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Speaker 1: on for the next forty five minutes. But the whole
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Speaker 1: Please welcome back Episode one oh seven Quick Hands podcast.
Speaker 1: A little bit different this week. I'm doing it solo. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it flew structor struct the camp and everybody's down. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we've got one guy out of his overseas. As we know,
Speaker 1: he's taken over the roads, and I think last I heard,
Speaker 1: he was caught up in some sort of scandal in Romania.
Speaker 1: They went for a they went for a cup game,
Speaker 1: and I don't know something was found in his bag.
Speaker 1: I can't confirm or deny anything, but we'll get all
Speaker 1: the dirt when he comes back. And good luck to Arthur.
Speaker 1: Nikol is still battling with COVID, and I believe Tenya
Speaker 1: is not well. I haven't been well at all, but
Speaker 1: I spoke to Nick today and I told him I
Speaker 1: hate some things to get off my chest and he said,
Speaker 1: George's go for it. So I hope this works. The
Speaker 1: first time ever I'm doing a solo pod, so if
Speaker 1: I if I bore you, I apologize. So on this episode,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit, a little bit
Speaker 1: about Peter Vorlandis and the NRL and how I think
Speaker 1: that they're going in the wrong direction. I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Origin too, and I know
Speaker 1: I've missed the bus, but we've been off for a
Speaker 1: fortnight now, so I couldn't get my saying not about
Speaker 1: the team's performance, but everything sort of around around the game.
Speaker 1: And of course I want to talk about probably the
Speaker 1: best game we've witnessed this year, the Penrith and the Dogs.
Speaker 1: What a game that was, and I want to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about it and how good that was
Speaker 1: and comparing it to the Origin. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a little bit of West Tigers, a little bit
Speaker 1: of our NRLW and we'll finish off of the Super League.
Speaker 1: So let's go. The first thing we do usually on
Speaker 1: the main show is the good thing of the week.
Speaker 1: Now this is dated a little bit because it's happened
Speaker 1: a fortnight ago, but we're the roosters. Sorry. When Origin
Speaker 1: to Origin Orangin two completed, I noticed Spencer, Spencer Lenu
Speaker 1: went up to Israel Man and they had a few words.
Speaker 1: I think they shook hands or oh, I didn't think
Speaker 1: they hugg but they shook hands and they communicated. Now
Speaker 1: it's good we know that Israel Man is a very
Speaker 1: emational human being and and look, it's good to see
Speaker 1: him in a good space. Bro looks at it because
Speaker 1: by his performances out in the field, it seems like
Speaker 1: he's moved on when he's playing in Brisbane and everything
Speaker 1: seems to be all right. It's just when he comes
Speaker 1: to Sydney and I'm not sure if they're going to
Speaker 1: continue booing him or not, but I suspect not, especially
Speaker 1: if the Broncos are going to keep on winning. But
Speaker 1: it was it was a lovely morning. It was a
Speaker 1: lovely Sorry, it was a lovely moment. They look like
Speaker 1: they both moved on and buried the hatch. So good
Speaker 1: on you, and I think Spencer approached Isra Man, so
Speaker 1: a gird on your Spencer being the big man. But again,
Speaker 1: it's good to see them moving on. And like I said,
Speaker 1: for Isra Man, because we know how isra Man Asia
Speaker 1: Man is in terms of his personalities, are very vulnerable
Speaker 1: and emotional national characters. I have that hop that buries
Speaker 1: the hatch and they move on. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Peter Vorlandis and the NRL. You know what they
Speaker 1: look at the they look at the ratings and look
Speaker 1: admittedly the ratings on television Skyrocket. They've never seen ratings
Speaker 1: like this. People go into the grounds for around RL
Speaker 1: every year. They're ten to fifteen improvement every year, so
Speaker 1: they are they top out every year. So that's fantastic
Speaker 1: money in the coffers. We know that there's never been
Speaker 1: so much money in the Neral coffers ever ever. And
Speaker 1: apparently they're using a proper which they should. They should
Speaker 1: have been doing that a long time ago. But putting
Speaker 1: that all in contents, it doesn't mean that they're doing
Speaker 1: the right thing by the game, us watching it and
Speaker 1: us going to it doesn't directly mean that I think,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, they're doing the right thing for the game.
