WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.240 Welcome back Quick Hands podcast, and this is a solo 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.759 one with just me. Flew a swept through the camp 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:13.800 and Nicol and Tanya were sick. Unfortunately Nigga's overseas, so 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.519 you can have the pleasure of just having me rambling 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:21.239 on for the next forty five minutes. But the whole 6 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:26.239 team's back next Thursday after Roger three dissecting the game, 7 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.359 so I can't wait for that. So he goes nothing 8 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.399 went back Baby season three, and I said it would 9 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:51.320 have last. Hi, I'm George, Atha, Thanks, and I'm Nick, 10 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:54.039 and welcome to the Quick Hands Regular podcast. 11 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:55.240 This is the pot. 12 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:56.600 Tell us what it is. 13 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.759 It's the quick Cast, badcast. The board does used to 14 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:01.920 be good, but that did not last. That's why I 15 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.239 Joe tost off the pethes is and now gust and 16 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.640 controversy is a corner window and Wolf past Nicks have 17 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.920 been a shambles since thirty six. Dragons haven't done no better. 18 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:13.519 T when he takes a clinch, only teamless see success. 19 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:15.959 As Path is getting rich, the Broncos keep on taking 20 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.040 lots of tiny his head and this I call up 21 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.640 and I'm asking Nati for some movies. They said that 22 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.719 has to sit there for the Waters defeat Friday Night Food. 23 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:25.840 In his tip, it's just to be complete. I'm off 24 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.200 the bench when now he watched you running for the team. 25 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:30.280 I am playing in the NFL. We only mess with 26 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.280 the league, getting tries every day time we're killing every team. 27 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:35.359 I'm super quickly with all these hands, I cast them 28 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.319 Mont Day, George, Nick, Tanya, Arthur to the stage. 29 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:44.040 Please welcome back Episode one oh seven Quick Hands podcast. 30 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:48.680 A little bit different this week. I'm doing it solo. Unfortunately, 31 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:53.519 it flew structor struct the camp and everybody's down. Unfortunately, 32 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.719 we've got one guy out of his overseas. As we know, 33 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:03.680 he's taken over the roads, and I think last I heard, 34 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.080 he was caught up in some sort of scandal in Romania. 35 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.240 They went for a they went for a cup game, 36 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.919 and I don't know something was found in his bag. 37 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:21.280 I can't confirm or deny anything, but we'll get all 38 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.080 the dirt when he comes back. And good luck to Arthur. 39 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:30.120 Nikol is still battling with COVID, and I believe Tenya 40 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.159 is not well. I haven't been well at all, but 41 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.960 I spoke to Nick today and I told him I 42 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.400 hate some things to get off my chest and he said, 43 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.960 George's go for it. So I hope this works. The 44 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.639 first time ever I'm doing a solo pod, so if 45 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.680 I if I bore you, I apologize. So on this episode, 46 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.000 we're going to talk a little bit, a little bit 47 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:00.319 about Peter Vorlandis and the NRL and how I think 48 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.879 that they're going in the wrong direction. I want to 49 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:08.120 talk a little bit about Origin too, and I know 50 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.159 I've missed the bus, but we've been off for a 51 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:16.080 fortnight now, so I couldn't get my saying not about 52 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:21.240 the team's performance, but everything sort of around around the game. 53 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.840 And of course I want to talk about probably the 54 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:31.000 best game we've witnessed this year, the Penrith and the Dogs. 55 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:33.479 What a game that was, and I want to talk 56 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.159 a little bit about it and how good that was 57 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.280 and comparing it to the Origin. I want to talk 58 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.439 about a little bit of West Tigers, a little bit 59 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.840 of our NRLW and we'll finish off of the Super League. 60 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.680 So let's go. The first thing we do usually on 61 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.759 the main show is the good thing of the week. 62 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.960 Now this is dated a little bit because it's happened 63 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:03.719 a fortnight ago, but we're the roosters. Sorry. When Origin 64 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:10.120 to Origin Orangin two completed, I noticed Spencer, Spencer Lenu 65 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.240 went up to Israel Man and they had a few words. 