Tension's Running High E89 - Big Nathan Cleary news, plus Ivan Cleary's milestone

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Now it's time for us Tensions Running High of Penrith
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Panthers podcast presented by The Western Weekend, brought to you
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by Penrith City Automotive, Ki's Troy Darts and Nathan Taylor.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Tensions Running High of Penrith
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Panthers Podcast presented by The Western Weekend. This is episode
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eighty nine. I'm Troy Dodds joined by Nathan Taylor. How
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are Nathan Troy? We are the boys of rugby league
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in Penrith. We love talking all things Penrith Panthers. For
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Panthers coverage here in Penrith and we've covered six premierships,
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the agenda today, Ivan Cleary's five hundredth game. Why I
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think the Panthers and Nathan Cleary are playing everyone for fools?
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Around his future anyway? Scott Sorenson joins US plus we
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preview the Panthers Storm showdown. But let's get underwagh and Nathan.
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It is a milestone week for Ivan Cleary. I think
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he tried to push this one under the radar, but
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not so because we've got tributes from Peter Balandi's, from
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media stories everywhere. Ivan Cleary are five hundredth game. Just
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the seventh coach to achieve that milestone.
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Yeah, and the first Penrith coach. I guess for a
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long time. Tim Sheens is on the list, but current
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Penrith coach. It is a huge milestone. Spoke to Scott
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Sorenson today which you'll hear him on the show later.
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He has had nothing but glowing review of Ivan Cleary,
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so he's going to miss him very much as his
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coach when he goes to Perth next year. And that
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Ivan gets a little bit embarrassed about these milestones and whatnot,
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but I think it's a well deserved thing to celebrate
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because as we know, coaches don't really have a good
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track record, some of them that don't last fifty games
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or one hundred games, So to get to five hundred
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is huge.
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Well, I think, particularly given you look at the circumstances,
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like if you look at all those other coaches, so
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the ones on the list, Wayne Bennett, Craig Bellamy, Ricky Stewart,
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Brian Smith, Tim Sheen's, Des haslus so all premiership winners
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apart from Brian Smith. But in saying that, Brian Smith
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took obviously the Eels to a Grand final. He was
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always up there with finals and whatnot. The others all
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had success pretty early in their career. So Wayne Bennett
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obviously built the Broncos and in the early nineties there
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Craig Bellamy was four or five years in when he
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won the Grand final that was ultimately reversed, but you know,
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it is what it is. Tim Sheen's of course took
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Canberra first Grand final there in the eighties. Des Hasler
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he won a comp with Manly. Of course, Ricky Stewart
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one of his first year. I haven't had to wait
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fifteen years since he started with the Warriors to actually
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win the title. So that's what makes it even more
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extraordinary that he's managed to survive all that time.
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Yeah, and he survived two stints at the Panthers as well.
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Don't forget he had one was it three or four
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years he had with us initially and then got the
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punt went to the Tigers of course for two seasons
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and then was recruited to come back to Penrith and
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finish the job. And he certainly, he certainly has done that.
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And we've got another whole year left with him before
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he actually least for good, and maybe he'll never add
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to that tally again.
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This is his twentieth season as a coach. Of course,
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he skipped a year twenty sixteen where he didn't coach
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anyone as a result of Yes, he was tired, so
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he was having a rest, and then he came back,
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of course and coached the Tigers. The win percentages are interesting.
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Fifty percent win record with the Warriors the Tigers forty two, which,
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to be honest pretty good. Probably is pretty good for
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the Tigers. Yeah, and a win percentage of sixty three
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percent at Penrith. So it's been what the achievement now.
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Ivan held his mandatory pre match press conference on Sunday, Sunday,
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which is very round. I suspect was trying to make
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sure everything just went under the radar. Maybe he thought
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that the city journo's you know, still recovering from a
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big Saturday night or something and wouldn't come out, but
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a few of them did and the story he sort
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of got out there a bit more.
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Yeah, exactly right, Just for people that don't know that,
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you know, the pre match sort of press conference arrive
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and should be really the day before the game, and
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it often is so to hold it on five days
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before the game, and on a Sunday of all days
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as well. They probably would have thought, you know, there
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wouldn't be too many people showing up, but there were
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some big guns there and they somehow got wind of
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the five hundreds games milestone and sort of made clear
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feel a little bit uncomfortable. Actually, sort of as I
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said earlier, he doesn't really know how to handle these
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milestone things. He doesn't make it about him these you know,
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his job, says he said to some of the journals,
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is just a job for me, you know. So, Yeah,
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it was interesting.
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I think he looked every bit of a coach. He's
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lost two crucial games in a row.
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Yeah, it was sheepish.
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Yeah, he wasn't thrilled to be having to do a
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press conference, as I'm getting most coaches are just on that.
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We probably will do an episode on this maybe in
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the in the future. What should the NRL tweak as
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far as its media policy is concerned, because that is
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something that should be tweat the coach would be talking
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the day before the game, no matter what, Oh.
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For sure, because you know a lot of the team
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lists would already been out by then, so at least
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you can talk about some of the team changes and whatnot.
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There could be some late withdrawals, some injuries and things
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like that, but you know waiting, you know, five days
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in between, which is I don't think there is a rule.
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As long as the coach speaks before the game, then
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that's what you get.
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Well, he spoke closer to the Panthers Roosters loss than
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he did to the actual game that we're supposed to
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be previewing. But I reckon, if you went back in
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time and this is just one of the fun vibe
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and I guess you know that he's dealt with with
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media managers and you looked at Ivan's pre match presses,
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I reckon he could come up with a great list
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of some of the most random times and locations, random
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airports that you know. I don't think anyone would be
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interested in him in doing an Ivan Cleary press conference
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that he hasn't quite gone down the des Hasler route.
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Remember Dez was putting on presses at six thirty and
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things like that. He hasn't done that. He hasn't made this,
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made any of the churneys jump on the end.
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He probably right now or a year to go in
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his tenure.
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No, No, there's been a big tribute from the a
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r L. I guess he's the chairman and interim ce.
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What's he calling him something?
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He's the NRL god Yeah, the man, the godfather of rugby,
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the man who will implement maybe a third place playoff
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in rugby league this year.
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And he's put it out his own tribute to Ivan Cleary.
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He has this morning, Pete said, I have always admired
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Ivan's ability to remain calm and clear headed in the intense,
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high pressure environment of rugby league. He's thoughtful leadership, exceptional
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man management and capacity to command respect have established him
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as one of the greatest coaches in nural history. His
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impact on the game is undeniable. Guiding the Penwrith Panthers
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to four consecutive premierships from two thousand and one to
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two thousand and four stands as one of the defining
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achievements of the modern era. While he's Daily and Coach
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of the Year awards in twenty fourteen and twenty twenty
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further reflects his outstanding coaching ability.
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So isn't it incredible that he's only won Coach of
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the Year once during this era? And it wasn't even
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in the year that pedic.
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Because the coach of the year that's just a whole
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other most bait, isn't it. It's always the most improved
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on the great justice, the whole line.
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Justin Holbrook, WI get it this year? You reckon? I reckon?
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He will? I reckon he will. He has taken Newcastle
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from a wooden spoon.
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Did Sticky get it?
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You should have? He should? He probably should have, but
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I'm not sure. I mean maybe ivn' should have got it.
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Last year from that that's true, Robert.
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But you know there were seasons in there like that
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twenty twenty two season. How is Ivan not the coach
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of the year.
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But the whole club won everything?
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You've got to look at also, you know what are
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you actually looking at in that award? Because Ivant has
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often lost assistance. He's guided teams through origin periods, he's
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been crafty, we've rested like he's been You know, doing
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everything you'd expect a coach of the year to do,
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but there's only one. It's in years that Peneith haven't
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won the cop.
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Yeah, but it's like that in all all sports, Troy.
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I follow the NBA a lot, and the same thing
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doesn't matter if the coach has won seventy games in
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the season, they'll give it to the one that's that's
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finally got the team into the playoffs for the first time.
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It's a weird reward.
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It is, all right, Well, I've in Cleary, He's five
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hundredth game and look, it's interesting when you look back
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on Penrith coaches. Ivan will now go down as the
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greatest Penrith coach of all time. We'll probably never see
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another Penrith coach win four titles like that and have
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such a dominant era.
