came on at half back, but do you know
what the future holds, what position you might feature it
in the next couple of weeks?
Speaker 13 (12:08):
No, no clue. I thought I was coming on at
locks and no we go. I didn't know, so man,
soo time you go into the halves. So yeah, whatever
Surrow wants, whatever the boys need, I'll do And if
we keep winning like that, I'll do anything.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Will you keep the haircut? Yeah? I like him the
haircut everyone's but no takes.
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Makes your time likey, congratulations, thank.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
You, I appreciate it, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I have to keep his haircut after that when it's his.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Signature. When a dream start. It was for Lachlan Gavin.
Very happy there. But why wouldn't he be. He's first,
you know, his first game in a blue and white
jersey for the Bulldogs. Gets a try and was effective
in the roles that he did play.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Combined really well. You saw Burton and he and as
I said, they didn't train a lot together, and it
was all about connection. But the things that I like,
as Toby Sexton spoke about it, so did the next
man up mentality, Yeah, just.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
They'll do whatever.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He didn't know whether he's going to come on and
play wing center in the back row, wherever he was
going to go.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He had to go there and do his job, and
that's a great mindset.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He the money, he thought he was going to play
lot and Toby had no idea he was going to
play nine. And look at the way they played considering
they didn't even know. It does show where the Bulldogs
are at. It shows how good Cameron Serado is as
a coach, and it shows that they trust him and
they will do anything for him, and they continue to
deliver everywhere.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, look, I want to say this. I have been
a critic of Blacklan Galvin. So I didn't like the
way he walked in to see Benji Marshall or the
manager did with a dossia and all that. But I
just don't like seeing nine one year old kids, you know,
in those sort of situations, and to watch him then
with that great smile, to watch the pile on when
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he scored that try that wasn't happening at the West Test.
I remember his last try at the West Tigers dram low.
I didn't join the pilon because there was obvious it's
really nice to see the kid.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
No concerts has nailed this one.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
It was as Guss now this one mate, there was
a long way to go and there it's going to be.
I said at the start breath there's going to be
enormous fascination about where he fits into this side in
the run hand of the final.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
If you've got to ride not they liked the way
it was handled. I didn't like the whales handled either
and it just you know, there's a bit of a smell.
But LIS's come back. He's playing footy.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
And keep everybody quiet. And that's if he keeps on
going out and playing the way he does.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
I think he'll I think he's young.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And they said a few of the boys when we
interviewed them and said, he's young, you know, And I
think he's probably may regret down the track a few
the ways that he handled certain situations, but he'll he'll
learn from it. But it's still like the playout here, Buzz,
You're right, like this was a great performance and he
did a very good job coming off the bench. The
Bulldogs were starting to dominate that game. They're going to
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come up against some tougher opponents. They're going to come
up against some you know, they've got finals at the
back end of the year, and they've still got to
try and find the best position for him consistently because
they want to have you know, they want they want
to have I suppose they want to gel and have
the right combinations heading into the back end where it's
important in the season.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
So there's still a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
At their draw Brok they got South and a bye
and during Origin. Still they've got Penrith Broncos Cowboys and
they're tough three weeks. But look, as I said, camracks around.
I'm glad I'm not picking Coach of the Year this
year because at the halfway market is impossible to separate him.
And what Ricky Stewart has done with the camber Raiders, I.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Think were Webster's doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
And Andrew Webs, I think we had a glimpset of
the way to play out. I mean I think for me,
long term, me come on the game, the game was
fourteen twelve.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
They're on top. You're right, they're on top.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
I think him playing in the harves with Toby Sex
potentially coming on a hooker or playing spinners Tomin hooker.
I think that's the way it's going to play out,
because that's only going to get better. I mean, I
saw the way Galvin gel with those guys that came
on and a lot of the players.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It was very good.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's the great thing is if they don't know
when it's up in the you and I keep on
fighting for their spot and next man up.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I think it's a mate. I think it's a bonus you.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Can see Lachlan Galvin with his family and friends.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He's celebrating his first game for the Bulldogs with a
winner of paramatter. But going back to that is, yes,
Toby did very well and Lachlan did a great job
when he came on, But you wouldn't think they're going
to leave it that way. But they've got to pick
a seven, and they've got to put either sext And
there or Galvin there for the rest of the year
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at some point, like over the next few weeks. Do
you think that's going to happen there? I think that
will happen.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
You're definitely. I think Galvin will be the long term seven.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I think that's the way I understood what it's going
to play out and just what that means for Toby
Sex and I don't know. It probably depends when Bally
Hayward where he ends up because you can't carry hay.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Who is the four guy?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Then because Reed Marney was pulled off the field didn't
go back on, but you're Bailey Haywood and then you
had Sex and moving into nine, who is the four guy?
