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Now it's time for Tensions Running High of Penrith Panthers
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Podcast presented by The Western Weekend, brought to you by
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Penrith City Automotive.
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He's Troy Dus and Nathan Taylor.
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Helloever a, Welcome to Tensions Running High at Penrith Panthers
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Podcast presented by the Western Weekend. This is episode eighty one.
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I'm Nathan Taylor and today I'm joined by Peter Lang.
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Hello, Pete, Hello Nate.
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We are the voice of rugby league in Penrith and
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we love talking all things Penrith Panthers. For thirty five years,
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the West Weekend has led the way in Panthers coverage
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here in Penrith. We've covered six premierships, the biggest breaking
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stories and interview just about everyone. A big thanks to
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our sponsor Penrih City Automotive, the only place to buy
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a car on the agenda. Today, the Panthers take on
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the Cowboys, Mary Fowler's Big Call, Origin three Teams and
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storytime with Pete returns.
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Well, let's begin the show. Your back Pete six weeks later.
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I thought it was going to be at least a year,
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but here I am back in six weeks. Every time
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the boss goes on holidays, I'm here, So every time
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I'm here means he's on holidays pretty much. That's all right.
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Yes, Troy's in Nashville and the United States at the moment,
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so lucky him. Hopefully he's gotten their safe and sound
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and he'll be listening to this podcast. I'm sure at
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some point.
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During while he listened to his guitar playing the guitar
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singing along. Now we'll see Pete.
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It was a you know, we come to on the
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show today after a loss.
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It's only a second loss for the year. The mood's
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a bit weird today here in the studio.
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But obviously Panthers lost the Titans nineteen eighteen last Saturday.
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I was at the game, which I can talk to
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you about a bit later, but you were watching it
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at home.
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You were a bit nervous heading into it. Tell us
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He thoughts, Oh, look, everybody says that I think they're
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going to lose every week as a sort of like
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a I don't know, a reflex action just to prepare
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myself in case they do. But honestly, I don't know.
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This was one of those games where I always felt
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uncomfortable about we have struggled to beat the Titans over
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the last few years. I think we only beat them
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by a couple of points back in twenty twenty four.
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Last year we only got them in extra time with
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Nathan Cleary there, and it was just sort of set
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up for this kind of performance, you know, like, Okay,
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we won against the Warriors, but to win with that
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same team and one less actually without case In McLean
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as well, It's not going to happen all the time.
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And I just felt it.
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Yeah, But at that first half, like I think Penrith
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looked pretty good. We're fairly in control. The Titans were
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making lots of errors, and then you know, we're on top.
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I think it was twelve to six at halftime, and
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I was pretty confident. I'm like, yeah, we've still got
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a very good side there. Leah Martin, Moses, the Oda,
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Dylan Edwards, Luke Garner, you know, paul Ala Moodie, some
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really good stars there. But the Titans just kept on
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hanging in, didn't they until the very end.
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And we didn't have it at the killer instinct, like
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Ivan said after the match, we lacked the killer instinct.
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I mean, you don't give Penrith that much ball any
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other game and get away with a win like that
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was ridiculous. We looked like the three Stooges out there.
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We're just bumping into each other. There was grubbers going everywhere.
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There was no nobody on the ball. Oh, it was horrible.
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Like the fact that we only lost by one point
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was a miracle. But who's fold is it? Pete?
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Obviously Jack Cogger's very experienced half, but he didn't seem
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to want to step up to the moment and take
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a field goal and it quite possibly could.
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Have needed it. Yep, it just you know.
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Dyl Edwards tried his butt off. He was arguing with
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the ref at times. He was trying to plead for
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calls and things like that. But who should have stepped
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up to make you know that killer instinct move? Do
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you think in that in those final moments?
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I agree with you. Jack Koga disappointed me in that game.
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He was still the he was the maestro there. I
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think with Blaze. Look, I hate to but maybe he
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could have stepped it up. Blazer's job too.
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He would usually defer to Nathan is a Blazer's job
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to have to kick that field goal the end?
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Do you know, Dylan Edwards can kick field goals. Jack
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Coggart should be able to get field or yeah, I agree.
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Now let's let's let's not let's call a spade of spade.
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Jack cog a lot, you know pretty much should have
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won us that game. He's got enough experience, he's played
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enough big games. I mean, he pretty much helped win
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US a Grand Final a few years ago. He's no dope.
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He played really well against the Warriors, but he went
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missing this game and it frightens me. It shakes my
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confidence whenever we lose. I know it's only one lost
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in two months or whatever it is, but it kind
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of I don't know about you, but it makes me
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feel a bit worried going to the next game sort
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of thing. You just think, oh jeez, I hope this
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doesn't spread to the next game, you know. Yeah.
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And that's why Nathan Cleary is so important. That's why
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you know, if he was there last week, if some
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of the other Origin guys were there, I have no
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doubt that Penrith would have would have probably won that
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game fairly easily. But the Titans, you know they were
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they would do for for a for us. Some the
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that's been. It's been a while since they seven years
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year two thousand nine. So when you have a big,
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big sort of gap like that, you know, you've got
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to expect a team to finally get their number, and
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they did. Should I even have played the Origin players?
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I mean they were available technically every other team played there.
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Guys. Look, probably not when knew that three games ahead.
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What if one of them got injured, you know, and
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then we would have gone, what are you doing that for? Well?
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Three games ahead? But I would, you know, think to
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myself now that someone like Isaac Tungo, he probably had
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his worst game in Penwrith Colors for ages. I mean
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a lot of people were bashing him up after the
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game we lost, but it's not why he lost. But
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he didn't help. Like he's a senior player.
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He maybe tried too hard to try and do something
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for the team.
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I don't know, It's just it just looked like a rabble.
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They just didn't look like they were ever going to
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score after those first two tries. Once you know you
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go twenty minutes, When the Penwith team goes about twenty
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minutes without a try, you just know that it's something's
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not clicking, especially when you score sixty eight points two
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weeks earlier. I know it had you know, different team,
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and obviously Nathan was there, but we all Nathan. If
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he's not there, what you know, what happens? Hopefully it's
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just a blip. Although Ivan doesn't believe in blips. He
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said they're a high performance unit and that that was
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not acceptable.
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Yeah, and of course, you know a loss was eventually
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going to happen. We were of course, we're going to
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go through a season losing one game, so but losing
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a golden point point but almost wanted it to go
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second few seconds they go, I think you know that
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that you know, Zane Harrison, young Gold Coast Titans kid,
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who would have thought he would outplay an experienced guy.
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Like Zach Couga spot on Nate. That is absolutely one
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hundred percent correct.
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Yeah, it's true. And they've got some quality players. Don't
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get me roll, but you know Penrith have much more quality.
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But it didn't show the other night.
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They started, well, they didn't they like you said they did.
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The commentators were like they were just waiting for for
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us to roll through them. Once I got to twelve, Neil,
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that was it.
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Yeah, what did you think, how did you feel when
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the when the field goal went over?
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Sick? Sick, actually felt like throwing up, like I'd almost
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rather be beaten forty two to two. Like I think
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I've said that to you before. Remember when Melbourne beat
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us last year in the Golden Point, when Harriet, Oh
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my god, that took me two days to recover. I
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think this one took about a day. We try being there, Pete.
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I was there, my first to.
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Queensland to see the Panthers play, and they bloody lose
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with thirteen seconds to go.
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I was silent after the match.
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I was sitting up in one of the grand stands
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there with all like the players families and stuff like that.
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I think we had Freddie.
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Lustix's wife sitting behind us, and we had lots of
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people that obviously got some free tickets to the game
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through through the club. You know, we're sitting amongst us
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and we're all pretty pretty shocked and quiet after the game.
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But I will have to shout out there were so
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many Panthers fans there that it almost felt like a
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Panthers home game. Just about I thought I'd rock up
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in my pink jersey, being like the only one there,
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but there were there were thousands of Panthers fanson more
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than than there was twenty thousand that showed up.
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Yeah, I reckon.
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I'd say at least sixty percent were Titans, and I
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reckon we would have had about forty so it's still
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pretty good. For it was amazing, Like I could not
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believe it. I don't know whether people just came up
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for the for the trip for the game like I did,
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or we just have that many fans in like that
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part of Queensland that loved the Panthers.
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But I felt like right at home, believe it or not. Well,
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last year when we beat them in the extra time
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when when he went over, I think it was Tillargi
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that went over, the crowd just went crazy. Now I
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remember that because I just thought to myself, Wow, it's
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like a Penrith home game, dear, thirteen seconds to go now,
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but it was round what fifteen sixteen or something like that.
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You know, it's okay, yeah, the semi final exactly, you
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know whatnot.
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We won't remember at the end of the year, that's right,
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But yeah, good to see.
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I saw a few Panthers fans, some of the Panther
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Army were there. Chris Randall stopped me in my tracks.
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I was going back to my chair. I met my
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old school friend Alisha. I haven't seen it.
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About fifteen years.
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She was at the game, so it was really cool
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to catch up with some big Panthers fans. But hopefully
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we can bounce back this week, and of course, Pete,
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we're playing Cowboys. We head back up to Queensland a
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little bit further about a two and a half three
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hour flight to Townsville to play the Cowboys at five
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point thirty pm this Saturday at Queensland Country Bank Stadium.
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The games live on Fox League and KO. Can the
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Panthers bounce back? They've just named their side. All the
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Origin guys are back. Thank god for that goodness. What
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are you thinking?
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Are you confident that we can bounce back against the Cows?
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I am confident, but I'm not over confident, only because
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we've also had trouble against the Cowboys over the years.
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I think last year they beat us here at home
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at CommBank, if you want to call Combank home, and
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then we went up there and did we get a draw?
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It was a loss in a draw we played.
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We played them in Sydney was Isaiah's two hundred and
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fiftieth game.
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Yeah, they lost that, and we lost that one, and
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then we went up there. I don't remember what the
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result was. I think it was a draw. We drew
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either that or it was a very narrow had a
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narrow in. Yeah, something.
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We may have led early and they came back, that's
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what happened.
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Yeah, that's right. So would they give us a tough time.
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They'll be desperate as well. They've lost a few as well.
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They've resigned Todd Payton for another couple of years. That'll
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give him a boost. That's right. I think Didon's back,
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isn't he? I haven't checked the team sheets. How good
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am I? But even if he is back, you'll be
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a bit short of a gallop. But I think Jason
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Tallamona love mol that's it. Oh beautiful. Can I change
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my tip? No, Look, it should be close. But I
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think with Nathan back, I think back to steer the
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ship and he's he'll have a point to prove as well.
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He's been basically seeding over the last couple of weeks
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about his performance in Origin, so he would want to
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make up for it with a big game. The fact
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that they also lost last week. I think those three
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blakes will feel like they've got they owe their teammates
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something so that you know, they couldn't quite get there
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without him, so that I think they owe him. You
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would think they'll win. Will they walk it through walk
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it home? Probably not, but I think they can win.
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Just well, I've got some good news for you. Hasn't
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been named the reserves. Great, So that's yeah, that's it.
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We'll take another one. Sony Luke has been named. So
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it's a bit of a reunion there for revenge. He's
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been going all right up there with them. Know he's
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not playing big minutes, but when he comes on, he
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actually makes a bit of a difference.
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But they've got, like obviously so much talent as we know,
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Scott drink Water that Mary Talungey, Jackson Purdue and Jake
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Clifford in that read Marney at Hooker, Jason Tamalolo, lots
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of experience there, Jeremiah and I Ruben Cotter. Like when
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you read out the names here Cohen, Hans Matt Lodge,
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you get a bit like, oh, okay, they're a.
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Lot better than the Titans. Don't forget that's named we
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would have thought, honestly, and even though I'm cautious, still
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in the back of my mind I thought, you'll probably
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get the Titans. Wasn't until it got to eight in
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or I thought, so we should get them, because don't forget,
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we've got three Origin plays. We should at Dylan Edwards,
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you know, like you've named the list out of all
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the players that are coming back that are there for us.
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It won't be It won't be easy though.
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But yeah, look, I'll be honest, Peter, I'm actually nervous.
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I think we could actually go on a bit of
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a losing streak here.
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Is just because we lost last week.
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Yes, and the fact that we just have some trouble
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up in Towns.
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Yeah, we do.
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Like we always have a really tough game. We don't
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go there and just wallop a team, even though we've
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got our Origin stars back and obviously minus Casey McLean.
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Of course, I just feel that I'm just nervous heading
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into it. I just think I wouldn't surprise me if
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the Cowboys, because they've also had a bit of a
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rough trot lately. They didn't win Ley It last week either,
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they wouldn't surprising you they're back at home. They're celebrating
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Todd Payton, they're celebrating Jason Talmulolo's surround with game, and
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they they cause a.
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Bit of a boilover. But I don't know.
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But always after a Penrith loss, you feel.
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Like, but you do the negative of the follow up,
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you do? I do as well. I think I said
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that right at the start. I don't know how much
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of my worries to do with the loss, and how
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much of it is to do with the fact that
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once you you kind of feel a bit more invincible
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after about five or six games in a row, even
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if you like you just feel like, yeah, you just
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go into a little more cocky and confident. Maybe that's
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not a bad thing what happened last week. And as
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I said, I still think that the Clearies and the
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Toles and and Yoh's, they will want to make up
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for the fact that their teammates played without them last week,
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thank them for doing that, And so they've got to
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put in a bit of extra effort as well.
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Yeah, well obviously, yeah, Panthers Cowboys this Saturday night, five
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thirty pm.
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What's what are you doing for the game? Pete? He
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got planned probably come to your place, Okay, yeah, all right,
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and then you know, go to my dad's the second half.
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In the first half of them play it by year.
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It's prediction. I think it'll be Penrith twenty four, Cowboys
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twenty and will be white. We'll be white knuckling it
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right to the end it is. I think they've got
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enough speed and power out there. If we're off just
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a millimeter, if you know, if there's just a few
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seconds of hesitation in the centers, or if TONGUEO God
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bless you soul decides to do what he did last week,
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then they will run right over the top of this.
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Well ongoing Panthers to bounce back as well. I also
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think it'll be a tight match too. I think there
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might be four or six points in it. I think
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you're it's going to be a tight one. I hope
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it's not. I hope we've learned our lesson from last
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week and the class just comes back and we can
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sit comfortably in the second half. But yeah, something tells
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me that we're going to be in front of the
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tough match, So I agree, let's see what happens. Well,
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Pete Yesterday, Nathan Cleary coming back in the team. His partner,
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Mary Fowler, is actually in town at the moment. She's
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in Sydney on a bit of a break and she's
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an ambassador for week Bix and she did a kid's
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football clinic in a more Bank yesterday and the media
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were invited out to catch up with Mary see what
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she was doing, and they also asked her a few questions.
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So some of the questions obviously about the clinic and
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a few other things, but they also asked about Nathan
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Cleary and she said, you know, she went to the
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Origin game with you know, with some friends to the
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Origin game down in Melbourne, and we saw her consoling
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him after the game after lost. A lot of people
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saying that was his worst performance of all time. I'm
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not sure about that, but you know, we can't do
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much when you're forward, so we've got short memories. So
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people are saying that, and we saw her consoling him
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after the game. But there was a reporter apologies, I
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don't know your name because I don't have any vision.