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You don't think Peter Wallace can do it, Troy.
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I think Peter Wallace can win a competition, maybe even too.
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But I don't know if you know, we had to
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wait what seventy years for a team to win four
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comson a row. Again, we might be waiting another seventy.
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We'll be dead.
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Yeah, we won't be here all right now? From father
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to son. As we move on to Nathan Clearing. Now,
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what's interesting about Nathan Cleary at the moment is that
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all the big journals, so your Danny Widler's of the World,
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Dadam Pengelly, chie Richie, they are all convinced and all
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telling you as fans that Nathan has not even open
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discussions with Penrith about re signing, that he you know,
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he's not entertaining it. Therefore he's probably going to go
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to November one and all of this. Now, I actually
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don't think that's correct, because I've got pretty good information
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that I've had for a few weeks now that I've
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been telling you and others and whatnot, that that Nathan
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has been negotiating with Penrith, and the in fact that
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I reckon a deal is a lot closer than people think.
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And I just wonder hear a Penrith and Nathan Cleary
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just playing the journals for fools here, and like, you know,
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are they contributing in some ways to pretending that there's
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nothing happening in behind the scenes they're just doing this deal.
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Because I will say this, the journos who claimed to
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have this information, that's oh, you know, Nathan's decided not
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to talk yet doesn't want to open discussions. You know,
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those journos didn't have any heads up or any knowledge
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about Ivan Cleary going to announce his he's stepping down
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at the end of twenty twenty seven. In fact, when
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he announced that, a lot of the journals thought he
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was re signing that morning, but no, he wasn't. They
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weren't aware, seemingly of the NRL's leading tri score at
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Tom Jenkins resigning. The Panther has just dropped that on
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a Friday night. Casey McLean, Paul lower Moddi both just
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recently resigned. There was no like, oh, we've got that first.
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So Brian going to Random on a Monday leaving, we
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didn't know he was in a seven day correct, you
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know window correct.
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So the journos have had no knowledge of all of
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those Penrith stories, not a single one of them. Did
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they break, did they have some whispers of? And yet
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the fans are expected to believe that on the biggest
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one on the Nathan Cleary resigning, Oh, they're in the No,
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you know, there there's no talks, no discussions. You know,
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it's just not happening. Yet he's probably going to November one, Like, seriously.
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No, it's laughable, Troy, and I just wanted to reiterate
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that that is a huge scoop. Troy. You're saying that
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Nathan Cleary has has already started speaking with the Panthers,
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despite we're hearing out there in the podcast world or
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the TV world saying that he's not ready to sit
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down with them. You're saying that he has already sat
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down with them.
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Yeah, I believe that several weeks ago even the discussions.
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In fact, even longer than that. I think discussions have
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actually been happening for some time.
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And this is ridiculous.
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Between Nathan's management and Panthers. Now, is Nathan Cleary in
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Shane Elford and Matt Cameron's office, you know, going through
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fine a detail? I don't know, Probably not, don't. I'm
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guessing that's not how it's it's kind of works, But yes,
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they're definitely talking. To suggest that they're not talking is ridiculous,
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and I think there's a there's a key piece of evidence.
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The points to this in some ways is that if
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you're going around re signing the likes of Casey McLean
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when you didn't even need to because he was not
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off contract until the end of twenty twenty eight. Yeah,
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and Paul Alamotti, who we all want to resign, but
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you could probably as well if you're doing those deals.
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I reckon you know where you're at with Nathan and money,
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because otherwise you'd be saying, lng on, what if we
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you know, we don't know where we're going to be
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at here, and maybe let's just hold fire on Paul
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Alamodi all this sort of stuff, you know. So, and
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the meeting has been proven wrong all from the start
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because months ago, when the Jerome lu I thing happened,
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so began the whole big list of Penrith players that
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were off contract, all of them are going to November one,
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and so far about half of them have actually resigned
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before even any potential discussions with the chiefs or anyone
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else for that matter happens.
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Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think I think this
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whole Jet Cleary thing that's sort of bubbling away this
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last week is a very interesting sort of side story
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to all of this, because I've got mon mail to
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suggest that he's that they would love to have him
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at the club to play together and maybe even to
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announce something together. If Nathan stays and Jet comes, then
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this could be a This could be a good double announcement,
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you know. Pampenrith love to sort of remember a few
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years ago, I've Than Clear and Nathan Cleary resigned together
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on the same day and they did a big presser
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was to say that post Grand Final that we don't
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get something similar like before the World Cup starts with
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Nathan and Jet sort of teaming up. I mean, just
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keep your eye on that one in the next few months.
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Yeah, absolutely, Well that was the case, then we would
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see it probably happen post season.
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The Warrior.
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And the Warriors and the Panthers a bit of in
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a battle at the moment for the premiership. So I
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can't imagine anything gets done right now.
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Absolutely. The other thing that I will say on Nathan Cleary,
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and I think this is what people need to think about.
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I actually think everyone's focused on the wrong thing here
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when it comes to Nathan Cleary, and they're focused on money.
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And I understand that. I understand that p Andng's going
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to offer him a two point five million dollars and
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imagine what the Roosters could offer him, and all of
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that sort of stuff, and money is important. Of course,
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Nathan wants to do a good deal for himself. But
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let's just just look at Nathan Cleary for a moment. Okay,
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Unlike a lot of Rugby league players in his position,
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he's not the first person in his family to have
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a big bag balance. You know, he doesn't have this
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responsibility that a lot of those players, like a Brian
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to Jerome Lewie have felt, where this is setting up
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almost an extended family.
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They buy their houses for their pair of houses.
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And paying off houses and doing all this sort of stuff.
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Nathan doesn't have that element to all of this. You know,
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I've doing okay for himself. I don't think Nathan needs
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to go buying him a house, and I'm sure that
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the Cleary's siblings can be well looked after there as
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a result, so Nathan doesn't have that. Nathan's partner, Mary Fowler,
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is on I think six hundred thousand dollars a year
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with Manchester City. I think another almost a quarter of
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a million dollar contract with the Matilda's and then a
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couple of million dollars in endorsements, else.
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Ten year deal with Revlon or one of those makeup brands,
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like a really good, solid ten million, ten year deal
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like Colin jacky Go deal. So he's doing well, yeah,
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is what you're saying.
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All's good there. You know, Nathan's not like I going
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to you know, pull my weight for the family here exactly. Yeah. So,
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and Nathan will just still do a great deal with Penrith.
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He's already done great deals with Penrith, and he's got
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a host of corporate and endorsement deals himself. So the
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suggestion that, you know, and it sounds like a lot
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of money, but the suggestion that Nathan's going to make
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a decision based on a million dollars a year here,
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you know, like I'm making a million more at P
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and G or whatever else, I actually think is completely incorrect.
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I actually think it's I don't know why some of
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those journos and podcasters and everyone who's talking about this
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hasn't just gotten onto that fact that it's not I
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don't think for Nathan it'll be about money. I think
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there'll be other elements of this agreement that he's working out.
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Yeah. Look, I think unless you're a Penrith fan, you'd
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probably love for Nathan Cleary to leave the club and
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go elsewhere, because it sort of evens up the comp
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petition a bit, doesn't it. With Nathan Cleary out of
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the Powerhouse club at Penrith. If he goes elsewhere, he's
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starting from scratch somewhere else and that threat of Penrith
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being a dominant force is gone. So they would probably
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love for him to fly off somewhere else, but also
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try I think he'd love to stay as well. For
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Peter Wallace obviously used to play together. He's been coached
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under Peter Wallace for many years now, and it just
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be very weird that the first year that Peter Wallace
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is in charge of the Panthers after his father leaves,
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that Nathan's going to just leave him and he's stuck
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with you know, some capable halves, I'm sure, but you know,
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I think that's a huge factor as well, and the
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fact that Nathan would like to maybe win a comp
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without his dad and try and do it without Ivan there,
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like that'd be a cool thing for him to achieve
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as well. So there's some other milestones I think that
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Nathan would love to do at Penrith before even remotely
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thinking about going elsewhere. And if he does go elsewhere,
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Like it's unlikely it'd be another in our old club.
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We keep hearing maybe in a few years who will
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go to the super League, But I still think he's
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too young. Cherry Evans is going to go there at
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thirty seven or something. Next year, Nathan's going to go
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there at what thirty one thirty two?