Because it looks like they're not going to move their
centers fall back any of that it's going to.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Be one of them.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I think it would come down to form my imagine both.
But at the moment I would have thought, well, I
don't know who it'll be. I can't imagine be Balie
Hayward because it seemed to have big raps on him.
So I think it comes down to either Read or
Read Money or Toby Sex. And I imagine in that
situation probably Toby's one who missed out long term.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But yeah, the other thing, just away from the football
for a sect, the other thing we've got to give
Canterbury a massive wrap for. And you mentioned the top
that crowd of sixty thousand today and I read a
piece last week that the Bulldogs are on the verge,
are becoming the most powerful crowd drawing franchise in New
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South Wales now. For years the Swans have owned that
they get their forty thousand every week at the SCG.
The Dogs have given them a bath this year and
it's been a fantasms are incredible. They had no fans
two years ago, two or three years ago, they were
just the die hard desperates. But they're celebrating this resurgence.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And look down too like the crewdles A really young.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
When you saw all the fans, I don't know if
you saw it on the socialst Fox League or even
on the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Where do they walk from the corps out there? They
from the hotel is you can barely see the ground.
There are just thousands of fans waiting for them to
walk across.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
That's sort of seeing you see in the Premier League.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
And you know why cameon. That was his idea to
do that, and you know why he does it for
these big games. He wants the players to get an
understanding of finals atmosphere. Like a lot of these boys
will never play Origin. They're very good club players, but
having that excitement is going to put him in good stead.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Going back, who is going to be the four guy?
Is it going to be Read Marney?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
No?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
I think it'll be Toby Sex.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And then do you think.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Well, I can't. I can't cope with Toby Sex and
be left out of that side.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is the chief.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Playmaker at the top of the Premiership ladder. If you
if you could find a weakness in that side, it's
probably the ill discipline of Red Marni Baily would could playhooker.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's going to be reads the number nine.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He's a genuine He gives away more penalties, Yeah no,
but sometimes it's at the right time and they're slowing
it down and he does it for He does it
for a reason. I think he is their best number nine,
and I reckon I'll be between sex and and Hayward
to fight it out for the fourteen seven and fourteen Jersey.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Unfore suit looks like sex and may just slide out
of that team. And the fact he didn't even know
he's going to play nine, But I suggest.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You think he's played good enough to get a job
somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I believes that are interested or knocking on the door.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I know particularly that someone like the Titans. I heard
Phil Gold say last week, the day they announced Lachlan
Galvin was coming to the club, Toby Sexton turned up
at Belmore, changed into his training outfit and produced his
best session of the year. He is taking this as
a challenge. I love his attitude.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So do I are the premiership contenders now I've had
We've spoken about.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
This a number of times.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
They keep getting better though, and again with the injection
of Lachlan Galvin, they could take their side to another level.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Now do we have them.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
As genuine Premiership contenders?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
They do? You have it?
Speaker 10 (20:10):
Look both.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I mean I think Galvin, if you can play, be
the player we will think he can be. I think
for me it was Melbourne have been my favorites all
year and I don't think Cannaby has gone past them yet.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Dignipiant there, he.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Said, they've class the sky the majority of the year.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Does this improve that?
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Well, definitely, I think it definitely changes that.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
As I said, I think they lack size.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
But there's guys four or five contenders. Melbourne can could
win the comp. I'll tell you something. The canber Raiders
could win the comp too. The way the Warriors are playing.
