Catch up on all the Rugby League news from NRL 360, Tuesday 22nd of April, with hosts Braith Anasta and Gorden Tallis.
The NRL 360 panel breaks down Benji's choice to bring Lachie Galvin back into the team, does Cody Walker still have a future with Souths beyond this year, and should Ben Hunt be moved to hooker.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to three sixty league from every angle joining me
in the great Gordon Tallas. Let's bring the general Australian,
Poor Crawley and Dean Ritchie and guess who's back? Galvin
recalled and set for an intense reception at Leichhardobal Gordy
back into the team.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, smart decision obviously last week with all the emotions around,
put Hingm back just to stay away from a bit
of noise. But he's back in and hopefully he does
well and in front of his home fans, I think,
which is a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's a circus though we went through all this pain
last week. We had consultations between the coach and the
senior players. They made the hard call to get him
out of the side because he wasn't buying into the
club culture and this one club approach which they keep
thrusting upon us. And five six days later they've now
gone back to where we were in the first place.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
So what was all the pain for?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Darted off on a bad foot dog because I don't
agree with what you said. I think last week they
had no choice. But what's changed, Well, a lot of
things have changed.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Mate.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Last week there was all the emotion, there was the
media intensity and the microscope the players who were obviously upset.
Galvin probably wasn't in the best headspace to be picked.
I think this week it comes down to the fact,
do the Digers want to play semi final football this year?
Do they want to win games? If they do, Lachlan
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Galvin is in their state.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
How to train and work this week? Then, given the circumstances,
like how do you as a head coach or even
as a teammate, like, how does it work? I'll come
to you as an ex player and we sort of
spoke about it last night. How does it work? I mean,
how can it get through the week and prepare for
this properly?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I never liked all my teammates. I didn't have to
love them, but you've got to respect them and trust them.
And I think that'll be the job for Benji Marshall
this week. And I'm sure the senior players should walk
over and it's a reception. I think it's the senior
player's job to walk over to the young kid and
put their arm around him.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
God, you didn't like some of your teammates, but they
didn't go on social media. You didn't have it back then,
mind you, and have diggers at him, And they didn't
go to the coach behind your back and say we
don't want you in the site.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So it's a totally different scenario to what you went through.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And I just can't work out how this bloke can
possibly be in the team when his teammates have been so.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Publicly and vehemently against him playing.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I think when I looked at what Jerome Lewis posted
last week, team first, to me, I didn't see that
as bullying.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I saw that as as Alvin.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I saw it personally as a mark of respect for
his coach.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
He was standing up for his coach.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He'd been criticized and he said, if you disrespect our coach,
you disrespect us. In that instant, I really believed what
Leui did wasn't bullying. It was standing up for his coach.
But now, as the team leader, he has to pull
these blokes together and if he truly believes and I
wrote him a column today, if he truly believes in
team first culture, well then that's about bringing this bloke
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back into the team and finding a way to win
football games. As a leader, he has to find a
way to make this work, broth It's a better.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Question for you because I was in the forwards. I
just had one job to do. You got to run
the team and bark them around.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it's a big job for jerom. I just can't
imagine it. I cannot imagine it, I said last night.
I know a lot of people were like yourself, Crawls
and some highly respect to people said, you've got to
play your best team. You've got to get him back
in you want to make the finals. But the most
successful teams are the ones that get along the best
and have the best culture and camaraderie and love each other,
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like you don't win premierships not liking the boat next
to you. And like I said it last night, he's
actually suing it. He's suing the club and it's for
the actionsmates.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Do you think that he'd be back in the team
if the legal and it wasn't? Said?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well was it lid com obile yet that new?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
So?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, it's cup game and he had a modest performance
at best. He defended on the left wing, a couple
of kicks here and there.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
His side were well beaten.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To be fair, I was actually yes, that's why no
one got through it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I couldn't see the face in the air, that's why
in disguise.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But he wasn't brought back based on this game, so
it wasn't through merit or form.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So why was he brought back? Is it due to
these legal implications? He has been in good form throughout
the year, though he has And because when.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He said it yesterday, Broth, I watched the show last
night and you said last night would the Tigers? Would
it have been a different result if Galvin had played?
And I guess that's the question that you asked. Could
it have been a different result that was good?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Watching that form, you'd say no.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Because the week Look what it's done to day Cherry
Evans he had thirty seven's And.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's a question mark too, Gordy. Look, no one knows
the true answer. And I'll tell you what I also
find interesting when they play on Sunday is watching the
interaction twin the players, Like you know, you see all
the players if someone does something good and they all
come diving over the top of each other.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I remember years the things that the players will be
worried about.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But will the players remember when Cherry Evans was going
through his dramas at Manly and that, and he was
playing with the Stewart Boys and whatmo on that, And
there were moments on the field where you could dead
set see the tension between them, especially when DC might
have done something good. And I'll be interested to see
what the reaction is on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think they like going back to the game and
the reason why they lost. I think they would have
been better off playing Loui at seven, you know, and
control on the whole game and kicking the majority of
the kicks. I think, you know, do we just I
don't see him as a seven at all, a six
at best. I see more as a center, and I
think that cost him a couple of his short kicks
and game management in big moments. You know, if Leui
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had just said, you know, you've got the team, You've
got the ball, take us to where you want and
be on the ball twenty four to seven, I think
they would have maybe even won that game. But just
to RuvA, like you talk about the the players and
the posts and all that, he let the emotion get
the better of him on Monday. That was obvious. How's
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he going to do with this week? He could tell
that he had a be in his bonnet about I
don't know was it about Galvin directly? Was it that
they wanted to prove everyone wrong and think that and
prove everyone that they could win without him?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
He's been lippy all year, But come on, Mike, he did.
He's on the fielding lip and he has that.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Immy, this went one step too far and the emotion
did get the better of him.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I see what you're saying, I really do.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And and the camaraderie, but amongst the great teams, you know,
that's what makes them very special. But I do think
in this instance, like I think the Tigers fans have
been through so much in recent years that if anyone
can pull him together, it has to be Jerome and
a happy because Benji, like they backed the coach last week,
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and if the coaches made a call this week to
bring him back in the side, surely you've got to
back the cake, do you.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So? With this legal stench in the air, what about
it training?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What about if there's a g up?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
What about if they have a dig at Galvin for
dropping a ball?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Any little side issue that the players say is that
now going to end up as evidence?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Is that over the top. Is it possible and will
they be told?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
No matter what.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Happens, to keep your mouth.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You couldn't even talk with the pres com. There you go,
it could. As I've said the last couple of weeks,
his management has been agitating for an early release. Well,
I believe I think most people. If you put two
and two together, then that's what it seems to be.