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Plus, there's no guarantee that Mary Fowler is going to
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be playing in England in two years. That's true. A
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whole bunch of different things could happen that completely destroys
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the super League idea. Should we're playing in Spain or something, absolutely, yeah,
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you know, she could be playing here. There could be
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a cash injection for the A League women. Finally we
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see it come to Western Sydney or something like that.
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So look, a whole bunch of things could happen. But
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I just think a few things there. I believe that
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negotiations are underway. I think a dealers closer. You see
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the thing too, that a line imagection.
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I think, Yeah, I think people need to understand that
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Troy is very well connected. Like I know you are, Troy,
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Like you might say you're not, but you are. And
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you've got this male from somewhere that you believe it's
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a solid source, And I would definitely trust you over
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people that have never visited Penrith in years, like people
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that are sprouting things that are that they don't visit,
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they don't come out here. I would know because I'm
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out there every week and I don't see these journos.
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I don't know where who they're talking to.
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Well, there are certain journos that I would be like
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if you know, if Michael Chamis was still at The
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Herald and Chamis was writing that Nathan Cleary hadn't commenced negotiations,
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I'd probably believe it because I'd probably like, I know
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that he is well connected at Panthers. I just think
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that these other journos they haven't, as I said, they
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haven't had their heads up on any of those other stories. Yeah,
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and suddenly they're in the know about this, Like it
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just doesn't make sense. And I would love nothing more
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than for Penis to pull their pants down and announce
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this without anyone knowing about it. It would just be
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sensational if they were able to do that. Do you
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think they will do it with the big glittering press conference?
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Yes?
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Yeah, Okay, Oh, I think it'll be huge. Yes, we're
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not going to see just a little press release come out.
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You wouldn't think so, would you try some the most
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the best player in the world just gets a press release?
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No, no, no, you know what, I'd like to see
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them do announce it on the nerv cart right metal
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night in front of actually you know, fans, sponsors and
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do it then and then they can just put out
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a press release.
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But then, yeah, that'd be a good idea.
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They will handle the interviews obviously because we'll be all right,
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but look, I over it and Nathan, they're always in
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the headlines and they stay there. So we'll see what
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and heading to Melbourne Thursday night. Panthers the Melbourne seven
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to fifty pm at Amy Park. Now Pendrith put fifty
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on Melbourne earlier this year. Will we do it again?
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No, so something is certain. Thing has happened to their
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attack in the past three weeks. When last time we
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saw them score some points was against the Raiders and
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down in Mudgie. But no, I don't think we're going
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to get a fifty point thrashing like we did earlier
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this year, and you're obviously flying down as well.
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Troy am yet looking forward to celebrating Ivans five hundreds
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with him. Yeah good, and they're in Melbourne. But look,
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the Storm obviously can't make the eight. We know that.
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Well, mathematically they can, Troy as you know, yes they can.
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I did see Kevin Munster suggest that in the press
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conference yesterday where he said, oh, the results go our way,
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but look they're not making the eight, but they can
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certainly prove this. I will say this, I don't think
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that you know, I'm not too concerned about Penrith losing
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those last two games. The Warriors game probably worries me
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more than the Rooster's game. I think the Roosters, you know,
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twelve six great game ball in play, a lot, our
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defense held up, just slacking something there in attack. But
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we do need to fix this over the next three weeks.
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We do need to get back on track. And I
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think there's a great opportunity here playing three teams that
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probably won't be in the eight, to just get it
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done in the next three weeks and come in firing.
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Yeah, it's hard to know what the problem is and
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you'll hear from Scott Sorenson soon. I did ask him
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about the attack and he did explain it. But you know,
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it could be down to just troops, Troy. We have
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had a lot of changes in the side, some really
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big changes as well, you know, not just Isaeo. Of course.
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Last week I thought Linda Smith did did a pretty
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good job. But he's he's not Isaiaho just yet in
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that position. Of course. Freddie Lassick maybe his time is
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sort of slowly coming to an end as the whole
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at the Panthers in the NRL at the time being.
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I got told today how very exceptionally talented journalist Emily
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was down at training today interviewing some players. You spoke
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to Mitch Kenny and he's confirmed to her, and I
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think he's confirmed to some others that he will be
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back for that Tiger's game just before the final, So
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pending nothing else goes wrong with his rehabilitation, we're getting
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Mitch Kenny back in a few weeks time, which is
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good because I think they rely on him in case McLean.
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We're recording this before the episode has dropped, before the
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team has dropped today, Troy, but we're all expecting him
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to be there in some capacity this week as well.
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So I think having those troops back will definitely help
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with the attack and just everything will be humming a
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little bit better, I think.
478
00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:47.839
Yeah. And look, I think that you know, it's a
479
00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:51.640
different beast playing Melbourne, the Dogs and the Tigers and
480
00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:53.480
what we've faced in the last two weeks. I mean,
481
00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.359
probably the Warriors and the Rooster's best performances of the
482
00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:59.279
season come up against Penrith and look, there's a lot
483
00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:02.839
to you know, to discuss out of that Rooster's game.
484
00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.119
I mean, you know that they went out the Roosters
485
00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.599
really went after Nathan Cleary in terms of their line speed,
486
00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.319
probably offside a lot of the time. I saw Ben Gardner,
487
00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:17.079
the other the incoming Perth Bears assistant coach. He was,
488
00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:19.279
you know, he does the media rounds on a Monday.
489
00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:21.000
I think he does NRL tonight over on Fox and
490
00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:24.000
Bossy's show on SCN. He was sort of dissecting it
491
00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:25.400
and saying, well, look, they were willing. I think they
492
00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:28.240
gave up five either set restarts or penalties were offside,
493
00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:30.839
but they probably offside you know, a dozen times. Yeah,
494
00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.160
they just did what they needed to do probably took
495
00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:35.039
the risk that well, you know, we're not going to
496
00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:37.319
get penalized every time and shut down Cleary. But I
497
00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:40.599
don't know, it's not as simple as saying shutdown Nathan Cleary.
498
00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:42.720
I don't know if those other teams in Melbourne, Melbourne
499
00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:44.400
in their current form and the Dogs and the Tigers
500
00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:45.599
are shutting down Nathan Cleary.
501
00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:49.640
Yeah, look it it's happened a few times this year
502
00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:52.240
where they've some teams have got under his skin, even
503
00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:53.880
in one of the Origin games as well. I think
504
00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.279
it was a bit a bit like that. But yeah,
505
00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:58.960
look I was I was really disappointed out of that game.
506
00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:02.640
I couldn't believe thirty seven year old daily Cherry Evans
507
00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:06.319
managed to score two tries against us, Like scored the
508
00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.079
first one and then waited another hour of seventy minutes
509
00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:12.200
and scored the match winner. Like, how did we let
510
00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:14.839
that happen? Well, we just exhausted from tackling and I
511
00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:16.640
don't know, Troy, it was just that annoyed me.
512
00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:19.440
Well, you know, maybe he's still a clever guy.
513
00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:20.920
He's got on the freaking Super League in a month
514
00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:25.480
and they crossover, that's theoda. You know, he's one of
515
00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:27.000
the is a full time premiership winner.
516
00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:28.799
Yeah, it is his first try the year he's off
517
00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:31.119
the Newdie run was his first try first year.
518
00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:32.279
I wonder he was so excited.
519
00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:34.160
Yeah, he was very pumped. But of course we've got.
520
00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:35.640
Dylan back as well in that game and I think
521
00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:38.279
he will be better for the run this week coming
522
00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:39.240
up against Melbourne.
523
00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:41.839
So and certainly you know it was a big loss,
524
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:44.359
but that's the first week pen are kind of working
525
00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:44.920
without and.
526
00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:46.599
They didn't have much of a training session either. I
527
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:48.480
think Nathan said after the game we had half a
528
00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.880
training session in the lead up, so their preparations haven't
529
00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:55.240
been good, especially coming into that Rooster's game.
530
00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:57.599
We're talking to preparations. What about this Thursday? Who do
531
00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:01.319
tell me about the Panthers have so Penrith. I've lost
532
00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:05.160
nine at their last eleven Thursday games. That is an
533
00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:08.839
extraordinary statistic when you consider Penrith's overall winning percentage in
534
00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.160
the last five or six years. That they have lost
535
00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:14.039
nine at their last eleven Thursdays. So they've only won
536
00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.000
one Thursday night game this year. I think they won
537
00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:20.119
one last year. Yeah, they do not like Thursday nights.
