Tension's Running High E82 - Scott Sorensen joins us + Is it curtains for Moses Leota?

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Now it's time for Tensions Running High of Penrith Panthers
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Hello everyone, and welcome to Tensions Running High, a Penrith
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eighty two. I'm troyd was joined by Nathan Taylor. Hello, Nathan,
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Today we chat to Scott Sorenson. We begin our countdown
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of these sixty most defining moments in Penrith Panthers history.
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Brian to Acts from the Blues, Moses Leota's future in doubt,
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and a whole heap more. But let's begin the show
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and Nathan. I've been away for a couple of weeks
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and the wheels have fallen off at the Panthers. What's
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going on?
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Oh, your favorite players about to get tossed out the
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doors in Moses, Leota, Brian to the you know, seventeen
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game playing street for the Blues Acts. Did you get
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any news while you're over there in the United States?
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Did you find any of this out? There was a
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big news over there that Sizza had been gone from Origin.
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Can't say it was big news, you know what it
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was actually surprised about. Not surprised because they were hosting it.
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But World Cup was pretty much everywhere. Yeah, you know,
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and you know there'd be a reason for it to be,
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you know, not a big soccer country, but but yeah,
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it was pretty much everywhere.
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So you you went to it.
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If they had a TV. Not all the bars have TV,
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of course, but if they had a TV, it had
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the World Cup on. Yes, yeah, it was no unfortunately
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no soccer's action on because the US were playing at
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the same time. Oh yeah, that's we just had the
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little score update on the US. But we'll talk more
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about that a little bit later. Let's get straight into
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the Panthers and rabbit O's Friday Night and origin depleted match,
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No doubt about that. We look at the both teams
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and both affected by both origin and injuries. Like you
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look at you know, some of these players that are
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that are lining up, the likes of Dane Jennings for
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South Sydney, Latrell is playing just not Latroll Mitchell Latrell,
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Segwalt playing in the centers up against Paul Alamotti there,
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and you know the likes of you know, Liam LeBlanc
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and John Reddell getting a run for the.
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Rabbits from the Niners.
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But if you're Rabbits any looking at the Perro team,
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were you're going like geez, you're running out with a bench.
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It's you know Billy Scott Klaney going, Billy Phillips and
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Lun Pattaya And you probably think we're a chancy, particularly
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on Penis recent form. But how important is it for
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the Panthers to avoid a third straight loss?
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Yeah, look, I think it's hugely important. Like it just
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goes without saying. You just don't want to lose three
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games in a row at any point of this season,
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let alone, let alone after putting such a such a
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great run of games together. I think it was seven
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in a row they won before they lost against the
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Titans a few weeks ago, and then the performance against
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the Cowboys was you know, just shocking. I mean I
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could have excused the one against the Titans because you
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know they would you for a win and you know
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it went down to the wire there with a field goal.
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But that performance against the Cowboys was all four and
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it just dashed my confidence. I think heading into this
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one against the rabbit Os, I think it's it's vitally important.
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I've seen teams this year like the Storm Brisbane Roosters,
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few teams string you know, three, four, five, six, seven
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losses together. I'm not saying that's gonna happen to Penrith,
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but it can happen if you get carried away with it.
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I will say this, I don't think that the Panthers,
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you know, losing on Friday Night, I don't think it
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changes anything as far as their chances of winning the
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camp this year.
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Maybe not.
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There was always going to be a slump. You can't
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start as well as we started without a slump, and
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I think it's good that the slump's happening now and
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this will be a good little wake up call. You know,
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only a few little things worried me out of the
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Cowboys game, and that was mainly that, you know, we've
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made calm our brand and Ivan was clearly not calm postmatch,
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and you know, gave very little away and sort of
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suggested that he was a little bit worried about where
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things are at. But look, at the end of the day,
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you know, we've done enough in that first half of
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the year. We know what to do when it comes
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to September. We're having the same conversation last year in
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that first portion of the year where we were like, well,
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as long as we get there, we know what to do.
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But yes, we do have a much better performance than
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what we saw.
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You you just don't want that first part of the
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season to go to waste.
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You know.
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I know we're banked some games and now we've got
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a two game buffer on the opposition, but we lose
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this week, then you might only have a one game buffer.
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It's just you just you don't want it to go
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to waste and then end up in third or fourth
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or fifth because you've decided to have a little bit
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of a drop down in this period.
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And the Bunnies are in a little sweet patch of form,
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who won their last two games. Thrashed the Broncos forty
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eight to six and of course beat the Eels thirty
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two to twelve. That was terrible performance by Para on
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all account I had.
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Did you even see that game?
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I saw highlights. I've seen the highlights of all eight
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games last week, all seven games, and I watched the
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Penrith game.
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As you know, what time did you get up to
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watch that Penrith game?
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I get up would not be the correct statement, stay
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stay up. I kicked off at two thirty am National time. Wow,
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which was better because I, for some reason in my
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head I had I thought it was this seven thirty
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Saturday game, so I thought, it's going to be four thirty.
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That's difficult. Should be in bed by four thirty even
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I don't want to get up. But when it was
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two thirty, I'm like, oh, got a dodgy hot dog
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from the little vendor on the way back to the hotel.
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And after the game, did you regret getting up for it?
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I didn't regret it, but I did regret. With about
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fifteen minutes to go, I was like, well, I can't
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give up on it now. I've been here for so
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long with Jesus is a tough slock.
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The game was tight with fifteen minutes ago.
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I wanted to fall asleep and I can't fall asleep.
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I've come this far. Yeah, but look at that last
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year the games were split South speat Penrith twenty eight
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eighteen in March and then of course Penrith had their
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act together by July and they beat the rabbit Os
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thirty to ten. I noticed the book. He's had this
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one pretty close. So not the big easy favorites that
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Penrith usually are. I reckon there'll be a couple of
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players we can to prove a point. We'll talk about
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Brian in a moment, but wouldn't be surprised if we
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see a big performance from him after of course being
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left out of that new South Wales team and Moses
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Leoda will now that other clubs are looking at him.
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Are were going to see a big game from mos Well.
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Parent are promoting him a lot this week and all
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their graphics and everything in the lead up to the
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match's He popped up on my Apple Watch this morning.
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You know, Game day guy, there's Moses staring at me.
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So yeah, I mean, who knows how much this has
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affected him this week? I mean, obviously the manager's got
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the story out to let it, let the rugby league
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world know that he's available. I guess, you know, to
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look into his future. So yeah, hopefully we see a
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big game from all of them. They all need to
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step up. I thought when Jack Cogga last took over
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the team a couple of weeks ago to the Titans,
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he was awful. Last Lungy hasn't been good for a
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couple of weeks now as well. They all just need
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to get their act together.
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Eight o'clock Friday night at Combank Stadium, heading out there
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for this one.
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I am. I'm going solo. Actually I've discovered this morning.