What's going to happen next? Will the Tigers stay strong
here or will he get his release?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think I think the Tigers. I think most people
in rugby league are hoping the Tigers do stay strong.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Look, we are only surmising.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We talk people from other clubs and they want to
They want to see the Tigers stand their digs on this.
They want to see its true, and I truly they do.
We don't know, like we hear secondhand information. No one
truly knows other than the agent and the officials at
the Club's.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Going on the Tigers today, that they're going to do
their hills in.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And if they've got if they've done nothing wrong, if
these claims are bullying, like you have to look at
the definition of bullying.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The definition of bullying.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Is repeated intimidation or using tactics to bring someone down
and cause distress is what we saw last week.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's not the definition of bullying. There's a one off incidence.
So it has this been going on.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
For some You don't like a post, that doesn't mean
that it's bulliing.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's not bullying.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Because you don't like.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Someone's actions, It doesn't mean it's bullying. But I hope,
I hope, and I've been strong on this. I have
that every club and the game, like I have the
NRL stand behind the Tigers here, well.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
The Tigers the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
If the Tigers, the Tigers are to their fans too
Gordy like, if they have done nothing wrong, then they
have to see this through. And if there's going to
be a court case, which I don't believe we'll get there,
but if there's going to be, they have to stick
by him. If they've got this kid for three hundred
thousand dollars for the rest of this year and the
rest of next day, you keep him.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Absolutely the fans want ing there.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That's a good question because I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Again they're on socials with mice just through contact to
me through the Tigers fans is what. They don't want
him there.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I'll tell you what. If he goes out and plays
really good this week they were wanting there. If he
plays no.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Good, that's judge jury and execution or winning.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We all want him to stay there and play well and.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Want Look, he's got a contract, and I'm all for
a contract. We should always honor contracts. It's one thing
we don't do well in rugby league. But if he
doesn't want to be there, the players don't want him there,
he's suing the club for goodness sake.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What is the point of keeping him there? What is
the benefit?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Like, how do you know the players don't want him there?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
God, they got rid of him last week. They consultation,
they said, we don't want him in our side.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I think this week will tell us kind of where
he's at and where the team's at. Like, if he
responds well this weekend, goes out there and plays really well,
they get a win and you can see that they've
kind of mended a little bit, then I'm willing to
lean on the way of definitely keeping him. You know,
because you watch that game on Monday that they could
have won, still winded you, but you watch it and
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you see how frustrated the players were, You see how
the emotions got the better of them. You see the fans,
and you can see their season falling away off the
back of this, like you can like this is a
big drama. It's exhausted a lot of energy. And we
talk about the Tigers and how far they've come and
the start of this season, the promise that it showed
season twenty twenty five, and you just don't want it
to crumble and that could happen, you know, either way here, But.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Like, which would they be a more harmonious club without
all the media scrutiny and all these headlines which will
be flushing up here right now if he left the club?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Answer is yes, we might take that away.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And this club's been a punching bag. They've been at
the bottom. And if you don't stand for anything, you'll
never stand for any.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
But let me tea you something.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The media and the speculation, and you know, because if
he leaves, it doesn't go away, the media, the headlines
don't go away. It'll be then life after. There will
be pressure on Benji. If they're not performing, it'll be
who they're going to buy next. How do they feel
the void like this ain't and they've got three wooden
spoons in a row like this. They're used their headlines,
but the headlines aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And that's the other thing in this when we talk
about Benji bringing Galvin back, because his career rides on
this too, Like he's he's been dragged down in the
gutter in recent days, the allegations and the claims against
him as you know, not being a good coach for
this young guy, like that's a real attack on his credibility.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I feel free a really good.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Job the teams.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The team's been playing well, but you know what if
it all fall apart?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Now break through one hundred percent, right, that becomes the
next storyline, the only the coaches can So why would
you even on the weekend on Monday when when they
lost to Paramatta, And are you saying that you're then
going to give Paramata a gun player to make them
a better team and make your club worse. If you
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work at an employment place, you don't want to be there,
your colleagues don't want you to be there, but yet
other people are saying you should stay.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You'd be saying screw that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I don't want to be if it's better for everybody, if.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I move along, I think if the Tigers were in
a position of power and they are a successful, strong club.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You probably maybe consider that they should get I agree with.
If you want to stand for something, stand for something, mates,
stick to this.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Eight players or whatever? Teddy all those guys, it's going
to keep on happening. When are the Tigers going to
stand up for their fans?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You know what they get in a return of three
and a thousand dollars play?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
No, and they've got one now that's probably worth I
think the money was too much. I think he's a
six hundred third all of player and the only one
that can turn it around, in my opinion, is Lucky
Galvinavigo's out there kickcase. If he rips in the team
will go with him.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's a fascinating one. Watched his space. It's not going
anywhere anytime soon. Now the Bulldogs are no longer in
the race. Does this mean that the paramatter ills are
a dollar one?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That's certainly the mail through rugby league.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I think you'll find a few clubs have already come forth, brother,
as you say saying we don't want him manly the Bulldogs.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I'm never quite sure with Gus. You know, he's the
master manipulator. He has said, well publicly, why have they
pulled out?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I don't like this to happen to them.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Possibly or they don't feel he would be a fit
at their club positionally, But I'm never quite sure with Gus.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
But certainly paramatter is the club.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Jason Rowls has gone on the record yet again on
Fox League yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So we want I said last night the Dogs were
interested in because I've heard that they were, and even
after the show last night, I had a few interesting
texts saying that they definitely were interested from very good sources.
They were interested. But I hate to say it, but
the reason they didn't was because of the situation and
the management that was that was what I heard.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So are you're suggesting that the Bulldogs don't want to
deal with Isaac Moses?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, they read between the lines Bulldog. Yeah, that's pretty
much what I just said. I don't like Again, it's
not me targeting him and his management, but that's what
I heard, and that's from good sources.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Within that, there's also the stain now and you can't
deny this. There is a stain on Lachland Galvin's reputation
as a result of this. You would imagine we well,
we talk about his own teammate. Is it more on
Isaac Moses but Doggie, we talk about his own teammates,
the kids wanting to play with him. If he goes
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across to the Dogs and you've got guys like Stephen
Crichton and Matt Burton and that who would have been
mates with Leuyan and Tuva at.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Penrif does that go with him?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You know?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Does that?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Does that go with and I reckon it? Does it
goes with Lachland Galvin for some time? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Does his manager have to walk around with a security guard?