66 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.759 I think they shook hands or oh, I didn't think 67 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.839 they hugg but they shook hands and they communicated. Now 68 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.279 it's good we know that Israel Man is a very 69 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:33.480 emational human being and and look, it's good to see 70 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.879 him in a good space. Bro looks at it because 71 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:40.360 by his performances out in the field, it seems like 72 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:45.120 he's moved on when he's playing in Brisbane and everything 73 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:46.800 seems to be all right. It's just when he comes 74 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.319 to Sydney and I'm not sure if they're going to 75 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:54.240 continue booing him or not, but I suspect not, especially 76 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.040 if the Broncos are going to keep on winning. But 77 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.399 it was it was a lovely morning. It was a 78 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:00.839 lovely Sorry, it was a lovely moment. They look like 79 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.360 they both moved on and buried the hatch. So good 80 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.399 on you, and I think Spencer approached Isra Man, so 81 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.800 a gird on your Spencer being the big man. But again, 82 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:17.360 it's good to see them moving on. And like I said, 83 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.879 for Isra Man, because we know how isra Man Asia 84 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:24.720 Man is in terms of his personalities, are very vulnerable 85 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:30.319 and emotional national characters. I have that hop that buries 86 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.639 the hatch and they move on. I want to talk 87 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:38.639 about Peter Vorlandis and the NRL. You know what they 88 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.959 look at the they look at the ratings and look 89 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.680 admittedly the ratings on television Skyrocket. They've never seen ratings 90 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:51.800 like this. People go into the grounds for around RL 91 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:57.639 every year. They're ten to fifteen improvement every year, so 92 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.279 they are they top out every year. So that's fantastic 93 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.959 money in the coffers. We know that there's never been 94 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.279 so much money in the Neral coffers ever ever. And 95 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.879 apparently they're using a proper which they should. They should 96 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:17.920 have been doing that a long time ago. But putting 97 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:22.120 that all in contents, it doesn't mean that they're doing 98 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.639 the right thing by the game, us watching it and 99 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:32.360 us going to it doesn't directly mean that I think, 100 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.959 in my opinion, they're doing the right thing for the game. 101 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:39.560 And let me explain. Now we know Peter vorland Is. 102 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.160 He he likes getting his own way, and the other 103 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.639 CEOs are calling him fear of the land Is and 104 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:53.519 why they're doing that because he he tries to get 105 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.040 his way on everything. Now we know about we know 106 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:01.600 about the him contacting all the media outlets and insisting 107 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:05.759 that they only published positive stories. Now what he wants 108 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.439 to do in in a few years. He wants to 109 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:10.399 package the game and sell it and get and sell 110 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.879 the rights to the to the viewing and get as 111 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:17.560 much money as he can. And look, I'm all for that, 112 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.720 it's great for the rugby league, but it doesn't mean 113 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.199 here he has to step in and and sort of 114 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:28.879 start chipping away at the fabric of the game. Recently, 115 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.680 he wants to he wanted to take over the the 116 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:37.879 VRC now thank god, thank god the union stepped in 117 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:41.560 and stopped it. Now Apparently he wanted to review all 118 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.879 the videotape because he wanted to clean the game up 119 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:49.079 even more. How much more can you clean this game up? 120 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.519 I mean, apparently he wants to stop the handbags and 121 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.639 the handbag froy when they all run in and a 122 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:57.920 bit of a push and shove, and you know, it's 123 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.360 more of a mother's meeting and than anything. And what 124 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.000 they're doing is showing a bit of emotion and supporting 125 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:09.399 their fellow teammates. So that's what he wanted to stop. 126 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.560 That's what he wants to stop. Look in his defense, 127 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:15.560 I understand why he wants to do it. He wants 128 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.600 a squeaky clean game so he can go to I 129 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:24.959 don't know Amazon, stand Optus or wherever and saw this game. 130 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.839 But what he's actually doing is breaking down the fabric 131 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.559 of this game where we get into now. I mean 132 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:38.840 when a player is dipping and you maybe and maybe 133 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:43.559 not touch someone's head, I mean you get on, you 134 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.840 get on report in ten minutes. It's ludicrous. It's crazy. 