Who would write them up.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well because of the way Melbourne had been beaten by
the Dragons, Dolphins beat them the other week and the Sharks.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But your side.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Don't start me on the Storm.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
If I'm Keeren Surrealdo, we'll get to the Sharks of
the later. If I'm yeah, I'm watching that game from
Matt Burton and I'm saying, mate, this is how I
want you to play every week. He rent the ball,
he took the line on, he broke defenders. He threw
off loads, his kicking game was great, and he took
the pressure off sext and he took the pressure and
the focus even off Galven and the rest of the
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team because he was the dominant half and the dominant six.
And that just shows how good he is when he's
at his best.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And you know what, brave. It's another example of the
depth in New South walesh state of origin right now
that Matt Burton cannot even make the extended squad. I
know he's on standby last week, but my goodness, any
other era he's an Origin player.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
What about the Eels now? They have improved out of sight.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I mean they lost the game by eighteen points and
they fell away a little bit at the back end.
They lacked possession and field position in that game, but
they tried so hard and in my eyes, they've come
a long way. I was still impressed with today's performance.
Are up in class I think we'd all agree there,
But where do we see them at the moment?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I really like the way they've built this. At the
beginning of the year, I thought they were a basket case.
Now they're starting to get what Jason Rolls and Nathan
Brown are putting in them. There is they're a bit
light on, like coming off the bench. They didn't have
much impact, but for sixty minutes to be in a
contest against the Dogs in front of that crowd, I
don't reckon that.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
They're building nicely.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, they're a long way off being you know, but
from where they were at the start of the year.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah, well Mitch's back then.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Even with Mitch's kicking game today and I had brand in,
the commentators continue to say it he was kicking out
of his own thirty.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
They forward, they need they thought they need better. They
need more to sign some forwards.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
There's no doubt.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
And the preasure is they've got all this money and
there's an opportunity to find some under replace. Stillan Brown
in mind, you I thought at a very quiet game
today it was quite so. They need to identify that
playmaker who's going to take pressure off Moses and turn
that football side around next year.
Speaker 10 (22:59):
There's a green shoots. They buzzed me.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
It only looks like a really good footballer. I think
Jack William has been a good signing for them. There's
Riley Smith merger this year and looks look he's going
to be a decent player. So there's some green shoots,
but you're right, they need to take some pressure off Mitch.
They need to find a sixth and know they're in
the market for some six Well, the names are out there,
Santon Smith, Jonah Peasant, those sort of guys that they're
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looking at.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
And they need some forwards big time.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
More important than any forwards I think. So who could
they go for? Is there any front rollers?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
And the only thing you can say is they've got
this fabulous junior league now and they had three therefore
junior teams in Grand finals this year, but it's not
going to happen. Next year might be the year after
these SG ball keeps.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
We've heard about their junior league well, as long as
I've been covering league, we've heard about these great more.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Medical than any one of their fairly land big name signature,
more critical than any one, and their management of the cap,
all the clauses they put in it with Moses and
allowed Brown to go.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Mate.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
They've got to land a statement, so.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I bruth, I mean, if I find them, I think
they made a mistake when they chased Lachlan Galvin. They
should offer him Minion dollars straight up and tried to
blow kick Kennibry out of the water.
Speaker 10 (24:12):
They didn't do that. They went around seven.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Fifty and then slightly up to throw them in a
half of pain. Halfs if you got it, and you
mightn't get him, but I understand that buzz, but it's
worth having a go and make him an offer he
can't refuse.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's the problem we got is they've got to try
and attrack the big name player now and are they
in a position to do that?
Speaker 6 (24:30):
And will players want to go there?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Right now?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
They're improving and I don't think they're an unattractive club.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Don't either, but they're not quite where they need to
beat to attract those They're getting there, and I think
Rosie's doing a great job.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
But let's move on to some origin.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Queensland Cage Billy Slater has opened up on his huge
decision to drop Dally Cherry Evans as the Maroons try
and level the series in Perth.
Speaker 14 (24:53):
Yeah, obviously Daily wanted to play and he was disappointed
that he wasn't going to get the opportunity. You won't
hear a negative word from me about Daily Cherry Evans.
What he's given this jersey and what he's done. But yeah,
we just feel that you earn every opportunity to play
in this jersey, and we just feel that Tom Dion
is the opportunity to play in the number seven jersey
(25:15):
and we feel it's the right thing for the footy.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Team both as well.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
And we got seventeen minutes or so in game one.