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Oh well, where's Peter Lang. He's having a break.
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I'll let Peter Lang if you want to DM Peter Lang,
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anyone out there and find out why he's not going
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to the football tomorrow night. Feel free?
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Okay, all right, But at.
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This stage I'm on my own, so if you want
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to come visit.
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Me, I'm catching the train.
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Actually I'll be catching the train too there, Yeah, I
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see you.
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There, venture in on the train and have a look
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at this one. But so yeah, eight o'clock PM at
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kick off at his Live on nine and Fox League
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as well as KO and this one kicks off as
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I Saturday o'clock. It's the only Friday night game. There's
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no no six o'clock game during this little origin period.
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And I think we've got Adam g do we not
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Adam Jens the referee, Chris Butler in the bunker. Look,
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I think Penroth will win. I just think that in
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the end, you know, no Cameron Murray for the Rabbits's
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is a big, big loss. I know we haven't gotten
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obviously Iao and Leam Martin and Nathan Cleary, but I
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just think that we're used to kind of this. I
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think South. For South to have a really big year
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this year and to do something, they need everyone fit.
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And when you've got Latrell Mitchell out, Alex Johnson's out
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of course the dry scoring machine, and Cameron Murray out
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as well, I think Peneth win Penrith by six. For me.
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Yeah, I hoping Penethill win too. I think being back
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at home is going to be huge for them, but
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somehow they're allergic to Queensland. For some I hope that
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doesn't mean that, you know, the Origin players are allergic
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to Queensland as well, but for some reason they don't
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play well up there, and it's good that they're going
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to be back at home. And I know that the
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players looking forward to being back in Parramatta as well.
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So I'm gonna tip penrith By. I'm thinking a good
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bounce back game sixteen Troy.
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Okay, well that would be a very good bou Yeah,
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let's do it, all right. Well, let's I'm hoping you
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Panthers get the job done there. All right. Now, let's
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move on to state of origin. Now, while I was overseas,
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I'm seeing this new South Wales team pop up. You
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didn't see it live, and I understand it was delayed
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by half an hour half an hour, And I look
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at the team and I've shake my head a little
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bit and I'm baffled by it. But I've come round
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to this team. I've come round to the theory that
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others have put out there, that this is actually the
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best team of the three games the new South Wales
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is putting out there. So I've come round. But I
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do have my doubts that they're going to win it
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because here we are at game three, we're still making
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fundamental changes to the team and that concerns me. What
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did you think first of all of the news that
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that Brian To has been has been dumped. He may
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well have played his last New South Wales game if
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he doesn't make it back in.
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No, I was really surprised. I know that was talking
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the lead up that it might happen, but I just
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I was still surprised when Laurie Daily out the team
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and he said that Brian To wasn't there. Obviously Jack
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Bostock on debu in a decider is going to replace him.
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We know Brian hasn't been good this year, like they
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wouldn't been good, but hasn't been. He's up to his standard,
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whether it be with Penrith or at Origin level. But yeah,
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to not give him one last chance in a decider
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and it's sort of like he's the he's the guy,
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like he's the scapegoat in this whole thing, Like we're
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going to dump Brian Tot, who has played seventeen Origin
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games straight since making his debut in twenty twenty one,
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Player of the Series for New South Wales last year
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and in a losing series. He scored eleven tries, which
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is equal most he lose history. He was one away
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from getting the record, and Laurie Daley's said, Nat, we're
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pulling you out and then putting a debutante in instead.
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but on reputation and what he's done for the state,
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and just what he can do that's not you know,
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you know what he hasn't been doing lately. You know,
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just he can be These meters are just in value
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ball And I just don't know whether what Laurie's done
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here whether Jack boss Stock can have the same impact.
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Clearly they're panicked about the you know, the targeting Brian
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to O with bombs.
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Any other any other doesn't Warrior Ivan.
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Well yeah, correct, but they obviously think boss Stock is
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the better option. But yes, what you lose then is
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the meters out of trouble. And yeah, I think that's
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been his mistakes in Origin one. Dropping the ball out
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of trouble is probably overshadowed the fact that he gets
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you out of trouble. He does, And I don't know
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if boss Stock or market market you out of trouble.
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That level, it's got a lot of errors in him too.
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Yeah, and look, and then obviously the other big question
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is keeping Mitchell Moses there. Decision look like it's difficult
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because part of me is like, well, good on us
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for finally not doing what we always do in New
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South Wales and we target the halves and we go
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let's think at the half, let's tink it with the
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halves again. But we saw the best option in Origin
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one when Ethan strangers. Yeah, and I just think that
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that's that's what he should have went with. Like I
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don't think dumping Mitchell Moses wouldn't have been tinkering or
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whatever else it was going. Well, look, look we look
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over the series and we saw the impact Strange had.
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He's the guy. The other one that that obviously was
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interesting is to have all come back in after he'd
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been done, like what's he done? Like, I know he
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had a great game against Melbourne. You know, I saw
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the highlight. It's a great game. But it's like, jeez,
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we're really making snap decisions here, and then Leam Martin,
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you know, straight back in, like I hope the Blues win.
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But I do have some fears. I think we've changed
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too much in in a lot of ways, and I
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just think Queensland up there just you know, too good.
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And also I know Jack Bostock is traditionally a winger,
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but the Dolphins have declared he's not a winger. Now
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he's back to the wind.
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It's madness. I think this look. Guss inferred this a
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few weeks ago when he said that after the Origin too,
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that you know, the games media or the experts were
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picking these teams. I think Laurie Daily is so heavily
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influenced by the Blues media or someone someone out people
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out there, all the commentary around there, that this team
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was basically chosen a week before it was announced. We
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knew Leam Martin was going to come back because he's
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got that mungrel in him, and we knew that, you know,
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they were probably going to keep Moses there. We knew
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four days earlier that but Brian was going to get
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dumped because the media had been talking about it.
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And we know that Laurie has too so many friends
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in the meeting, he.
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Does look at Bulldog Richie. Did you see what he
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did while you were away Richie. He got like twelve
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or thirteen ex New South Wales captains together and that
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he did a piece with them and they all backed Laurie,
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so they had a quote in there backing Laurie, yet
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behind Larry. It was just this Laurie love fest. And
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obviously Bulldog I know he works with Laurie on radio
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and whatnot, so that they're mates. And you know, I'm
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sure if you were coaching a team, Troy and you'll
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get in some heat, I'd probably get everyone to rally
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behind you. So I get what's going on there. But
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it's sort of it's a bit cringey that that whole thing.
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But yeah, I just Feelaurie so heavily influenced by by
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the media and he's picking these teams.
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Well. Another thing he may be influenced by two is
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the big push to have Cameron Murray start and as
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a potentially go back to It's been a big push
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and look there's there's some argument to it, and obviously
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if it's going to happen, it is going to happen
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late because you're not going to not name you captain
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to start. But yeah, that'll be interesting to see if
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that happens. What I found intriguing though, is you know, okay,
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we've made some form based decisions around Bryant to and whatnot,
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and yet Adam Vanilla Blake.