But he put the young kid in a situation where
he's going to play rugby league and he needed a
security guard. The last young kid I've witnessed in my
short time in the media to have a fall out
with the senior players, as Jackson Hastings, the last guy
that's got there a bit more of an ego thought
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the Roosters. He's fallen out of all of his clubs
and where is he now? I hope this doesn't smell
this kid, and do you know who wears that? Jackson Hastings.
The kid wears it, not the manager.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Fair point, fair point. Right, Let's get to the rest
of the sports Bet team selections for Round eight and
cobbos which is the fullback for Wall shout with that
knee injury for the Broncos kright in the beginn for
the Roosters from that growing injury, Young is dropped for
that Anzac Day game against the Dragons. Mitchell moves to
full back and Gray to the bench for the Bunny's
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Chaboievich much anticipated return for the mainly see this boy,
don't they need him? And Galvin if you didn't know,
he's been recalled back into the Tigers team at five eighth.
But the big one n Crawls Latrell Mitchell, He's been
moved back to fullback, and Young Ji Gray, who has
been on fire their best player all year, he's back
to the bench.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I said in McCollum, I think this has Bennett's biggest
decision since he returned to South because Ji Gray has
been their best player all year, but Latrell is their
best player. And I think if you watched Latrell on
the weekend and last week as well, and even in
his first game back against the Roosters, he hasn't been
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crash off. He come up with a couple of flukey
plays against the Roosters. He was average last week and
this week I thought he was disappointing. Wayne has to
find a way to get him interested.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I tell you his best position.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
He's going to get interested if he's back there. You
want to put on a good pair of joggers, He's
going to do some kilometers.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, you know what, Gordy, We've been talking about his
fitness all year and he hasn't show on the weekend.
At the start of that game, early on, he was
coming out of his own end and he threw a
ridiculous silly off flow that led to the ball an
early try to the Bulldogs. And from that moment on, Mate,
it just changed the game and he was you know,
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he got moved from five to eight out to center
quite and owned him.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Like in previous years, that was a.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Challenge that would have lifted Latrell going up against a
heavyweight opponent, but in this game, it was like he
didn't want to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I think Wayne made the core.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
When Latrell returned from injury, he's our best fullback, and
when we get players back from injury and all that
sort of stuff, we're going to put him back there.
I think after what we saw on the weekend, he
had to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
He was always going to be the long term fullback.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Wayne has said that multiple times over his stint at South. Look, look,
I didn't have a problem with throwing at six. It's
a free throw at the stumps. Latrell complaining position. Has
it worked probably not? Was it worth a crack? Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I didn't a problems. They had to reenforced, but I
thought it's worth having a crack.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, he needs he just needs to stand up this
week because to be selected over Gray, you know the
way that he's playing, and to take that asset. You
know that the the house have had all year that
the guy who's been there best consistently by a long way,
by a long way to move him back to the bench.
She was leading the daily ams and he just got
picked this week. It's he needs. He just needs to
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stand up and deliver.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He needs Stage two, hasn't he taking on a wounded
storm in Melbourne? Who the Bunnies I'm not sure exactly
what the record is, but they have a shocking record
against down there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It's a danger game for the Bunnies because Bennett looks
to the fire history with a rare win over Bellamy
and look at this forty two games overall, thirty two
losses at a win rate of twenty three point eight
percent in Melbourne. It gets worse only nineteen percent win
rate for Ben and over Bellamy. And it gets even
worse when we go further, we go down on Coming. Yeah,
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it's last thirteen games, thirteen wins and Souths haven't won
in Melbourne since nineteen ninety nine. This is this is
a huge hoodoo.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yeah, this is magic Dusty old man, he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Had down there And this is this is where, like
you know last week against the Bulldogs, in the big games,
that's where you need your big players to stand up.
And arguably their two most disappointing players last week was
Latrell and Cody.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Cody had a shock of two.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, he denies that Cody was hooked last week.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Made he maintains he wasn't hooked. He said what he
said to me, He said he had a hamstrings. He's
come back from a hamstring problem. Late in the game
is where you're likely to get that, and that's why
he thought, well, look we're not going to win game.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
It was I think at that point. Yeah, it was
about twenty six nil. But look, let's face it, he
was terrible. I thought he was hooked.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
He's off contract next year. Where are they with him?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
He'll be resigned, resigned, He'll be resigned.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's all you got for a to be a one
year deal, possibly with a second year option. I have
old Cody now thirty two thirty five five. If I'll
be I'd say to be more of a one year
deal with a second year option.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You know we'll get that. I was in the thirties.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I mean two.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Thirty five thirty very don't count made it thirty six months.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
At this stage.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I thought Cody had a pretty disappointing year last year.
Yes he had injuries, but he was disappointing. He's been
solid to start the season. I wouldn't say he's been great.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
It does away too, doesn't he have yourself?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
This will South Sydney be a better team in twenty
twenty six when Cody Walker is thirty six and he's
still their main playmaker, like or do they need to
start looking and planning for the future.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I think what they'll do is rewarding through loyalty, and
they'll definitely signed him on at least the one year deal,
and I think he deserves that. But it's a very
good question that you ask, Like, that's a tough one,
and that's that's a big decision for him to make,
probably in twelve months. I think if he asked for
it to year deal, that would make it very interesting
whether they do it or not.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I just look at the souse at the moment. Aren't
quote with the elite.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So you disagree with calls, you just think sign him
on you you.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Certainly resign him. He's still an elite player.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't forget Cody didn't really establish himself in thenner
all til he was twenty seven, So he's got a
few years left in him that others don't have because
of wearing that made you can't play to year one
hundred just because you started at twenty six. He doesn't
have the wear and tear on his body that others do.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
He's played a fair bit of foot. Are you saying
you should he injuried.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Now, mate, No, I look, I'm not saying he's not
a good player, but if you want to be a
premiership contender, I'm not certain Souths are going to be
in a greater spot.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
This time next year if he remains their main man.