538
00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:21.920
I don't know what it is. I don't know what
539
00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:22.480
it is either.
540
00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:25.799
It's an odd one, isn't it, because you know they've
541
00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:27.960
been so dominant over this time, and what's the difference
542
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.319
between Thursday and Friday. Maybe it does come down to
543
00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.440
preparation and lack of training sessions and things like that.
544
00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:35.799
It would have to u less it's just some weird,
545
00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:36.920
crazy coincidence.
546
00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:40.720
Yeah, well, look, fingers crossed, it's all back on track
547
00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:43.720
and we get a milestone win for Ivan's five hundredth game.
548
00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:46.480
We don't usually do milestone games very well, do we.
549
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:47.839
Wanight have to go back and see how we went
550
00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:51.160
his hundredth game where he's maybe his four hundreds. If
551
00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:53.279
he had that at Penrith, he would have so we'll
552
00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:56.480
find out. But all right, Panters Melbourne this Thursday night
553
00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:58.640
at seven fifty pm at Amy Park. It is live
554
00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:02.279
on nine and Box League. And yes, I'll be down
555
00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:03.200
there at Amy Park.
556
00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:05.759
So what's the plan are you? What's the plan? You
557
00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:07.000
head down Thursday or.
558
00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:11.000
Down on Thursday? So the issue with the flight, no, hopefully,
559
00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.160
but I'm leaving reasonably early, so hopefully you'll get there
560
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.119
nice and long time and we'll go some dinner somewhere
561
00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:17.160
and then head.
562
00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:19.319
To the Great Have you been to Amy Parker?
563
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:20.599
I have been there once. It's a good.
564
00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:25.599
Ground, isn't it. It's very similar to SeaBus Superstadium. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
565
00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:28.240
it has that similar vibe. Yeah, looking forward to that
566
00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:31.079
and seeing what happens down there on on Thursday night.
567
00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:33.839
All right, Now, you mentioned we talked to Scott Sorenson,
568
00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:36.359
you were you had a chat with him at training today,
569
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:38.319
so's to have listen to that. He is Nathan with
570
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:42.160
Scott Sorenson. Obviously another half full game seemed to have
571
00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:43.839
a couple of those in our own Now, not the
572
00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:45.720
result as you know that you would have wanted, but
573
00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:48.599
would you make the performance overall like.
574
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.480
Just some really good, tough, honest game. Look, you know,
575
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:54.519
I can't not say that.
576
00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:57.880
You know, Thorris thor has played really really well over there.
577
00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:01.400
In New Zealand, you know, and and I thought Ruster
578
00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:03.640
has played a really strong game as well. It's just
579
00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.720
unfortunate that we didn't come up with the result. There's
580
00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:08.599
a few things obviously that we've spoken about where we
581
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:10.839
want to be sharper and be better in certain areas.
582
00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:13.480
You know, It's like we're sitting here with trying to
583
00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:16.119
rehash out or you know, start within your game plan
584
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.440
or anything like that. It's just simple things that we
585
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.160
need to need to do better, and hopefully we can
586
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:24.200
do them and lead into lead that into Thursday night
587
00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:26.000
and hopefully we can result that we want.
588
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.000
Yeah, obviously two tough games, but I haven't said after
589
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:30.720
the match or earlier this week that you sort of
590
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.440
want those games heading into the finals. While you didn't
591
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:35.559
get the win, but still just good to get the hitouts.
592
00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:38.039
And your defense has been pretty rock sold, especially against
593
00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:40.839
the Roosters. Just the attack that you feel that's sort
594
00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:42.440
of dropped off a little bit in the last few weeks.
595
00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.440
Maybe injuries are starting to bite in certain areas, or
596
00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:45.559
I'm not sure we take of it.
597
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.119
Yeah, I'm sure that like all that sort of comes
598
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:50.920
into it. But yeah, I just think it just in
599
00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.240
terms of being attle, like I said before, just a
600
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:55.759
little bit sharper, whether it's moving into position a little
601
00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:57.839
bit earlier, or getting the ball to where it needs
602
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:00.319
to go, just little things like that. So it's not
603
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.880
huge changes or big fixes. It's just yeah, simple fixes.
604
00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.480
So hopefully we can get those right and and we
605
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.599
can do that, you know, like a fortnight before that
606
00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:10.319
when we're playing in.
607
00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:13.559
Muddy, we're doing those Yeah. Yeah, so coming up.
608
00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.759
Against two really good quality sides or at the top
609
00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:19.519
end of the ladder, Yeah, it was a great challenge,
610
00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:21.400
great games, and you know, it's not like we're not
611
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:23.680
sitting here like there was times in the Warriors game
612
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:25.519
when we're going after and had them on the back.
613
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:26.720
Foot as well as the Roosters.
614
00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:29.240
So yeah, hopefully we can do that through the whole
615
00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:31.240
eighty minutes and we can come up with what we will.
616
00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:33.839
Sort of hurt seeing you guys slip from first two
617
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.920
seconds after being up the top for so long.
618
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.640
I know it's sort of as a fan, I was like,
619
00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:39.480
oh jeesus.
620
00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:44.200
Obviously everybody wants to be more without a doubt, But
621
00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:46.160
you know, in terms of being where we are now
622
00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:46.720
to where we were.
623
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:48.400
Last year, I guess you can sort of compare that
624
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:50.599
and be like, I know, yeah, sue where we are
625
00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:53.119
so yeah, look you can you can take it with
626
00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:54.839
a grain of salt, or you can motivate you.
627
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.359
So I feel like, you know, this group, group's definitely motivated,
628
00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:00.519
and I just want to improve from the two weeks.
629
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.200
I've got a few good lessons and hopefully we can
630
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:04.839
do that, you know, in the rest of the week
631
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.000
for the on the training paddock and then take.
632
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:09.400
Do you feel that you're close to getting some guys
633
00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:11.720
back in a few weeks.
634
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:12.240
End of the year.
635
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:14.880
I want everybody back, sure, Yeah, for sure, Yeah.
636
00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:16.680
Yeah, I think I think so, man, I just think,
637
00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:18.480
you know, I was just asked then about you know,
638
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:24.319
so miss Kenny and YOI and or Casey obviously, so yeah,
639
00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:27.119
I'm hoping that, you know, we want to back asap,
640
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.160
but they've all got to plan and process, they have
641
00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:30.839
to trust now.
642
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.279
So yeah, hopefully we get a few more on deck
643
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:33.880
and yeah.
644
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.799
Yeah sure, Storm on Thursdays are weird when I say
645
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.640
that they're not making the finals this year, Like, it
646
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:41.599
still sounds crazy to me hearing that as a player
647
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:43.799
who's had so many battles with them since you've come
648
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:44.359
to the club.
649
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:46.039
Is weird knowing that they're not going to be there
650
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:46.400
this year.
651
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:49.519
It is shocking a little bit.
652
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:51.039
But you're kind of like where you where you look
653
00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:52.880
at Melbourne, they're always up in the top to top
654
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.039
four without a doubt, and I know they would.
655
00:29:55.839 --> 00:30:00.000
They would be disappointed with with you know, the way
656
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.680
they're going. But I think we understand them very much
657
00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:04.839
as a club and a team.
658
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.359
That that's not going to shy away from playing the
659
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.240
way they want to play on Thursday night, and I
660
00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:12.480
absolutely love the challenge against Melbourne, and especially on Thursday
661
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.079
and coming off the back of a few losses.
662
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:17.680
Yeah, look, we just want to focus.
663
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:19.519
On us to play the way we want to play
664
00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:21.359
and go after a result and there's nothing better than
665
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:23.480
versus Melbourne and Melbourne so that'll be up for the
666
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:24.559
big game and I'm.
667
00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:26.480
Sure we will to Just a quick one on Ivans
668
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:28.720
five hundreds because I know I like talking about it.
669
00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:29.799
So I have no idea.
670
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.039
Yeah, Like obviously I think when I started the paper
671
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.680
he was about to do his two hundreds.