135 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.960 I mean, if he had his way, he'll stop the kickoffs, 136 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:56.519 so those big runs that come back, he eliminates that 137 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.600 those as well. For me, it's crazy, it's lyricrous. He's 138 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.519 not only he's ripping the fabric out of the game, 139 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.320 he's taking the emotion. And that's what we love as 140 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:12.159 as as spectators when we watch our rugby league team, 141 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:16.279 we want to feel something. The top line of rugby league, 142 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:23.399 the basic running, the tackling, It affects us emotion emotionally. 143 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:28.600 That's why we jump up and scream and cheer and 144 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.519 and you know, I mean feel something. And what he's 145 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.000 trying to do slowly but surely take all that away 146 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.919 from us. Well, that's what it seems like he's doing. 147 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:41.519 Him might not realize it. And look, he looks at 148 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.559 it as dollars and cents. I look at it as 149 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.879 entertainment and I want to feel, I really want to 150 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:53.039 feel something, and he's taking that away. We saw a 151 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:58.120 great game last Thursday and that was a very physical game. 152 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:02.240 And thank god that the reference they're stuck his whistle 153 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.120 in his pocket and didn't blow the p out of it, 154 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:09.879 thank god. And that's we felt every emotion possible and 155 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.440 that we had a grand stand stand finished. But no, 156 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:19.559 he insists that he wants to rip it down slowly 157 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:23.120 but surely. And the new, the new. The new thing 158 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:27.720 we found out is that referees are looking for a 159 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:32.000 three second tackle in terms of when if they don't 160 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.440 get if the attackers or so, if the defenders don't 161 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.759 get off the attacking player in three seconds and in 162 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:42.279 three point five or three point something like the three 163 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.559 point seven, they're not playing the ball, the referee calls 164 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:53.360 the six. Again. What happens if a Penive player, a 165 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:59.639 Canbra player, a Melbourne player, their whole structure is based 166 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:02.559 on the fans, and they win the tackle and they 167 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:06.360 put him on his back, and because they win the tackle, 168 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:10.559 they're entitled an extra half a second. Well, guess what 169 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.720 the attacking player who's lost the tackle is going to 170 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.519 get rewarded for six Again. It's crazy, It's it's ludicrous. 171 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:24.039 I'm not sure where this game is going. Seriously, I 172 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:31.840 wonder sometimes I really want sometimes sorry, I also want 173 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:36.000 to talk about on social media. In social media, there's 174 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.440 a there's a young man at the moment he's goes 175 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:46.159 by JC. I think it's John Claude. He's a he's 176 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:51.759 a very passionate Saint George supporter. Look, he's a very 177 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:53.879 passionate Saint George supporter. But what he does is he 178 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:57.919 calls a spade a spade. He calls it how he 179 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.440 sees it. And is he is he a little bit colorful? Absolutely, 180 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:05.759 his language is a little bit colorful, not not rude, 181 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:12.399 not doesn't swear. He's a very colorful and I think, 182 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:19.120 very entertaining, entertaining human. But he calls a spade a spade. 183 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:25.279 But Saint George, in their wisdom, not only has blocked 184 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:30.559 him from from their account, not only has pulled him down. 185 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.320 They've complained to Instagram and pulled him down. They've got 186 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:41.840 n r L investigating him. All I know is that 187 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:46.320 if I can't speak my mind in a in a 188 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:52.000 in a in a respectful way, well I thought that 189 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.120 this was the people's game. Now if I think that 190 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.879 I don't like a certain player, well I don't think 191 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.039 how the club, the direction of a club, how it's going. 192 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.120 Why can't I speak my mind? Why should I say 193 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.440 it's okay and that's not that's it's okay. I mean 194 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.039 if we lose thirty miel every week and we're coming 195 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:16.200 second last, I mean, that's okay. You know. Now, let's 196 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:18.879 get let's get real. Most of you got most of 197 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:27.120 your listeners have seen this young man's tiktoks. He's he's 198 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:31.960 come down on young young Flannigan, young Carl Flannagan, and 199 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.840 I tend to agree with him. I believe it is 200 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:40.120 an nepotism. Now is he Is he the best half 201 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:42.799 back in the in the club? Looking? I think he is. 202 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.639 I think the best half back in the club is 203 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.600 