That's all I'm saying. You're dismissing el play. I'm not
dismissing him made.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I'm saying at the moment, at the moment, I don't
consider sous up with the top four teams and do
you want to get there? Like look at Melbourne's helves
at the moment You've got Jerome Hughes and Cameron Munster.
You go to Penrifoll, they've got Nathan They've lost your own.
The top teams have good playmakers.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
And who's the best one. I don't think thirty six, mate,
is where you're bus replace that. There's no point getting
rid of them. Have you got no one better to
come in?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Look there not yet?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You've got luck on Gavant on the market.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Or do you know?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying I know nothing.
That's just me throwing there.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Are good young players out there, That's what I'm saying,
I just wonder, after what we've seen so far, if
he's worthy of a new contract.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We won't need to get you a calculating to all
right now, the good news. The good news is for
sus Storm coming off a big last no Grant Hughes
seems he wounded.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Its not good news for this house. Yeah, that's not
good news. Melbourne stim coming off a lost. I said
last week, you know, like the only problem was Melbourne
was so dominant against Manly that they had put the
Q on the rack and this here to lose the
Redcliffe up there. The way they lost, I think it
would have been a horrible week down there. And and
Melbourne don't lose too like, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Melbourne had some bad luck in that game too, Like
I know, Look, the Dolphins were wonderful coming back and winning.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
But they went in without Harry.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
They lost howarth early didn't they like it sort of
shut coats down and there's.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
A clearly show how important Harry is the Storm. Without Harry,
they come back.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
To the feet wried about it. I won't be worried
about him. They look wounded, you know, like Jerame's had.
He's had injuries for a couple of years now against
his shoulder, he's you know, he looked a bit sluggish,
you know, not like he's a great player, don't get
me wrong, but he's carrying an injury, you know. And
then they don't sort of they've been dropping off at
the back end of games. Thought that was because they'd
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won the previous ones and just kind of put the
Q in the rack. And then on the weekend, you know,
they didn't have that depth. They didn't have Harry out there,
so they couldn't then rely on on that lead that
they did have, and in games like coming up against
the Souse team who were desperate trying to you know,
end that who do and Wayne trying to sprinkle his
magic dust, they'll be fired up the trail back to fullback.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
They didn't just fall away in this game, fell apart.
They got that.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
They've got a point, said Broth. Are they the Premiership
favorites in your eyes?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
They were?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I still have them there. Now this week's a
big week, you know, and how these experienced players in
key positions get through the year with major setbacks like
they've had so far. Because the whole thing about Melbourne,
why they are short is because not only formed, but
they had they were healthy in key positions. They're nine, six,
seven and one. For the first time in a long
time ra aw fline. All of a sudden, you know,
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two have sort of gone down and how do they
respond to that and are they premiership favorites. That's the
big question over the next few week now Patrick carrying
in Australia, any support behind ben Hunt moving to hooker
as the Bronco is prepared for the return of Mezra Man.
Obviously we saw ben Hunt get shifted to nine.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Do you think I'm saying that potetiically signal Ez?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Maybe Es has been working hard.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's got a couple of weeks left.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
But it does played nine at international level, let alone
at club level here, and I know that z has
been training bloody hard here so forgets the opportunity to
come back in when he does, I'm sure if you're ready.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He's a great kid.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Made he made a mistake, he owned it and I
don't think there's any sugarcoating that. But as a person
and having the opportunity to grow with him since he
come into the club at seventeen, I know what you
know this club means to him, but his community and
you know, being a role model for young kids and
young Aberige and Torres Schedlander kids. So I know he
would have been hurting and he's learned a lot of
lessons and coming NA stand beside him and are really
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excited for him to come and do his thing again.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's some big decisions to be made by Mirk McGuire
up in Brisbane over the next few weeks, with Ezra
men set to return in a couple of weeks. Ben
Hunt having close to the worst game I've ever seen
him playing the weekend. I felt sorry for him. You know,
that's not a dig. It just wasn't very good. What
do they do? What's going to happen? Where have you
got him at the moment? Cross?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Oh look, I thought, yeah, Hunt was terrible on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I thought the decision to move him into dummy half
during the match kind of strange. And Billy Waters goes
out to play five to eight. You know, you've got
four hookers in the club and Ben Hunt's moving there,
and I know I know that we probably saw this
as something that might happen down the track when Ezra
was coming back but I thought to myself, I wondered,
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is that the first cracks that appear here? Because Hunt
has made it known throughout his career. Even though he
loves playing dummy half at Origin level, as a club football, he.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Sees himself as a half back or.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
A half yep.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And I think we just saw the fact that when
Ezra does return.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Look when you're playing for Coins and you're put on,
when you're playing for Australia just to get it on
the side, you'll put on any number. But when it
comes to club I think Ben Hunt thinks that he's half.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
The worrying part was Ben Hunt's body language. He's waving
his arms around. He looked totally rattled. For a senior player,
you don't normally expect that. But I think there was
a bad pass. He didn't chase the boat that picked
up the ball. There was the dummy half and he
went to throw to Adam Reynolds for the match winning
the field goal.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
He fumbled that, but it wasn't so much the mistakes.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
We all make mistakes, but this is the bit I'm
talking about, waving his arms around, remonstrating with the referee.
He just lost his way badly for a bloke who's
had so much experience, it's quite up.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Only a couple of weeks ago it was like, where's Ezra,
We're going to fit him in. He will be fourteen now,
all of a sudden, now it's like within a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I haven't reckon though, Like even even the Broncos have
been hot and cold. They've lost their last two, but
even before that they were going pretty good. But has
Reese Walsh really lit up the field like he has
when I've been thinking to himself for some time he's
missed Ezra, you know, like I think Walsh hasn't been
as good without his little mate there when.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
He had that injury at PCL, which you know we
thought it looked like core, but he was justified in
the end because he struggled all a game with that.
So that's why he struggled on the weekend. But all
year he hasn't been oh in years.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
And then so now after two defeats, they take on
the Bulldogs who were unbeaten, and who I reckon will
go into this game with a point to prove because
I think it is the bulldogs only defeat this year
was in a trial match, and when we saw that
trial match, the Broncos man handled him. At that point,
I thought the dogs aren't going to look. Have they
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got the manpower to aim up to these big teams?