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Still there is still their statement.
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And and wow, like that's a that's a big Call're
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still happy in there? What about happy Corus? How already
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gets a random call up for game two and he's gone,
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He's gone, Tony Stag's gone. Bro Like, yeah, interesting decisions,
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interesting decisions.
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Do you think Do you think this could be the
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last origin for a few plays pending in New South
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Wales lose?
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Yes?
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Can you see some of these guys never playing again?
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We already spoke about Brian unlikely to come back if
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you know who knows, depending who the coach is next year,
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they might change tact. But is this Could this be
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the last origin for like an Isao for instance?
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Yeah? Maybe maybe, maybe there could be some big decisions
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around around some of the these players, because I think
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once we get to the end of all of this
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and we have to dissect it all, We're gonna look
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at it and go gee, New South Wales, I've got
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some semess to pick up. As far as the whole
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the whole lead up to it, the whole selections, the
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game plans. You know, at the end of the day,
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we're only in the series because Kaylen Plonger had a
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moment of madness twenty three minutes from full time in
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game one. Otherwise it probably would have been embarrassed in
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two games. Yeah, it we've been over and look, it's
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the results of the first two games, the way they
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unfolded that has me actually tipping Queensland here. Yeah, so
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I've got Queensland by ten yeap.
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Look, I don't want to have to agree with you,
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but I'm going I'm not going for Queensland. I think
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Queensland will win. I'm definitely going for New South Wales,
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though I wouldn't want. I don't want Queensland to win
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by any means, but I just don't see how they win.
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And I'm torn Troy, like I want New South Wales
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to win. Yep, they would be kind of funny if
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they didn't then the fallout that's going to happen from this,
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you know, But I want them to win for Nathan
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Cleary especially, he's the one who's been getting so much heat,
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always does all the time. Yes, he didn't play good
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in game two. But you know, if he New South
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Wales's win, it's going to be on the back of him.
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And they're saying that will make him an immortal and
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all of this stuff, all these ridiculous lines that people
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are throwing out there. So part of me obviously wants
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New South Wales to win. But if Queensland win, I'm
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interesting to see what happens.
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There will be nothing better than Nathan Cleary dominating up
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there at sun Court. No no, to make him the
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All right, Nathan, Now, as promise, we promised this at
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the back end of last year. We are going to
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count down as part of the sixtieth anniversary season of
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the Penrith Panthers, we are counting down these sixty most
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defining moments in Panthers history. So that key the word
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there is defining doesn't mean best, worst, you know, it's defining.
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This was a defining moment for the Panthers. And today
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we're going to count down sixty through to fifty one.
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And we've put a lot of work into this, you know,
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throwing things in, throwing things out.
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It's always hard to order these things too, so it is.
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Very hard to order them. But these are the sixty
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most defining and we kick it off Nathan with number sixty,
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which is back in twenty twelve. Luke Lewis a Shock
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Panthers departure, of course, a local junior who won the
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competition in two thousand and three. Winger turned back rower.
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He ended up at Coronella after that, of course, and
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won another comp This was in the early days of
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the Gassier Ivan Cleary coming to the club. Clearly a
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relationship breakdown between Ivan Cleary and Luke Lewis. At one
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point Luke Lewis was sacked as captain.
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I remember the really on in the season, Remember the.
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Front page of the Sunday Telegraph. You know you're sacked.
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And then of course in the end Luke Lewis release.
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But that was a big moment at an early stage
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of Ivan's career. Here to let a local junior and
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a love player like Luke Lewis go.
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Yeah, I remember at Wilchroy. I was just only started
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here at the Favor at the time, and it was
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all sorts of dramas because we weren't quite sure what
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went on. And I remember having Luke Lewis's wife come
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up to me at a game abusing me, this young
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twenty five year old at the time, and getting abused
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because you know, there was lots of speculation as to
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why her husband was leaving the club and got Dumptor's
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captain and all this stuff. It was a really weird
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time at the Panthers. But yeah, no one, no one
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really saw that coming. But I think he's sort of
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back in the fray now at Panthers. I mean, but
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he's I think there's everything's been all healed. It's quite
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respectable for us when he speaks on the radio about
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Penrith and I think, you know, he's gone to a
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lot of reunions and things like that since then, and
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I think he was even up the sixtieth admiversary dinner
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it started the year, So like that's all been healed now.
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But yeah, it was a bit of a tumultuous time.
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Number fifty nine we go back to nineteen eighty seven
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when Penrith win the reserve grade premiership. They won eleven
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nil over mainly at the SCG hinted the year to
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come because there was the likes of Craigizard, Mark Geyer
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in that team. Graham Murray was the coach. Dar or
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the big marn Browman won the year Reserve Great title
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with Penrith that year. The manly team featured the young
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Jeff Tube on the bench, but that was important because
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four years later, of course, Penrith would win their first
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NRL title at nineteen eighty seven, the reserve grade title
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nineteen sorry, two thousand and nine. We go back to
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for number fifty eight, the pink Panthers concept launchers. Now
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we all remember the first pink jersey where it was
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pink jersey, pink short, pink socks. It was yeah, pink epic. Yeah.
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And even though I think we have some some doubters
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about the pink today, even though I don't love the pink,
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is our way option back there? That was it was unique,
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original and leading in that kind of you know, specialized jersey.
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Yeah, no club had done it before, and I think
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they were raising money for the McGrath Foundation as well,
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And I remember I think our stadium even got renamed
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the McGrath did Foundation Stadium that year.
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We turned the weekend of pink.
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We turned the weekend of pink. Yes, but it was
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a bit of a different pink to what we have now.
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It was more like a muskie pinck, wasn't it by
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memory compared to what we've got now. But yeah, great
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concept and good to see it sort of lives on
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to in a way.
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Yeah, and it's got a lot of attention across both
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the sporting and even general Yeah.
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No footy team had played him pink before.
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No, so definitely a defining moment there. Defining moment. Number
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fifty seven Michael Gordon scores thirty points in a single game,
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sets a new club record thirty points in the fifty
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four to eighteen win over the rabbit Os at Penrith Stadium.
480
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Number fifty six Panthers sack Anthony Griffin on the eve
481
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of the finals twenty eighteen. Now, this was bizarre, It
482
00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:30.160
was crazy. It was wild. Penrith on track for a
483
00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:33.799
top four finish in twenty eighteen. Played in the finals
484
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in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen under Anthony Griffin, and
485
00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.480
he sacked just weeks out from the start of the finals.