672
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.039
So that's how it was. How long I've been at
673
00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:37.759
the Western Weekend before. But you're leaving at the end
674
00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:38.160
of the year.
675
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:39.400
He's leaving it the next year.
676
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.319
But we are you going to miss about Ivan's coaching?
677
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:42.599
I guess when you leave.
678
00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:45.200
Just him as a person man Like I've just been
679
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:49.640
very very fortunate and very very lucky that you know,
680
00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:53.079
I've led on him so many times, not just as
681
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:55.599
a player, because I could go and with the opportunity
682
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:57.799
that I've had with him being my coach here, but
683
00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.079
just as a person like off the field.
684
00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:03.279
And you know, dealing with my family or dealing with things.
685
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.799
Away from football, or conversations around everything, and just so
686
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:12.079
open and honest and caring, and you know, just I'm
687
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:14.480
just going to miss just just stay to day conversations,
688
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:16.400
all that sort of stuff.
689
00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:18.920
But yeah, I just love to get the win for
690
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:21.839
him on Thursday night. Were pretty cool. But I just like,
691
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:24.559
I honestly don't have enough time or enough good things.
692
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.599
To say about him. As you said, such a humble
693
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.960
and funny I'm just picturing him listening to this, just laughing.
694
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:34.799
But yeah, I'm just forever grateful for him as my coach,
695
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.559
as a role model, as a leader. Man, I just
696
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:40.960
don't have enough time to say say enough good things
697
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:41.559
about him.
698
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:42.119
Very grateful.
699
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.200
I'm good mates with my boss, sort of be friends
700
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:45.599
with them.
701
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:45.960
With your boss.
702
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:47.880
You feel like you have that.
703
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.200
I think some of you guys have that with him.
704
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:51.559
Undreds A lot of the boys have been with him,
705
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:54.319
you know, forever, that's right.
706
00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:57.079
So I don't know if it's maybe because I'm a
707
00:31:57.119 --> 00:31:58.680
little bit older, or I feel like I can be
708
00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.480
a little bit more relaxed to be.
709
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.680
Friendly about it and be a little bit honest and
710
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:03.359
open with him.
711
00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:07.240
But yeah, it's cool that you know, you can have
712
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:09.480
that relationship with him and then understand when it's football
713
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:11.279
top chat or football.
714
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:13.480
Like time.
715
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:16.000
Yeah, yes that you know you're dial into that, but
716
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:18.400
away from that, it's nice to have a relationship with
717
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:18.759
that too.
718
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.119
Hopefully you guys so.
719
00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.240
Much, all right, And yes, Scott Thorrenson, Yeah, off to
720
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:26.119
Perth so his last hurrah.
721
00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:28.480
Yeah, I'm going to miss Scott. He's a very good,
722
00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.119
good player to chat too. He always gives you plenty
723
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:33.799
of good quotes and plenty of time as well. He's
724
00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:37.160
not just your typical, you know, cliche sort of guy.
725
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.880
So uh definitely will miss you Scott. Hopefully Cane another
726
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:41.160
chat in before the end of the year.
727
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.599
Yeah, absolutely all right. Now time for our new segment
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00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.200
Rugby League recommendation. This every single week now. It could
729
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.359
be anything. It could be you know, something anything to
730
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.160
do with rugby league, could be somewhere your shop, could
731
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:55.960
be a podcast.
732
00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:57.200
I can't wait for you to hear.
733
00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:01.000
It would be anything. So it doesn't there's no nothing
734
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:04.039
is off limits. As far as that is concerned. So
735
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:06.440
we let's start with mine. I am going to go
736
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.920
with a podcast Nathan for mine, so and I'm actually
737
00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:11.759
going to go a bit a bit off guilty here,
738
00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:14.279
and it's the chiming In podcast.
739
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:16.240
I've heard of it, I haven't listened to it. No,
740
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:17.079
so chiming In.
741
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.720
Steve Chimes is a player manager, but he's also managed
742
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.799
a lot of media figures over the years. So for
743
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.799
those of us in the media, it's probably an interesting
744
00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:26.759
one when you can hear from sort of Darryl Browman
745
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:30.240
and Buzz has been on there. Dean Richie was on
746
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:33.000
there just last week, so you can that would have
747
00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:36.519
been a thrilling episode, a great episode. Yep. So I
748
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:38.440
watch it on YouTube, so I don't listen to it,
749
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:40.400
but I watched it on YouTube, and I think it's
750
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.079
a it's it's a good podcast. It's where someone like
751
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:47.119
James Hooper, I think Kenty did it as well, sort
752
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:50.119
of broke their sort of you know, media silence after
753
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:53.400
all their scandals and whatnot. I think Danny Whidler might
754
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:54.200
have been on it as well.
755
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:55.680
They get the players on there.
756
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:58.559
I don't think there's any current players on there. Now
757
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.319
he's had a lot of sort of different sort of
758
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:05.759
sporting people who retired things like that, But yet it's
759
00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:08.800
called chiming in. And I think just you know, Steve
760
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:11.239
Chimes used to be a journalist back in the day,
761
00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:14.639
so I think he sort of knows questions to ask.
762
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.719
So is her recognizable face if we saw him walking
763
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.280
through the plaza or something like.
764
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.000
Oh, that's well, you know, I think i'd know that.
765
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.800
Peter Sharp was on there a little while ago, the
766
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.079
old manly mainly coach. Laurie Daily was just on there. Recently,
767
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.280
Paul Kent, Ashton Simms was on there. Phil Gould was
768
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:35.400
on there. Steve is his name, Steve Gillis. That's right, yep,
769
00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:42.000
James super Jake friend. So Todd Carney was on there,
770
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.159
not the Maavy, the other Todd Carney, Jack de Bellen
771
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.320
of course. So he's got he's had some good people
772
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:51.559
on there that have corner he's got. Roy was on there,
773
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.840
Lara Pitt actually her, it was really really good, Lara
774
00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:57.519
Pitt from Fox League. So have a listen to that
775
00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:59.679
and and see what you've.
776
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:01.280
Good tip, Troy, that's a very good tip.
777
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:02.760
What's your regular recommendation?
778
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:06.159
Well, Troy Mine Stadium food. And this is something I
779
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:09.079
discovered this year because sometimes you're like, you go to
780
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:11.000
the games and you don't want something. You know, it's
781
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.159
hard to find something, whether they got really over prized
782
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:17.159
burgers or black Panther hot dogs which apparently are awful,
783
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:21.239
plus all your you know, your chips and pies. Would
784
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:22.880
you eat when you're at the stadium.
785
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.960
No, I know, we try and go to the pub beforehand,
786
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:28.039
so you'll never just pick up a Garlos pies or
787
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:30.880
or something and try and avoid it.
788
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.320
Well, I discovered a really good what would you call
789
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:38.840
it a rap this year, a rap down at Kombank Stadium.
790
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:42.480
I've gotten it probably three times now, okay, if but
791
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.960
you know, if I need some dinner or something like that,
792
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:50.639
it's a flaffle rap. What Yeah, I knew, I knew
793
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.880
you would judge me for this. Yes, a combat Combank stadia.
794
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:56.920
They don't make many of them, but they're in, but
795
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.599
they're in you know, your normal kiosk areas there where
796
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.320
you got your pies and hot dogs. And sometimes they'll
797
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:04.119
they'll shoot down a fluff or.
798
00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.559
Rap and what if you're in luck you've never sold
799
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.000
out of them?
800
00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:10.519
No, No, there's always one they're waiting for me. It's warm,
801
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:12.239
it's it's sort of like a kebab sort of in
802
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:14.880
a way, but it's like a little fluffles in there
803
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:18.079
and it's got a beautiful like garlicy sauce and it's delicious.
804
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:20.800
So if you if you're on a health kick like me,
805
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:23.320
or you just want something a little bit healthier at
806
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:26.840
the football, fluff or rap beautiful if not, there's a
807
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:30.519
sneaky old Janna at com Banksta. It's in a weird
808
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:33.559
part of the stadium, which I don't really frequent, but
809
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:36.159
it's there. You're turning your nose up.
810
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.280
You don't like I like Elja. I just don't. I
811
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:41.719
can't imagine Oljanna at a stadium just doing it for me,
812
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:41.960
you know.