in reserve grade at the moment. Should Carl be in 204 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:51.360 the team? Look at fourteen? Maybe a long but is 205 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.000 he the best halfback. I don't think so. So I'm 206 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:59.120 fully supportive of this young man Jays. He's fortune on 207 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:02.279 a head. He's four, you know, and and still speak 208 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.600 in his mind. But what I can't don't like is 209 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:11.600 how then I really has got involved. We're trying to 210 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:14.399 to shut this young man down. Like I said, if 211 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:17.960 we can't speak our mind. For God's sake, I honestly 212 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.720 thought that rugby league was one of the last people's game. 213 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:27.600 I'm obviously wrong, and and mister Velandis is in the 214 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:31.200 forefront of that, and he's wrong. He's wrong because you 215 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.919 know what, he doesn't take long from all those metrics 216 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:43.639 being high, like the most money in the coffers, people 217 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.000 march into the game, people turn into television on. It 218 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:50.799 doesn't take much the people start to turn off the 219 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:55.120 television and not get to the game. Peter, so be 220 00:14:55.320 --> 00:15:00.360 very very careful how you continue, how you continue with 221 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:04.919 the NRL, because it's very sacred and what you've done 222 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:08.600 to it already. I get it, stop now, but stop now. 223 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.879 You know we don't need we don't need what you're 224 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.200 giving us because some games are really hard to watch 225 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:22.200 when when I watch, you know, some of the new 226 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.960 rules that have come in. They're really they're really really 227 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.320 irking me. But anyway, we keep on watching. What do 228 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:32.799 we do? I want to and also I want to 229 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:38.159 talk about Channel nine and specifically the Origin. They pay 230 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:44.759 a lot of money basically for the Origin and how 231 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:49.399 they present the game. And look, maybe maybe your listeners 232 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:53.200 and please I'd love the feedback. Maybe you listeners think 233 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:56.559 that the coverage of Channel nine is is good. I 234 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:03.559 personally don't. I think the commentators, uh possibly and probably biased. 235 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.919 And look, they just don't. Don't. Don't call a spade 236 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:13.480 a spade. You know someone's playing well when he's not 237 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:17.120 playing well or he's done, he's made a pass in 238 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.720 the middle of the of the field and someone scored 239 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:26.919 on the wing, and claiming that this this gentleman is well, 240 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:32.080 this player has made the break. Now if you're if 241 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:37.279 you're young Katoa, absolutely absolutely the guy is a magician, 242 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:43.799 young Cadald. The Dolphins are halfback, his body of movements, 243 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:48.480 his tempo changes, and yeah he disrupts the line on 244 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.039 seas and d's But let me tell you some of 245 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.919 these queensland all yourself. I was players didn't do that 246 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:03.320 on Origin too. But this is my The other thing 247 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:09.319 is Start of Origin provides the NRL with I think 248 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.359 the revenue of the year. So one game or one 249 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:23.519 series equates to nearly fifty of the NRL's coffers. A 250 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:29.000 fantastic great. So you would think that I would put 251 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:36.000 their money in their pocket and give us some entertainment 252 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.079 before the game. Now, if it's up to me, I 253 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:43.119 don't want entertainment. I mean, get Under Nines and play 254 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:48.480 those little little games they do. I find that entertaining. 255 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.440 Or get the under Nines and they can have sprints. Sprints. 256 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.400 I love it. I love it. But in NRL's wisdom, 257 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:01.720 they got a band in Wa called wolf Mother. Now 258 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:06.519 I know wolf Mother, for God's sake, wolf Mother, I 259 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:10.000 don't know. Get seen Arena. I don't care get get 260 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.839 get you know Vanessa Morossi. But wolf Mother, are you serious? 