I reckon they'll go up there with the point approved.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
A bit of pressure on Madge up there after the
last couple of weeks, no doubt about that. Now, you guys,
stick around and and Zac Day on Fox League will
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Break three jury play with coverage from three pm on
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Welcome to three sixty league from every angle joining me
in the great Gordon Tallas. Let's bring the general Australian,
Poor Crawley and Dean Ritchie and guess who's back? Galvin
recalled and set for an intense reception at Leichhardobal Gordy
back into the team.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, smart decision obviously last week with all the emotions around,
put Hingm back just to stay away from a bit
of noise. But he's back in and hopefully he does
well and in front of his home fans, I think,
which is a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's a circus though we went through all this pain
last week. We had consultations between the coach and the
senior players. They made the hard call to get him
out of the side because he wasn't buying into the
club culture and this one club approach which they keep
thrusting upon us. And five six days later they've now
gone back to where we were in the first place.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
So what was all the pain for?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Darted off on a bad foot dog because I don't
agree with what you said. I think last week they
had no choice. But what's changed, Well, a lot of
things have changed.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Mate.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Last week there was all the emotion, there was the
media intensity and the microscope the players who were obviously upset.
Galvin probably wasn't in the best headspace to be picked.
I think this week it comes down to the fact,
do the Digers want to play semi final football this year?
Do they want to win games? If they do, Lachlan
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Galvin is in their state.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
How to train and work this week? Then, given the circumstances,
like how do you as a head coach or even
as a teammate, like, how does it work? I'll come
to you as an ex player and we sort of
spoke about it last night. How does it work? I mean,
how can it get through the week and prepare for
this properly?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I never liked all my teammates. I didn't have to
love them, but you've got to respect them and trust them.
And I think that'll be the job for Benji Marshall
this week. And I'm sure the senior players should walk
over and it's a reception. I think it's the senior
player's job to walk over to the young kid and
put their arm around him.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
God, you didn't like some of your teammates, but they
didn't go on social media. You didn't have it back then,
mind you, and have diggers at him, And they didn't
go to the coach behind your back and say we
don't want you in the site.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So it's a totally different scenario to what you went through.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
And I just can't work out how this bloke can
possibly be in the team when his teammates have been so.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Publicly and vehemently against him playing.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I think when I looked at what Jerome Lewis posted
last week, team first, to me, I didn't see that
as bullying.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I saw that as as Alvin.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I saw it personally as a mark of respect for
his coach.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
He was standing up for his coach.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He'd been criticized and he said, if you disrespect our coach,
you disrespect us. In that instant, I really believed what
Leui did wasn't bullying. It was standing up for his coach.
But now, as the team leader, he has to pull
these blokes together and if he truly believes and I
wrote him a column today, if he truly believes in
team first culture, well then that's about bringing this bloke
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back into the team and finding a way to win
football games. As a leader, he has to find a
way to make this work, broth It's a better.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Question for you because I was in the forwards. I
just had one job to do. You got to run
the team and bark them around.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it's a big job for jerom. I just can't
imagine it. I cannot imagine it, I said last night.
I know a lot of people were like yourself, Crawls
and some highly respect to people said, you've got to
play your best team. You've got to get him back
in you want to make the finals. But the most
successful teams are the ones that get along the best
and have the best culture and camaraderie and love each other,
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like you don't win premierships not liking the boat next
to you. And like I said it last night, he's
actually suing it. He's suing the club and it's for
the actionsmates.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Do you think that he'd be back in the team
if the legal and it wasn't? Said?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well was it lid com obile yet that new?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
So?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, it's cup game and he had a modest performance
at best. He defended on the left wing, a couple
of kicks here and there.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
His side were well beaten.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
To be fair, I was actually yes, that's why no
one got through it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I couldn't see the face in the air, that's why
in disguise.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But he wasn't brought back based on this game, so
it wasn't through merit or form.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So why was he brought back? Is it due to
these legal implications? He has been in good form throughout
the year, though he has And because when.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He said it yesterday, Broth, I watched the show last
night and you said last night would the Tigers? Would
it have been a different result if Galvin had played?
And I guess that's the question that you asked. Could
it have been a different result that was good?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Watching that form, you'd say no.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Because the week Look what it's done to day Cherry
Evans he had thirty seven's And.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's a question mark too, Gordy. Look, no one knows
the true answer. And I'll tell you what I also
find interesting when they play on Sunday is watching the
interaction twin the players, Like you know, you see all
the players if someone does something good and they all
come diving over the top of each other.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I remember years the things that the players will be
worried about.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But will the players remember when Cherry Evans was going
through his dramas at Manly and that, and he was
playing with the Stewart Boys and whatmo on that, And
there were moments on the field where you could dead
set see the tension between them, especially when DC might
have done something good. And I'll be interested to see
what the reaction is on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think they like going back to the game and
the reason why they lost. I think they would have
been better off playing Loui at seven, you know, and
control on the whole game and kicking the majority of
the kicks. I think, you know, do we just I
don't see him as a seven at all, a six
at best. I see more as a center, and I
think that cost him a couple of his short kicks
and game management in big moments. You know, if Leui
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had just said, you know, you've got the team, You've
got the ball, take us to where you want and
be on the ball twenty four to seven, I think
they would have maybe even won that game. But just
to RuvA, like you talk about the the players and
the posts and all that, he let the emotion get
the better of him on Monday. That was obvious. How's
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he going to do with this week? He could tell
that he had a be in his bonnet about I
don't know was it about Galvin directly? Was it that
they wanted to prove everyone wrong and think that and
prove everyone that they could win without him?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
He's been lippy all year, But come on, Mike, he did.
He's on the fielding lip and he has that.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Immy, this went one step too far and the emotion
did get the better of him.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I see what you're saying, I really do.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
And and the camaraderie, but amongst the great teams, you know,
that's what makes them very special. But I do think
in this instance, like I think the Tigers fans have
been through so much in recent years that if anyone
can pull him together, it has to be Jerome and
a happy because Benji, like they backed the coach last week,
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and if the coaches made a call this week to
bring him back in the side, surely you've got to
back the cake, do you.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So? With this legal stench in the air, what about
it training?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What about if there's a g up?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
What about if they have a dig at Galvin for
dropping a ball?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Any little side issue that the players say is that
now going to end up as evidence?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Is that over the top. Is it possible and will
they be told?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
No matter what.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Happens, to keep your mouth.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You couldn't even talk with the pres com. There you go,
it could. As I've said the last couple of weeks,
his management has been agitating for an early release. Well,
I believe I think most people. If you put two
and two together, then that's what it seems to be.