813
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:43.480
Well, they think they do a lot of like the
814
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:47.440
fried like the not the stuff like that, yeah, or
815
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:50.599
like the fried chicken burgers and stuff, yea, rather than
816
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:51.559
the charcoal chicken.
817
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.679
How much more expensive is it do you reckon than
818
00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:54.800
discussing High Street?
819
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.039
It'd be double for sure. I don't know for sure,
820
00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:57.960
but i'd say so.
821
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.559
I wonder when we'll get the confirmation of what food
822
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:04.480
outlets we will have at the new Penrith Stadium. We'd
823
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:05.000
hope to get them.
824
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.480
I'm sure when they announce it, we won't find out first, Troy,
825
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.239
because every other announcement that's happened over at hollow World
826
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:11.960
Stadium this year, we've been the last to know.
827
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.079
How about cheese toasting? Do you think they'll be back?
828
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:18.000
Look, I don't know. I don't know they're going to
829
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.360
have rooms for food trucks there is Is it going
830
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:22.159
to be that sort of stadium or could they have
831
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:24.400
it in the precincts Potentially you get a cheese toasty
832
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:25.000
as you come in.
833
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.119
Yeah, just like mister Whippie's there at Comic.
834
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.199
What would you like at Halloworld Stadium? If you could
835
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:31.440
have an out?
836
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:36.440
Then what do we get? Yeah? That's interesting question. Yeah, Look,
837
00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:40.079
I think I think somewhere we'd like like a nice
838
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.599
you know, the stadium. Burgers just don't do it, either
839
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.159
smash Burger or something. You know, we're like a burgerhead
840
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:48.880
or something. Yeah, maybe get Burgerhead in there. Downtown Brooklyn.
841
00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:50.760
What are they doing? I parked in one of their
842
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.400
parking spots the other day because they're closed. They're closed. Yeah,
843
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:56.159
once and for all just a little. There's a regularly
844
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:57.800
recommendation for you if you need to park at that
845
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.920
endo high streets parking there. Why did you go up
846
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:02.400
that in a high street for I had a little
847
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.360
meeting up there. Okay, fair enough to be there, then
848
00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:08.360
you can just park there. Good idea.
849
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:10.960
I'd like a red rooster, Troy, I think remember I
850
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:13.239
saw I saw one at Sea Bus and I'm like, hell,
851
00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:14.280
that's a great idea.
852
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:18.920
Yep. What about in the Indian restaurant some little of
853
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:25.119
chicken chicken and it'd be great. Or Mexican Mexican well being?
854
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:27.960
Being at a stadium named after a travel company, you
855
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.159
think you should have some foods in the world.
856
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:33.239
Yeah, absolutely, all right, all right, it's time for what
857
00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:40.000
Where are they now? All right? Nathan, Now, I think
858
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:42.719
we're doing a coaches edition of Where are They Now?
859
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:45.800
Yes, we are doing the coaches edition, Troy. Obviously, it's
860
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:50.320
celebrating Ivan Cleary's five hundredth NRL game. I thought we
861
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.440
would look back on some ex Penrith coaches and see
862
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:56.039
what they're up to. So the first one is Tim Sheen's, Troy,
863
00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:59.000
good old Tim chen Sheen's. The second one is Matt
864
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.519
Elliott yep. And the third one good mate of ours, Troy,
865
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:05.440
is Anthony hook Griffin. Who would you like?
866
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.280
Well, I already know what Matt Elliott's doing. Tim Sheen's Well,
867
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:10.920
you know, I don't really care what he's doing.
868
00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:12.280
Time a village Somewhere's go.
869
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:14.800
With Anthony Griffin's what's what's the great hook up to?
870
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:17.079
Well, funny you should ask Troy. I've actually got all
871
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:19.559
of those details here for you. So firstly, I'll give
872
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.599
you a bit of background on his Penrith history. First, So,
873
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:25.199
when Anthony Griffin was at the club between twenty sixteen
874
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:29.360
and twenty eighteen, He's coached seventy two games, finishing with
875
00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:32.079
forty two wins and thirty losses for a fifty eight
876
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:33.280
point three win percentage.
877
00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:36.800
Not bad a win percentage probably shouldn't get you fired
878
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.039
a few weeks out from the final.
879
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:41.159
Exactly right. So he reached the semifinals in twenty sixteen
880
00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:43.519
and twenty seventeen, and in twenty eighteen he was heading
881
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:46.199
that way. He had fifteen wins and nine losses before
882
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:49.280
Gusk got a bit upset with him and decided to
883
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.719
sack him four weeks out while Penrith was sitting in fifth.
884
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:56.960
Yep, crazy like one of the more bizarre coach sackings do.
885
00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:59.239
We probably actually haven't heard all the details of to
886
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.000
be honest, I don't think will ever will I guess,
887
00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:02.559
I mean unless he writes a book.
888
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:05.840
But I remember that year being quite frustrating for fans.
889
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:08.360
In particular, it was that year that that Penrith are
890
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:10.159
always down in matches but then would come back right
891
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:13.519
at the end and win a lot of exciting sighting games.
892
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:17.159
But maybe that didn't agree with Guss's philosophy too well.
893
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.320
So gone was Anthony Griffin, and as we know, he
894
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.559
left Penrith and eventually made his way to Saint George
895
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:26.199
la Warra, where he coached there for quite a few years.
896
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:29.000
Actually by memory, yeah, I think he got three seasons.
897
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:30.800
Look pretty good, Yeah, pretty good.
898
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:34.320
He also did some work for like Fox and two
899
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:36.440
GB as well. I believe he did some commentary work.
900
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.320
I think him and Jamie Soward ended up on the
901
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:42.920
airways together and they famously hated each other. Soward hated
902
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:45.920
him like sorry, I'm sure Soward's talking about this many times,
903
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.360
but hated him, but then has since rekindled when they
904
00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:52.000
got back on air and worked together and that was
905
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.119
their relationship. So and then of course he sort of
906
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:57.639
left the rugby league realm and in recent years he
907
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:03.199
actually joined the rugby union in Okay and he he
908
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:06.360
not quite the wall of his No. After finishing up
909
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:09.280
with the Dragons, he initially joined Eastwood so in the
910
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:13.400
shoot Shield in a broader director and alignment role before
911
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:16.239
stepping in to be the first grade head coach for
912
00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:20.000
their for the Eastwood shoot Shield team overseeing play development,
913
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.599
club culture and high performance structures across the club basically.
914
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:27.760
So they're actually playing in the finals this weekend, Troy Eastwood,
915
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.039
So Anthony Griffin will be down there at one of
916
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.320
the random football fields somewhere around Sydney coaching rugby union.
917
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:36.400
Do you think we'll ever see him in the NRL again?
918
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:37.199
No, I wouldn't think.
919
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:37.280
So.
920
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.119
You think that's done And it's interesting that, isn't it.
921
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:42.000
There's so many of those coaches that just had this
922
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:44.280
short stint and then it's done. Well.
923
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:48.239
He was with Brisbane for many years and then he left.
924
00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:50.679
He was was at the Storm as well for a period.
925
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:53.079
He has a good run, but he had a lot
926
00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:54.280
of payouts in his time.
927
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:55.159
I think.
928
00:41:56.920 --> 00:41:59.159
In the end we paid him out and George the
929
00:41:59.239 --> 00:41:59.960
Dragons earlier.
930
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:02.119
Well, yeah, because he always he always could find a
931
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:05.800
res He always could get resigned at some point contract extension. Somehow.
932
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:08.119
Was he very good at convincing aboard that he was
933
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:11.880
the man? I thought the Dragon signing was the weirdest.
934
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:14.800
When the drag when he went there or when they
935
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.840
went when he went there was Anthony Griffin. Really, yeah,
936
00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:19.639
you guy, But it's like Matt Elliott when he went
937
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:23.880
to the Warriors. Really, how has he convinced you that
938
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:24.559
it is the guy?
939
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:26.519
Yeah, I mean he'll get you to a I mean
940
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:29.840
Griffin will get you to a finals appearance. He did
941
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:31.199
that for us, Like remember.
942
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:33.880
That certainly, Yeah, you know a while great finals games
943
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.679
we did in sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. Yeah, but yeah,
944
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:38.840
it's probably not the coach.
945
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:40.440
That gets you it gets over the line.