486
00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:41.640
There were some wild moments during that era, especially when
487
00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:43.519
Guss was involved. A lot of these, a lot of
488
00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:45.640
these came from the Gus era. A lot of crazy
489
00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:47.519
things happened, Torrey. I'll never forget the day I was
490
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here at the office and you got wind that this
491
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was happening. I'm not sure who your source was, but
492
00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.759
you found out that that poor hook had been punted,
493
00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:57.839
and you made some calls and there was lots of
494
00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:59.480
back and forth between the Panthers meeting.
495
00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.079
I rang Phil goold. Phil said that is incorrect.
496
00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:04.519
He was very unhappy with you. It was a bit
497
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of swear words I think coming from Guss's mouth. And
498
00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.079
then what an hour later it all it all released.
499
00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:12.440
Well, remember we were going to go steake out the
500
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Panthers academy. I don't know if you remember this, but
501
00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:16.839
I got off the phone to Gaska said it's incorrect,
502
00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.079
and I was like, I said to you, no, it's correct.
503
00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:20.480
I said, what we should do is get in the car,
504
00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.799
go over to Panthers Academy and watch what unfolds in
505
00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.319
the gar par before we'd even got back to the car.
506
00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:28.680
I think we'd had it. Then confirmed that no, he
507
00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:30.440
had been sacked. So I don't know what Gus was
508
00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.240
trying to hide, but that was bizarre. Remember Anthony Griffin
509
00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:35.200
went on in r L three sixty that night and
510
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apparently it've had to pre record it because the interview
511
00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:40.599
was so bad and he had to pre record it.
512
00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:42.680
He would somehow leave on hook and play and go
513
00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.839
coach at the Dragons. Of course, I think he's.
514
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Done now now he's in rugby union.
515
00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:51.279
I think number fifty five. Well, Scott McCrae. I don't
516
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:52.880
know if you have a grand announcer in too many
517
00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.000
defining moments a sporting club. But Scott mccray's reigned as
518
00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:59.680
ground announcer ends after the twenty nineteen season. He of
519
00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:02.200
course joined in nineteen ninety eight, so it was a
520
00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.480
two decade rain as the ground announcer of the Panthers.
521
00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:07.920
And there are people who would still want him back today.
522
00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:11.559
Yes, well, don't forget he actually got dumped. Yes, a
523
00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:15.839
few years before that Tree the Lap of honor and
524
00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.519
all those players, and then he came back and now
525
00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:19.319
is it the Tigers.
526
00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:22.480
So he is Scott McCrae number fifty four. The Panthers
527
00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:25.799
demolished Manly seventy two to twelve in two thousand and four,
528
00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:27.720
a year after winning the comp. Of course, it was
529
00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:31.000
a record breaking performance, the Pans cracking seventy points for
530
00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:33.599
the first time and only time in there in that
531
00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:35.440
done it a few weeks ago. Could have done it
532
00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:37.759
against the Tigers. But that was a memorable game. That one.
533
00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:39.200
Yeah, I don't remember that one very well.
534
00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:44.400
Troy fifty three. Brandy's nineteen eighty six try against the Dragons.
535
00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:46.200
Now you have to.
536
00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:48.759
Tell me about this because I wasn't alive for this one.
537
00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:50.519
Well, you know what, I don't even I don't have
538
00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:52.920
to fully tell you. I can actually play you a
539
00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:55.400
little bit of it is. Here's some commentary from that try.
540
00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:57.279
Who won the penalties to penry.
541
00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:01.960
Alexander Kess eating the race for the ball, he's running
542
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.119
away from the second roller.
543
00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:04.440
He takes it on the bounce.
544
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:08.720
Oh, Gregor Alexander, that's an Alexander.
545
00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:09.359
The greatness.
546
00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:11.759
Bye, oh fine.
547
00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:16.880
If anybody doubted the fellow's abilody, and there are plenty
548
00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:21.240
of doubting Thomas's when it comes to Greg Alexander discussions.
549
00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:25.279
I would say he's firmly shut their mouths in the
550
00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:27.359
first thirty minutes of this match today.
551
00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:30.319
He actually had set up two tries prior to that,
552
00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.039
and it was a game eighty six. Everyone's talking about Brandon.
553
00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:35.759
It's interesting I thought about that when I heard that
554
00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:37.960
commentary where he says there's plenty of doubting Thomases and
555
00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.559
you think about what Nathan Cleary goes through now and
556
00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:42.519
whatever else, and he was people back in eighty six
557
00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.240
doubting Greg Alexander who just burst onto the scene. But
558
00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.200
that was a great chip and chase trial. Gray sides right,
559
00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.279
did sound like RABS eighty six maybe, but so not
560
00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:54.559
in eighty six. It's a bit of an innocuous one.
561
00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:56.839
But it was a try that really opened the eyes
562
00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:58.160
of the rest of the rugby league. Well, I was
563
00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:00.920
thinking it was a TV game back then, obviously not
564
00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.160
a lot of TV games involving Penrith and the rest
565
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:05.319
of the rugby league. Weld. It saw Greg Alexander for
566
00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:07.240
what he was and that was a great player. So
567
00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:12.200
a big moment there. From nineteen eighty six, Umber fifty two,
568
00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:15.599
two thousand and seven, Petro seven receiver signs with the
569
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Penrith Panthers. He was named captain immediately for the two
570
00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.200
thousand and eight season, which was his inaugural year with
571
00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:24.039
the club. Right signing at the right time after a
572
00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:26.480
couple of bad years, and he had a you know,
573
00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:28.559
even though he was a Queenslander and will always remember
574
00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:30.960
him for his Broncos career, what he did at Penrith
575
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:32.039
was pretty special. Yeah.
576
00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:33.640
I don't think I realized at the time how big
577
00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:35.960
of a deal this was, like how big Petro was
578
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:37.920
in the in the rugby league world, maybe because he
579
00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:40.200
was from Brisbane or he was a Queenslander or whatnot,
580
00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:42.839
But you know, you soon come to appreciate that we
581
00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.440
had such a legend of the game playing for us.
582
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:47.839
Wasn't for long for a few years, but you know,
583
00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.559
it was pretty cool to see. And I'm sure he's
584
00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:51.720
got some a soft spot for Penrith even though he's
585
00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.480
a Bronco through and.
586
00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.440
Actually think he stayed around Penrith for a while.
587
00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:58.440
Yeah, like Glimore Parking, he played a bit of Va grade.
588
00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:00.799
Yeah, he loved it here, stayed involved with the club,
589
00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:03.640
no doubt about that. Number fifty one our last one
590
00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:06.640
for this week. Michael Gordon again he makes the top
591
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:10.440
not the top ten, but this week's ten. The twenty
592
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.960
twenty sorry, the twenty ten season where he scored two
593
00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:16.240
hundred and seventy points in a single season, broke a record.
594
00:26:16.279 --> 00:26:19.039
There a great season from Michael Gordon. That was one
595
00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:19.200
of you.
596
00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:21.240
He was one of my favorite players, Troy.