What's going to happen next? Will the Tigers stay strong
here or will he get his release?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I think I think the Tigers. I think most people
in rugby league are hoping the Tigers do stay strong.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Look, we are only surmising.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We talk people from other clubs and they want to
They want to see the Tigers stand their digs on this.
They want to see its true, and I truly they do.
We don't know, like we hear secondhand information. No one
truly knows other than the agent and the officials at
the Club's.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Going on the Tigers today, that they're going to do
their hills in.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And if they've got if they've done nothing wrong, if
these claims are bullying, like you have to look at
the definition of bullying.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The definition of bullying.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Is repeated intimidation or using tactics to bring someone down
and cause distress is what we saw last week.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's not the definition of bullying. There's a one off incidence.
So it has this been going on.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
For some You don't like a post, that doesn't mean
that it's bulliing.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's not bullying.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Because you don't like.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Someone's actions, It doesn't mean it's bullying. But I hope,
I hope, and I've been strong on this. I have
that every club and the game, like I have the
NRL stand behind the Tigers here, well.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
The Tigers the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
If the Tigers, the Tigers are to their fans too
Gordy like, if they have done nothing wrong, then they
have to see this through. And if there's going to
be a court case, which I don't believe we'll get there,
but if there's going to be, they have to stick
by him. If they've got this kid for three hundred
thousand dollars for the rest of this year and the
rest of next day, you keep him.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Absolutely the fans want ing there.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That's a good question because I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Again they're on socials with mice just through contact to
me through the Tigers fans is what. They don't want
him there.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I'll tell you what. If he goes out and plays
really good this week they were wanting there. If he
plays no.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Good, that's judge jury and execution or winning.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
We all want him to stay there and play well and.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Want Look, he's got a contract, and I'm all for
a contract. We should always honor contracts. It's one thing
we don't do well in rugby league. But if he
doesn't want to be there, the players don't want him there,
he's suing the club for goodness sake.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What is the point of keeping him there? What is
the benefit?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Like, how do you know the players don't want him there?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
God, they got rid of him last week. They consultation,
they said, we don't want him in our side.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I think this week will tell us kind of where
he's at and where the team's at. Like, if he
responds well this weekend, goes out there and plays really well,
they get a win and you can see that they've
kind of mended a little bit, then I'm willing to
lean on the way of definitely keeping him. You know,
because you watch that game on Monday that they could
have won, still winded you, but you watch it and
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you see how frustrated the players were, You see how
the emotions got the better of them. You see the fans,
and you can see their season falling away off the
back of this, like you can like this is a
big drama. It's exhausted a lot of energy. And we
talk about the Tigers and how far they've come and
the start of this season, the promise that it showed
season twenty twenty five, and you just don't want it
to crumble and that could happen, you know, either way here, But.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Like, which would they be a more harmonious club without
all the media scrutiny and all these headlines which will
be flushing up here right now if he left the club?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Answer is yes, we might take that away.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And this club's been a punching bag. They've been at
the bottom. And if you don't stand for anything, you'll
never stand for any.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
But let me tea you something.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The media and the speculation, and you know, because if
he leaves, it doesn't go away, the media, the headlines
don't go away. It'll be then life after. There will
be pressure on Benji. If they're not performing, it'll be
who they're going to buy next. How do they feel
the void like this ain't and they've got three wooden
spoons in a row like this. They're used their headlines,
but the headlines aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And that's the other thing in this when we talk
about Benji bringing Galvin back, because his career rides on
this too, Like he's he's been dragged down in the
gutter in recent days, the allegations and the claims against
him as you know, not being a good coach for
this young guy, like that's a real attack on his credibility.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I feel free a really good.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Job the teams.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
The team's been playing well, but you know what if
it all fall apart?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Now break through one hundred percent, right, that becomes the
next storyline, the only the coaches can So why would
you even on the weekend on Monday when when they
lost to Paramatta, And are you saying that you're then
going to give Paramata a gun player to make them
a better team and make your club worse. If you
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work at an employment place, you don't want to be there,
your colleagues don't want you to be there, but yet
other people are saying you should stay.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
You'd be saying screw that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I don't want to be if it's better for everybody, if.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I move along, I think if the Tigers were in
a position of power and they are a successful, strong club.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You probably maybe consider that they should get I agree with.
If you want to stand for something, stand for something, mates,
stick to this.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Eight players or whatever? Teddy all those guys, it's going
to keep on happening. When are the Tigers going to
stand up for their fans?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You know what they get in a return of three
and a thousand dollars play?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
No, and they've got one now that's probably worth I
think the money was too much. I think he's a
six hundred third all of player and the only one
that can turn it around, in my opinion, is Lucky
Galvinavigo's out there kickcase. If he rips in the team
will go with him.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's a fascinating one. Watched his space. It's not going
anywhere anytime soon. Now the Bulldogs are no longer in
the race. Does this mean that the paramatter ills are
a dollar one?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That's certainly the mail through rugby league.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I think you'll find a few clubs have already come forth, brother,
as you say saying we don't want him manly the Bulldogs.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I'm never quite sure with Gus. You know, he's the
master manipulator. He has said, well publicly, why have they
pulled out?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I don't like this to happen to them.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Possibly or they don't feel he would be a fit
at their club positionally, But I'm never quite sure with Gus.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
But certainly paramatter is the club.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Jason Rowls has gone on the record yet again on
Fox League yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So we want I said last night the Dogs were
interested in because I've heard that they were, and even
after the show last night, I had a few interesting
texts saying that they definitely were interested from very good sources.
They were interested. But I hate to say it, but
the reason they didn't was because of the situation and
the management that was that was what I heard.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So are you're suggesting that the Bulldogs don't want to
deal with Isaac Moses?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, they read between the lines Bulldog. Yeah, that's pretty
much what I just said. I don't like Again, it's
not me targeting him and his management, but that's what
I heard, and that's from good sources.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Within that, there's also the stain now and you can't
deny this. There is a stain on Lachland Galvin's reputation
as a result of this. You would imagine we well,
we talk about his own teammate. Is it more on
Isaac Moses but Doggie, we talk about his own teammates,
the kids wanting to play with him. If he goes
(14:46):
across to the Dogs and you've got guys like Stephen
Crichton and Matt Burton and that who would have been
mates with Leuyan and Tuva at.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Penrif does that go with him?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You know?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Does that?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Does that go with and I reckon it? Does it
goes with Lachland Galvin for some time? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Does his manager have to walk around with a security guard?