946
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:43.159
Yeah, but close he was. He was close to being
947
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:45.800
a premiership winning coach really when you you look at
948
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.519
the time at Brisbane and at Penrith. But it wasn't
949
00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:50.280
So it wasn't the beat.
950
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:52.760
Do you think if he didn't have a blow up
951
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:56.519
with Guss Augustin of a blog with him, how long
952
00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:58.599
does he last append because he had an extension with
953
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:01.840
us as well. Yeah yeah, but time he win a camp,
954
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:05.840
he doesn't win a camp, there's Nathan Cleary still at
955
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:06.199
the club.
956
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.239
I reckon see this is and either the sliding doors moments,
957
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:11.360
because I'd argue that Penrith don't win four comps and
958
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:14.840
Nathan Cleary is not there if gust doesn't sack Ivan Cleary,
959
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:18.280
because how patient would we have been with Ivan? You know,
960
00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:21.320
does Ivan win the comp in sixteen seventeen? Probably not,
961
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.119
So we probably say goodbye to Ivan at eighteen nineteen,
962
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:27.159
and here we were probably still in the cycle.
963
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:28.280
It's crazy how.
964
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:31.000
Wayne Boun's probably coaching us, you know, Well that's who
965
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:33.320
Dust wanted to. We're gonna have Wayne.
966
00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:36.199
I don't think we would have done well under Wayne.
967
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:38.079
No, I don't think so. Well, it's gearing up what
968
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:40.280
we now, sixteen years since Wayne's won a camp.
969
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:43.159
And he's not winning this year.
970
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.119
Well well what if you know, someone did say to
971
00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:49.239
me the other day, they've got this theory. I don't know.
972
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:51.719
It's a pretty bad theory when you consider how good
973
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.679
the Roosters and Warriors and whatever else are going this year.
974
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:56.840
We're going to get a winner from the bottom four.
975
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:00.920
That someone's just going to catch fire. Who's I just
976
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:03.679
made the mine on the weekend? Was he he's saying,
977
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:05.880
I think that there's a team that's just going to
978
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:08.840
catch fire. Like imagine if the Rabbits, you know, the
979
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:10.840
trail Mitchell comes back in and has like a Jared
980
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:12.440
Haynes style six week run.
981
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:15.119
I mean, if Penrith couldn't do it last year, do
982
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:16.880
you really think No.
983
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:18.880
I think we're I think it's coming from the Laures
984
00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:20.840
on the Panthers. But but I couldn't tell you who
985
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.679
if you look forward to prelim weekend, now, who that
986
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:26.000
fourth team is? No idea?
987
00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:28.119
Well, the Sharks haven't been going so well lately, haven't.
988
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:29.800
They've lost, like you lose back to back games to
989
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:31.559
the to the Dragons.
990
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:34.239
And the Raiders for the both at home or just
991
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.280
I think just the recent one. As our producer out there,
992
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:39.719
was very excited that the Dragons had I had got
993
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:40.280
a win.
994
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:42.039
Back to back. Dragons, we got back to back for
995
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:42.639
the first time.
996
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:44.159
The Red V's back.
997
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:48.239
All right, next year, all right, all right, final word,
998
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:51.000
Parrish storm. Look, I think the Panthers will get the
999
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:53.559
job done. I haven't seen Penrith win in Melbourne. I've
1000
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:56.840
been good. I've seen them. I've been there twice, once
1001
00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:58.880
at Olympic Park when we lost in Golden.
1002
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.559
Point Olympic Park that the old former ground.
1003
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:06.920
And once at Amy Park. Boy for the time, lucky
1004
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:10.800
and I think it'll be Penrith by sixteen on on
1005
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.440
Thursday night. Penrith not necessarily a statement win, but a
1006
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:16.760
win where they do more than enough to get back
1007
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:18.639
on track and win the minor premiership, which I still
1008
00:45:18.639 --> 00:45:19.280
believe they will do.
1009
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:20.679
By the way, I thought you're going to go a
1010
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.000
bit conservative this week because after last week you're saying
1011
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:25.280
that they would win by eighteen against the Roosters.
1012
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:26.360
I'm very confident.
1013
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.280
Look, we haven't seen the Melbourne Storm team yet, obviously
1014
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.800
because we haven't recorded until the teams come out. But
1015
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.599
I'm a bit worried, Troy. I'm just worried.
1016
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.239
I think Melbourne's to win this.
1017
00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:40.480
I mean, I don't know anymore. I think I need
1018
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:42.599
a need to see Penrith get a win and I'm
1019
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:45.239
sure a lot of fans probably feel like this before
1020
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:46.920
we can sort of get back on that train again.
1021
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.559
Dogs next week finish off with the thumping of the
1022
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:51.880
Tigers in round twenty seven.
1023
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.360
You're a bit like this, You're a you ride on
1024
00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:57.599
the current scenario and we've lost two games, so you
1025
00:45:57.639 --> 00:45:59.840
can't use we've lost falling straight.
1026
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.000
We both here in the last two weeks and we
1027
00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:04.119
predicted they should have won those last two games and
1028
00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:04.559
they didn't.
1029
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.880
But well, you know, two great guys.
1030
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:09.480
And now I even said to Sirrence, and you would
1031
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:11.440
have heard it. And the thing that does it feel
1032
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:13.800
weird that you've been up first all year and then
1033
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:15.199
all of a sudden your.
1034
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:20.239
Second I will win the minor premiership? Well you really are, okay?
1035
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.679
All right? And I'll tell you why we're playing three
1036
00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:27.719
teams that we should beat. Story should beat, Yeah, Dogs, Tigers.
1037
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.719
I don't believe will rest now in my opinion, So
1038
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:32.480
if we're not rest and if we do rest, we're
1039
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:35.519
not resting on mass. So therefore I think we win
1040
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:37.760
those three games. And then you've got to look at
1041
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:40.840
the Roosters, who obviously are above us at the moment.
1042
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:43.119
Now they play the Tigers on Sunday. You're expecting they
1043
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:46.000
beat the Tigers, but I just feel that they drop
1044
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:48.639
either the Dolphins or the Rabbits, so you know that
1045
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:50.679
Rabbits is always a big game to be up for.
1046
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:52.679
And the Dolphins, you know who.
1047
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.039
Know Dolphins beat them already this year yep, so forty
1048
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:55.639
six on them.
1049
00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:58.760
I just can't see them winning the three. Also, if
1050
00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:01.039
they win the three, it's a bit stretch of wins,
1051
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:03.000
you know, the whole like you've got to lose at
1052
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:05.079
some point. I just think they will. Then you look
1053
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.559
at the Warriors. They've got the Bunnies at a core stadium.
1054
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:11.639
That's a danger game this weekend. Considering the Bunny he's
1055
00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:13.840
looking pretty good. Warriors like they found a half back
1056
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:14.920
out in, you know.
1057
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:17.360
Luke Hanson, former Saint Dominic college.
1058
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.880
Boy, Park Brumby's junior. Then they play the Knights, who
1059
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:24.360
you know, going pretty well. The Knights they can attack well,
1060
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:26.639
they seem to let teams back in, but they're they're
1061
00:47:26.679 --> 00:47:31.000
a top eighteen. And then they finish with Manly. Now
1062
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:33.400
Manly they're going to be done by that point, but
1063
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:35.639
you know they cause an upset. So I just think
1064
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:37.679
that are the Warriors winning all three of those. So
1065
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:40.480
I just still can actually think where the minor premiership
1066
00:47:41.079 --> 00:47:42.760
we are still the favorites. I don't know why we're
1067
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:43.719
not the favorites. We should.
1068
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:45.719
We can't score it.
1069
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:48.599
Try, let's go back to chat. We scored it for
1070
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:50.519
three weeks ago with forty on Canberra.
1071
00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:52.719
So are you saying and this you're saying this to
1072
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:55.840
all our listeners that we've seen the last Penrith loss
1073
00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:56.280
of the year.
1074
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:02.400
Uh well, I don't forget. I've said right at the start,
1075
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:03.679
I think we go all the way back that I
1076
00:48:03.679 --> 00:48:06.920
thought the Roosters were the biggest threat to the premiership.
1077
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.880
I think Peter are making the Grand Final I don't
1078
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:13.599
know if we're winning it yet. You know, six weeks
1079
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:16.199
ago would have said, sure, we're winning it now. Look
1080
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:18.440
at the Roosters, you know they're in they're in dynamite form.