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I could just hear your voice, but yeah, he asked
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about Mary and her future at Man City. She's obviously
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off contract at the end of the next season, and
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like Nathan is of course with Penrith, and I guess
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we're all wondering what both of them are going to do.
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And I'm going to play your bit a bit of
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audio now, and this is what she had to say.
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Yeah, I think, you know, while I'm playing before, I'd
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like to be at the highest level possible.
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So really enjoying Addag City and you know, he's a
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good group of girls that really well last season, so.
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I have no reasons for it.
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So that's Mary Fowler there, And basically she's confirmed to
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the world that she's planning to stick around in Man
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City for the next couple of years at least.
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She doesn't have.
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Any plans to go anywhere, which means she's not coming
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back to Australia anytime soon or playing somewhere else in
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the world. She says the epl over there for women
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is the best comp in the world and she wants
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to play that as long as possible. So what do
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you think about that? How do you think that's gonna
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affect Nathan's decision? Because if she wants to play in
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the best cop in the world, shouldn't Nathan get an
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opportunity to play.
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In the base comp in the world exactly in rugby
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lay Yeah, I hear what alternatives does she have here though,
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Like obviously, well, she.
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Could play in the women's A League here, but that's
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she would be getting paid like twenty thousand dollars a season. Like,
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it's obviously not a big competition here. Like, she is
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one of the best footballers in the world. She's for
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the Matilda's and you know she's huge, so she probably
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wants to be in a competition that she's going to
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get the most eyeballs and the most success. Her team
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just won the championship this year as well Man City,
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so I can understand why she wants to stay there,
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Like she doesn't want to come here and play for
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the Wanderer's no.
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Offense, no no offense too. But like you just said,
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it's it's it's wanting. She's an athlete, so she's obviously
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wants to play at the best, at the top, at
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the top of the range. Now, six weeks ago I
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said to you that I thought that Nathan would stay
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here at Penrith. You know, we even said, oh, I
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will do a bed you can shove your head or whatever.
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Six weeks ago. That was when I even't announced he
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was leaving too. The day before we did our show.
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We announced he was leaving the day after. So yeah,
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not only that, but a couple of years ago. I
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remember this. At least eighteen months ago. You and I
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had an argument about, you know, whether he would leave
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to be with Mary, would he go to the other
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side of the world. Eighteen months ago I think it was,
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and you said I think he would, And I thought
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you were mad, mad as a meat axe. I said,
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who's going to, you know, turn down a great career here,
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top of the game. He's been talked about as an immortal.
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He's not going to go overseas to be with a girlfriend.
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You know, I've changed my mind. I'm worried, okay, legitimately worried. Okay,
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but are you worried that he could leave us? Correct?
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Current contract? Correct a hundred leave? As you said, he's
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at the top of his game.
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He's still be next year, and he's going to go
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to play in Wigan or Whole or somewhere in that
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part of England just so he can be closer to Mary.
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Foul I do because he said things in interviews and
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I know, we can read into these things as much
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as we like. But I remember one interview. I'm sure
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he said something along the lines of, well, I'll be
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consulting with Mary about my decision, you know, And then
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he keeps saying things like, yeah, it's tough to be
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in different interviews. Yeah, it's tough to be a part.
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It's not part of the thing I like. And I'm
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just listening to him in I think to myself, it
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sounds like you're talking yourself into going to Super Bowl?
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Will he be happy there? He's happy with Mary and
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the thing is, but.
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Then is he going to be happy in his career?
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Is going to Is that going to cause problems with
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the relationship as well?
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That I don't know, But the way he's talking and
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the way she's talking, it's almost like they're setting us
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up and his father's leaving. As you know as well.
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I just don't feel as confident, anywhere near as confident.
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I just think he's too good to leave now.
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He's still got a lot more to achieve in the NRL,
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win a daily and win win some more premierships with Penrith,
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win an origin series, like he's so young, so young?
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If he leaves.
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He's going to leave at age thirty and head over.
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Why can't he sign a two or three year deal
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with Penrith and then at age you know, thirty two
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thirty three, he spends a couple of his final years
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in England. Once he's racked up three hundred games for Penrith,
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he's done this and that. Still Mary's still going to
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be young Mary.
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Still. She's in her four now, twenty three something like that.
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She'll be twenty five, twenty six by the time he
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chooses to come over there twenty seven, and then who
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knows what's going to happen from then. But I think
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he's still got one last NRL deal in him, and
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I think they see each other a lot, like we
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think they don't guess they're separated by a big ocean.
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But she's here a lot for the Matilda. They have
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breaks her off seasons in the middle of a of
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an NRL season, so she's back here now. She's probably
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staying at his place at the moment. That the life
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in your day a sports.
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I hear what you're saying. It's just that he's the
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only thing that makes me time. Give me a little
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bit of hope. Is that they want to start a family. Okay,
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he's said that many Like she's very young, she got
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exactly there's no way in the world after the statement
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that she just made at twenty three or twenty four,
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and the fact that she wants to play in the
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top top league. She's just getting money from sponsors and everything.
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She's not going to stop now and have a child.
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So that's the only thing that makes me think maybe
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he'll there's a small chance, like what you said a
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couple of years, but it's just I haven't heard anything
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out of him for a very long time that makes
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me think that he's going to stay. I don't know
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whether he's foxing. I don't know whether it's just him
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playing his cards close to his chest or anything. But
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you and I looked at some a couple of recent
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contract signings that he's had with us, and they were
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never in doubt. He was just actually signed way before
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he even finished his contract. So why this time, Like
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he's going to be twenty nine next year, he'll be
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nearly thirty for his first, say he goes to Super League.
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That year that he goes to Super League, I think
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he turns thirty or thirty one, So maybe he's maybe,
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like you said, four, possibly five premierships, maybe even six.
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But he's got to make a decision fairly soon. Well,
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he said that.
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He said that he plans to make a decision before
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once the Origin season he has over, so we should
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know in the next few months, at least before November one. Yep,
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what he's going to do. All the Penrith plays are
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off contract. None of them have committed yet.
487
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No. I know they're worried about him.
488
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Of course, yes, it's naturally going to be worried about
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your best player. But of course we haven't heard.
490
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We don't know what any of them are going to do.
491
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So they're all playing from the you know, we're reading
492
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other same hing book sort of thing.
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You know, they're in a position of power. We need
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them more than they need us, of course, so for them,
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they're thinking, well, look, I've gotten to this point in
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my career. I've and even Mark not Mark, Matt Cameron
497
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has said they've earn't the right to wait. They've earn't
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the right for us to wait for them when they're ready.
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But I also think that Nathan needs to and he
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will give us an answer before well before the first
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of November because Penmouth have got to start looking at
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a plan B. You know, I know that they've got
503
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a few half backs that are coming through. Elijah burv
504
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is one who played for in the under nineteens Queensland
505
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team kIPS. I think his name is. Let me just
506
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have a look at my notes here, Skips Skips. That's it.
507
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They've got him in the system as well. They're very young.
508
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They're both very young. They both are inexperience. But you've
509
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got to have a plan, big shoes to fill as well.
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You want to Jet Cleary to come back. I did
511
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absolutely like if he that's it's not that's mental not
512
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going to happen because imagine those big shoes to feel
513
00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:43.359
he would be in his brother's shadow for the rest
514
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of his life. Like it's me being romanticular romance of course.
515
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And it's a it's an interesting suggestion. I just can't
516
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imagine they're all going to leave, leave poor Peter Wallace
517
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first year as coach. I see you and we've got
518
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like no team left. Like it just it's not going
519
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to happen.
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I've heard some good good news about we're not good news,
521
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but I've had some good mail about Liam Martin, I
522
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actually think he might stay. He had him gone. We
523
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had him I did, Yeah, we all had him gone.
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We want him going to Fiji. But recently with Tails,
525
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you know what I mean, Papa New Guinea, we all
526
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had him off there. We've still got Brian going there
527
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of course, Bizza. I think everyone keeps thinking he's going
528
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to go as well. But I've heard some good things
529
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about not only Liam Martin resigning, but also I know
530
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that a beautiful five eighth wants to stay as well.
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Blastel say they're not going to lose everybody, but everybody's
532
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also waiting to see what the big man will do,
533
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what will Nathan do? And at the moment where we
534
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sit today, I am a little bit concerned. Would you say,
535
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you're fifty to fifty yes, whereas before I was probably
536
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eighty twenty. Okay, he's got me nervous. I'm seventy five
537
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percent confident he's going to stay. Oh jeez, we've swapped rolls.
538
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Yeah, I think, And I think it's time yet for
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him to leave. And I don't think he's going to
540
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leave Penrith and go play for the Roosters or anything
541
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like that.
542
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No, I don't think that. I think if he leaves,
543
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he'll go.
544
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He's not going to go, He'll go overseas, whether that's
545
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playing in the Super League or trying rugby, which I
546
00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:14.759
think picking up a new sport at the age of
547
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thirty thirty one, imagine the scrutiny he's going to be under,
548
00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:21.440
That's right. So I just think he's got one more
549
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deal left in him here, even if it's a short deal,
550
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if it's like another two year deal, and then go
551
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from there, like you know, he can still be the
552
00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:31.200
richest player in the game. Put him on a massive contract,
553
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like but I don't think the money really is. I
554
00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.960
think that makes a lot of money off the field
555
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as well. I don't think money is a massive pool
556
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like it was is for Jerome Luai for instance. He
557
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loves his money. Jerome, I just can't blame him for that.
558
00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:46.599
But I don't think Nathan is as money focused.
559
00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.440
Yes, so what would you say if New South Wales,
560
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god forbid, lose the next game up in Queensland in
561
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a couple of weeks, do you think that'll have a
562
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bearing on his decision? Will you want to then have
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that hunger to go out? So do we want them
564
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to win Queens.
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Well, but if I've and clear he's going to be
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the coach next year or the year after the wouldn't
567
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you want to be coached by his dad in origin too.
568
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There's lots of a good story. It's just got so
569
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much easier if he just came out and said I'm staying.
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I do agree with you on one thing. If he
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does stay, it's not going to be a five or
572
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four or five year term. No, No, it'll be two years,
573
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probably three max. But I'll take it.
574
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Yeah, it was interesting, p I have to tell you
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because you love your Twitter or do whatever you call it,
576
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so randomly yesterday afternoon I put out the Mary Fowler quote. Yeah,
577
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just put put a little quote about it out there, right,
578
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and I said, Mary Fowler has no plans to leave
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Man City speaking at oppressor for a week.
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Beeak.
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She said, YadA, YadA, YadA. Do you want to know
582
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how many reactions I got to that? No, tell me,
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I got forty like retweets.
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Oh my god, one so far, Trulie. That's good for it.
585
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But it's not from Panthers or all fans. I've got
586
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really bunch of always Men City fans.
587
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Yeah. Like actually yeah, like over the moon by this news.
588
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They're all quote tweeting me saying, oh my god, this
589
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is amazing news. People putting videos to my new goodness
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for her God, thanks to the Lord.
591
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Now there's no Penrath fans have reacted at all. It
592
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is incredible. I would not have but it's all these
593
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people from England just absolutely you've made So Nathan's showing
594
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me now he's phone and I can see video videos.
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You know, and all this and hand claps and people
596
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are setting up video reactions to.
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My my news. So they're happy.
598
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Did you expect that? No, I just thought that the
599
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fans interesting, or the NRL fans.
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I didn't think it would go off overseas. So no
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one from Penrith really made a comment.
602
00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:44.079
It was just it just went viral in the Manchester
603
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the town of Manchester City.
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What do you make of that?
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Well, I think that they love Mary Fowler over there.
606
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Obviously I wanted to stay.
607
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Exactly so women soccer over there without detouring too much.
608
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It's obviously the bigger it's a lot bigger than it
609
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is here.
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Of course city is it's you know, it's the Premier League.
611
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But you know they're still not playing to packed houses
612
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like that, not here, but you know it's.
613
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The premim league. It's huge. Well, as she said, it's
614
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the number one place to play for women. Yep, that's
615
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all right. Let's see what's happening in the next few
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months because with the origin being what two weeks away,
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the third one we're supposed to know shortly after that. Yes,
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let's hope you just cross now, Peter.
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you just mentioned Origin before the before the ad read
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there the teams were expecting again to be announced on
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Monday morning the new South Wales and Queens and Origin
642
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teams for Origin three, which will be at Suncorp Stadium
643
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in a couple of weeks from now. Now, obviously, you
644
00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:53.920
know we don't have to go and dissect Origin two
645
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because it was an absolute disaster of a game in
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a nutshell. Obviously, Lauri Dale, this could be very last
647
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Origin series as.
648
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:05.680
Coach of the Blues. What does he need to do
649
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to get us a win? Well, look, obviously there's got
650
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:13.200
to be a few changes, Like I'm not how big
651
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are we talking? Maybe talking?
652
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We're getting rid of Tedesco and putting in Edwards. Are
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we getting rid of one of your centers and putting
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in Jiboyevich?
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How big are we talking here? Yeah? Okay, so probably
656
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bigger than I there was originally originally thought so the
657
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one the players I'd be looking at. Obviously I'd be
658
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:34.960
looking at Dylan Edwards at full back, so you would
659
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get rid of Yeah, I think so there's is it
660
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.359
done wrong? Well, this doesn't seem to be like and
661
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:42.799
I read an article today about it. That doesn't seem
662
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to be the synergy there between him and and and Nathan.
663
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:49.839
I know that he kicked that bomb that he got. Yeah,
664
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but the game against the Queenslanders, it just showed up
665
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that they're not in sync. They just didn't look in sync.
666
00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.640
It's very rare that you find a new South Wales queen.
667
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But the Queens are just a different mentality. They always
668
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play as a team, no matter who they pulled in,
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they just they put in.
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For each other. Mood back line plays, they're offloading their
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support wherever they are. It just looked like they look
672
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like they've been playing together for ten years, that Queensland side,
673
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whereas we just looked all over the shop, disjointed. I
674
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don't know. It was just horrible. So I would probably
675
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look at Dylan Edwards at fullback. Yeah, i'd definitely look
676
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at one of the centers. The trail. I would have
677
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put in there in a flash, But now he's under
678
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an injury cloud as well, so who knows what's going
679
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to happen with him. Trovoyevitch, he's played in the centers before.
680
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I'd prefer Crichton, so I'd like to see Crichton back
681
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in there. Stags has to go. I know it's one performance,
682
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but come on, like, how stupid are we? So maybe
683
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I would probably put Travoyvitch in there instead of instead
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of Stags, So i'd have a whole new center pearing. Yeah, okay,
685
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just experience those two blakes ooze first class experience. I
686
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would also keep tole even though the people there. You know,
687
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there are people out there saying he should go. Yeah,
688
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there's a lot they weren't happy with his performance in
689
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Origin too, So yeah, I'm saying to myself, so what
690
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the other fourteen or whatever games that he's played and
691
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being Man of the match in two series that means nothing.