597
00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.880
Michael Gordon absolutely brilliant and he had a great season
598
00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.880
in twenty ten and it was a defining year. So
599
00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.519
there you go. The first ten's a big one, the
600
00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:32.000
sixty most to final to.
601
00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:32.880
See what we have left.
602
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.880
Yeah, well, get ready to see you next to these
603
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:39.559
six weeks. All right, now, moving on the big news
604
00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:42.759
that came out during the week, Moses Leota given an
605
00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.440
opportunity to speak with other clubs. He is one of
606
00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:47.799
these clump of players that are off contract at the
607
00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:50.799
end of next season. But the club obviously going, well,
608
00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:54.039
let's see what position we're in ree Moses is what
609
00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:56.400
is being offered out there for him? And then Penrith
610
00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:01.279
will get the last crack at Mosesleota. Look, normally, when
611
00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:05.240
this sort of stuff happens, it's done. So do you
612
00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:08.920
think Moses Leoda is any chance of resigning with Penrith.
613
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:12.599
Yeah, I do, Troy, I really do. I think he
614
00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.079
wants to stay here, that's the big thing. He don't
615
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:17.039
think he wants to leave. I don't think Penrith really
616
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:20.400
necessarily want him to leave either. But they're, you know,
617
00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:23.000
out of respect, they're letting him have a look around now.
618
00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:25.759
You know, we tossed this up a few months ago
619
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.160
that you know, this was probably a smart idea by Penrith,
620
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:30.079
just to let them all have a look around now,
621
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.759
like what, just wave there all their rights, you know,
622
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:34.559
and give them give them a chance to look now,
623
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:38.319
so penterth can get their house in order earlier than later.
624
00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:40.359
But you know, I spoke to Moses at the start
625
00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:41.559
of the year and he said he wanted to be
626
00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.640
a Panther for life. And I still think there's a
627
00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:46.440
good chance, you know, he's going to be in his
628
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.880
at thirty two, moving on to another club. You know,
629
00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.880
he's got he's got, he's got young family, a few
630
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.599
kids here, loves the area, he's from the area. I
631
00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:57.680
know he was born in New Zealand, in Auckland. But
632
00:27:57.720 --> 00:27:59.920
I just don't see him having a swan Song season
633
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.519
over there and leaving packing up. Yeah, there's other clubs.
634
00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:06.559
I know the Eels are interested, so that's a that's
635
00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:08.880
a club down the road, But it would you know
636
00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:11.920
he's really going to win another comp at the Eels
637
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:15.720
while you're there, Moses, probably not so Look, I think
638
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:17.400
he's not gonna I think he's sort of sort of
639
00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:20.599
guy that would would maybe take a pay cut to
640
00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:23.000
stay at Penrith. I don't know if he's initially looking
641
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000
for this one big last year or he's going to
642
00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:27.079
make a ton of cash. Like, this guy is a
643
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:29.440
humble guy, was a he came through as a he
644
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.519
was a car washer, you know, at the Volvo.
645
00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:32.880
Up the road.
646
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:34.759
He was washing cars. You know, Gus got him a
647
00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:38.079
job there. Like he's he's just a humble, humble, lovable bloke.
648
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:40.839
He's I just don't see him just chasing the money
649
00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:43.200
and going to P ANDNG and playing with Jerome and
650
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:45.519
making a bit lot of money. Like his happiness is
651
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:47.680
is very important to him and I think he's really
652
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.440
happy at Penrith.
653
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:51.440
I'm going to go the other way, Okay, I actually
654
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:52.799
think this might be it this year.
655
00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:54.759
You think he'll get an earlier A lot to.
656
00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:56.440
Think if he can find a three or four year
657
00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.720
deal somewhere because this will be the problem. I don't
658
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:00.599
know if Penrith are going to want to we get
659
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:02.160
to the end of twenty twenty seven, do they want
660
00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:04.359
to re sign Moses out of for three years. I'm
661
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:06.480
probably not. Maybe they're looking at a one to two
662
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.599
year extension. He might be able to find himself a
663
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:13.640
four year deal now starting next year. He might So
664
00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:16.279
I'm not going to be shocked if this is it
665
00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:17.440
for Moses the oder.
666
00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:19.759
But what if what do we have to replace him?
667
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:19.920
Troy?
668
00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.759
They already got rid of Liam Henry, which I think
669
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:25.319
if Moess goes that's a terrible decision because they could
670
00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:28.960
have kept Liam. You know, they would have had they
671
00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:32.599
plan out their cap two years in advance. So they said, hey,
672
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:35.640
let's get rid of Moses and we'll invest into Liam.
673
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:38.440
And I will I will say that would be unusual
674
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:40.240
for Penrith to let Moses go a year early because
675
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.319
we haven't done We don't do that. We haven't done that.
676
00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:44.839
But I just have this little feeling anyway, I hope
677
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.119
he stays as you said, he's my favorite player.
678
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:49.319
He's your favorite player. I mean, they've got Lindsay Smith there,
679
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:51.240
and he's you know, he's he's solid, but he doesn't
680
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:53.400
set the world on fire. He didn't even get a
681
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.359
looking for origin this year. No, who else is there?
682
00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.680
There's Ronnie Petaya, which got his first game the other day.
683
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:00.440
That was it.
684
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.119
Yeah, yeah, we would have some it'll be interesting because
685
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:06.119
we would have our forward stocks not where we at
686
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.000
all thought they were going to be. You know, even
687
00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:09.759
if you go back a few years, we thought James Fisher,
688
00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:10.720
Harris and Moses had be.
689
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:12.640
It for spencer years at the time.
690
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:15.440
We had a few The one that's that's interesting and
691
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:17.640
I've seen it in our L three sixty last night,
692
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:19.000
and I think they put it up the night before
693
00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:20.480
where they would saying, hey, let's have a look at
694
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:23.119
the Penrith players and how old they'd be in twenty
695
00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:25.720
twenty eight. So if you were to resign all these guys,
696
00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:27.319
how old are they going to be? And they keep
697
00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:30.920
looking at that name Isaiah yoh oh yeah and thirty four,
698
00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:34.359
and now you start to go, oh, hang on the
699
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:39.440
player you thought that you would definitely definitely re sign
700
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:45.839
a player who has played like almost almost the equivalent
701
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.240
of a season more than anyone else. Because of the
702
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.240
amount of finals football penriis played since he came into
703
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.960
first grade. Like, is it potential that Penrith, This is
704
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.960
a business that Penrith go. You know what, Isaiah, We're
705
00:30:57.960 --> 00:30:59.160
happy for you to be done at the end of
706
00:30:59.240 --> 00:30:59.759
twenty seven.
707
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.480
Look, he's a durable player. We know in touchwood. He's
708
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:05.599
been really good with injuries later on.
709
00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:06.039
In his career.
710
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:08.920
Early on he had shoulder problems and this and that.