Speaker 14 (25:20):
Yeah, we just felt that, you know, Kirk Capewell was
doing really well at club level and his actions that
earn'ed an opportunity to come into the team. So we
feel that's the best for the team.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (25:32):
So obviously today, you know, we announced the squad. Teams
don't need to be announced until tomorrow lunchtime, so we'll
make everyone aware of who the captain is tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
What was you thinking about bringing israel Man into the camp.
Speaker 14 (25:44):
Yeah, again, he's the right person for that position right now.
I'm sure people will have their speculation. He's been doing
a great job over the last few weeks since he's returned,
and yeah, we feel that the squad will benefit from
him being here. It was great to see Reese back
playing the way that he was. He he's got a
real spring in his step and real energy about him.
We just feel that the ones that we have at
(26:06):
the moment of the right ones.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And this is a rare position for you as a coach.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
How do you feel?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
How do you approach it?
Speaker 14 (26:12):
As in like you've never lost back to back?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Seal?
Speaker 14 (26:16):
Okay, well, I'm only still pretty new as a coach.
I felt pressure the first day I stood here. It's
a pressure situation, It's a pressure position to be in,
but that pressure is also a privilege.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Billy's bombshell Marion's captain d C. He has been dropped
for game two and Tom did will take he spot
in the number seven Jersey big call possibly, Well, I'd
say Billy Slater's biggest call as a coach.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
I don't even doubt that.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Thoughts on this state and loyalty, Gordy, state of loyalty. Well,
you've dropped your captain. We lost the last and this
has been giving it to us.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
You to where's your captain from last year?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Didn't you captain?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
He's fit for it's fit for games?
Speaker 10 (27:10):
Front roller.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
I remember you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Got pay has, so was Stephen Crichton. You took them
in the camp.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Where's your I remember you guys saying if we had
jakeing our team. Queensland wouldn't drop him because Queensland don't
drop the captains.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Because you guys have.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Said that you won, because you won last we lost DC.
He gets we lost, like he gets the chopping to change.
I give you a lesson in how it works.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
It feels like I've got to give.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
You a letter because your pick and stick when you win.
What you guys have done the past.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
If you've won and dropped blakes, you won last year,
you've won last year.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Your captain of that team was he's fit now he
was lost the front roller.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
He's fit now you lost the front round.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
What you do him ignored?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You won't listen, that's your problem. That's the fact we
won the first game of the series and we're retaining
the side that one the first game.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
The captain.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Backup.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, it's okay to change your captain.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
It's all right. You don't need to get you.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
But you guys always talking about this.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Today we've the only reason to score points, right. I
think we were four and six in the last two games, right,
so we struggled. I think Diedan's a better running threat
and we saw with the Broncos Whenezra Men and Rees.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Walls come back.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
You need a running threat, like you need some unpredictability,
and I think that he might bring and d C.
I think he's been amazing. I think twenty six origins,
he's played a lot of good ones. He won that
series when Dog said it was our worst ever side.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
You do feel sorry for him? Did he did? He
deserve to, But it's where we are at now and
it's a must win.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
That that's really interesting. You say that because he was
sacked on the back of that fantastic game Brookie sat day.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Before he was actually because of the first dat.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Of yeah yeah, last year, just let me finish round
three when he announced he was leaving manly his forms been.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Terrible one week.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Okay, so if you're going to that's if you're going
to drop him, Well, that's probably So.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
That goes back to your first question, where was our
loyalty lord? He was giving him his last shot to
see whether he's still up to it, and we lost them.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Yeah, we yes, we did. Probably made I.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Thought we should have kept him. I'm not stressed.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I said I thought he should have played in game
two because I thought he deserved it, But I understand
why that he's been dropped because the whole concept of loyalty,
you're not law to players and teams that lose. And
we lost our last three games in State of Origin
with Daly there, And you're right, I think his forms
were really inconsistent this year. I would like to have
(29:59):
seen him, but I completely understand why he's been dropped.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
It's a new year. You know, he's getting on in age.
I think we can all we can all agree to that.
And he's still a fine player, if not a great player.