Speaker 1: And let me explain. Now we know Peter vorland Is.
Speaker 1: He he likes getting his own way, and the other
Speaker 1: CEOs are calling him fear of the land Is and
Speaker 1: why they're doing that because he he tries to get
Speaker 1: his way on everything. Now we know about we know
Speaker 1: about the him contacting all the media outlets and insisting
Speaker 1: that they only published positive stories. Now what he wants
Speaker 1: to do in in a few years. He wants to
Speaker 1: package the game and sell it and get and sell
Speaker 1: the rights to the to the viewing and get as
Speaker 1: much money as he can. And look, I'm all for that,
Speaker 1: it's great for the rugby league, but it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: here he has to step in and and sort of
Speaker 1: start chipping away at the fabric of the game. Recently,
Speaker 1: he wants to he wanted to take over the the
Speaker 1: VRC now thank god, thank god the union stepped in
Speaker 1: and stopped it. Now Apparently he wanted to review all
Speaker 1: the videotape because he wanted to clean the game up
Speaker 1: even more. How much more can you clean this game up?
Speaker 1: I mean, apparently he wants to stop the handbags and
Speaker 1: the handbag froy when they all run in and a
Speaker 1: bit of a push and shove, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: more of a mother's meeting and than anything. And what
Speaker 1: they're doing is showing a bit of emotion and supporting
Speaker 1: their fellow teammates. So that's what he wanted to stop.
Speaker 1: That's what he wants to stop. Look in his defense,
Speaker 1: I understand why he wants to do it. He wants
Speaker 1: a squeaky clean game so he can go to I
Speaker 1: don't know Amazon, stand Optus or wherever and saw this game.
Speaker 1: But what he's actually doing is breaking down the fabric
Speaker 1: of this game where we get into now. I mean
Speaker 1: when a player is dipping and you maybe and maybe
Speaker 1: not touch someone's head, I mean you get on, you
Speaker 1: get on report in ten minutes. It's ludicrous. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he had his way, he'll stop the kickoffs,
Speaker 1: so those big runs that come back, he eliminates that
Speaker 1: those as well. For me, it's crazy, it's lyricrous. He's
Speaker 1: not only he's ripping the fabric out of the game,
Speaker 1: he's taking the emotion. And that's what we love as
Speaker 1: as as spectators when we watch our rugby league team,
Speaker 1: we want to feel something. The top line of rugby league,
Speaker 1: the basic running, the tackling, It affects us emotion emotionally.
Speaker 1: That's why we jump up and scream and cheer and
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean feel something. And what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do slowly but surely take all that away
Speaker 1: from us. Well, that's what it seems like he's doing.
Speaker 1: Him might not realize it. And look, he looks at
Speaker 1: it as dollars and cents. I look at it as
Speaker 1: entertainment and I want to feel, I really want to
Speaker 1: feel something, and he's taking that away. We saw a
Speaker 1: great game last Thursday and that was a very physical game.
Speaker 1: And thank god that the reference they're stuck his whistle
Speaker 1: in his pocket and didn't blow the p out of it,
Speaker 1: thank god. And that's we felt every emotion possible and
Speaker 1: that we had a grand stand stand finished. But no,
Speaker 1: he insists that he wants to rip it down slowly
Speaker 1: but surely. And the new, the new. The new thing
Speaker 1: we found out is that referees are looking for a
Speaker 1: three second tackle in terms of when if they don't
Speaker 1: get if the attackers or so, if the defenders don't
Speaker 1: get off the attacking player in three seconds and in
Speaker 1: three point five or three point something like the three
Speaker 1: point seven, they're not playing the ball, the referee calls
Speaker 1: the six. Again. What happens if a Penive player, a
Speaker 1: Canbra player, a Melbourne player, their whole structure is based
Speaker 1: on the fans, and they win the tackle and they
Speaker 1: put him on his back, and because they win the tackle,
Speaker 1: they're entitled an extra half a second. Well, guess what
Speaker 1: the attacking player who's lost the tackle is going to
Speaker 1: get rewarded for six Again. It's crazy, It's it's ludicrous.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where this game is going. Seriously, I
Speaker 1: wonder sometimes I really want sometimes sorry, I also want
Speaker 1: to talk about on social media. In social media, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a young man at the moment he's goes
Speaker 1: by JC. I think it's John Claude. He's a he's
Speaker 1: a very passionate Saint George supporter. Look, he's a very
Speaker 1: passionate Saint George supporter. But what he does is he
Speaker 1: calls a spade a spade. He calls it how he
Speaker 1: sees it. And is he is he a little bit colorful? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: his language is a little bit colorful, not not rude,
Speaker 1: not doesn't swear. He's a very colorful and I think,
Speaker 1: very entertaining, entertaining human. But he calls a spade a spade.