711
00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.119
But he's been pretty unbreakable. Hasn't he over? Since his
712
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.200
dynasty has begun? And look, he's still got another year.
713
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:17.079
I think he's eyeing off that three hundred games.
714
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.240
Yeah, he'll become Penrith.
715
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:21.359
You know, but I always heard a few years ago
716
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.799
he has his eye on the Super League. He'd laves
717
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:25.880
to play in the Super League and that's a perfect
718
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:27.200
place for thirty four year old to go.
719
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:29.680
Interestingly, i'd heard that as well, and then heard it
720
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:35.319
very much denied. Also heard that his partner Ash was
721
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.440
very much against that. He talked about popping New Guinea.
722
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:41.920
But but look, yeah'll see what happens. I'm with him
723
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:43.440
and that I can't imagine him playing for another round.
724
00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:45.079
But if he goes to Okay, she might be against
725
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:47.640
going to puppy in New Guinea. But if London Broncos
726
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:50.839
get into the Super League next year, he's mate Reagan Campbell,
727
00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:53.079
Gillard's there. She could live in London. That's not a
728
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.559
bad place.
729
00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:57.640
No, No, I agree, I agree that'll be interesting. But yeah,
730
00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:00.240
just the Isao one is interesting. I think you know,
731
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.000
we keep an eye on that one. Can you here's
732
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.400
a pop quiz for you. Yeah, if Isaao will have
733
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:07.359
all the fanfare of the three hundredth game, can you
734
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.680
remember that there was actually a player, yes, who played
735
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.160
his three hundredth game while at Penrith, albeit all be it,
736
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.920
about two hundred and eighty of them were somewhere else,
737
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:16.960
So we did all the fan.
738
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:19.240
As Brent Kite.
739
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:23.559
Yes, what a moment Brent Kite plays his three hundred,
740
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:27.759
even though it was it was his first season. All right,
741
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.079
we'll moving on from one forward to another arm and
742
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.279
one player who is going and that is Scott Sorenson.
743
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:34.480
You caught up with him at Panthers HQ during the week.
744
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.160
Let's have listened to Nathan having a chat with Scott Sorenson.
745
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.759
Obviously not the result you wanted in towns All the
746
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:42.880
other night, Queens must have some allergic reactions to the
747
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.079
players in two weeks in a row, getting assos up
748
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:46.720
there other flights home must be a bit quiet.
749
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:51.039
Yeah, I look to be honest, like, you know, everyone's
750
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:55.079
obviously disappointed and not playing the way we want to
751
00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:00.279
be playing. Yeah, and it's disappointing, but as a group,
752
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:03.240
you know, there's no confidence lost in that. Yeah, you know,
753
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:05.799
we know we can get back to training and have
754
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:10.319
the you know, the right conversations and work on a
755
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:11.759
few things that we want to get better at.
756
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:13.119
Hopefully we can do that.
757
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:14.359
And turned around on Friday, we.
758
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:16.440
Saw Ivan's press conference after the game and it was
759
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:20.279
like a minute and a half. He barely had to
760
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:22.319
do all the heavy lifting in but he was quite
761
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.200
good yesterday apparently he did about eight minutes. He was
762
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:27.319
So how was he sort of demeanor after the game
763
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:27.920
with you guys?
764
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:28.400
Was he was?
765
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.160
He similar, like, didn't say too much.
766
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:34.079
Yeah, look, oh god, I'm trying to remember.
767
00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.480
Sorry, that's okay. Yeah, look, I think it was.
768
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.599
It was pretty clear that, you know, we weren't ourselves
769
00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:42.920
and we spoke about the way we wanted to play,
770
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:44.480
and we didn't do that.
771
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:45.240
As a group.
772
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:47.920
And I think visibly like you could see we weren't
773
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:50.680
playing the way we wanted to be playing, So that
774
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.279
was quite disappointing. And I just think there probably wasn't
775
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:55.920
a bit much to be said or hadn't already been said,
776
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.240
So it's probably what was pretty short sharp.
777
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.400
Yeah, what's what's it like at this point of season?
778
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.559
Sort of midway through you're on top, putting winning streaks together,
779
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:06.839
and then you sort of sort of hit a point
780
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:08.480
where you have a couple of losses in a road
781
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:12.159
is it? I'm saying, are you guys bored at this
782
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:14.119
time of the year just waiting for the end of
783
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.360
the year. But how do you sort of get through
784
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.960
a long season when things are going so well and
785
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:19.679
then they just hit a little bit of a speed bump.
786
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.639
Well, that's why I like, I guess meet personally as
787
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:25.400
why I love it, Like right, like there's there's highs
788
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:28.320
and lows anywhere in life. Obviously, it's just the nature
789
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.039
of our beast and the game we play, and you know,
790
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.280
like it just kind of I don't know how to
791
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:35.480
say it, like it just kind of.
792
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:38.039
Gives you a.
793
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:42.440
Lesson that you know, like it's it just shows how
794
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:47.679
much sticking to working hard staying connected as a group
795
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:50.360
and going after the challenge every single week and just
796
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.880
shows how closest competition really is. You know, like if
797
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.159
you're off by a little bit, how can come out
798
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:58.119
and bite you on the bump. So for me and
799
00:34:58.280 --> 00:34:59.880
us as a group, we've spoken about it like that,
800
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.840
the challenge right, like to be consistent and play the
801
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:05.239
way we want to play. I know there was obviously
802
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.719
a lot of talk around when we first the Tigers
803
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:11.199
at Combat, and I was asked about that game after
804
00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:12.599
the after it and all that sort of stuff, But
805
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:14.639
I still feel like this group hasn't played our best
806
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:16.119
foot yet, which is.
807
00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:17.440
Really exciting and motivating.
808
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:20.519
So you know, you say, it might look like it
809
00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:22.960
might be a struggled through this long season, but it's
810
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.360
just as motivating as the challenge that we've got ahead
811
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:25.480
of this.
812
00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.679
You're probably very motivated for Friday because you know, you
813
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:31.079
don't want to stead down the barrel of three straight losses.
814
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:33.559
But we have seen some big teams this year got
815
00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:35.559
on some losing streaks. I mean, you guys did last
816
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:39.440
year as well, but it's Brisbane or Melbourne or Roosters whoever. Like,
817
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:42.519
there have been some times where some of these strong
818
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.119
teams are string and some losses together. How important is
819
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:45.920
to stop the right now?
820
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:52.119
Oh yeah, I love to stop the last week, but yeah,
821
00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:53.760
look it just shows the nature of the beast and
822
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.880
now hard this competition is, and you know you'd rather
823
00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:58.880
get get on top of it sooner other than like
824
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.360
for sure. Sofully we can get to work, which we
825
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:06.119
have been an address during yesterday, back to training and
826
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:08.320
then we have our obviously our main session today, so
827
00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:10.320
I hope we get a few few things in that
828
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:12.519
we want to you know, get done today and we
829
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.719
can take that into Friday night.