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He deserves one more chance, one more if I don't think,
693
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I don't think Laurie j I mean either what about
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I can't never say his name MARSI, Yeah, that's it.
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I'd probably keep him. I think he'll I think he
696
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will stay there. Six foot three, six foot four, big hundred,
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he was great, did everything right. I've got to ask
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you something, Nate. Ethan Strange, yeah, needs to be back
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in yep. I agree Mitch Moses.
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Unfortunately, I don't think he was ready and I think
701
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I think, I think Ethan Strange has.
702
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To be there. It's time round. Put Moses on the bench.
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If you want as as back up exactly, go for
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your life there.
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But if he goes down that path again, I don't
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think it's going to work out very well.
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Well, Laurie, but even when he came on for the
708
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last twenty odd minutes, he was all over the place
709
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and he still made an impact. So look, he has
710
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to be there now. The other one, obviously, they're going
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to keep Nathan. No one's stupid enough to get rid
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of him. Even though he didn't have his best game.
713
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I still think that his hit pointer injury had something
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to do with it. It's just me.
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I haven't clearly spoke today in a press conference, and
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he said that Nathan was actually in doubt for that
717
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Tiger's game a couple of weeks ago, but it ended
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up coming to be able to play. Okay, but I
719
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.240
think he should still be fine to play. I mean,
720
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.920
is just something he's going to have to manage. I guess, yeah, sure, yeah, continue.
721
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:32.599
Who knows. But the other one that they're looking at
722
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:34.880
changing is Cam Murray. They're all saying he needs to
723
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:36.519
be a who's the me?
724
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.039
Is obsessed with me? He is obsessed with this storyline.
725
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:40.400
They love Cam Murray.
726
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:40.640
Yes they do.
727
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.440
They hate Isaiah. He's an old man made playing it
728
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:48.039
proper on the bench, not there all together. They just
729
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:49.599
think Cam Murray is the god.
730
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.519
Yeah. Well look even if I put him there, okay,
731
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.079
just because it's desperate times, you know, we need to
732
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:57.039
win this one, all right, So okay, we'll bow the
733
00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:59.359
pressure and we'll put him in there, you still have
734
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:03.200
to have those in the side put him in prop Like, Honestly,
735
00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:06.039
I don't think that's a bad idea. Hadn't Vanua Blake
736
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.119
got like nine minutes or something. He needs to go
737
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:12.200
and sorry, what's this fascination with what's the other the
738
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:18.039
other guy, sorry, he's on the Barnett I mean just awful,
739
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.680
just awful. And then like so you could do worse
740
00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:24.359
than put Isaiah there Ford is injured by the looks
741
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:25.960
of it, so not that he's been on the right
742
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.119
at all. So you're going to have to have Payne
743
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.279
hass as the other prop even though he was a
744
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:33.599
bit quiet. I can't really find but he was Payne's
745
00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:40.279
first game. What about huts and Young? You keep him absolutely? Okay?
746
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:42.799
Who's the other bloke they had in the second right, Yeah,
747
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.880
that's right, Dylan Lucas, Paul Buck. I think Liam Martin
748
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.079
should come back. Yes, I was about to say either
749
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:54.279
on the bench or would you put some terrible one
750
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.200
marbles in my mouth today? Fair Income. I'd probably put
751
00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.880
him back and put Liam Martin on the bench.
752
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.920
Yeah, Martin needs to be back into team somewhere. And
753
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.079
then obviously a hooker. Ross Robson. I've never been inspired
754
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:06.759
by him.
755
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:10.000
Horrible never never, you'll probably smash us this week.
756
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:13.559
Blake Brayley should be back. He's back again for the Sharks,
757
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:15.639
so I can expect him to be back in the team.
758
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:18.519
What about Corros, How did he even get a look in.
759
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:21.880
I put him into so you would dunt Robson altogether.
760
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:23.960
I'll see you later, although I'm saying that you'll probably
761
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.679
smash us this weekend because I said that, But honestly,
762
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:32.039
I don't see the fascination with Reese Robson. Ez Hopsins. Yeah,
763
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.880
that's it, But where's the spark out of dummy half?
764
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:38.119
Where's the running, where's the deception, where's the anything? Like
765
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:41.119
I just just look at him and think you don't
766
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:43.159
contribute much to that side. I know people are going
767
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.599
to say, ah, you're adiot. You don't know be talking
768
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:46.760
about it. Maybe I don't, but just from a just
769
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:49.800
from a viewing point of view, I don't see the fascination. Yeah.
770
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.880
Look, it's no secret Laurie Daily didn't get his interchanges
771
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:56.000
right the other day. But look, I think it's going
772
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.639
to be fascinating to see what he does for potentially
773
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:03.039
his final Origin game Game three. As for Penrith players picked,
774
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.360
I think Brian to definitely be there. Nathan will be there.
775
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:09.000
Isaiaho is the captain, so he will be there. It's
776
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.679
just a matter whether Leah Martin gets a look in,
777
00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:13.000
which I think he probably will.
778
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:14.119
I think he think he will.
779
00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:17.280
I think they need someone like him. That's the Origin,
780
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:19.880
and he will terrorize you know, Cam Munster and some
781
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.000
of the other guys out there.
782
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:24.679
Dylan Edwards. I mean, he should be there. He should
783
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:25.639
have been there to begin with.
784
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:29.199
It's unlikely that I think Laurie will dump to Desco
785
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.320
because he was so hell bent on putting him in
786
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.000
the first place.
787
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:34.559
He'd be admitting that he's wrong. I can't see that.
788
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:36.280
And I mean Tom Jenkins, he probably should have got
789
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.480
a run at some point, you know, on extended bench,
790
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:40.599
even in game two. I was really disappointed that he
791
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.599
didn't get a look in, you know, when Casey McLean
792
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:47.719
went down obviously knowing got in there and that was fine.
793
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:50.440
Well, but you know he could have he could have
794
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:53.119
had a bench spot, but not to be not not
795
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.559
under Lorry's guy. No, I don't think either. He said
796
00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:58.719
that he's Look, I've got to say something that I
797
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.119
saw it very interesting in view with Luke Lewis the
798
00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:03.679
other day. It was only short, but they asked him
799
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.760
about Origin. They said, he said, look, if I was
800
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.960
you know, when I played Origin, it wasn't about the players,
801
00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:15.039
it wasn't about moves. It wasn't about you know, running
802
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:18.119
here or there everywhere. He said, it was more about attitude.
803
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:19.960
And he said when we got on the team bus,
804
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:22.519
he said, under Gus and everything, when you first started playing,
805
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:24.840
we had to touch the blue jersey. When we got
806
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:26.920
off the team bus, we had to touch the blue jersey.
807
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:28.599
When we woke up in the morning, we had to
808
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.920
do it. And he said, he really instilled in us
809
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:34.679
the value and the pride of playing the for the Blues.
810
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.119
And he said, I think that is what's sort of
811
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.000
missing in this series, not that the players don't want
812
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.039
to win and they don't want to win for New
813
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.480
South Wales. But I hate saying this, but I've got
814
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:50.239
to agree. It looks like the Queenslanders have more passion,
815
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.840
I love of the game. I don't know what it is,
816
00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:57.480
but it didn't look good. So he said, we need
817
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.320
to harness everybody and get them all wanting to play
818
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.199
for New South Wales and for their mates and dive
819
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:04.960
on the loose ball and jump for a ball that's
820
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.679
not yours and kick and chase and everything, and he said,
821
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:08.719
that's what it's all about.
822
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:10.400
Well, they need to have a good, good game at
823
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.000
some point because they've had. They've had a good second
824
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.280
half in the first game, or good last twenty minutes
825
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:17.800
the first second game, they had a good first half.
826
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.480
They need to put a full eighty minutes together. Hopefully
827
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.400
they can do it in sun Corp. They've got They've got,
828
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.239
They've got a chance.
829
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:25.920
People, what do you I have to ask you this.
830
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:29.039
I read the most stupidest article the other day about
831
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:33.119
Lorrie Daily and it was Oh, Danny Widler, Okay, he
832
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:36.159
said that that there was criticism that Lory Daily was
833
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.880
giving poor pre match and he said, I think it's
834
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:43.920
because he had an ear infection. That has anybody heard
835
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:48.639
a smother and more rubbish in their life than that?
836
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:51.360
That's why because he couldn't hear properly out of one year,
837
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.719
that's why he wasn't doing this clean to go down
838
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.559
to doctor Michael and get his ears clean. Can you
839
00:37:56.599 --> 00:38:00.239
believe that, though? Seriously, can you believe that? What? What's
840
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:03.000
with that? You're talking about ear infection? Now, that's why
841
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:04.559
I didn't give a good speech because he couldn't hear.
842
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.760
Probably that's why his bench rotations were terrible. That's it exactly.
843
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:10.119
So do you think we're any hope what's your prediction
844
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:11.880
for for Wednesday in a couple of weeks.
845
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.119
Look, nothing. I would like to see nothing more than
846
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:18.119
to see the Blues win. But I'm probably going to
847
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:21.599
copy it by saying I don't think they will what
848
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.039
I think Queensland will. Probably I'm going to kick you
849
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.440
out of new stuff. I can see him go to Queensland.
850
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.960
I can see an improved performance, but it's going to
851
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:35.880
take pullion effort for New South Wales. And besides, I
852
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.440
might change my mind when I see the team. Okay,
853
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.159
but they have to make a.
854
00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:42.159
Future, so at this stage you're going for new stuff.
855
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:43.840
It's tip in Queensland.
856
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:45.480
At this stage I want to see the teams and
857
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:46.519
then I might change a life.
858
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:48.880
Okay, fair enough, Well we can find you on X
859
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:51.920
and you can let us know. Will promise after the
860
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:56.440
teams are released on Monday on YouTube. Okay, Now on
861
00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:58.880
the rundown here had a different segment that we're going
862
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.119
to talk about. But when you sent me through your
863
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:04.199
column for this league this week Lang on League, I
864
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:06.320
thought I scrapped it. I said, you're going to have
865
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:08.639
five minutes to talk about your column because it's the
866
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:10.719
most craziest column I think you've sent through.
867
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:13.159
All year but read it definitely a reader.
868
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:14.960
So we're gonna we're going to tease you with a
869
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:18.159
teasing Yeah, but basically a column of some big rule
870
00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.280
changes that you'd like to see brought in. Can you
871
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.719
take us through a few of those now, and we'll
872
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.880
let the let the readers decide when they when they
873
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:28.440
read the full thing when it's out on Thursday. Yeah.
874
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.199
Look, some people will think that I've actually gone crazy,
875
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:33.840
but what I've just decided to do is just say
876
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:36.400
what I think, and I've been too afraid to say,
877
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.599
so I've decided to take the column in that direction. Okay,
878
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.639
you know you can only do so many puff pieces
879
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:43.760
and how wonderful penrith are and blah blah blah, and
880
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.960
you know it's it's just it's comes a time where
881
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:48.320
I've got to man up and say what I think,
882
00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:51.239
whether it's criticized or not. My first thing is, I've
883
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:55.760
always hated, always hated this golden Pool. Why it's because
884
00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:58.320
if you're at the end of the game for eighty minutes,
885
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.280
if neither team is good enough to beat the other one,
886
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:04.840
what are we doing playing an extra ten minutes to
887
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.440
get a result, which would have nothing to do with
888
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:10.079
what we've just seen. For the first eighty for example,
889
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:12.840
both of them might be evenly matched. Someone could just
890
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:15.239
have the ball knocked out of their hands and the
891
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.519
other team that gets a free shot and wins.
892
00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:20.239
So you want it to be you've been watching too much,
893
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:21.760
well cap, you want it to be like the soccer
894
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.559
where after the ninety minutes, yep, it ends in a
895
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:25.559
drawer or go home.
896
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.519
No one's happy one. I'm when you walk out. I'm
897
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.079
let me tell you one thing that the side that
898
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:35.840
loses in Golden Point would any day take that one
899
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.719
point away. It's only the team that wins. Now, people
900
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:41.159
might be saying it's because you're a Penish supporter and
901
00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:44.559
they're probably not very good. Actually wrong. Nobody's played more
902
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.760
games of Golden Point than Penrith, and nobody's one more
903
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:51.440
than Penrith Golden Point. Yet I still hate it, obviously.
904
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:54.199
Just because you're so se you're stressed about what's going
905
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:55.239
to happen that you just got.
906
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.119
I don't want to do with another ten minutes of this.
907
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.760
I'm out. Well the irony years that at the end
908
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:01.559
of at the end of that ten minutes, if it's
909
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:04.519
if the scores are tied, you get a point anyway.
910
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.119
It's not like you even keep playing and playing and playing, Like,
911
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.239
but don't you find it exciting? Now? Don't you feel
912
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:09.960
really a life take?
913
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:12.039
I hate it pretaid you're not watching a Penrith match
914
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:14.119
and you're watching Brisbane versus Melbourne and they go into
915
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:16.480
golden point, Like, how exciting is that? You feel like
916
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:18.960
you're alive, that this game is just on the edge
917
00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:20.960
of your seat. You've got ten minutes for a decision
918
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.599
to be made. Can we can we get rid of
919
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:24.960
golden point and make a golden try makes a little
920
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:27.719
bit more tougher, and you know it's not just someone
921
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:29.199
getting a field gold when things.
922
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.199
Yeah, look, I've heard that argument before. But what they
923
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:34.800
also say is, well, if you can win during normal
924
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:37.079
time with a you know, with a golden point, then
925
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:39.480
it's not even It's not about how they win it.
926
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:41.880
It's about having to play in extra ten minutes, which
927
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:44.360
is in my opinion, not necessary. It never has been.
928
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:47.039
But you enjoyed in basketball when you watching Timberwolves play
929
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:48.800
and it goes to overtime.
930
00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:51.119
Different game, different tradition. I think they've always had it
931
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:53.440
haven't made the basketball. Well, yeah, they don't have draws.
932
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:57.360
That's got to find it exactly whereas we've ninety five
933
00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:59.000
years we had it was good enough to have a
934
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.199
draw and how all of a sudden, you know, we've
935
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:03.719
asked to do it. But now I said a few
936
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:06.679
more things. I had a few more more stats in
937
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:10.119
the in the article, but basically I just never liked it.
938
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:12.639
Well, check out Pete's column on Thursday. He's got a
939
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:16.639
bunch of rule changes and ideas that he's tossed up.
940
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.000
Some you might agree with, some like the golden point
941
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.639
one that you might not. But check it out on Thursday.
942
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:24.760
It's a good tease to read it in the paper
943
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:27.840
or on our website when it gets released. More Madness,
944
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.239
It's more Madness to come now, Pete, I know you're
945
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:33.280
a big fan of the podcast. You're a big advocate
946
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:37.239
for the Panthers Museum one day now, obviously that would
947
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.800
be amazing if we could have a Panthers museum dedicated
948
00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:43.679
to the history of the club and to rugby league
949
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:46.039
out here in Penrith and all the amazing items that
950
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.320
we've already put in. Me and Troy have put in
951
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:49.880
a lot of items. I'm going to read them out
952
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:51.679
for you now, and they're going to ask you for
953
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:53.119
what item you would.