But you've got tom Didn who's just chomping at his heels,
who is looking dangerous, look dangerous at last ten minutes,
very creative, he's fast, you know, he brings a little
bit of unpredictability, but he's also very consistent.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
And his time is now. You know that they nearly
did it in the game one.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That's obvious by them dropping him after game one, and
he's got his opportunity now. It's a changing of the guard.
There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just having a bit
of fun with you. It's just a little you're bagger that.
Speaker 12 (30:37):
Look.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
The bottom line is, if you had to make a
change because the hammers.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
You agree with it now, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But I just can't understand you're banging on bat Lord.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
We are really I said, you gave him a change.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
You didn't even give you a captain two years disloyal.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Don't talk about it.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
You can't give us lessons in life. I'm just trying
to say, you're winning captain. Sitting on the sideline, I'm.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Just trying to say, and you're going to rolls Royce
Center there the hammer right, yes, and he hardly saw
the football in game one and that requires and Robert
Toy didn't get a lot of clean space. And I
think it's fun reason you had to change your heart.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
I'll tell you what the forwards a going to be?
You know, like this is what happens in Origin.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
It's always the six and seven and if you lose,
it's it's the bulls eye on six and seven.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Now and looks at the forwards.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
How many meters they rent on, how fact they were,
but that we all know that we Gordon, the forwards
have got to do as you man, surprise call up
into the squad.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
How do we take this and are we happy or not?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Look he's part of the extended squad. He's not playing.
I understand why they brought him in because he's part
of the future. I think long term he'll be part
of the plan. It's not a great look, so I
understand why people are upset with the breath.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Why isn't it a good look?
Speaker 10 (31:50):
Well, given what's happened Gordian.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Hold On system, Yeah, I understand right hit him with
the punishment. The game was way harsh, Sharon.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, but look then, I can the CEO of the
Queens and Rugby League and Billy Slater have not read
the room under these circumstances. So when he ran onto Brookie,
the entire crowd bood him.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
He there too.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
He is very very lucky to be playing NRL football
this year, very lucky through.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
The crime again. But has he served his punishment?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
No, I think, I think, and we've had to wear
him coming back to play n RL this year. The
n r L made the mistake there, so did the Broncos.
But to put him on the highest stage of our
game show piece, extendard bench or not, I don't blame
the fans.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Don't blame he's he's playing the game. He should be
but he's not going to play. Sued so off field
discretions to stop you from any games.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
This was the most serious off field in discretion for
a very long period of time, driving with drugs and
Drek and his system and putting a little girl into hospital.
He does not deserve to be any part of Origin
this year, that's my view.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
So you can play a game but not get the
rewards from it.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
In this situation, I think he was entitled to a
greater punishment. I would have been happy if he didn't play.
I'm not saying that God once surprised Ben, Aicken of
all people, so spart, so clever, has not read the
fans on this occasion.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Once the NRL gave him the sanction he was given
and he's clear for Origin. I don't think he's playing
the q r L.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
It's their team, but.
Speaker 10 (33:53):
The last two weeks in the NRL, the q r
L he's on the extended be Do you think.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Q r L understands the fan outrage that he's even
playing for the this year?
Speaker 10 (34:06):
You have to be head in your sand not to
understand it.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
He's usually got leglessly go under the fans up yours.
Speaker 10 (34:13):
Do you think they're only concerns the Queensland fans.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Bus will he playing?
Speaker 10 (34:16):
In the Queensland fans, I don't think it's an issue.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
For them will he play? So you're saying he's not
going to play, he's just an extended squad. Well, that's
my understanding. But if you actually look, there's an injury, what.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
You're in the week, maybe he comes in. Then maybe
yeah he does because in the extend it's not a good.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Look for rugularly, if you think about it, if they're
not going to play, it's a fair point you may
why even sort of expose him to that at this
point in his career if he's not going to play.
If he's going to play, it's probably different. But if
he's not going to play, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
If they pick him, the same situation flaming.
Speaker 10 (34:50):
But fans do you think do you think queens And
fans are upset about him being selected?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I haven't.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I haven't had a look at the reaction today you've
asked me. From my opinion, that is my opinion. He's
very lucky to be playing for the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
It is not his You make all valid points, not
his fault.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Well, the game should have come down harder on him,
but if he's playing in the NRL, he deserves to
get selected.
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