830
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:16.400
Returning to come back to home sort of help in a.
831
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:16.800
Way, I guess.
832
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:20.280
I Just starting planning at home is always nice, you
833
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:22.360
know so, and you know, I think we've had some
834
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.559
pretty good turnouts here without with our fans as well,
835
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:27.039
which has been amazing. So it's always nice to have
836
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:28.639
our support at home, So that'd be good.
837
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:30.719
Let's ask about you. Your teammate Moses the odor of
838
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:33.039
us in the headlines in the last twenty four hours,
839
00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:35.000
which for Moses, that's got to be unusual for him
840
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:39.159
because usually you know, pretty quite quite under underachiever, you know,
841
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:41.000
does he does? He does? His job out there, but
842
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:43.679
you know, I know you're leaving the club at end
843
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.320
of the year. But I mean, you wouldn't want to
844
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:48.000
see a guy like Moses's who's led for Penrith for
845
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.760
you know, ten plus years and you know, just a
846
00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:52.920
local junior. You'd like to see someone like that stick
847
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:53.599
around again.
848
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.639
I'd absolutely love Moss like for Penrith, you know, to
849
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.159
keep him here and uh I finish his career off here.
850
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:04.039
But I guess it's just yeah, as I said before,
851
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:06.679
in terms of the way this game is, and that's
852
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:08.639
the other side, you know, of the nature of the
853
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:11.320
beasts that sometimes it might not work out the way
854
00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:14.360
you want it to, and other opportunities happen, other doors happen,
855
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:16.559
and that might happen for Moss, But I think for
856
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:18.800
him and the worry is for this side.
857
00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:20.559
And as he said, led.
858
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:22.880
For this team and put his puddy on the line
859
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:27.000
every single week training off the field, on the field.
860
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:29.360
He's just an absolute beast and he's called his nicknames
861
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.000
tank for a reason, you know. So yeah, i'd absolutely
862
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.840
love to see him finished career here. If that works
863
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:35.360
out for him, that'd be very special.
864
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.320
How about you, You're counting down the games now it's
865
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:38.000
getting closer.
866
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:40.800
Yeah, I know, it's funny like it it's kind of
867
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:43.719
is like, you know, I talked to the family about it,
868
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:45.719
or talk to a few of the boys about it,
869
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:47.280
But I don't know if like for me right now,
870
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:48.239
it hasn't hasn't really.
871
00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:50.920
Liked suing just yet. Yeah, I don't know.
872
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:52.840
It's probably because we've had back back losses, so it
873
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.039
makes you kind of, you know, keep your focus and
874
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:58.320
keep present. But yeah, look, I'm just I'm just trying
875
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.679
to get better and do my role can recap for
876
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:03.159
the team, and I feel like that's make him I
877
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:05.920
don't know, making me feel good about you know, what's
878
00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:09.519
happening right now. But yeah, in terms of counting them down, like,
879
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:15.960
I'm not that type of person, so that doesn't Yeah,
880
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.119
so actually, but yeah, for now, I'm just really enjoying
881
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:21.960
my time at the moment.
882
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.920
There he is Scott Serenson of course off to the
883
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:25.000
Perth Bears.
884
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.000
Yeah, and he's backing Moses to stay at Penrith.
885
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:31.719
Now TV. We've talked a lot about the TV deal
886
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:36.280
on this podcast. We now know that as I suspected
887
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:38.320
from the start, and I think I've been saying it
888
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:42.519
from the start. It's the same, nothing's different, It's all
889
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.679
the same. Fox will officially get the rights to everything
890
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:48.599
and then on sale to Channel nine, as I understand,
891
00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:51.840
is how the deal works. But it's the exact same scenario.
892
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:53.840
Channel nine will there three games a week. They will
893
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:57.599
get special games like well they get Good Friday and
894
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:00.079
you know, the last few weeks of the competition and
895
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.599
Nanzac Day and all that sort of stuff. They will
896
00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:05.480
retain Grand Final and Origin exclusively. It's the same del
897
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:11.519
I'm happy that we landed here instead of Channel seven,
898
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:13.800
Channel ten and all that. Whether that was ever real,
899
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:17.000
who knows, or whether it was used to basically get
900
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:20.599
us to this point. But I'm kind of bummed that
901
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.519
something isn't different. Yeah that maybe nine got a fourth
902
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.480
game out of nowhere, or maybe Origin and Grand Final
903
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:29.320
did go to Fox, even if it was on a
904
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.039
slight delay or something different. I want it's something different.
905
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:35.679
All that talk, all the lead up talk six months
906
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.039
have been talking about it's not just us but all
907
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:40.800
the media and the people online and whatever, and you
908
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.880
pretty much got the same thing in the end. I
909
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.119
don't think it has it been officially do we know
910
00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:47.320
that believe.
911
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:49.039
The Tales potentially next week.
912
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.000
Because there's a bit of a clause in there about
913
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:52.000
a twentieth team.
914
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.840
There is, Yeah, so whether that who knows what that clause.
915
00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:58.039
Is, could a stand get that extra game?
916
00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:00.519
I doubt I Do you feel that Fox.
917
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.119
Have too many games exclusively?
918
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:02.360
No?
919
00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:04.840
How would I feel that? When I watch every game
920
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:05.320
on Fox.
921
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.599
I know they just feel like, can we just share
922
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:08.039
it around a.
923
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:08.519
Little bit more?
924
00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:10.159
An extra game?
925
00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:11.119
What would nine want?
926
00:40:11.159 --> 00:40:11.199
That?
927
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:13.880
They only want something to stand because they're not going
928
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.760
to be able to shot. They've already showed Thursday Friday.
929
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:19.239
It's understandable that Fox would not give up Super Saturday.
930
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:20.320
I think you have to accept that.
931
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:22.320
They're obsessed with this Super Saturday.
932
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:24.519
You've got to accept that it's not going to give
933
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:26.360
that up. So Nine's not gonna want the six o'clock
934
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:30.480
game on a Friday because it'll interrupt the news. Obviously,
935
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.920
you give them both games Sunday, They're not gonna want
936
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:35.400
the new Sunday Night game because that interrupts news in
937
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:37.440
sixty minutes and maths and all that. So I mean,
938
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:38.360
where are they going to go?
939
00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:41.079
Well, see, the older enought to have had them a
940
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:44.199
game every night, so Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, like they
941
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.519
could have had a Saturday game, a Saturday seven thirty game.
942
00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:49.559
The only thing you can argue about letting them have
943
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:53.079
Saturday is that if you've got Fox, you're staying on
944
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.360
Foction three o'clock, like you're not randomly flicking over to
945
00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:59.000
nine at seven thirty. So yes, you are giving the
946
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:00.480
freeware audience a game.