954
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:53.440
Like to put in.
955
00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:56.360
So these are the items currently in our Panthers Museum,
956
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:58.920
which is yet to be built. But we've got Brandy's
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00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.800
number fifty five, Jews from the Super League, the Big Ball,
958
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:03.800
the red seats we're going to have in the theater
959
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:06.280
from the old Penrith Stadium, the Big the Big Bell,
960
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.480
Mark Weeks's flag from the ninety one Grand Final, the
961
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.639
seven inch vinyl of Penris theme song from nineteen seventy eight,
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00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.119
the Joke fridge, the Panther car, the Panther Eats catsuit
963
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.719
that was one from Troy, the track suit and Alvisos
964
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.639
the tracksuit that Gus got sinbind back in nineteen ninety four,
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00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:26.559
the first edition of the Weekend or in ninety one
966
00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:29.119
one which had John Cartwright on the cover. And last
967
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:32.159
week I put in the Paws mascot costume. Just the costume,
968
00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.519
good one, not the person inside. So Pete, this week
969
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.840
I'm asking for two more items. I'm going to give
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00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:40.519
you one and then you're going to give me one.
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00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:43.360
So the first next item, sorry, I'm putting in to
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00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.519
the Panthers Museum is the old video referee board that
973
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:51.239
would flash try and low try and refs call that
974
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:55.360
are at all the grounds. Was sponsored by Hardware House.
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00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:58.760
That's one and basically that's how we did it back there.
976
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.559
Now just flashed the results from the video referee or
977
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:03.320
the bunker on the big screen. But back then we
978
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:06.280
had a permanent a scoreboard type thing that will flash
979
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.039
it's a ref's call, nor it's seen budget someone who
980
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:12.800
have been there in the control room. Sometimes they got
981
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.800
it wrong and things not all of them flash at
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the same time.
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Chaos. I remember that, but I'd love to know.
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00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.719
I mean, obviously Penrith had it was even there even
985
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:23.800
when we did get the video screen in and obviously
986
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got taken down at some point.
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00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:26.320
I'm sure they're around.
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00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:31.400
I'm sure people own them, maybe dbayob So you've got
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00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:33.880
a video ref scoreboard, let us know. We'd love to
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00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:35.039
put in the Panther Museum.
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00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.079
What would I put in something that's also pretty much
992
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:41.719
extinct now, okay, and that's a DVD. I'd like to
993
00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:44.559
put in DVDs because they stopped doing it in twenty
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00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:48.320
twenty one when we won the Grand Final against House
995
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:51.199
was the last time they've released a Grand Final DVD.
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00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.360
I'd love to put in the twenty twenty, two thousand
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00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:00.360
and three, nineteen ninety one and twenty twenty one VD
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00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:03.320
okay of Penrith's Grand Final victory.
999
00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:05.199
Can play those in the theater that we're going to
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have with the red seats, and you can sit in
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your yeah and just.
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Play them over the day goes on.
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You're not sure what time you come in, You're not
1004
00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:14.840
sure which game is going to be on there.
1005
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.480
You've got to admit it belongs to the museum. Now DVDs,
1006
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:19.840
no one pretty much has them any people are still
1007
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.119
buying them, believe it all. They really Yeah, I mean
1008
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:23.519
not that not much.
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00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.960
Like I go on a JB very often and the
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00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:30.400
sunks it's shrunk a lot. Yeah, but I mean people
1011
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:31.760
must be buying them still, but.
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00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:33.719
I would say so, but I still think there's because
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00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:37.360
they're not making them anymore. Those three are eat Yeah.
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00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:39.960
I wish they brought out the twenty two, twenty three,
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00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:42.480
twenty four, like they could have done a four peat
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00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:43.760
one when we when we you.
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00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.119
Know, I've got this special ones at home, you know,
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00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:49.199
like all these different ones from over the years, Special
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00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.320
com Memory of Ones, ones from nineteen ninety everything. So
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00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:55.960
I've got plenty of DVDs, but just for the just
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00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:59.159
for the museum, maybe we could add more. Yeah, like
1022
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.079
you know, more than those, okay, but they're my.
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00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:06.400
Excellent, excellent. Well, well that's that's going into the Panthers Museum.
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00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.800
If you have any ideas of what you would like
1025
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:11.840
to see in the Panthers Museum, feel free to email
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00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:16.920
the Western Weekend and we'll put your suggestion in.
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00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:19.280
Yep, I think it's a great. Even if the club
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00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.960
don't do it, I think the Weekend should. We'll find
1029
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.239
a swat, find a spot and put it together.
1030
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:29.039
Troy wants to be the curator, so he wants to
1031
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.320
do and things like that.
1032
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:32.599
Yeah, I'll put my hand up for that too. I'll
1033
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do that as well.
1034
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:36.239
Okay, Pete, Now when you're here six weeks ago, you
1035
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.960
blew us all away with with story time with Pete.
1036
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:42.000
That's our next segment. And I think you gave us.
1037
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:45.320
A great yarn about Ryan Girdler and putting the heart
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00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:47.239
monitor on a dog so he could get his.
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00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:49.840
Steps up and whatever fitness up.
1040
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:53.880
Yes, that's right, and fooled everyone at the Panthers Panthers training.
1041
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:56.920
So Pete this week where you've got so many stories
1042
00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:59.559
from from your time working at Panthers or just your
1043
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:00.480
time being a fan.
1044
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.719
So what's your latest one. I'm a bit worried about
1045
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.000
naming this person. I will just give a big hint, okay,
1046
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.360
because it kind of shows a little bit of their
1047
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:12.159
character and I don't want to you know, Oh, okay,
1048
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:16.719
So the person. So we've got a former Illawarra Steelers player.
1049
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:19.400
Back in ninety ninety six when Super Leiu were trying
1050
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:21.880
to grab anyone they could, and so did the arl.
1051
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:27.400
They signed this, shall I say, aging Ilora Steelers player
1052
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.360
who was a very good player in his day, and
1053
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:33.239
they brought him hit to Penrith make up the numbers. Now,
1054
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.280
this gentleman, this player, I should say, was only wanted
1055
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:38.199
to play reserve grade. Pick up his money. I think
1056
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:39.840
it was a hundred two hundred grand, whatever it was,
1057
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:41.800
it was a lot of money. He wasn't wanting to
1058
00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:44.719
play first grade. He wanted to play reserve. Go pick
1059
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.199
up his money. And that's it anyway. So there was
1060
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:50.800
a big crisis of injuries in nine to ninety six.
1061
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:52.360
I think it was. So you could look up and
1062
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:54.840
see who it was or guess who it is, and
1063
00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:58.559
he was asked to get ready to play first grade
1064
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:02.079
the following week. Well, this player wasn't it didn't really
1065
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:03.960
feel like doing that. He walked knocked on the door
1066
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.840
to Alan Mayor's office. Alan me at the time was
1067
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:08.760
you know, one of the one of the trainers and everything.
1068
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.280
And he walked in and he's hobbling on his left
1069
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:15.519
leg and he's walking in he has our legs gone hemmy,
1070
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:17.400
or so it's tight. I can't you know, I can't
1071
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:19.639
do it. Sat down. He goes, okay, he couldn't brotherly
1072
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:21.679
see anything wrong, but he said, all right, so you're
1073
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:23.639
not right to play agains DNA legs killing me. I
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00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:26.280
can't can't do it. He goes, all right, I no worries.
1075
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:29.079
I'll tell the I'll tell the coach. As he turned off.
1076
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:31.880
He walked off, and Alan noticed that he was limping
1077
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.480
on his right leg, so pretty much there was nothing
1078
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:39.320
wrong with him. But he came in limping on the left,
1079
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:42.760
walked out limping on the right, so a clear indication
1080
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:44.960
that he just that was it for him. He did
1081
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.360
not want a bar of first grade. He just wanted
1082
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:49.880
to take his money and go, And I thought that
1083
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:53.079
was funny because he couldn't even get it right. Story
1084
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:55.400
right to the end had to be like come on,
1085
00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.280
like you know, you should remember which leg. You could
1086
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.800
even put a thing on your leg and you know,
1087
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:02.440
just to remind you. But I thought that was a
1088
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:04.920
funny story when I heard at the time just how
1089
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.760
much that guy did not want to play. And you
1090
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.280
hear it at the time when you're working at was
1091
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:11.400
there at the time, Yeah, it was. It was as
1092
00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:13.840
I said, because it sort of makes the player look
1093
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:16.519
a bit, you know, weak and soft. I don't really
1094
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:18.400
want to name him, but he was, I can say,
1095
00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:21.239
a former Illaora player that joined us for that one season. Okay,
1096
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:23.840
and what's he doing now? Do we know no idea
1097
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:26.679
that limp around thirty years ago? Yeah? Well, I hope
1098
00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:29.519
he learned, which led to limp on next time. But
1099
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:32.719
it was just one of those funny situations where you know,
1100
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:35.440
they obviously didn't they had players that they had to
1101
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.840
sign up and they had to disperse them somewhere. And
1102
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.920
that's fair enough. Still played reserve great a few games
1103
00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:41.199
of those.
1104
00:49:41.239 --> 00:49:43.199
All right, all right, and have you still got some
1105
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.199
time before you have to leave, and I'm going to
1106
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:46.880
get one more story out of you, because who knows
1107
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:49.800
when you'll be back. Obviously, Dodgsy is coming back next week.
1108
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.239
I don't think he's got any more holidays planned anytime soon.
1109
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:54.480
But I think that the world needs to hear the
1110
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:58.400
Ryan Girdler story. Or when you're on you're flying with
1111
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.800
Ryan Girler on a plane.
1112
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.400
The whole time. Well, we're coming into Sydney and we've
1113
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.119
flown from Adelaide, so we played the Rams ninety eight
1114
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:11.159
I think it was, and we're coming in and all
1115
00:50:11.159 --> 00:50:13.480
of a sudden, the pilot GOZ, we're just going to
1116
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:16.360
do another circle. We're not ready to land just yet. Anyway.
1117
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:19.320
I just remember we're all looking out the window and
1118
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:23.000
we can see the ocean just getting closer and closer
1119
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:25.599
and closer. I'm pretty sure it was around Saint George area.
1120
00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:27.239
Maybe I've got it wrong. I'm not really good, but
1121
00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.039
it turned around. It went really close, and I remember
1122
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:33.000
doing a few funny sort of turns again, and then
1123
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:36.199
a minute later it made it even sharper turn and
1124
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:39.079
we're getting closer and closer to the water, and I
1125
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:43.480
remember Ryan Girdler probably saying this as a joke, but
1126
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:46.599
also half scared, going, Jesus, where did this guy get
1127
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:51.519
his pilot license from a packet of cereal or something?
1128
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.360
And everyone just burst out laughing because I think we
1129
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:57.440
were all frightened because I swear I'm looking at this water.
1130
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.239
It's getting closer and closer and closer. And then it
1131
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.920
just veered up and so he I could hear him
1132
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.039
in the back for a good couple of minutes. The
1133
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:07.440
plane was obviously quiet at the time. Yeah, we were
1134
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.679
like playing and girds is just yelling. He just yelled
1135
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:13.000
it out and everyone could hear it. Everyone heard it
1136
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.559
because because he was probably saying what we're all thinking,
1137
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.639
what's his pilot doing? Cereal? Yeah, this guy his bloody
1138
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:22.760
his license out of the out of the box of
1139
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:26.159
wheat picks or something. So, you know, we did actually
1140
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:28.800
circle and finally did land safely. Good, but it would
1141
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:30.679
break the tension at the moment. And I'll tell you what,
1142
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.639
there was plenty of attention that water was getting close.
1143
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:36.119
The tension was running high. You remember when did we
1144
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:38.360
win in Adelaide or come out lost?
1145
00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:42.880
Yeah? We did, we lost. I sat next to Roy
1146
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.360
Simmons on the bus on the way there, on the
1147
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:48.199
way to the way to the game. They still blame
1148
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:49.960
me for that because I sat there with Rod Roy.
1149
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:52.119
I think you should play Darren Brown to the left
1150
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.000
and no, not really, but I did sit with him,
1151
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:55.400
and a lot of people said it was because of
1152
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:57.880
my advice that I gave that we lost. Oh dear,
1153
00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.679
there you go. You ought to blame that the Terrible
1154
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:02.800
ninety eight season. That's a good one.
1155
00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:06.360
Okay, Well, Pete, thanks for coming in today. Just a
1156
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:09.119
quick note on next week's episode. I'm not sure when
1157
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:13.000
we're recording yet. Troy will be back from Nashville. We're
1158
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.719
hoping sometime mid next week, so we'll just have to
1159
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:18.079
wait for your podcast.
1160
00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:20.639
Feeds to see when the when the new episode is
1161
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:22.119
and give us a song.
1162
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:24.719
Maybe you know who knows what he's going to be
1163
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:26.360
learning over there. I know he's going to a big
1164
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:29.800
concert this weekend over there, with Alan Jackson's farewell concert,
1165
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:32.440
which he spent a lot of money on, so.
1166
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:33.880
Hopefully has a good time over there.
1167
00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:36.800
And he's going to watch Panthers Cowboys, I believe, at
1168
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:40.519
three am Nashville time, and he'll be wearing his cowboy
1169
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:42.519
hat to he'll be wearing his cowboy hat.
1170
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.679
Ye who knows. Hopefully he wakes up for it.
1171
00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:49.719
Dedicated for sure. Well, thanks thanks again Pete for coming in.
1172
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.599
I really appreciate it. Well that's it for Tensions Running
1173
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:55.800
High this week. New episodes are out every Wednesday is
1174
00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:58.039
at Western Weekend at dot com dot au. Follow us
1175
00:52:58.079 --> 00:52:59.840
on all the socials and check out our print edition
1176
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:03.280
out every Thursday. Also download the Western Weekend app on
1177
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:06.079
Google Play and the Apple App Store. I'm Nathan Taylor,
1178
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:07.440
Pete once again, thanks.
1179
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:09.519
For having us, thanks for having me. Thanks, I'll see
1180
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:11.159
you in one hundred I'll see you in one hundred
1181
00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:12.400
episodes for sure.
1182
00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:15.400
And thanks to Penris City Automotive too for their sponsorship.
1183
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:18.800
We'll see you next time on Tensions Running High, Go
1184
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:20.159
the Panthers
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Now it's time for Tensions Running High of Penrith Panthers
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Podcast presented by The Western Weekend, brought to you by
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Penrith City Automotive.
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He's Troy Dus and Nathan Taylor.
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Helloever a, Welcome to Tensions Running High at Penrith Panthers
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Podcast presented by the Western Weekend. This is episode eighty one.
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I'm Nathan Taylor and today I'm joined by Peter Lang.
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Hello, Pete, Hello Nate.