261 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:18.559 I can't believe when I saw wolf Mother come in out, 262 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.119 I couldn't believe it, you know, I mean they're not 263 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:25.759 a good band. I don't know w A people. I 264 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.160 love them, no one I know they're a w A band. 265 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:32.400 So probably that's why they got the gig. But look again, 266 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:40.640 for a professional for a professional, a professional company at 267 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.279 the NRL and for the biggest occasion of the year 268 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.000 or one of the biggest occasions, one of the three 269 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:52.440 biggest occasions of the year, they give us a wolf mother. Okay, 270 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:57.319 I'll stag it. I will stag it. So I think 271 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.920 they they don't give us anything. Please, please don't give 272 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.279 us anything. I don't want to. I don't want to 273 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.640 sit through that again, I really don't. I want to 274 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:12.559 talk about the the refine of origin too as well. 275 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:20.000 Ashley Kline. Ashley Kline is the best referee in the game. Actually, Clin, Please, 276 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:24.279 I couldn't. I couldn't believe what Ashley Clin did on 277 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.279 that night, and there's no doubt it was under under 278 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:31.799 instructions what he did. Now to give a nine nil 279 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.880 penalty count, it's outrageous and it's not the nine that 280 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:39.160 I've got I've got a problem with. It's the nil. 281 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:45.160 So you're telling me and I agree. I agree the 282 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:50.319 nine the nine I saw most of the penalties. The 283 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.400 rough ones are a bit dubious, but look all the 284 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.680 other ones fair enough. I got no issue about about 285 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:00.720 the ones which are obvious. But you telling me that 286 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:06.480 Queensland was perfect. Look, I don't believe it. But what 287 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:10.119 it actually done. What he did was it took the 288 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:15.519 game out of the player's hands. It took He took 289 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.240 the game out of the player's hands and handed it 290 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:27.319 to one team. So I would let the fellas, let 291 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.119 the team sort it out. I would put my whistle 292 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.319 in my pocket and I'd let him sort it out. 293 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:38.519 And you know what it's been since, since since the eighties, 294 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:43.880 the origin, these teams have sorted things out on the field. 295 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.000 And I'm not talking about fifty cups. I'm not talking 296 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:51.759 about fifty cups. These these players who are the elite 297 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.200 players in the game, they saw things things out, don't 298 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:58.599 don't don't worry about that. So if someone's giving them 299 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:02.960 a facial or someone standing off side, or something's happening 300 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.079 in the ruck, don't worry. They square up in some 301 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:09.160 in some way or some modern way anyway, So to 302 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.759 blow the p out of the whistle, or he effectively 303 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:17.319 done was made it as as a spectacle a normal 304 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:20.960 NRL game, if that, if that, he made it a 305 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:24.119 normal NRL game. And you know what, I watched it. 306 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:27.799 I tried. I tried to watch it back again, but 307 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:32.440 I couldn't. But make no mistake, I'm not claiming that 308 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:36.880 the penalties ensure the Queensland team the victory. I thought 309 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:39.880 on the night Queensland was a better team. They had 310 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:46.759 an outstanding fifty minutes and with New South wal was 311 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:50.519 too little, too late, too little, too late in yourself, 312 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:54.759 so try again on the on the New South Wiles 313 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:59.279 as well. I'd like to to say that I've seen 314 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:09.200 this movie before. I've seen this movie before with Laurie Daily. Sorry, sorry, 315 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.759 I've seen this movie before. How he uses his bench. 316 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:16.920 I didn't think that I was prepared, were prepared at all. 317 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:24.880 They looked sluggish, they looked not motivated early doors and 318 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:28.960 they looked at shambles actually, and that's why Queensland completely 319 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.200 took over the game. And they looked at me in dollars. 320 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:36.359 And I want to talk about Stefano now. If Craig 321 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:43.039 Bellimy wants to get Stefano into form because maybe he 322 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:47.200 thinks he's bought a dad because he hasn't really played 323 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.200 outstandingly for the Melbourne Storm and he wants to put 324 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.319 him in the New South Fast team so he can 325 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:03.400 improve in terms of being around elite players and get 326 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.519 that confidence and come back to Melbourne storman and be 327 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.160 a better player. You know what. If he wants to 328 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:17.680 do that, well no, no, please no, Craig. No. If 329 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.119 you've got an agenda and you want to fix up 330 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:24.279 one of your players, well no, don't do it. Give us, 331 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:29.240 give us a form a form player. Because I'm sick 332 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:31.920 and tired of hurting. I'm sick and tired of waking 333 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:37.240 up Thursday mornings in pain because we've lost again. And 334 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:40.440 like I said before, I've seen this. I've seen this 335 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:45.400 movie before, I've read this book before. We're probably on 