But he put the young kid in a situation where
he's going to play rugby league and he needed a
security guard. The last young kid I've witnessed in my
short time in the media to have a fall out
with the senior players, as Jackson Hastings, the last guy
that's got there a bit more of an ego thought
(15:24):
the Roosters. He's fallen out of all of his clubs
and where is he now? I hope this doesn't smell
this kid, and do you know who wears that? Jackson Hastings.
The kid wears it, not the manager.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Fair point, fair point. Right, Let's get to the rest
of the sports Bet team selections for Round eight and
cobbos which is the fullback for Wall shout with that
knee injury for the Broncos kright in the beginn for
the Roosters from that growing injury, Young is dropped for
that Anzac Day game against the Dragons. Mitchell moves to
full back and Gray to the bench for the Bunny's
(15:57):
Chaboievich much anticipated return for the mainly see this boy,
don't they need him? And Galvin if you didn't know,
he's been recalled back into the Tigers team at five eighth.
But the big one n Crawls Latrell Mitchell, He's been
moved back to fullback, and Young Ji Gray, who has
been on fire their best player all year, he's back
to the bench.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I said in McCollum, I think this has Bennett's biggest
decision since he returned to South because Ji Gray has
been their best player all year, but Latrell is their
best player. And I think if you watched Latrell on
the weekend and last week as well, and even in
his first game back against the Roosters, he hasn't been
(16:37):
crash off. He come up with a couple of flukey
plays against the Roosters. He was average last week and
this week I thought he was disappointing. Wayne has to
find a way to get him interested.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I tell you his best position.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
He's going to get interested if he's back there. You
want to put on a good pair of joggers, He's
going to do some kilometers.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, you know what, Gordy, We've been talking about his
fitness all year and he hasn't show on the weekend.
At the start of that game, early on, he was
coming out of his own end and he threw a
ridiculous silly off flow that led to the ball an
early try to the Bulldogs. And from that moment on, Mate,
it just changed the game and he was you know,
(17:15):
he got moved from five to eight out to center
quite and owned him.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Like in previous years, that was a.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Challenge that would have lifted Latrell going up against a
heavyweight opponent, but in this game, it was like he
didn't want to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I think Wayne made the core.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
When Latrell returned from injury, he's our best fullback, and
when we get players back from injury and all that
sort of stuff, we're going to put him back there.
I think after what we saw on the weekend, he
had to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
He was always going to be the long term fullback.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Wayne has said that multiple times over his stint at South. Look, look,
I didn't have a problem with throwing at six. It's
a free throw at the stumps. Latrell complaining position. Has
it worked probably not? Was it worth a crack? Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I didn't a problems. They had to reenforced, but I
thought it's worth having a crack.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, he needs he just needs to stand up this
week because to be selected over Gray, you know the
way that he's playing, and to take that asset. You
know that the the house have had all year that
the guy who's been there best consistently by a long way,
by a long way to move him back to the bench.
She was leading the daily ams and he just got
picked this week. It's he needs. He just needs to
(18:30):
stand up and deliver.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
He needs Stage two, hasn't he taking on a wounded
storm in Melbourne? Who the Bunnies I'm not sure exactly
what the record is, but they have a shocking record
against down there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It's a danger game for the Bunnies because Bennett looks
to the fire history with a rare win over Bellamy
and look at this forty two games overall, thirty two
losses at a win rate of twenty three point eight
percent in Melbourne. It gets worse only nineteen percent win
rate for Ben and over Bellamy. And it gets even
worse when we go further, we go down on Coming. Yeah,
(19:02):
it's last thirteen games, thirteen wins and Souths haven't won
in Melbourne since nineteen ninety nine. This is this is
a huge hoodoo.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yeah, this is magic Dusty old man, he hasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Had down there And this is this is where, like
you know last week against the Bulldogs, in the big games,
that's where you need your big players to stand up.
And arguably their two most disappointing players last week was
Latrell and Cody.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Cody had a shock of two.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, he denies that Cody was hooked last week.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Made he maintains he wasn't hooked. He said what he
said to me, He said he had a hamstrings. He's
come back from a hamstring problem. Late in the game
is where you're likely to get that, and that's why
he thought, well, look we're not going to win game.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
It was I think at that point. Yeah, it was
about twenty six nil. But look, let's face it, he
was terrible. I thought he was hooked.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
He's off contract next year. Where are they with him?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
He'll be resigned, resigned, He'll be resigned.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's all you got for a to be a one
year deal, possibly with a second year option. I have
old Cody now thirty two thirty five five. If I'll
be I'd say to be more of a one year
deal with a second year option.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
You know we'll get that. I was in the thirties.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I mean two.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Thirty five thirty very don't count made it thirty six months.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
At this stage.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I thought Cody had a pretty disappointing year last year.
Yes he had injuries, but he was disappointing. He's been
solid to start the season. I wouldn't say he's been great.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
It does away too, doesn't he have yourself?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
This will South Sydney be a better team in twenty
twenty six when Cody Walker is thirty six and he's
still their main playmaker, like or do they need to
start looking and planning for the future.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I think what they'll do is rewarding through loyalty, and
they'll definitely signed him on at least the one year deal,
and I think he deserves that. But it's a very
good question that you ask, Like, that's a tough one,
and that's that's a big decision for him to make,
probably in twelve months. I think if he asked for
it to year deal, that would make it very interesting
whether they do it or not.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I just look at the souse at the moment. Aren't
quote with the elite.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So you disagree with calls, you just think sign him
on you you.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Certainly resign him. He's still an elite player.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't forget Cody didn't really establish himself in thenner
all til he was twenty seven, So he's got a
few years left in him that others don't have because
of wearing that made you can't play to year one
hundred just because you started at twenty six. He doesn't
have the wear and tear on his body that others do.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
He's played a fair bit of foot. Are you saying
you should he injuried.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Now, mate, No, I look, I'm not saying he's not
a good player, but if you want to be a
premiership contender, I'm not certain Souths are going to be
in a greater spot.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
This time next year if he remains their main man.
That's all I'm saying. You're dismissing el play. I'm not
dismissing him made.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I'm saying at the moment, at the moment, I don't
consider sous up with the top four teams and do
you want to get there? Like look at Melbourne's helves
at the moment You've got Jerome Hughes and Cameron Munster.