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We are the voice of rugby league in Penrith and
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we love talking all things Penrith Panthers. For thirty five years,
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the West Weekend has led the way in Panthers coverage
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here in Penrith. We've covered six premierships, the biggest breaking
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our sponsor Penrih City Automotive, the only place to buy
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a car on the agenda. Today, the Panthers take on
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the Cowboys, Mary Fowler's Big Call, Origin three Teams and
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storytime with Pete returns.
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Well, let's begin the show. Your back Pete six weeks later.
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I thought it was going to be at least a year,
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but here I am back in six weeks. Every time
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the boss goes on holidays, I'm here, So every time
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I'm here means he's on holidays pretty much. That's all right.
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Yes, Troy's in Nashville and the United States at the moment,
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so lucky him. Hopefully he's gotten their safe and sound
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and he'll be listening to this podcast. I'm sure at
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some point.
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During while he listened to his guitar playing the guitar
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singing along. Now we'll see Pete.
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It was a you know, we come to on the
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show today after a loss.
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It's only a second loss for the year. The mood's
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a bit weird today here in the studio.
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But obviously Panthers lost the Titans nineteen eighteen last Saturday.
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I was at the game, which I can talk to
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you about a bit later, but you were watching it
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at home.
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You were a bit nervous heading into it. Tell us
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He thoughts, Oh, look, everybody says that I think they're
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going to lose every week as a sort of like
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a I don't know, a reflex action just to prepare
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myself in case they do. But honestly, I don't know.
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This was one of those games where I always felt
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uncomfortable about we have struggled to beat the Titans over
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the last few years. I think we only beat them
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by a couple of points back in twenty twenty four.
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Last year we only got them in extra time with
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Nathan Cleary there, and it was just sort of set
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up for this kind of performance, you know, like, Okay,
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we won against the Warriors, but to win with that
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same team and one less actually without case In McLean
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as well, It's not going to happen all the time.
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And I just felt it.
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Yeah, But at that first half, like I think Penrith
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looked pretty good. We're fairly in control. The Titans were
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making lots of errors, and then you know, we're on top.
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I think it was twelve to six at halftime, and
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I was pretty confident. I'm like, yeah, we've still got
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a very good side there. Leah Martin, Moses, the Oda,
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Dylan Edwards, Luke Garner, you know, paul Ala Moodie, some
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really good stars there. But the Titans just kept on
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hanging in, didn't they until the very end.
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And we didn't have it at the killer instinct, like
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Ivan said after the match, we lacked the killer instinct.
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I mean, you don't give Penrith that much ball any
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other game and get away with a win like that
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was ridiculous. We looked like the three Stooges out there.
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We're just bumping into each other. There was grubbers going everywhere.
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There was no nobody on the ball. Oh, it was horrible.
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Like the fact that we only lost by one point
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was a miracle. But who's fold is it? Pete?
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Obviously Jack Cogger's very experienced half, but he didn't seem
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to want to step up to the moment and take
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a field goal and it quite possibly could.
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Have needed it. Yep, it just you know.
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Dyl Edwards tried his butt off. He was arguing with
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the ref at times. He was trying to plead for
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calls and things like that. But who should have stepped
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up to make you know that killer instinct move? Do
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you think in that in those final moments?
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I agree with you. Jack Koga disappointed me in that game.
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He was still the he was the maestro there. I
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think with Blaze. Look, I hate to but maybe he
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could have stepped it up. Blazer's job too.
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He would usually defer to Nathan is a Blazer's job
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to have to kick that field goal the end?
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Do you know, Dylan Edwards can kick field goals. Jack
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Coggart should be able to get field or yeah, I agree.
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Now let's let's let's not let's call a spade of spade.
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Jack cog a lot, you know pretty much should have
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won us that game. He's got enough experience, he's played
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enough big games. I mean, he pretty much helped win
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US a Grand Final a few years ago. He's no dope.
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He played really well against the Warriors, but he went
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missing this game and it frightens me. It shakes my
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confidence whenever we lose. I know it's only one lost
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in two months or whatever it is, but it kind
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of I don't know about you, but it makes me
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feel a bit worried going to the next game sort
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of thing. You just think, oh jeez, I hope this
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doesn't spread to the next game, you know. Yeah.
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And that's why Nathan Cleary is so important. That's why
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you know, if he was there last week, if some
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of the other Origin guys were there, I have no
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doubt that Penrith would have would have probably won that
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game fairly easily. But the Titans, you know they were
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they would do for for a for us. Some the
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that's been. It's been a while since they seven years
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year two thousand nine. So when you have a big,
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big sort of gap like that, you know, you've got
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to expect a team to finally get their number, and
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they did. Should I even have played the Origin players?
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I mean they were available technically every other team played there.
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Guys. Look, probably not when knew that three games ahead.
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What if one of them got injured, you know, and
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then we would have gone, what are you doing that for? Well?
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Three games ahead? But I would, you know, think to
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myself now that someone like Isaac Tungo, he probably had
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his worst game in Penwrith Colors for ages. I mean
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a lot of people were bashing him up after the
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game we lost, but it's not why he lost. But
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he didn't help. Like he's a senior player.
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He maybe tried too hard to try and do something
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for the team.
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I don't know, It's just it just looked like a rabble.
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They just didn't look like they were ever going to
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score after those first two tries. Once you know you
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go twenty minutes, When the Penwith team goes about twenty
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minutes without a try, you just know that it's something's
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not clicking, especially when you score sixty eight points two
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weeks earlier. I know it had you know, different team,
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and obviously Nathan was there, but we all Nathan. If
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he's not there, what you know, what happens? Hopefully it's
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just a blip. Although Ivan doesn't believe in blips. He
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said they're a high performance unit and that that was
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not acceptable.
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Yeah, and of course, you know a loss was eventually
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going to happen. We were of course, we're going to
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go through a season losing one game, so but losing
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a golden point point but almost wanted it to go
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second few seconds they go, I think you know that
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that you know, Zane Harrison, young Gold Coast Titans kid,
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who would have thought he would outplay an experienced guy.
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Like Zach Couga spot on Nate. That is absolutely one
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hundred percent correct.
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Yeah, it's true. And they've got some quality players. Don't
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get me roll, but you know Penrith have much more quality.
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But it didn't show the other night.
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They started, well, they didn't they like you said they did.
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The commentators were like they were just waiting for for
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us to roll through them. Once I got to twelve, Neil,
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that was it.
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Yeah, what did you think, how did you feel when
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the when the field goal went over?
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Sick? Sick, actually felt like throwing up, like I'd almost
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rather be beaten forty two to two. Like I think
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I've said that to you before. Remember when Melbourne beat
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us last year in the Golden Point, when Harriet, Oh
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my god, that took me two days to recover. I
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think this one took about a day. We try being there, Pete.
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I was there, my first to.
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Queensland to see the Panthers play, and they bloody lose
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with thirteen seconds to go.
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I was silent after the match.
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I was sitting up in one of the grand stands
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there with all like the players families and stuff like that.
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I think we had Freddie.
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Lustix's wife sitting behind us, and we had lots of
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people that obviously got some free tickets to the game
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through through the club. You know, we're sitting amongst us
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and we're all pretty pretty shocked and quiet after the game.
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But I will have to shout out there were so
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many Panthers fans there that it almost felt like a
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Panthers home game. Just about I thought I'd rock up
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in my pink jersey, being like the only one there,
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but there were there were thousands of Panthers fanson more
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than than there was twenty thousand that showed up.
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Yeah, I reckon.
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I'd say at least sixty percent were Titans, and I
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reckon we would have had about forty so it's still
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pretty good. For it was amazing, Like I could not
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believe it. I don't know whether people just came up
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for the for the trip for the game like I did,
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or we just have that many fans in like that
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part of Queensland that loved the Panthers.
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But I felt like right at home, believe it or not. Well,
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last year when we beat them in the extra time
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when when he went over, I think it was Tillargi
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that went over, the crowd just went crazy. Now I
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remember that because I just thought to myself, Wow, it's
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like a Penrith home game, dear, thirteen seconds to go now,
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but it was round what fifteen sixteen or something like that.
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You know, it's okay, yeah, the semi final exactly, you
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know whatnot.
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We won't remember at the end of the year, that's right,
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But yeah, good to see.
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I saw a few Panthers fans, some of the Panther
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Army were there. Chris Randall stopped me in my tracks.
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I was going back to my chair. I met my
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old school friend Alisha. I haven't seen it.
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About fifteen years.
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She was at the game, so it was really cool
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to catch up with some big Panthers fans. But hopefully
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we can bounce back this week, and of course, Pete,
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we're playing Cowboys. We head back up to Queensland a
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little bit further about a two and a half three
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hour flight to Townsville to play the Cowboys at five
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point thirty pm this Saturday at Queensland Country Bank Stadium.
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The games live on Fox League and KO. Can the
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Panthers bounce back? They've just named their side. All the
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Origin guys are back. Thank god for that goodness. What
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are you thinking?
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Are you confident that we can bounce back against the Cows?
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I am confident, but I'm not over confident, only because
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we've also had trouble against the Cowboys over the years.
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I think last year they beat us here at home
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at CommBank, if you want to call Combank home, and
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then we went up there and did we get a draw?
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It was a loss in a draw we played.
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We played them in Sydney was Isaiah's two hundred and
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fiftieth game.
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Yeah, they lost that, and we lost that one, and
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then we went up there. I don't remember what the
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result was. I think it was a draw. We drew
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either that or it was a very narrow had a
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narrow in. Yeah, something.
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We may have led early and they came back, that's
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what happened.
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Yeah, that's right. So would they give us a tough time.
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They'll be desperate as well. They've lost a few as well.
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They've resigned Todd Payton for another couple of years. That'll
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give him a boost. That's right. I think Didon's back,
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isn't he? I haven't checked the team sheets. How good
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am I? But even if he is back, you'll be
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a bit short of a gallop. But I think Jason
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Tallamona love mol that's it. Oh beautiful. Can I change
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my tip? No, Look, it should be close. But I
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think with Nathan back, I think back to steer the
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ship and he's he'll have a point to prove as well.
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He's been basically seeding over the last couple of weeks
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about his performance in Origin, so he would want to
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make up for it with a big game. The fact
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that they also lost last week. I think those three
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blakes will feel like they've got they owe their teammates
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something so that you know, they couldn't quite get there
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without him, so that I think they owe him. You
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would think they'll win. Will they walk it through walk
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it home? Probably not, but I think they can win.
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Just well, I've got some good news for you. Hasn't
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been named the reserves. Great, So that's yeah, that's it.
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We'll take another one. Sony Luke has been named. So
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it's a bit of a reunion there for revenge. He's
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been going all right up there with them. Know he's
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not playing big minutes, but when he comes on, he
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actually makes a bit of a difference.
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But they've got, like obviously so much talent as we know,
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Scott drink Water that Mary Talungey, Jackson Purdue and Jake
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Clifford in that read Marney at Hooker, Jason Tamalolo, lots
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of experience there, Jeremiah and I Ruben Cotter. Like when
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you read out the names here Cohen, Hans Matt Lodge,
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you get a bit like, oh, okay, they're a.
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Lot better than the Titans. Don't forget that's named we
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would have thought, honestly, and even though I'm cautious, still
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in the back of my mind I thought, you'll probably
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get the Titans. Wasn't until it got to eight in
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or I thought, so we should get them, because don't forget,
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we've got three Origin plays. We should at Dylan Edwards,
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you know, like you've named the list out of all
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the players that are coming back that are there for us.
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It won't be It won't be easy though.
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But yeah, look, I'll be honest, Peter, I'm actually nervous.
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I think we could actually go on a bit of
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a losing streak here.
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Is just because we lost last week.
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Yes, and the fact that we just have some trouble
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up in Towns.
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Yeah, we do.
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Like we always have a really tough game. We don't
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go there and just wallop a team, even though we've
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got our Origin stars back and obviously minus Casey McLean.
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Of course, I just feel that I'm just nervous heading
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into it. I just think I wouldn't surprise me if
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the Cowboys, because they've also had a bit of a
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rough trot lately. They didn't win Ley It last week either,
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they wouldn't surprising you they're back at home. They're celebrating
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Todd Payton, they're celebrating Jason Talmulolo's surround with game, and
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they they cause a.
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Bit of a boilover. But I don't know.
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But always after a Penrith loss, you feel.
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Like, but you do the negative of the follow up,
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you do? I do as well. I think I said
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that right at the start. I don't know how much
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of my worries to do with the loss, and how
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much of it is to do with the fact that
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once you you kind of feel a bit more invincible
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after about five or six games in a row, even
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if you like you just feel like, yeah, you just
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go into a little more cocky and confident. Maybe that's
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not a bad thing what happened last week. And as
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I said, I still think that the Clearies and the
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Toles and and Yoh's, they will want to make up
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for the fact that their teammates played without them last week,
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thank them for doing that, And so they've got to
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put in a bit of extra effort as well.
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Yeah, well obviously, yeah, Panthers Cowboys this Saturday night, five
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thirty pm.
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What's what are you doing for the game? Pete? He
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got planned probably come to your place, Okay, yeah, all right,
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and then you know, go to my dad's the second half.
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In the first half of them play it by year.
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It's prediction. I think it'll be Penrith twenty four, Cowboys
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twenty and will be white. We'll be white knuckling it
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right to the end it is. I think they've got
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enough speed and power out there. If we're off just
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a millimeter, if you know, if there's just a few
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seconds of hesitation in the centers, or if TONGUEO God
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bless you soul decides to do what he did last week,
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then they will run right over the top of this.
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Well ongoing Panthers to bounce back as well. I also
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think it'll be a tight match too. I think there
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might be four or six points in it. I think
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you're it's going to be a tight one. I hope
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it's not. I hope we've learned our lesson from last
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week and the class just comes back and we can
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sit comfortably in the second half. But yeah, something tells
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me that we're going to be in front of the
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tough match, So I agree, let's see what happens. Well,
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Pete Yesterday, Nathan Cleary coming back in the team. His partner,
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Mary Fowler, is actually in town at the moment. She's
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in Sydney on a bit of a break and she's
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an ambassador for week Bix and she did a kid's
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football clinic in a more Bank yesterday and the media
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were invited out to catch up with Mary see what
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she was doing, and they also asked her a few questions.
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So some of the questions obviously about the clinic and
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a few other things, but they also asked about Nathan
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Cleary and she said, you know, she went to the
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Origin game with you know, with some friends to the
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Origin game down in Melbourne, and we saw her consoling
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him after the game after lost. A lot of people
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saying that was his worst performance of all time. I'm
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not sure about that, but you know, we can't do
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much when you're forward, so we've got short memories. So
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people are saying that, and we saw her consoling him
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after the game. But there was a reporter apologies, I
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don't know your name because I don't have any vision.
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I could just hear your voice, but yeah, he asked
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about Mary and her future at Man City. She's obviously
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off contract at the end of the next season, and
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like Nathan is of course with Penrith, and I guess
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we're all wondering what both of them are going to do.
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And I'm going to play your bit a bit of
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audio now, and this is what she had to say.
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Yeah, I think, you know, while I'm playing before, I'd
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like to be at the highest level possible.