Speaker 1: But Saint George, in their wisdom, not only has blocked
Speaker 1: him from from their account, not only has pulled him down.
Speaker 1: They've complained to Instagram and pulled him down. They've got
Speaker 1: n r L investigating him. All I know is that
Speaker 1: if I can't speak my mind in a in a
Speaker 1: in a in a respectful way, well I thought that
Speaker 1: this was the people's game. Now if I think that
Speaker 1: I don't like a certain player, well I don't think
Speaker 1: how the club, the direction of a club, how it's going.
Speaker 1: Why can't I speak my mind? Why should I say
Speaker 1: it's okay and that's not that's it's okay. I mean
Speaker 1: if we lose thirty miel every week and we're coming
Speaker 1: second last, I mean, that's okay. You know. Now, let's
Speaker 1: get let's get real. Most of you got most of
Speaker 1: your listeners have seen this young man's tiktoks. He's he's
Speaker 1: come down on young young Flannigan, young Carl Flannagan, and
Speaker 1: I tend to agree with him. I believe it is
Speaker 1: an nepotism. Now is he Is he the best half
Speaker 1: back in the in the club? Looking? I think he is.
Speaker 1: I think the best half back in the club is
Speaker 1: in reserve grade at the moment. Should Carl be in
Speaker 1: the team? Look at fourteen? Maybe a long but is
Speaker 1: he the best halfback. I don't think so. So I'm
Speaker 1: fully supportive of this young man Jays. He's fortune on
Speaker 1: a head. He's four, you know, and and still speak
Speaker 1: in his mind. But what I can't don't like is
Speaker 1: how then I really has got involved. We're trying to
Speaker 1: to shut this young man down. Like I said, if
Speaker 1: we can't speak our mind. For God's sake, I honestly
Speaker 1: thought that rugby league was one of the last people's game.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously wrong, and and mister Velandis is in the
Speaker 1: forefront of that, and he's wrong. He's wrong because you
Speaker 1: know what, he doesn't take long from all those metrics
Speaker 1: being high, like the most money in the coffers, people
Speaker 1: march into the game, people turn into television on. It
Speaker 1: doesn't take much the people start to turn off the
Speaker 1: television and not get to the game. Peter, so be
Speaker 1: very very careful how you continue, how you continue with
Speaker 1: the NRL, because it's very sacred and what you've done
Speaker 1: to it already. I get it, stop now, but stop now.
Speaker 1: You know we don't need we don't need what you're
Speaker 1: giving us because some games are really hard to watch
Speaker 1: when when I watch, you know, some of the new
Speaker 1: rules that have come in. They're really they're really really
Speaker 1: irking me. But anyway, we keep on watching. What do
Speaker 1: we do? I want to and also I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Channel nine and specifically the Origin. They pay
Speaker 1: a lot of money basically for the Origin and how
Speaker 1: they present the game. And look, maybe maybe your listeners
Speaker 1: and please I'd love the feedback. Maybe you listeners think
Speaker 1: that the coverage of Channel nine is is good. I
Speaker 1: personally don't. I think the commentators, uh possibly and probably biased.