336 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:51.519 paper the better team, but something magically happens. I wake 337 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:56.279 up on a Thursday morning after Game three and I'm 338 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:01.119 hurting because we've lost again again to possibly on paper, 339 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:05.480 an inferior team on paper for your team, not on 340 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:08.039 the night. So I've seen this before. And then, Craig, 341 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:13.920 you know what, please no, no, you know what. There's 342 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.000 many a prop forwards out there, far better, more informed 343 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:23.480 than Stefano, who could have done a better job. Of course, 344 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.839 there's the South Sydney and the South Sydnea front row 345 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:32.319 who is injured unfortunately, and the West Tigers are front roller. 346 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.359 I don't want to mention their names. We all know 347 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:39.039 their names. Who's ready, willing and enable, and I don't 348 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:42.000 know what he's done. I don't know what he's done 349 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.680 in the in previous years for them to be alienated 350 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:50.200 from the team. But for me, he should have been blue. Anyway, 351 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:54.920 we move on. I want to talk about last Thursday, 352 00:24:55.759 --> 00:25:00.880 we saw the game of the year penri Fate six 353 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:05.680 Canary Banks Sound six. What a game, What a game. 354 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:12.720 I was sitting down on the lounge enthralled. I was wrapped. 355 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:19.559 I was wrapped up so much into this game. I 356 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:25.839 can't explain to you. It had everything. There's nothing nothing 357 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.079 this game. There's nothing that this game didn't have. Every 358 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:34.720 emation went through my body. The two teams match up stylistically. 359 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:37.680 They do it in different ways, but they have the 360 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:45.440 same result because they want balling, balling play. Look, Penrith 361 00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:50.519 with Ivan Cleary played it like every like every other 362 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:55.240 team plays Canterbury, straight up the middle, straight up the middle. 363 00:25:55.279 --> 00:26:00.160 They just attacked Canterbury behind that ruck and off the 364 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:05.640 a's continuously, continuously, continuously and can do what they do. 365 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:08.759 They move the border to go forward. They might have 366 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.400 a hit up in the middle, but what they really 367 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.480 do is they move. They move it left. They move 368 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:16.400 it right, they move it left, they move it right 369 00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.960 to go forward, and they kick the ki. They kick 370 00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:26.599 out Brian. Brian, to my god, the guy's on one leg. 371 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:31.640 What he what he does, what he does is amazing. 372 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:33.799 I don't think i've in the modern day, I don't 373 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:38.279 think I've seen a better winger than him. Now. Uh, 374 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:43.319 they were bombing to Brian, and everybody says that they 375 00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:46.079 were bombing him because they wanted to get over him, 376 00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:48.640 because he's a short man and they believe that they 377 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.079 can they could jump over him. I suggest to you 378 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:54.400 that that's not why they're bombing at him. The old 379 00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:59.559 bombing at him because they didn't want Brian to be 380 00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:05.559 to run it off. Tackle two. The most important tackle 381 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:09.279 in the Pendiff system and now the Cannab system as well, 382 00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:13.599 is the tackle tackle two one two two two three, 383 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:17.640 Because you're you're you're getting out, so you go Taho 384 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:23.359 two Edwards three maybe af Ford maybe or maybe not 385 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:28.799 Afford and you're kicking out, okay, but number two is 386 00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:32.240 the one that gets you moving forward. For both teams, 387 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:35.039 now not not for Cannaby and and for all teams 388 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:38.240 are two of them. What is the most important tackle, 389 00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:42.240 but very very important for for these two teams. And 390 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:48.200 of course Penriff penriff and in the pendiff system depends 391 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.559 on on that. Uh. And that's why I believe I'll 392 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:56.559 kicking onto too, Brian tojo. But they got around, They 393 00:27:56.559 --> 00:28:00.519 got around that, and they're still getting out pretty pretty easily. 394 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:04.839 Penriff and the cycle, I couldn't believe the cycle. It 395 00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:08.200 was a washing machine. They kept the ball in play 396 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:17.079 and was just enthralling. Basically, the Bulldogs blinked first and 397 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:21.119 that's the only reason they lost. And what I meant 398 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:26.400 about that Penriff was willing to grind for eighty minutes, 399 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:28.720 to go in the cycle for eighty minutes, to wait 400 00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:32.039 for the opportunity and the mistake. And yeah, charge down 401 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:37.200