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So really enjoying Addag City and you know, he's a
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good group of girls that really well last season, so.
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I have no reasons for it.
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So that's Mary Fowler there, And basically she's confirmed to
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the world that she's planning to stick around in Man
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City for the next couple of years at least.
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She doesn't have.
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Any plans to go anywhere, which means she's not coming
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back to Australia anytime soon or playing somewhere else in
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the world. She says the epl over there for women
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is the best comp in the world and she wants
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to play that as long as possible. So what do
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you think about that? How do you think that's gonna
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affect Nathan's decision? Because if she wants to play in
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the best cop in the world, shouldn't Nathan get an
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opportunity to play.
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In the base comp in the world exactly in rugby
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lay Yeah, I hear what alternatives does she have here though,
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Like obviously, well, she.
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Could play in the women's A League here, but that's
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she would be getting paid like twenty thousand dollars a season. Like,
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it's obviously not a big competition here. Like, she is
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one of the best footballers in the world. She's for
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the Matilda's and you know she's huge, so she probably
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wants to be in a competition that she's going to
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get the most eyeballs and the most success. Her team
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just won the championship this year as well Man City,
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so I can understand why she wants to stay there,
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Like she doesn't want to come here and play for
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the Wanderer's no.
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Offense, no no offense too. But like you just said,
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it's it's it's wanting. She's an athlete, so she's obviously
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wants to play at the best, at the top, at
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the top of the range. Now, six weeks ago I
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said to you that I thought that Nathan would stay
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here at Penrith. You know, we even said, oh, I
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will do a bed you can shove your head or whatever.
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Six weeks ago. That was when I even't announced he
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was leaving too. The day before we did our show.
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We announced he was leaving the day after. So yeah,
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not only that, but a couple of years ago. I
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remember this. At least eighteen months ago. You and I
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had an argument about, you know, whether he would leave
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to be with Mary, would he go to the other
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side of the world. Eighteen months ago I think it was,
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and you said I think he would, And I thought
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you were mad, mad as a meat axe. I said,
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who's going to, you know, turn down a great career here,
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top of the game. He's been talked about as an immortal.
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He's not going to go overseas to be with a girlfriend.
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You know, I've changed my mind. I'm worried, okay, legitimately worried. Okay,
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but are you worried that he could leave us? Correct?
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Current contract? Correct a hundred leave? As you said, he's
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at the top of his game.
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He's still be next year, and he's going to go
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to play in Wigan or Whole or somewhere in that
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part of England just so he can be closer to Mary.
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Foul I do because he said things in interviews and
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I know, we can read into these things as much
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as we like. But I remember one interview. I'm sure
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he said something along the lines of, well, I'll be
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consulting with Mary about my decision, you know, And then
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he keeps saying things like, yeah, it's tough to be
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in different interviews. Yeah, it's tough to be a part.
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It's not part of the thing I like. And I'm
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just listening to him in I think to myself, it
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sounds like you're talking yourself into going to Super Bowl?
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Will he be happy there? He's happy with Mary and
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the thing is, but.
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Then is he going to be happy in his career?
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Is going to Is that going to cause problems with
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the relationship as well?
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That I don't know, But the way he's talking and
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the way she's talking, it's almost like they're setting us
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up and his father's leaving. As you know as well.
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I just don't feel as confident, anywhere near as confident.
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I just think he's too good to leave now.
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He's still got a lot more to achieve in the NRL,
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win a daily and win win some more premierships with Penrith,
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win an origin series, like he's so young, so young?
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If he leaves.
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He's going to leave at age thirty and head over.
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Why can't he sign a two or three year deal
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with Penrith and then at age you know, thirty two
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thirty three, he spends a couple of his final years
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in England. Once he's racked up three hundred games for Penrith,
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he's done this and that. Still Mary's still going to
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be young Mary.
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Still. She's in her four now, twenty three something like that.
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She'll be twenty five, twenty six by the time he
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chooses to come over there twenty seven, and then who
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knows what's going to happen from then. But I think
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he's still got one last NRL deal in him, and
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I think they see each other a lot, like we
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think they don't guess they're separated by a big ocean.
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But she's here a lot for the Matilda. They have
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breaks her off seasons in the middle of a of
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an NRL season, so she's back here now. She's probably
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staying at his place at the moment. That the life
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in your day a sports.
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I hear what you're saying. It's just that he's the
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only thing that makes me time. Give me a little
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bit of hope. Is that they want to start a family. Okay,
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he's said that many Like she's very young, she got
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exactly there's no way in the world after the statement
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that she just made at twenty three or twenty four,
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and the fact that she wants to play in the
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top top league. She's just getting money from sponsors and everything.
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She's not going to stop now and have a child.
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So that's the only thing that makes me think maybe
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he'll there's a small chance, like what you said a
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couple of years, but it's just I haven't heard anything
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out of him for a very long time that makes
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me think that he's going to stay. I don't know
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whether he's foxing. I don't know whether it's just him
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playing his cards close to his chest or anything. But
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you and I looked at some a couple of recent
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contract signings that he's had with us, and they were
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never in doubt. He was just actually signed way before
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he even finished his contract. So why this time, Like
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he's going to be twenty nine next year, he'll be
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nearly thirty for his first, say he goes to Super League.
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That year that he goes to Super League, I think
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he turns thirty or thirty one, So maybe he's maybe,
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like you said, four, possibly five premierships, maybe even six.
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But he's got to make a decision fairly soon. Well,
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he said that.
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He said that he plans to make a decision before
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once the Origin season he has over, so we should
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know in the next few months, at least before November one. Yep,
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what he's going to do. All the Penrith plays are
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off contract. None of them have committed yet.
487
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No. I know they're worried about him.
488
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Of course, yes, it's naturally going to be worried about
489
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your best player. But of course we haven't heard.
490
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We don't know what any of them are going to do.
491
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So they're all playing from the you know, we're reading
492
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other same hing book sort of thing.
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You know, they're in a position of power. We need
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them more than they need us, of course, so for them,
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they're thinking, well, look, I've gotten to this point in
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my career. I've and even Mark not Mark, Matt Cameron
497
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has said they've earn't the right to wait. They've earn't
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the right for us to wait for them when they're ready.
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But I also think that Nathan needs to and he
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will give us an answer before well before the first
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of November because Penmouth have got to start looking at
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a plan B. You know, I know that they've got
503
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a few half backs that are coming through. Elijah burv
504
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is one who played for in the under nineteens Queensland
505
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team kIPS. I think his name is. Let me just
506
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have a look at my notes here, Skips Skips. That's it.
507
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They've got him in the system as well. They're very young.
508
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They're both very young. They both are inexperience. But you've
509
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got to have a plan, big shoes to fill as well.
510
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You want to Jet Cleary to come back. I did
511
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absolutely like if he that's it's not that's mental not
512
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going to happen because imagine those big shoes to feel
513
00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:43.359
he would be in his brother's shadow for the rest
514
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of his life. Like it's me being romanticular romance of course.
515
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And it's a it's an interesting suggestion. I just can't
516
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imagine they're all going to leave, leave poor Peter Wallace
517
00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:55.039
first year as coach. I see you and we've got
518
00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.319
like no team left. Like it just it's not going
519
00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:57.759
to happen.
520
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I've heard some good good news about we're not good news,
521
00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:03.079
but I've had some good mail about Liam Martin, I
522
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actually think he might stay. He had him gone. We
523
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had him I did, Yeah, we all had him gone.
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We want him going to Fiji. But recently with Tails,
525
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you know what I mean, Papa New Guinea, we all
526
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had him off there. We've still got Brian going there
527
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of course, Bizza. I think everyone keeps thinking he's going
528
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to go as well. But I've heard some good things
529
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about not only Liam Martin resigning, but also I know
530
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that a beautiful five eighth wants to stay as well.
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Blastel say they're not going to lose everybody, but everybody's
532
00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:38.240
also waiting to see what the big man will do,
533
00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.720
what will Nathan do? And at the moment where we
534
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sit today, I am a little bit concerned. Would you say,
535
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you're fifty to fifty yes, whereas before I was probably
536
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eighty twenty. Okay, he's got me nervous. I'm seventy five
537
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percent confident he's going to stay. Oh jeez, we've swapped rolls.
538
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Yeah, I think, And I think it's time yet for
539
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him to leave. And I don't think he's going to
540
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leave Penrith and go play for the Roosters or anything
541
00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:05.160
like that.
542
00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:07.160
No, I don't think that. I think if he leaves,
543
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he'll go.
544
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He's not going to go, He'll go overseas, whether that's
545
00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:12.440
playing in the Super League or trying rugby, which I
546
00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:14.759
think picking up a new sport at the age of
547
00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.559
thirty thirty one, imagine the scrutiny he's going to be under,
548
00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:21.440
That's right. So I just think he's got one more
549
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deal left in him here, even if it's a short deal,
550
00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:26.920
if it's like another two year deal, and then go
551
00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:28.599
from there, like you know, he can still be the
552
00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:31.200
richest player in the game. Put him on a massive contract,
553
00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:33.400
like but I don't think the money really is. I
554
00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.960
think that makes a lot of money off the field
555
00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:37.759
as well. I don't think money is a massive pool
556
00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:40.559
like it was is for Jerome Luai for instance. He
557
00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:43.160
loves his money. Jerome, I just can't blame him for that.
558
00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:46.599
But I don't think Nathan is as money focused.
559
00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.440
Yes, so what would you say if New South Wales,
560
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god forbid, lose the next game up in Queensland in
561
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a couple of weeks, do you think that'll have a
562
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bearing on his decision? Will you want to then have
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that hunger to go out? So do we want them
564
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to win Queens.
565
00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:05.559
Well, but if I've and clear he's going to be
566
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the coach next year or the year after the wouldn't
567
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you want to be coached by his dad in origin too.
568
00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:11.480
There's lots of a good story. It's just got so
569
00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:14.480
much easier if he just came out and said I'm staying.
570
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I do agree with you on one thing. If he
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does stay, it's not going to be a five or
572
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four or five year term. No, No, it'll be two years,
573
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probably three max. But I'll take it.
574
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Yeah, it was interesting, p I have to tell you
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because you love your Twitter or do whatever you call it,
576
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so randomly yesterday afternoon I put out the Mary Fowler quote. Yeah,
577
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just put put a little quote about it out there, right,
578
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and I said, Mary Fowler has no plans to leave
579
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Man City speaking at oppressor for a week.
580
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Beeak.
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She said, YadA, YadA, YadA. Do you want to know
582
00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.839
how many reactions I got to that? No, tell me,
583
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I got forty like retweets.
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Oh my god, one so far, Trulie. That's good for it.
585
00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:55.839
But it's not from Panthers or all fans. I've got
586
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really bunch of always Men City fans.
587
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Yeah. Like actually yeah, like over the moon by this news.
588
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They're all quote tweeting me saying, oh my god, this
589
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is amazing news. People putting videos to my new goodness
590
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for her God, thanks to the Lord.
591
00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.519
Now there's no Penrath fans have reacted at all. It
592
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is incredible. I would not have but it's all these
593
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people from England just absolutely you've made So Nathan's showing
594
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me now he's phone and I can see video videos.
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You know, and all this and hand claps and people
596
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are setting up video reactions to.
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My my news. So they're happy.
598
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Did you expect that? No, I just thought that the
599
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fans interesting, or the NRL fans.
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I didn't think it would go off overseas. So no
601
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one from Penrith really made a comment.
602
00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:44.079
It was just it just went viral in the Manchester
603
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the town of Manchester City.
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What do you make of that?
605
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Well, I think that they love Mary Fowler over there.
606
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Obviously I wanted to stay.
607
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Exactly so women soccer over there without detouring too much.
608
00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.319
It's obviously the bigger it's a lot bigger than it
609
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is here.
610
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Of course city is it's you know, it's the Premier League.
611
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.039
But you know they're still not playing to packed houses
612
00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:07.759
like that, not here, but you know it's.
613
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The premim league. It's huge. Well, as she said, it's
614
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the number one place to play for women. Yep, that's
615
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all right. Let's see what's happening in the next few
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months because with the origin being what two weeks away,
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the third one we're supposed to know shortly after that. Yes,
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let's hope you just cross now, Peter.
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Penrish City Automotive, your one stop destination for everything cars. Now, Pete,
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you just mentioned Origin before the before the ad read
640
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there the teams were expecting again to be announced on
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00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.359
Monday morning the new South Wales and Queens and Origin
642
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.079
teams for Origin three, which will be at Suncorp Stadium
643
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.279
in a couple of weeks from now. Now, obviously, you
644
00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:53.920
know we don't have to go and dissect Origin two
645
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because it was an absolute disaster of a game in
646
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a nutshell. Obviously, Lauri Dale, this could be very last
647
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Origin series as.
648
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:05.680
Coach of the Blues. What does he need to do
649
00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:09.599
to get us a win? Well, look, obviously there's got
650
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:13.200
to be a few changes, Like I'm not how big
651
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.279
are we talking? Maybe talking?
652
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.480
We're getting rid of Tedesco and putting in Edwards. Are
653
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we getting rid of one of your centers and putting
654
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in Jiboyevich?
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How big are we talking here? Yeah? Okay, so probably
656
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bigger than I there was originally originally thought so the
657
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one the players I'd be looking at. Obviously I'd be
658
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:34.960
looking at Dylan Edwards at full back, so you would
659
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get rid of Yeah, I think so there's is it
660
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.359
done wrong? Well, this doesn't seem to be like and
661
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:42.799
I read an article today about it. That doesn't seem
662
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:46.680
to be the synergy there between him and and and Nathan.
663
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:49.839
I know that he kicked that bomb that he got. Yeah,
664
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:53.799
but the game against the Queenslanders, it just showed up
665
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:57.000
that they're not in sync. They just didn't look in sync.
666
00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.640
It's very rare that you find a new South Wales queen.
667
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.920
But the Queens are just a different mentality. They always
668
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:06.880
play as a team, no matter who they pulled in,
669
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:08.000
they just they put in.
670
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For each other. Mood back line plays, they're offloading their
671
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support wherever they are. It just looked like they look
672
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like they've been playing together for ten years, that Queensland side,
673
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whereas we just looked all over the shop, disjointed. I
674
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don't know. It was just horrible. So I would probably
675
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look at Dylan Edwards at fullback. Yeah, i'd definitely look
676
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at one of the centers. The trail. I would have
677
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put in there in a flash, But now he's under
678
00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:34.680
an injury cloud as well, so who knows what's going
679
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to happen with him. Trovoyevitch, he's played in the centers before.
680
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.680
I'd prefer Crichton, so I'd like to see Crichton back
681
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:46.160
in there. Stags has to go. I know it's one performance,
682
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:50.000
but come on, like, how stupid are we? So maybe
683
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I would probably put Travoyvitch in there instead of instead
684
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of Stags, So i'd have a whole new center pearing. Yeah, okay,
685
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just experience those two blakes ooze first class experience. I
686
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:05.799
would also keep tole even though the people there. You know,
687
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:07.640
there are people out there saying he should go. Yeah,
688
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:09.799
there's a lot they weren't happy with his performance in
689
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Origin too, So yeah, I'm saying to myself, so what
690
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.039
the other fourteen or whatever games that he's played and
691
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.240
being Man of the match in two series that means nothing.