Speaker 1: And look, they just don't. Don't. Don't call a spade
Speaker 1: a spade. You know someone's playing well when he's not
Speaker 1: playing well or he's done, he's made a pass in
Speaker 1: the middle of the of the field and someone scored
Speaker 1: on the wing, and claiming that this this gentleman is well,
Speaker 1: this player has made the break. Now if you're if
Speaker 1: you're young Katoa, absolutely absolutely the guy is a magician,
Speaker 1: young Cadald. The Dolphins are halfback, his body of movements,
Speaker 1: his tempo changes, and yeah he disrupts the line on
Speaker 1: seas and d's But let me tell you some of
Speaker 1: these queensland all yourself. I was players didn't do that
Speaker 1: on Origin too. But this is my The other thing
Speaker 1: is Start of Origin provides the NRL with I think
Speaker 1: the revenue of the year. So one game or one
Speaker 1: series equates to nearly fifty of the NRL's coffers. A
Speaker 1: fantastic great. So you would think that I would put
Speaker 1: their money in their pocket and give us some entertainment
Speaker 1: before the game. Now, if it's up to me, I
Speaker 1: don't want entertainment. I mean, get Under Nines and play
Speaker 1: those little little games they do. I find that entertaining.
Speaker 1: Or get the under Nines and they can have sprints. Sprints.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. But in NRL's wisdom,
Speaker 1: they got a band in Wa called wolf Mother. Now
Speaker 1: I know wolf Mother, for God's sake, wolf Mother, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Get seen Arena. I don't care get get
Speaker 1: get you know Vanessa Morossi. But wolf Mother, are you serious?
Speaker 1: I can't believe when I saw wolf Mother come in out,
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it, you know, I mean they're not
Speaker 1: a good band. I don't know w A people. I
Speaker 1: love them, no one I know they're a w A band.
Speaker 1: So probably that's why they got the gig. But look again,
Speaker 1: for a professional for a professional, a professional company at
Speaker 1: the NRL and for the biggest occasion of the year
Speaker 1: or one of the biggest occasions, one of the three
Speaker 1: biggest occasions of the year, they give us a wolf mother. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll stag it. I will stag it. So I think
Speaker 1: they they don't give us anything. Please, please don't give
Speaker 1: us anything. I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: sit through that again, I really don't. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the the refine of origin too as well.
Speaker 1: Ashley Kline. Ashley Kline is the best referee in the game. Actually, Clin, Please,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't believe what Ashley Clin did on
Speaker 1: that night, and there's no doubt it was under under
Speaker 1: instructions what he did. Now to give a nine nil
Speaker 1: penalty count, it's outrageous and it's not the nine that
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a problem with. It's the nil.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me and I agree. I agree the
Speaker 1: nine the nine I saw most of the penalties. The
Speaker 1: rough ones are a bit dubious, but look all the
Speaker 1: other ones fair enough. I got no issue about about
Speaker 1: the ones which are obvious. But you telling me that
Speaker 1: Queensland was perfect. Look, I don't believe it. But what
Speaker 1: it actually done. What he did was it took the
Speaker 1: game out of the player's hands. It took He took
Speaker 1: the game out of the player's hands and handed it
Speaker 1: to one team. So I would let the fellas, let
Speaker 1: the team sort it out. I would put my whistle
Speaker 1: in my pocket and I'd let him sort it out.
Speaker 1: And you know what it's been since, since since the eighties,
Speaker 1: the origin, these teams have sorted things out on the field.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about fifty cups. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about fifty cups. These these players who are the elite
Speaker 1: players in the game, they saw things things out, don't
Speaker 1: don't don't worry about that. So if someone's giving them
Speaker 1: a facial or someone standing off side, or something's happening
Speaker 1: in the ruck, don't worry. They square up in some
Speaker 1: in some way or some modern way anyway, So to
Speaker 1: blow the p out of the whistle, or he effectively
Speaker 1: done was made it as as a spectacle a normal
Speaker 1: NRL game, if that, if that, he made it a
Speaker 1: normal NRL game. And you know what, I watched it.