1081
00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:21.239
But yes, we've seen the last win, the last loss
1082
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:24.880
in the regular season. Absolutely, and I've actually seen my
1083
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:27.519
my last I'm going to see every Penrith game in person,
1084
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:29.239
unless somehow we have to go to New Zealand.
1085
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:30.719
That's true.
1086
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:33.000
Yeah, I'll be going to Melbourne. Then we've got two
1087
00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.679
home games to finish. Perfect.
1088
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:37.760
So what if it's at Shark Park, Troy, You're going
1089
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:38.440
to go out there.
1090
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:39.960
Yeah, I'll go to show we've got. We've got just
1091
00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:43.000
as much chance of getting into Shark Park as Kernella fans. True,
1092
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:47.079
but there is you know, we're going the Sharks in
1093
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:49.920
the home final. Now they finished fifth.
1094
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:52.920
Is it Peneth had locked in the top four or.
1095
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:55.679
I'm sure that mathematically they could fall out, but they're
1096
00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:58.239
not going to. I think that, you know, I think
1097
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.000
the Tigers are going to be done by around twenty seven.
1098
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.000
If the Dogs were to lose this weekend, then they
1099
00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:05.800
are officially done. They're going to feel they're going to
1100
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:08.239
be so demotivated on that Friday night game.
1101
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.320
It'd be good to beat them because we haven't beat
1102
00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:11.079
them in a while.
1103
00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:13.559
No, we lost obviously the big upset earlier this year,
1104
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:16.639
wheneveryone practice was going to go through the season undefeated
1105
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:18.039
back in round seven or eight or whatever.
1106
00:49:18.039 --> 00:49:19.159
All those were the days.
1107
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:21.679
So yeah, but look, we'll see, We'll see what happens
1108
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:23.760
there now. Also, just on a couple of other notes,
1109
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:25.519
things are starting to come together a little bit with
1110
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:28.360
Hollow World Stadium. A couple of weeks time, the club's
1111
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.280
going to hold an event for sponsors to have a
1112
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.440
look at all the corporate facilities, and they're going to
1113
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:35.880
unveil all the packages and things like that.
1114
00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:39.480
How's that happening, because I understand it's like the pullman, right, yes.
1115
00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:42.760
Yes, so you better look over there, and how are
1116
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:44.960
they are they're going to show us this? I think
1117
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:46.800
they're going to show you all new renders of all
1118
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:47.760
the rooms.
1119
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:49.679
All the function spaces, which is what we haven't seen.
1120
00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:51.559
Yet, which we haven't really seen any of that yet,
1121
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:53.280
so we're going to know what the deal is with
1122
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:56.920
boxers and with all that sort of stuff. So yes,
1123
00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:59.000
so that will be happening in the next little while,
1124
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.639
next couple of weeks. I also believe we'll get a
1125
00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:03.440
date for the nerv car right metal in the next
1126
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.000
couple of weeks as well. We Panthers have chopped this
1127
00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:08.159
around a little bit in recent years. I think we're
1128
00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:12.000
back to being potentially even after the Grand Final, So
1129
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:12.679
it'd have.
1130
00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:15.599
To be that that that week of after the Grand Final,
1131
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:16.679
like yeah week.
1132
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:19.880
That's sometimes that has happened, because we've also done it
1133
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.599
during the lead up to week two of the finals,
1134
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:23.800
or I think we thought we were going to have
1135
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:26.599
a yeah you a break and maybe even week one.
1136
00:50:26.599 --> 00:50:29.079
It's we've done it at different times. Yeah, but you
1137
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:30.719
think we would know by now if that was going
1138
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:32.920
to be. No, it's definitely going to be in October. Okay,
1139
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:35.199
it'll be it'll be post Grand Final and.
1140
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.440
Any idea when we're going to be able to pick
1141
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:39.760
our seat out for the new stadium.
1142
00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:42.360
Look, I think you yeah, I don't know, but I
1143
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:44.719
think probably November December. I think you'll start because you're
1144
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.440
going to have to. They're going to be selling membership.
1145
00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:48.000
That's going to be that's going to be tough. I
1146
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:52.119
think for fans to pick a new seat and if
1147
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:53.519
they're going to sit us, they said they're going to
1148
00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:55.440
sit us somewhere where it was very similar to your
1149
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:58.280
last seat, like for like like for like, that's what
1150
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:01.000
I'm expecting. Do you remember you sat last time?
1151
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:04.760
I remember, so do I remember? So we'll see, we'll see.
1152
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.840
But look, that's gonna be very Look, it's gonna be
1153
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.800
really interesting that the return next year, you know, pricing wise, Like,
1154
00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:14.280
I'll be honest with you, I don't remember what my
1155
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.239
membership was this year. It was five something like that,
1156
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:19.800
so you know, like and I probably won't notice if
1157
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:22.039
it's five something, but if something a membership is seven
1158
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:23.880
hundred dollars. You're going to be like, hang on, this
1159
00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:27.599
isn't this isn't too good. Yeah, we'll see what happens.
1160
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.280
Yeah, No, it's going to be interesting times for everyone
1161
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:30.760
at the club.
1162
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:33.559
Sure will be all right. Three rounds to go in
1163
00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:36.559
the Narl. We are bound for the finals, no doubt
1164
00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:39.199
about that. And just on another code, good luck to
1165
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:41.960
the Pedroth. Oh yes, the mighty EMUs that we have
1166
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.880
followed in the weekend for so many years. They are
1167
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:46.800
in a grand final.
1168
00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:49.960
Yes they are This this Saturday, Troy at one fifteen
1169
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.760
pm at Will's Ground in earl Wood. They'll be playing
1170
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:55.000
the George's River Drop It Bears.
1171
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:56.880
I can't believe there's a team called the drop Bears.
1172
00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:58.239
The drop Bears, what a name.
1173
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:01.000
That should have called that the Perth Be It.
1174
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:03.519
Would have been more and more entertaining. Yeah. So yeah,
1175
00:52:03.519 --> 00:52:06.000
a huge, huge effort from them us. It's his for
1176
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:09.199
the Meldrum Cup, which is a Division six competition in
1177
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:12.559
the Subby's district, which is I think is a probably
1178
00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:15.800
the right competition for the club. But they're very excited
1179
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:18.320
down there in the pen Rugby Park. Spoke to lun
1180
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:21.199
Potatoes today a former MU about the game, and he's
1181
00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:23.440
would be really excited about it. He's pumped for it.
1182
00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:25.519
Once I told him it was on, he was excited.
1183
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:28.280
He wasn't quite aware before that. But I'm sure he's
1184
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.440
bringing up his dad now Ronnie hused to coach the
1185
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:34.039
club and let him know. But yeah, it's it's really good.
1186
00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:36.599
Adam Fletcher's done a good job over there, so hopefully
1187
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.039
they can bring the trophy home. And I asked Adam
1188
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:40.800
if they do win, where is he going to put
1189
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:41.280
the trophy?
1190
00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:43.159
Well, also, will there be like a parade?
1191
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.360
Yes, he said he did say that. Yes, he's put
1192
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:48.880
in quiries in an open top bus to do some
1193
00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:51.760
lapse of High Street on the Sunday, so keep that free.
1194
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:55.599
But yeah, they said, every other trophy they won over
1195
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:57.119
the years has been a shield, so they've put it
1196
00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:58.719
on the wall. But I believe the Meldron Cup is
1197
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a cup. Put it on the end of the bar. Troy.
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Yeah, we have to get the feather duster out and yeah.
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I said, do you have the key to the trophy cabinet?
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Like someone got that over there? But so, yeah, I
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know we're counting our chickens, but I'm very confident that
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the Emmys, will get it done.
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Panthers double this weekend. Great, have a look at that
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one that is in for Tensions Running High this week.
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New episodes out every Wednesday. Is it Western Weekend dot
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com dot you follow us on all the socials. Check
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out our print edition out every Thursday. Also download the
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Weekend app on the Google Play and Apple App stores.
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I'm Troy Dodds Nathan, thanks for joining me. Thanks Troy,
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and thanks to Paris City Automotive too for their sponsorship.
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We will see you next time. On Tensions Running High,
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go to the Panthers Allow