692
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He deserves one more chance, one more if I don't think,
693
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I don't think Laurie j I mean either what about
694
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I can't never say his name MARSI, Yeah, that's it.
695
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I'd probably keep him. I think he'll I think he
696
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will stay there. Six foot three, six foot four, big hundred,
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he was great, did everything right. I've got to ask
698
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you something, Nate. Ethan Strange, yeah, needs to be back
699
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in yep. I agree Mitch Moses.
700
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Unfortunately, I don't think he was ready and I think
701
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I think, I think Ethan Strange has.
702
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To be there. It's time round. Put Moses on the bench.
703
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If you want as as back up exactly, go for
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your life there.
705
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But if he goes down that path again, I don't
706
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think it's going to work out very well.
707
00:31:58.079 --> 00:32:01.359
Well, Laurie, but even when he came on for the
708
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last twenty odd minutes, he was all over the place
709
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and he still made an impact. So look, he has
710
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to be there now. The other one, obviously, they're going
711
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to keep Nathan. No one's stupid enough to get rid
712
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of him. Even though he didn't have his best game.
713
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I still think that his hit pointer injury had something
714
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to do with it. It's just me.
715
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I haven't clearly spoke today in a press conference, and
716
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he said that Nathan was actually in doubt for that
717
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.079
Tiger's game a couple of weeks ago, but it ended
718
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up coming to be able to play. Okay, but I
719
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think he should still be fine to play. I mean,
720
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is just something he's going to have to manage. I guess, yeah, sure, yeah, continue.
721
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Who knows. But the other one that they're looking at
722
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changing is Cam Murray. They're all saying he needs to
723
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be a who's the me?
724
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.039
Is obsessed with me? He is obsessed with this storyline.
725
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:40.400
They love Cam Murray.
726
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:40.640
Yes they do.
727
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.440
They hate Isaiah. He's an old man made playing it
728
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:48.039
proper on the bench, not there all together. They just
729
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:49.599
think Cam Murray is the god.
730
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.519
Yeah. Well look even if I put him there, okay,
731
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.079
just because it's desperate times, you know, we need to
732
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:57.039
win this one, all right, So okay, we'll bow the
733
00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:59.359
pressure and we'll put him in there, you still have
734
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:03.200
to have those in the side put him in prop Like, Honestly,
735
00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:06.039
I don't think that's a bad idea. Hadn't Vanua Blake
736
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.119
got like nine minutes or something. He needs to go
737
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:12.200
and sorry, what's this fascination with what's the other the
738
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:18.039
other guy, sorry, he's on the Barnett I mean just awful,
739
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.680
just awful. And then like so you could do worse
740
00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:24.359
than put Isaiah there Ford is injured by the looks
741
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:25.960
of it, so not that he's been on the right
742
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.119
at all. So you're going to have to have Payne
743
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.279
hass as the other prop even though he was a
744
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:33.599
bit quiet. I can't really find but he was Payne's
745
00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:40.279
first game. What about huts and Young? You keep him absolutely? Okay?
746
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:42.799
Who's the other bloke they had in the second right, Yeah,
747
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.880
that's right, Dylan Lucas, Paul Buck. I think Liam Martin
748
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.079
should come back. Yes, I was about to say either
749
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:54.279
on the bench or would you put some terrible one
750
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.200
marbles in my mouth today? Fair Income. I'd probably put
751
00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.880
him back and put Liam Martin on the bench.
752
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.920
Yeah, Martin needs to be back into team somewhere. And
753
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.079
then obviously a hooker. Ross Robson. I've never been inspired
754
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:06.759
by him.
755
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:10.000
Horrible never never, you'll probably smash us this week.
756
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:13.559
Blake Brayley should be back. He's back again for the Sharks,
757
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:15.639
so I can expect him to be back in the team.
758
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:18.519
What about Corros, How did he even get a look in.
759
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:21.880
I put him into so you would dunt Robson altogether.
760
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:23.960
I'll see you later, although I'm saying that you'll probably
761
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.679
smash us this weekend because I said that, But honestly,
762
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:32.039
I don't see the fascination with Reese Robson. Ez Hopsins. Yeah,
763
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.880
that's it, But where's the spark out of dummy half?
764
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:38.119
Where's the running, where's the deception, where's the anything? Like
765
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:41.119
I just just look at him and think you don't
766
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:43.159
contribute much to that side. I know people are going
767
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.599
to say, ah, you're adiot. You don't know be talking
768
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:46.760
about it. Maybe I don't, but just from a just
769
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:49.800
from a viewing point of view, I don't see the fascination. Yeah.
770
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.880
Look, it's no secret Laurie Daily didn't get his interchanges
771
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:56.000
right the other day. But look, I think it's going
772
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.639
to be fascinating to see what he does for potentially
773
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:03.039
his final Origin game Game three. As for Penrith players picked,
774
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.360
I think Brian to definitely be there. Nathan will be there.
775
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:09.000
Isaiaho is the captain, so he will be there. It's
776
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.679
just a matter whether Leah Martin gets a look in,
777
00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:13.000
which I think he probably will.
778
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:14.119
I think he think he will.
779
00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:17.280
I think they need someone like him. That's the Origin,
780
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:19.880
and he will terrorize you know, Cam Munster and some
781
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.000
of the other guys out there.
782
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:24.679
Dylan Edwards. I mean, he should be there. He should
783
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:25.639
have been there to begin with.
784
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:29.199
It's unlikely that I think Laurie will dump to Desco
785
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.320
because he was so hell bent on putting him in
786
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.000
the first place.
787
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:34.559
He'd be admitting that he's wrong. I can't see that.
788
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:36.280
And I mean Tom Jenkins, he probably should have got
789
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.480
a run at some point, you know, on extended bench,
790
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:40.599
even in game two. I was really disappointed that he
791
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.599
didn't get a look in, you know, when Casey McLean
792
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:47.719
went down obviously knowing got in there and that was fine.
793
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:50.440
Well, but you know he could have he could have
794
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:53.119
had a bench spot, but not to be not not
795
00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:56.559
under Lorry's guy. No, I don't think either. He said
796
00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:58.719
that he's Look, I've got to say something that I
797
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.119
saw it very interesting in view with Luke Lewis the
798
00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:03.679
other day. It was only short, but they asked him
799
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.760
about Origin. They said, he said, look, if I was
800
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.960
you know, when I played Origin, it wasn't about the players,
801
00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:15.039
it wasn't about moves. It wasn't about you know, running
802
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:18.119
here or there everywhere. He said, it was more about attitude.
803
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:19.960
And he said when we got on the team bus,
804
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:22.519
he said, under Gus and everything, when you first started playing,
805
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:24.840
we had to touch the blue jersey. When we got
806
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:26.920
off the team bus, we had to touch the blue jersey.
807
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:28.599
When we woke up in the morning, we had to
808
00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.920
do it. And he said, he really instilled in us
809
00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:34.679
the value and the pride of playing the for the Blues.
810
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.119
And he said, I think that is what's sort of
811
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.000
missing in this series, not that the players don't want
812
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.039
to win and they don't want to win for New
813
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.480
South Wales. But I hate saying this, but I've got
814
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:50.239
to agree. It looks like the Queenslanders have more passion,
815
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.840
I love of the game. I don't know what it is,
816
00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:57.480
but it didn't look good. So he said, we need
817
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:00.320
to harness everybody and get them all wanting to play
818
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.199
for New South Wales and for their mates and dive
819
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:04.960
on the loose ball and jump for a ball that's
820
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.679
not yours and kick and chase and everything, and he said,
821
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:08.719
that's what it's all about.
822
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:10.400
Well, they need to have a good, good game at
823
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:13.000
some point because they've had. They've had a good second
824
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.280
half in the first game, or good last twenty minutes
825
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:17.800
the first second game, they had a good first half.
826
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.480
They need to put a full eighty minutes together. Hopefully
827
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.400
they can do it in sun Corp. They've got They've got,
828
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.239
They've got a chance.
829
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:25.920
People, what do you I have to ask you this.
830
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:29.039
I read the most stupidest article the other day about
831
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:33.119
Lorrie Daily and it was Oh, Danny Widler, Okay, he
832
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:36.159
said that that there was criticism that Lory Daily was
833
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.880
giving poor pre match and he said, I think it's
834
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:43.920
because he had an ear infection. That has anybody heard
835
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:48.639
a smother and more rubbish in their life than that?
836
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:51.360
That's why because he couldn't hear properly out of one year,
837
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.719
that's why he wasn't doing this clean to go down
838
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.559
to doctor Michael and get his ears clean. Can you
839
00:37:56.599 --> 00:38:00.239
believe that, though? Seriously, can you believe that? What? What's
840
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:03.000
with that? You're talking about ear infection? Now, that's why
841
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:04.559
I didn't give a good speech because he couldn't hear.
842
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.760
Probably that's why his bench rotations were terrible. That's it exactly.
843
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:10.119
So do you think we're any hope what's your prediction
844
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:11.880
for for Wednesday in a couple of weeks.
845
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.119
Look, nothing. I would like to see nothing more than
846
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:18.119
to see the Blues win. But I'm probably going to
847
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:21.599
copy it by saying I don't think they will what
848
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.039
I think Queensland will. Probably I'm going to kick you
849
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.440
out of new stuff. I can see him go to Queensland.
850
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.960
I can see an improved performance, but it's going to
851
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:35.880
take pullion effort for New South Wales. And besides, I
852
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.440
might change my mind when I see the team. Okay,
853
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.159
but they have to make a.
854
00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:42.159
Future, so at this stage you're going for new stuff.
855
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:43.840
It's tip in Queensland.
856
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:45.480
At this stage I want to see the teams and
857
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:46.519
then I might change a life.
858
00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:48.880
Okay, fair enough, Well we can find you on X
859
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:51.920
and you can let us know. Will promise after the
860
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:56.440
teams are released on Monday on YouTube. Okay, Now on
861
00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:58.880
the rundown here had a different segment that we're going
862
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.119
to talk about. But when you sent me through your
863
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:04.199
column for this league this week Lang on League, I
864
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:06.320
thought I scrapped it. I said, you're going to have
865
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:08.639
five minutes to talk about your column because it's the
866
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:10.719
most craziest column I think you've sent through.
867
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:13.159
All year but read it definitely a reader.
868
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:14.960
So we're gonna we're going to tease you with a
869
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:18.159
teasing Yeah, but basically a column of some big rule
870
00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.280
changes that you'd like to see brought in. Can you
871
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.719
take us through a few of those now, and we'll
872
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.880
let the let the readers decide when they when they
873
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:28.440
read the full thing when it's out on Thursday. Yeah.
874
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.199
Look, some people will think that I've actually gone crazy,
875
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:33.840
but what I've just decided to do is just say
876
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:36.400
what I think, and I've been too afraid to say,
877
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.599
so I've decided to take the column in that direction. Okay,
878
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.639
you know you can only do so many puff pieces
879
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:43.760
and how wonderful penrith are and blah blah blah, and
880
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.960
you know it's it's just it's comes a time where
881
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:48.320
I've got to man up and say what I think,
882
00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:51.239
whether it's criticized or not. My first thing is, I've
883
00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:55.760
always hated, always hated this golden Pool. Why it's because
884
00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:58.320
if you're at the end of the game for eighty minutes,
885
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.280
if neither team is good enough to beat the other one,
886
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:04.840
what are we doing playing an extra ten minutes to
887
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.440
get a result, which would have nothing to do with
888
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:10.079
what we've just seen. For the first eighty for example,
889
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:12.840
both of them might be evenly matched. Someone could just
890
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:15.239
have the ball knocked out of their hands and the
891
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.519
other team that gets a free shot and wins.
892
00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:20.239
So you want it to be you've been watching too much,
893
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:21.760
well cap, you want it to be like the soccer
894
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.559
where after the ninety minutes, yep, it ends in a
895
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:25.559
drawer or go home.
896
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.519
No one's happy one. I'm when you walk out. I'm
897
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.079
let me tell you one thing that the side that
898
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:35.840
loses in Golden Point would any day take that one
899
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.719
point away. It's only the team that wins. Now, people
900
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:41.159
might be saying it's because you're a Penish supporter and
901
00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:44.559
they're probably not very good. Actually wrong. Nobody's played more
902
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.760
games of Golden Point than Penrith, and nobody's one more
903
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:51.440
than Penrith Golden Point. Yet I still hate it, obviously.
904
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:54.199
Just because you're so se you're stressed about what's going
905
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:55.239
to happen that you just got.
906
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.119
I don't want to do with another ten minutes of this.
907
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.760
I'm out. Well the irony years that at the end
908
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:01.559
of at the end of that ten minutes, if it's
909
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:04.519
if the scores are tied, you get a point anyway.
910
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.119
It's not like you even keep playing and playing and playing, Like,
911
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.239
but don't you find it exciting? Now? Don't you feel
912
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:09.960
really a life take?
913
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:12.039
I hate it pretaid you're not watching a Penrith match
914
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:14.119
and you're watching Brisbane versus Melbourne and they go into
915
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:16.480
golden point, Like, how exciting is that? You feel like
916
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:18.960
you're alive, that this game is just on the edge
917
00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:20.960
of your seat. You've got ten minutes for a decision
918
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.599
to be made. Can we can we get rid of
919
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:24.960
golden point and make a golden try makes a little
920
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:27.719
bit more tougher, and you know it's not just someone
921
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:29.199
getting a field gold when things.
922
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.199
Yeah, look, I've heard that argument before. But what they
923
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:34.800
also say is, well, if you can win during normal
924
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:37.079
time with a you know, with a golden point, then
925
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:39.480
it's not even It's not about how they win it.
926
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:41.880
It's about having to play in extra ten minutes, which
927
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:44.360
is in my opinion, not necessary. It never has been.
928
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:47.039
But you enjoyed in basketball when you watching Timberwolves play
929
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:48.800
and it goes to overtime.
930
00:41:48.599 --> 00:41:51.119
Different game, different tradition. I think they've always had it
931
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:53.440
haven't made the basketball. Well, yeah, they don't have draws.
932
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:57.360
That's got to find it exactly whereas we've ninety five
933
00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:59.000
years we had it was good enough to have a
934
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.199
draw and how all of a sudden, you know, we've
935
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:03.719
asked to do it. But now I said a few
936
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:06.679
more things. I had a few more more stats in
937
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:10.119
the in the article, but basically I just never liked it.
938
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:12.639
Well, check out Pete's column on Thursday. He's got a
939
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:16.639
bunch of rule changes and ideas that he's tossed up.
940
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.000
Some you might agree with, some like the golden point
941
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.639
one that you might not. But check it out on Thursday.