Speaker 1: I tried. I tried to watch it back again, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't. But make no mistake, I'm not claiming that
Speaker 1: the penalties ensure the Queensland team the victory. I thought
Speaker 1: on the night Queensland was a better team. They had
Speaker 1: an outstanding fifty minutes and with New South wal was
Speaker 1: too little, too late, too little, too late in yourself,
Speaker 1: so try again on the on the New South Wiles
Speaker 1: as well. I'd like to to say that I've seen
Speaker 1: this movie before. I've seen this movie before with Laurie Daily. Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: I've seen this movie before. How he uses his bench.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that I was prepared, were prepared at all.
Speaker 1: They looked sluggish, they looked not motivated early doors and
Speaker 1: they looked at shambles actually, and that's why Queensland completely
Speaker 1: took over the game. And they looked at me in dollars.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about Stefano now. If Craig
Speaker 1: Bellimy wants to get Stefano into form because maybe he
Speaker 1: thinks he's bought a dad because he hasn't really played
Speaker 1: outstandingly for the Melbourne Storm and he wants to put
Speaker 1: him in the New South Fast team so he can
Speaker 1: improve in terms of being around elite players and get
Speaker 1: that confidence and come back to Melbourne storman and be
Speaker 1: a better player. You know what. If he wants to
Speaker 1: do that, well no, no, please no, Craig. No. If
Speaker 1: you've got an agenda and you want to fix up
Speaker 1: one of your players, well no, don't do it. Give us,
Speaker 1: give us a form a form player. Because I'm sick
Speaker 1: and tired of hurting. I'm sick and tired of waking
Speaker 1: up Thursday mornings in pain because we've lost again. And
Speaker 1: like I said before, I've seen this. I've seen this
Speaker 1: movie before, I've read this book before. We're probably on
Speaker 1: paper the better team, but something magically happens. I wake
Speaker 1: up on a Thursday morning after Game three and I'm
Speaker 1: hurting because we've lost again again to possibly on paper,
Speaker 1: an inferior team on paper for your team, not on
Speaker 1: the night. So I've seen this before. And then, Craig,
Speaker 1: you know what, please no, no, you know what. There's
Speaker 1: many a prop forwards out there, far better, more informed
Speaker 1: than Stefano, who could have done a better job. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's the South Sydney and the South Sydnea front row
Speaker 1: who is injured unfortunately, and the West Tigers are front roller.
Speaker 1: I don't want to mention their names. We all know
Speaker 1: their names. Who's ready, willing and enable, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what he's done. I don't know what he's done
Speaker 1: in the in previous years for them to be alienated
Speaker 1: from the team. But for me, he should have been blue. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we move on. I want to talk about last Thursday,
Speaker 1: we saw the game of the year penri Fate six
Speaker 1: Canary Banks Sound six. What a game, What a game.
Speaker 1: I was sitting down on the lounge enthralled. I was wrapped.
Speaker 1: I was wrapped up so much into this game. I
Speaker 1: can't explain to you. It had everything. There's nothing nothing
Speaker 1: this game. There's nothing that this game didn't have. Every
Speaker 1: emation went through my body. The two teams match up stylistically.
Speaker 1: They do it in different ways, but they have the
Speaker 1: same result because they want balling, balling play. Look, Penrith
Speaker 1: with Ivan Cleary played it like every like every other
Speaker 1: team plays Canterbury, straight up the middle, straight up the middle.
Speaker 1: They just attacked Canterbury behind that ruck and off the
Speaker 1: a's continuously, continuously, continuously and can do what they do.
Speaker 1: They move the border to go forward. They might have
Speaker 1: a hit up in the middle, but what they really
Speaker 1: do is they move. They move it left. They move
Speaker 1: it right, they move it left, they move it right
Speaker 1: to go forward, and they kick the ki. They kick
Speaker 1: out Brian. Brian, to my god, the guy's on one leg.
Speaker 1: What he what he does, what he does is amazing.