You go to Penrifoll, they've got Nathan They've lost your own.
The top teams have good playmakers.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
And who's the best one. I don't think thirty six, mate,
is where you're bus replace that. There's no point getting
rid of them. Have you got no one better to
come in?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Look there not yet?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You've got luck on Gavant on the market.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Or do you know?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying I know nothing.
That's just me throwing there.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Are good young players out there, That's what I'm saying,
I just wonder, after what we've seen so far, if
he's worthy of a new contract.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
We won't need to get you a calculating to all
right now, the good news. The good news is for
sus Storm coming off a big last no Grant Hughes
seems he wounded.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Its not good news for this house. Yeah, that's not
good news. Melbourne stim coming off a lost. I said
last week, you know, like the only problem was Melbourne
was so dominant against Manly that they had put the
Q on the rack and this here to lose the
Redcliffe up there. The way they lost, I think it
would have been a horrible week down there. And and
Melbourne don't lose too like, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Melbourne had some bad luck in that game too, Like
I know, Look, the Dolphins were wonderful coming back and winning.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
But they went in without Harry.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
They lost howarth early didn't they like it sort of
shut coats down and there's.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
A clearly show how important Harry is the Storm. Without Harry,
they come back.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
To the feet wried about it. I won't be worried
about him. They look wounded, you know, like Jerame's had.
He's had injuries for a couple of years now against
his shoulder, he's you know, he looked a bit sluggish,
you know, not like he's a great player, don't get
me wrong, but he's carrying an injury, you know. And
then they don't sort of they've been dropping off at
the back end of games. Thought that was because they'd
(24:01):
won the previous ones and just kind of put the
Q in the rack. And then on the weekend, you know,
they didn't have that depth. They didn't have Harry out there,
so they couldn't then rely on on that lead that
they did have, and in games like coming up against
the Souse team who were desperate trying to you know,
end that who do and Wayne trying to sprinkle his
magic dust, they'll be fired up the trail back to fullback.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
They didn't just fall away in this game, fell apart.
They got that.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
They've got a point, said Broth. Are they the Premiership
favorites in your eyes?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
They were?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And I still have them there. Now this week's a
big week, you know, and how these experienced players in
key positions get through the year with major setbacks like
they've had so far. Because the whole thing about Melbourne,
why they are short is because not only formed, but
they had they were healthy in key positions. They're nine, six,
seven and one. For the first time in a long
time ra aw fline. All of a sudden, you know,
(24:54):
two have sort of gone down and how do they
respond to that and are they premiership favorites. That's the
big question over the next few week now Patrick carrying
in Australia, any support behind ben Hunt moving to hooker
as the Bronco is prepared for the return of Mezra Man.
Obviously we saw ben Hunt get shifted to nine.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Do you think I'm saying that potetiically signal Ez?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Maybe Es has been working hard.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's got a couple of weeks left.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
But it does played nine at international level, let alone
at club level here, and I know that z has
been training bloody hard here so forgets the opportunity to
come back in when he does, I'm sure if you're ready.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He's a great kid.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Made he made a mistake, he owned it and I
don't think there's any sugarcoating that. But as a person
and having the opportunity to grow with him since he
come into the club at seventeen, I know what you
know this club means to him, but his community and
you know, being a role model for young kids and
young Aberige and Torres Schedlander kids. So I know he
would have been hurting and he's learned a lot of
lessons and coming NA stand beside him and are really
(25:47):
excited for him to come and do his thing again.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's some big decisions to be made by Mirk McGuire
up in Brisbane over the next few weeks, with Ezra
men set to return in a couple of weeks. Ben
Hunt having close to the worst game I've ever seen
him playing the weekend. I felt sorry for him. You know,
that's not a dig. It just wasn't very good. What
do they do? What's going to happen? Where have you
got him at the moment? Cross?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Oh look, I thought, yeah, Hunt was terrible on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I thought the decision to move him into dummy half
during the match kind of strange. And Billy Waters goes
out to play five to eight. You know, you've got
four hookers in the club and Ben Hunt's moving there,
and I know I know that we probably saw this
as something that might happen down the track when Ezra
was coming back but I thought to myself, I wondered,
(26:35):
is that the first cracks that appear here? Because Hunt
has made it known throughout his career. Even though he
loves playing dummy half at Origin level, as a club football, he.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Sees himself as a half back or.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
A half yep.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
And I think we just saw the fact that when
Ezra does return.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Well.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Look when you're playing for Coins and you're put on,
when you're playing for Australia just to get it on
the side, you'll put on any number. But when it
comes to club I think Ben Hunt thinks that he's half.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
The worrying part was Ben Hunt's body language. He's waving
his arms around. He looked totally rattled. For a senior player,
you don't normally expect that. But I think there was
a bad pass. He didn't chase the boat that picked
up the ball. There was the dummy half and he
went to throw to Adam Reynolds for the match winning
the field goal.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
He fumbled that, but it wasn't so much the mistakes.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
We all make mistakes, but this is the bit I'm
talking about, waving his arms around, remonstrating with the referee.
He just lost his way badly for a bloke who's
had so much experience, it's quite up.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Only a couple of weeks ago it was like, where's Ezra,
We're going to fit him in. He will be fourteen now,
all of a sudden, now it's like within a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I haven't reckon though, Like even even the Broncos have
been hot and cold. They've lost their last two, but
even before that they were going pretty good. But has
Reese Walsh really lit up the field like he has
when I've been thinking to himself for some time he's
missed Ezra, you know, like I think Walsh hasn't been
as good without his little mate there when.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
He had that injury at PCL, which you know we
thought it looked like core, but he was justified in
the end because he struggled all a game with that.
So that's why he struggled on the weekend. But all
year he hasn't been oh in years.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
And then so now after two defeats, they take on
the Bulldogs who were unbeaten, and who I reckon will
go into this game with a point to prove because
I think it is the bulldogs only defeat this year
was in a trial match, and when we saw that
trial match, the Broncos man handled him. At that point,
I thought the dogs aren't going to look. Have they
(28:35):
got the manpower to aim up to these big teams?
I reckon they'll go up there with the point approved.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
A bit of pressure on Madge up there after the
last couple of weeks, no doubt about that. Now, you guys,
stick around and and Zac Day on Fox League will
be something very special. All three games live and I
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