942
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:24.760
It's a good tease to read it in the paper
943
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:27.840
or on our website when it gets released. More Madness,
944
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.239
It's more Madness to come now, Pete, I know you're
945
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:33.280
a big fan of the podcast. You're a big advocate
946
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:37.239
for the Panthers Museum one day now, obviously that would
947
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.800
be amazing if we could have a Panthers museum dedicated
948
00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:43.679
to the history of the club and to rugby league
949
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:46.039
out here in Penrith and all the amazing items that
950
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.320
we've already put in. Me and Troy have put in
951
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:49.880
a lot of items. I'm going to read them out
952
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:51.679
for you now, and they're going to ask you for
953
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:53.119
what item you would.
954
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:53.440
Like to put in.
955
00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:56.360
So these are the items currently in our Panthers Museum,
956
00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:58.920
which is yet to be built. But we've got Brandy's
957
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.800
number fifty five, Jews from the Super League, the Big Ball,
958
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:03.800
the red seats we're going to have in the theater
959
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:06.280
from the old Penrith Stadium, the Big the Big Bell,
960
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.480
Mark Weeks's flag from the ninety one Grand Final, the
961
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.639
seven inch vinyl of Penris theme song from nineteen seventy eight,
962
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.119
the Joke fridge, the Panther car, the Panther Eats catsuit
963
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.719
that was one from Troy, the track suit and Alvisos
964
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.639
the tracksuit that Gus got sinbind back in nineteen ninety four,
965
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:26.559
the first edition of the Weekend or in ninety one
966
00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:29.119
one which had John Cartwright on the cover. And last
967
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:32.159
week I put in the Paws mascot costume. Just the costume,
968
00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.519
good one, not the person inside. So Pete, this week
969
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.840
I'm asking for two more items. I'm going to give
970
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:40.519
you one and then you're going to give me one.
971
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:43.360
So the first next item, sorry, I'm putting in to
972
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.519
the Panthers Museum is the old video referee board that
973
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:51.239
would flash try and low try and refs call that
974
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:55.360
are at all the grounds. Was sponsored by Hardware House.
975
00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:58.760
That's one and basically that's how we did it back there.
976
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.559
Now just flashed the results from the video referee or
977
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:03.320
the bunker on the big screen. But back then we
978
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:06.280
had a permanent a scoreboard type thing that will flash
979
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.039
it's a ref's call, nor it's seen budget someone who
980
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:12.800
have been there in the control room. Sometimes they got
981
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.800
it wrong and things not all of them flash at
982
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:16.320
the same time.
983
00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:19.239
Chaos. I remember that, but I'd love to know.
984
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.719
I mean, obviously Penrith had it was even there even
985
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:23.800
when we did get the video screen in and obviously
986
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:25.119
got taken down at some point.
987
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:26.320
I'm sure they're around.
988
00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:31.400
I'm sure people own them, maybe dbayob So you've got
989
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:33.880
a video ref scoreboard, let us know. We'd love to
990
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:35.039
put in the Panther Museum.
991
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.079
What would I put in something that's also pretty much
992
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:41.719
extinct now, okay, and that's a DVD. I'd like to
993
00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:44.559
put in DVDs because they stopped doing it in twenty
994
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:48.320
twenty one when we won the Grand Final against House
995
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:51.199
was the last time they've released a Grand Final DVD.
996
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.360
I'd love to put in the twenty twenty, two thousand
997
00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:00.360
and three, nineteen ninety one and twenty twenty one VD
998
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:03.320
okay of Penrith's Grand Final victory.
999
00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:05.199
Can play those in the theater that we're going to
1000
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:06.880
have with the red seats, and you can sit in
1001
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:09.400
your yeah and just.
1002
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:11.559
Play them over the day goes on.
1003
00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:13.440
You're not sure what time you come in, You're not
1004
00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:14.840
sure which game is going to be on there.
1005
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.480
You've got to admit it belongs to the museum. Now DVDs,
1006
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:19.840
no one pretty much has them any people are still
1007
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.119
buying them, believe it all. They really Yeah, I mean
1008
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:23.519
not that not much.
1009
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.960
Like I go on a JB very often and the
1010
00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:30.400
sunks it's shrunk a lot. Yeah, but I mean people
1011
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:31.760
must be buying them still, but.
1012
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:33.719
I would say so, but I still think there's because
1013
00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:37.360
they're not making them anymore. Those three are eat Yeah.
1014
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:39.960
I wish they brought out the twenty two, twenty three,
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00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:42.480
twenty four, like they could have done a four peat
1016
00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:43.760
one when we when we you.
1017
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.119
Know, I've got this special ones at home, you know,
1018
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:49.199
like all these different ones from over the years, Special
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00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.320
com Memory of Ones, ones from nineteen ninety everything. So
1020
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:55.960
I've got plenty of DVDs, but just for the just
1021
00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:59.159
for the museum, maybe we could add more. Yeah, like
1022
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.079
you know, more than those, okay, but they're my.
1023
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:06.400
Excellent, excellent. Well, well that's that's going into the Panthers Museum.
1024
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.800
If you have any ideas of what you would like
1025
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:11.840
to see in the Panthers Museum, feel free to email
1026
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:16.920
the Western Weekend and we'll put your suggestion in.
1027
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:19.280
Yep, I think it's a great. Even if the club
1028
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.960
don't do it, I think the Weekend should. We'll find
1029
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:24.239
a swat, find a spot and put it together.
1030
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:29.039
Troy wants to be the curator, so he wants to
1031
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.320
do and things like that.
1032
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:32.599
Yeah, I'll put my hand up for that too. I'll
1033
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:33.280
do that as well.
1034
00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:36.239
Okay, Pete, Now when you're here six weeks ago, you
1035
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.960
blew us all away with with story time with Pete.
1036
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:42.000
That's our next segment. And I think you gave us.
1037
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:45.320
A great yarn about Ryan Girdler and putting the heart
1038
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:47.239
monitor on a dog so he could get his.
1039
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:49.840
Steps up and whatever fitness up.
1040
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:53.880
Yes, that's right, and fooled everyone at the Panthers Panthers training.
1041
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:56.920
So Pete this week where you've got so many stories
1042
00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:59.559
from from your time working at Panthers or just your
1043
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:00.480
time being a fan.
1044
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.719
So what's your latest one. I'm a bit worried about
1045
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.000
naming this person. I will just give a big hint, okay,
1046
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.360
because it kind of shows a little bit of their
1047
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:12.159
character and I don't want to you know, Oh, okay,
1048
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:16.719
So the person. So we've got a former Illawarra Steelers player.
1049
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:19.400
Back in ninety ninety six when Super Leiu were trying
1050
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:21.880
to grab anyone they could, and so did the arl.
1051
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:27.400
They signed this, shall I say, aging Ilora Steelers player
1052
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.360
who was a very good player in his day, and
1053
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:33.239
they brought him hit to Penrith make up the numbers. Now,
1054
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.280
this gentleman, this player, I should say, was only wanted
1055
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:38.199
to play reserve grade. Pick up his money. I think
1056
00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:39.840
it was a hundred two hundred grand, whatever it was,
1057
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:41.800
it was a lot of money. He wasn't wanting to
1058
00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:44.719
play first grade. He wanted to play reserve. Go pick
1059
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.199
up his money. And that's it anyway. So there was
1060
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:50.800
a big crisis of injuries in nine to ninety six.
1061
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:52.360
I think it was. So you could look up and
1062
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:54.840
see who it was or guess who it is, and
1063
00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:58.559
he was asked to get ready to play first grade
1064
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:02.079
the following week. Well, this player wasn't it didn't really
1065
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:03.960
feel like doing that. He walked knocked on the door
1066
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.840
to Alan Mayor's office. Alan me at the time was
1067
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:08.760
you know, one of the one of the trainers and everything.
1068
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.280
And he walked in and he's hobbling on his left
1069
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:15.519
leg and he's walking in he has our legs gone hemmy,
1070
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:17.400
or so it's tight. I can't you know, I can't
1071
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:19.639
do it. Sat down. He goes, okay, he couldn't brotherly
1072
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:21.679
see anything wrong, but he said, all right, so you're
1073
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:23.639
not right to play agains DNA legs killing me. I
1074
00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:26.280
can't can't do it. He goes, all right, I no worries.
1075
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:29.079
I'll tell the I'll tell the coach. As he turned off.
1076
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:31.880
He walked off, and Alan noticed that he was limping
1077
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.480
on his right leg, so pretty much there was nothing
1078
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:39.320
wrong with him. But he came in limping on the left,
1079
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:42.760
walked out limping on the right, so a clear indication
1080
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:44.960
that he just that was it for him. He did
1081
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.360
not want a bar of first grade. He just wanted
1082
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:49.880
to take his money and go, And I thought that
1083
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:53.079
was funny because he couldn't even get it right. Story
1084
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:55.400
right to the end had to be like come on,
1085
00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:57.280
like you know, you should remember which leg. You could
1086
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.800
even put a thing on your leg and you know,
1087
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:02.440
just to remind you. But I thought that was a
1088
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:04.920
funny story when I heard at the time just how
1089
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.760
much that guy did not want to play. And you
1090
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.280
hear it at the time when you're working at was
1091
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:11.400
there at the time, Yeah, it was. It was as
1092
00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:13.840
I said, because it sort of makes the player look
1093
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:16.519
a bit, you know, weak and soft. I don't really
1094
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:18.400
want to name him, but he was, I can say,
1095
00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:21.239
a former Illaora player that joined us for that one season. Okay,
1096
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:23.840
and what's he doing now? Do we know no idea
1097
00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:26.679
that limp around thirty years ago? Yeah? Well, I hope
1098
00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:29.519
he learned, which led to limp on next time. But
1099
00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:32.719
it was just one of those funny situations where you know,
1100
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:35.440
they obviously didn't they had players that they had to
1101
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.840
sign up and they had to disperse them somewhere. And
1102
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.920
that's fair enough. Still played reserve great a few games
1103
00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:41.199
of those.
1104
00:49:41.239 --> 00:49:43.199
All right, all right, and have you still got some
1105
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.199
time before you have to leave, and I'm going to
1106
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:46.880
get one more story out of you, because who knows
1107
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:49.800
when you'll be back. Obviously, Dodgsy is coming back next week.
1108
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.239
I don't think he's got any more holidays planned anytime soon.
1109
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:54.480
But I think that the world needs to hear the
1110
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:58.400
Ryan Girdler story. Or when you're on you're flying with
1111
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.800
Ryan Girler on a plane.
1112
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.400
The whole time. Well, we're coming into Sydney and we've
1113
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.119
flown from Adelaide, so we played the Rams ninety eight
1114
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:11.159
I think it was, and we're coming in and all
1115
00:50:11.159 --> 00:50:13.480
of a sudden, the pilot GOZ, we're just going to
1116
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:16.360
do another circle. We're not ready to land just yet. Anyway.
1117
00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:19.320
I just remember we're all looking out the window and
1118
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:23.000
we can see the ocean just getting closer and closer
1119
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:25.599
and closer. I'm pretty sure it was around Saint George area.
1120
00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:27.239
Maybe I've got it wrong. I'm not really good, but
1121
00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.039
it turned around. It went really close, and I remember
1122
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:33.000
doing a few funny sort of turns again, and then
1123
00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:36.199
a minute later it made it even sharper turn and
1124
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:39.079
we're getting closer and closer to the water, and I
1125
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:43.480
remember Ryan Girdler probably saying this as a joke, but
1126
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:46.599
also half scared, going, Jesus, where did this guy get
1127
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:51.519
his pilot license from a packet of cereal or something?
1128
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.360
And everyone just burst out laughing because I think we
1129
00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:57.440
were all frightened because I swear I'm looking at this water.
1130
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.239
It's getting closer and closer and closer. And then it
1131
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.920
just veered up and so he I could hear him
1132
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.039
in the back for a good couple of minutes. The
1133
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:07.440
plane was obviously quiet at the time. Yeah, we were
1134
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:10.679
like playing and girds is just yelling. He just yelled
1135
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:13.000
it out and everyone could hear it. Everyone heard it
1136
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:15.559
because because he was probably saying what we're all thinking,
1137
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.639
what's his pilot doing? Cereal? Yeah, this guy his bloody
1138
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:22.760
his license out of the out of the box of
1139
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:26.159
wheat picks or something. So, you know, we did actually
1140
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:28.800
circle and finally did land safely. Good, but it would
1141
00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:30.679
break the tension at the moment. And I'll tell you what,
1142
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.639
there was plenty of attention that water was getting close.
1143
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:36.119
The tension was running high. You remember when did we
1144
00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:38.360
win in Adelaide or come out lost?
1145
00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:42.880
Yeah? We did, we lost. I sat next to Roy
1146
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.360
Simmons on the bus on the way there, on the
1147
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:48.199
way to the way to the game. They still blame
1148
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:49.960
me for that because I sat there with Rod Roy.
1149
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:52.119
I think you should play Darren Brown to the left
1150
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.000
and no, not really, but I did sit with him,
1151
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:55.400
and a lot of people said it was because of
1152
00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:57.880
my advice that I gave that we lost. Oh dear,
1153
00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.679
there you go. You ought to blame that the Terrible
1154
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:02.800
ninety eight season. That's a good one.
1155
00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:06.360
Okay, Well, Pete, thanks for coming in today. Just a
1156
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:09.119
quick note on next week's episode. I'm not sure when
1157
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:13.000
we're recording yet. Troy will be back from Nashville. We're
1158
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.719
hoping sometime mid next week, so we'll just have to
1159
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:18.079
wait for your podcast.
1160
00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:20.639
Feeds to see when the when the new episode is
1161
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:22.119
and give us a song.
1162
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:24.719
Maybe you know who knows what he's going to be
1163
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:26.360
learning over there. I know he's going to a big
1164
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:29.800
concert this weekend over there, with Alan Jackson's farewell concert,
1165
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:32.440
which he spent a lot of money on, so.
1166
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:33.880
Hopefully has a good time over there.
1167
00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:36.800
And he's going to watch Panthers Cowboys, I believe, at
1168
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:40.519
three am Nashville time, and he'll be wearing his cowboy
1169
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:42.519
hat to he'll be wearing his cowboy hat.
1170
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.679
Ye who knows. Hopefully he wakes up for it.
1171
00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:49.719
Dedicated for sure. Well, thanks thanks again Pete for coming in.
1172
00:52:50.039 --> 00:52:52.599
I really appreciate it. Well that's it for Tensions Running
1173
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:55.800
High this week. New episodes are out every Wednesday is
1174
00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:58.039
at Western Weekend at dot com dot au. Follow us
1175
00:52:58.079 --> 00:52:59.840
on all the socials and check out our print edition
1176
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:03.280
out every Thursday. Also download the Western Weekend app on
1177
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:06.079
Google Play and the Apple App Store. I'm Nathan Taylor,
1178
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:07.440
Pete once again, thanks.
1179
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:09.519
For having us, thanks for having me. Thanks, I'll see
1180
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:11.159
you in one hundred I'll see you in one hundred
1181
00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:12.400
episodes for sure.
1182
00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:15.400
And thanks to Penris City Automotive too for their sponsorship.
1183
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:18.800
We'll see you next time on Tensions Running High, Go
1184
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