Speaker 1: I don't think i've in the modern day, I don't
Speaker 1: think I've seen a better winger than him. Now. Uh,
Speaker 1: they were bombing to Brian, and everybody says that they
Speaker 1: were bombing him because they wanted to get over him,
Speaker 1: because he's a short man and they believe that they
Speaker 1: can they could jump over him. I suggest to you
Speaker 1: that that's not why they're bombing at him. The old
Speaker 1: bombing at him because they didn't want Brian to be
Speaker 1: to run it off. Tackle two. The most important tackle
Speaker 1: in the Pendiff system and now the Cannab system as well,
Speaker 1: is the tackle tackle two one two two two three,
Speaker 1: Because you're you're you're getting out, so you go Taho
Speaker 1: two Edwards three maybe af Ford maybe or maybe not
Speaker 1: Afford and you're kicking out, okay, but number two is
Speaker 1: the one that gets you moving forward. For both teams,
Speaker 1: now not not for Cannaby and and for all teams
Speaker 1: are two of them. What is the most important tackle,
Speaker 1: but very very important for for these two teams. And
Speaker 1: of course Penriff penriff and in the pendiff system depends
Speaker 1: on on that. Uh. And that's why I believe I'll
Speaker 1: kicking onto too, Brian tojo. But they got around, They
Speaker 1: got around that, and they're still getting out pretty pretty easily.
Speaker 1: Penriff and the cycle, I couldn't believe the cycle. It
Speaker 1: was a washing machine. They kept the ball in play
Speaker 1: and was just enthralling. Basically, the Bulldogs blinked first and
Speaker 1: that's the only reason they lost. And what I meant
Speaker 1: about that Penriff was willing to grind for eighty minutes,
Speaker 1: to go in the cycle for eighty minutes, to wait
Speaker 1: for the opportunity and the mistake. And yeah, charge down
Speaker 1: is an opportunity and is a mistake because that wasn't that,
Speaker 1: that just didn't happen. I believe that Nathan was looking
Speaker 1: for it here. It was calculated, and that's what makes
Speaker 1: Nathan Nathan. So now it happened to bounce the right
Speaker 1: way into his hands and he scored a try. But
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the lucky you put yourself into so
Speaker 1: outstanding standing. I want I want more, I want more
Speaker 1: of this and in this she in general, the I
Speaker 1: believe the standard of rugby league has dipped a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we get that when when play player movement goes around,
Speaker 1: goes around. That's what the salary cap does. But next
Speaker 1: year I'm expecting her to lift again because the teams
Speaker 1: will be more settled and the standard will raise. I
Speaker 1: want to point out some plays. McLean or McLean, I
Speaker 1: think his name is the young center. He was up
Speaker 1: against the critter. My god, he gave critter everything, and
Speaker 1: you know what, for a nine en year old kid,
Speaker 1: I think he might have even got the points of
Speaker 1: a creator. So I can't wait the next time to play,
Speaker 1: because don't worry, Creator will have that in his memory
Speaker 1: banks and it's going to be some fun. I mentioned
Speaker 1: it and Sexton, and I think Sexton was one of
Speaker 1: the best players. I think Sexton was one of the
Speaker 1: the best players on the on the counter, on the carry,
Speaker 1: banks down the team. But I believe that with Sexton
Speaker 1: we're a chance of making the the big dances, as
Speaker 1: as I call it. But I don't believe with sex
Speaker 1: and we can win the competition. I really don't, because
Speaker 1: I believe halves basically win comps and I think Toby
Speaker 1: he's not quite there. When I think Cannarb. We have
Speaker 1: got to get their interchange right with young Galvin. They're
Speaker 1: either going to have to play him, I think, from
Speaker 1: the start, or put him to reserve rate. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: What they're doing doesn't work. It breaks, It breaks the
Speaker 1: continuity of of the of the attack. If that's what
Speaker 1: they want to do, well they've got to really work
Speaker 1: hard you get it to get it right. Because every
Speaker 1: time they've done that, just just put put it, put
Speaker 1: them out. And because young Galvin doesn't have a long
Speaker 1: kicking game, well we all everybody knows that Burton's going
Speaker 1: to kick, so we just crowded. We just get bodies
Speaker 1: around him, we get numbers to him. Talking about Burton,
Speaker 1: he's another he's another player on the night who had
Speaker 1: an outstanding game. And I've said it, I've said it forever.
Speaker 1: Run Burton, run, just run. You're a big body, just run,
Speaker 1: just run. And that's what he did. And I was
Speaker 1: surprised he didn't score and score and didn't score. Really
Speaker 1: look in terms in terms of numbers, when you look
Speaker 1: at all the stats, Caribby is a Caribby. If you
Speaker 1: didn't watch the game and just saw all the stats.
Speaker 1: You'd say, how much you carry win by the meters
Speaker 1: the kicking meters. Canary had had it all in there
Speaker 1: in in their favor. The only thing they didn't have
Speaker 1: in their in their favor is the experience and just
Speaker 1: the grid of Penrith. They know what they're doing and
Speaker 1: that's what they do and they invented that style, and
Speaker 1: you know what, the first half of the season they
Speaker 1: lost it, but they got it back. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they're back, but they're alive and that's all
Speaker 1: they need to be alive at this moment. Now are
Speaker 1: they everybody's talking now they're going to win the camp.
Speaker 1: All these magazine shows and commentators are saying, oh, they're
Speaker 1: back and they're going to be top four. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about that. I don't I don't think they are.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great build, stepping stone, a great
Speaker 1: building block for next season. But again, stranger things have
Speaker 1: happened in this club and this coach and this system
Speaker 1: is pretty unique. So yeah, I loved and I want
Speaker 1: and I want more, Uh West Tigers. At the moment,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit, a little bit of chat around
Speaker 1: West Tigers, and I'm going to make it really short
Speaker 1: and sweet on this one. And the talk is about
Speaker 1: Benji Marshall obviously, and I'm a massive fan of my father.
Speaker 1: I've spoke about, spoke about it before. And the part
Speaker 1: my father is a West Tiger's fan tragic actually, and
Speaker 1: he's hurt me a little bit again because he thought
Speaker 1: so the year they were sort of back and I
Speaker 1: thought they were. I thought they were on the right
Speaker 1: track and backers. Well, but I'm going to make it
Speaker 1: very clear, Benji Marshall is not first grade coach. Benji
Speaker 1: Marshall has been coaching for two maybe three seasons, not
Speaker 1: enough of an apprenticeship to run and to man manage
Speaker 1: first grade team. I'm not I'm not talking about the
Speaker 1: x's and the a's. I'm sure he's very good the
Speaker 1: x's and o's very good and the people who has
Speaker 1: got around him, because coaches really don't coach ex's and o's.
Speaker 1: Maybe they give the assistance the assistant coaches, their their theories,
Speaker 1: what they want, what they want to get out of
Speaker 1: the games are the soule they want to play, but
Speaker 1: they don't really really do that much coaching. What they
Speaker 1: do do is man managed. Now we've heard stories about
Speaker 1: there's a senior click in the West Tigers. We've heard
Speaker 1: about Jerome and Happy being tight with Benji, and look
Speaker 1: so should so they should be. But I mean Wayne
Speaker 1: Bennett because he's so experienced, he knows how to have
Speaker 1: this click with he senior players and to show everybody
Speaker 1: else love and care. So for Benji. The minute you
Speaker 1: signed Benji, you knew it was going to be a
Speaker 1: five year project. He'll take him another three years, I'd say,
Speaker 1: for him to become a first grade coach, and then
Speaker 1: he'll start building a team and a genuine roster. Now
Speaker 1: he got rid of He got rid of the young hooker,
Speaker 1: which his name elses me at the moment we all
Speaker 1: know him. I would have kept him. And I know
Speaker 1: you want to win now. I know you want to
Speaker 1: win now, and I know Appy, Appy, he's still at
Speaker 1: his best. But you could split them, you could split
Speaker 1: them minutes with him and tell him that listen, in
Speaker 1: a year or two, you're going to be my main hooker.
Speaker 1: I think it was wrong getting rid of the young man.
Speaker 1: And again I forget his name. I find his name
Speaker 1: in the minute anyway, So that's uh, that's the West Tigers.
Speaker 1: And it hurts me as well. It hurts me as
Speaker 1: well because I'm a I'm a fan because of my father.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. But let me tell you the game
Speaker 1: they played. The game they played was diabolical and over
Speaker 1: the weekend. Sorry, I'm just trying to find his name.
Speaker 1: A sorry, talent to silver, that's the talent of Silver
Speaker 1: that that game, mainly versus West, was one of the
Speaker 1: worst games I've seen in my life. That's how bad
Speaker 1: it was, especially the first half. Anyway, moving on, let's
Speaker 1: go to uh, let's go, let's go Super League and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, let's go, let's go nrl W. And
Speaker 1: they start tonight and we'll be following it on the
Speaker 1: on the main program, and they forget the whole game.
Speaker 1: Will be back next Thursday after Origin, and we'll dissect
Speaker 1: the game. And I can't wait to see the whole
Speaker 1: gang back together and talking a little bit of regular league. Tonight,
Speaker 1: the Sharks play the Eels and I can't wait. I
Speaker 1: can't I love my nraal W. And we'll talk further
Speaker 1: about the nral W. But obviously we've got two new teams,
Speaker 1: are the Wars the Warriors and the Bulldogs and we
Speaker 1: really don't know what to expect from them. On paper,
Speaker 1: they that doesn't look that bad, but you can't go
Speaker 1: away from the Sharks and the Broncos absolutely stacked. My
Speaker 1: favorite team or my team, the Eels, and my favorite
Speaker 1: players on that team, Aby Church, and we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about them a little We'll talking about nrl W a
Speaker 1: little bit more comprehensively next week, see their first games
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it a little bit more. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping gets involved as well. And let's wrap up with
Speaker 1: a little bit of Super League and it's getting interesting
Speaker 1: in England. Saint Helen's fifty eight, Salford zero and Sulfur
Speaker 1: just goes from bad worse Warrington, Big Sam's team twenty
Speaker 1: four FC and that's John cart Right's team ten, hll
Speaker 1: KR thirty four, Trinity ten, Wigan twenty six, Castleford twenty.
Speaker 1: They won on one last minute, last set, the last
Speaker 1: set the last minute, scored a try and won the game.
Speaker 1: And I'd say Castle for probably with a better team
Speaker 1: for about seventy eight minutes. And that's the way it
Speaker 1: goes in England, and that's what we can do. Leeds
Speaker 1: forty eight, the Lee Leopards, the team with the uglis
Speaker 1: jersey in the world and the Pots team thirty and
Speaker 1: Brad Arthur should be somewhere in Sydney or Queensland, not
Speaker 1: in England, because he's done a marldless marvelous job in
Speaker 1: marless job in England, the table, the top six, a
Speaker 1: whole KR thirty coach Willie Peters. He should be somewhere
Speaker 1: in Australia coaching because he's too good for England. He's
Speaker 1: picked up a roster a couple of years ago which
Speaker 1: was poor and he's slowly making them into a superpower.
Speaker 1: Wigan twenty six Leeds again, that's Brad Arthur's team, twenty
Speaker 1: two Lee Leopards twenty one Saint Helen's having a poor
Speaker 1: season for their for that club and they're looking to
Speaker 1: shed ten to twelve players for next year. Twenty Hull
Speaker 1: Left c which is John Cartwright's team and last year
Speaker 1: they didn't perform very well, but he's got him into
Speaker 1: their six at seventeen. And from that of interest, Big
Speaker 1: Sammy's team Warrington. They're eighth on fourteen and I think
Speaker 1: Sammy's again learning to be an NRL coach because last
Speaker 1: year they're flying, they top top three, and this year
Speaker 1: they've come down with some like some concerns. But I'm
Speaker 1: sure he will get over, he will become a better
Speaker 1: coach and we'll see Big Sammy in Australia somewhere, and
Speaker 1: that's it. I hope I didn't bore us too much.
Speaker 1: Is the first time I did this solo, and I'm
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable. I'm more sideline. I I missed Big Nicol
Speaker 1: and the Queensland Correspondent t they forget Thursday after Origin.
Speaker 1: Well we'll get together again, dissect the Origin game and
Speaker 1: we'll have our thoughts about Origin. I hope I didn't
Speaker 1: bore you, and happy rugby league from me. Good Bye bye,