947
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:03.760
But because I feel that, I feel bad for the
948
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:06.360
free too wear at audience because life is getting very
949
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.480
expensive out there. And as you, as we mentioned this,
950
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:12.320
whoever you're paying KO or Fox, tell you your rates
951
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:13.719
are going to go up. Don't think a few years
952
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:15.440
one that's going to cost a lot of people a
953
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.440
lot more money to you know.
954
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:19.679
And the first I reckon the first rise will be
955
00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:22.000
pretty significant because they'll use the excuse that there's now
956
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:24.880
an extra game, so they'll say, well, hang on, we've
957
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:27.280
got an extra game that we're got to pay for.
958
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.440
The one thing is I don't mind paying more. I
959
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:32.280
just wish that as part of this deal. The NRL,
960
00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:34.239
and I know this is a bugbear of mine, but
961
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:36.800
the NRL said, if you are the host broadcaster of
962
00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:39.599
a game, you must be at the ground. None of
963
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:42.480
this call, none of this working from home, no calling
964
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:45.079
this game from a studio. Now, I'm fine if Fox
965
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.599
want to call an interstate game from the studio where
966
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:49.679
they're not the host broadcaster, where nine is you know,
967
00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.360
t eight o'clock Friday, fine, But if you have the
968
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:55.599
if you you're the host broadcaster, whether it's nine or Fox,
969
00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:58.679
you're the main broadcaster of that game. You should be
970
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:02.400
there if if, if the game means that much to you,
971
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:04.199
we shouldn't be phoning it in.
972
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:07.880
Yeah, and have you seen this news that that Fox
973
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:11.280
are going to be the broadcasters of all the matches. Yes,
974
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:15.320
they're gonna they're that's actually gonna happen. That's gotta be
975
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.920
no nine cameraman cameras that's around the ground.
976
00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:20.079
And I don't know if that's you know, one hundred
977
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:22.159
percent how it's going to work, or how the ins
978
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:26.679
and outs of nine and Fox work, but apparently all
979
00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.559
with Fox. So but then that's obviously not going to
980
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.199
be the case for origins and Grand Finals. And I mean,
981
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:34.400
look these days, and you know, we don't want to
982
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:36.280
give people too much inside baseball these days. If you
983
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.679
think there's competition in the media there basically, isn't. I mean,
984
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:41.320
they're all sharing you know, seven, seven and nine are
985
00:42:41.320 --> 00:42:43.199
sharing cameras at press conferences. Yeah.
986
00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:45.360
I appeared on Channel seven and ten last night and
987
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:48.639
Channel ten weren't even there. They were filming me, but
988
00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:50.920
I wasn't there, but my me and uncle watched it
989
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:51.519
like there you are.
990
00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:54.440
Well, there's actually talk that the Channel ten is not
991
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:56.360
going to have a news department moving forward at all,
992
00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:59.199
but either seven or nine will produce their news. Really,
993
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:00.840
they'll just whack ten branding.
994
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:03.400
On it, but have any reporters or anything.
995
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:06.800
Nothing. Those reporters will work for nine and seven really,
996
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.880
and then maybe they'll only I don't know if they
997
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:11.000
use them for both or they very strange. Yeah, but
998
00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:13.599
it's being talked about and we're seeing this, you know,
999
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:16.480
across the media. It's not a good thing. But anyway,
1000
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:19.000
but look, it is exactly what we thought. It's I'm
1001
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:21.519
happy we got here. I don't think nine, even though
1002
00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:23.119
I'm not a nine man, I don't think nine can
1003
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:26.599
deserve to lose rugby League. But I do think it
1004
00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:28.239
would have been good to see something different.
1005
00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.039
Yeah, lean into a streamer or something even for a game,
1006
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:34.079
whether it was an Amazon or a Stamp. Yeah, yeah,
1007
00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:34.800
do something.
1008
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.840
Well that's where I think I think that, like, what
1009
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:40.519
what difference does it make to five? Fox should have
1010
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:44.199
at least made allow one stand game to pop up,
1011
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.079
whether that's the Saturday night or whatever, because you've got
1012
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:49.960
to remember, the more that Fox do sell, the more
1013
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.440
they make back. Yeah, you know, so if you said
1014
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.440
to nine, we'll listen, we'll give your Saturday seven thirty
1015
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:57.039
stand only you know they like to make a little
1016
00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:57.719
bit more money back.
1017
00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:59.800
Yeah, and perhaps you know there use that clause in
1018
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:02.280
there that when that twentieth team comes, which they're expecting
1019
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:05.559
them to by twenty thirty, that there will be that
1020
00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:06.159
extra game.
1021
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.840
All right, Well, but let's just play on, play on
1022
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:12.760
as usual, play on. I did see an argument too.
1023
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.280
Now I don't know where the radio the radio rights
1024
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:16.440
sit in all of this.
1025
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:19.119
Yeah, they haven't been. There are a different time that.
1026
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:21.440
They they are, and radio rights are obviously not as
1027
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.880
sought after as they once were with every game on
1028
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:28.000
TV and whatever else. But I think it was Vossi
1029
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.239
who was saying on his program, he was like, listen,
1030
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:32.400
if you're a radio station and you want a broadcast
1031
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:35.159
drugby league. Yes, you should have to pay for it,
1032
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.280
but we've got to move on from this. TWOGB has
1033
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:40.360
this game and Triple M has this game. Like. His
1034
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:43.280
argument was, if you're an accredited station and you're paying
1035
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:44.800
for the rights, you broadcast what you want.
1036
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:45.400
Okay.
1037
00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:47.960
I think his argument was that you're forcing two GB
1038
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:50.239
to call some random four o'clock game on a Sunday
1039
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.079
that could be out of Sydney, and yet they're a
1040
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:55.000
Sydney station. Yeah, and yet Triple M has to call
1041
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:56.960
two o'clock. Why don't we just let everyone call whatever?
1042
00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.440
Like, you know, wasn't that like that Back in the
1043
00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:02.320
day we went like local radio stations here I used
1044
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.920
to call the football Twoka or Hawksbury Radio used to
1045
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:08.719
call the football. I remember, Oh yeah.
1046
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:13.400
They were the days. All right, Moving on the Panthers Museum. Now,
1047
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.800
we've put a few items into the Panthers Museum already,
1048
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.960
no news yet, no word. Peter Graham called me this morning.
1049
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:20.719
Actually I thought he might have been saying, good news,
1050
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.599
we found you a space, but now it was about
1051
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:26.039
something else. But we've already got these items ready to
1052
00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:28.960
go for the Panthers Museum. Brandy's fifty five jersey from
1053
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.440
the Super League season. We've got the Big Ball interactive experience.
1054
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:34.000
We've got the technicians working on that now. The red
1055
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:36.000
seats for the theater. It's going to be a theaterrette.
1056
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:38.320
We've got the big bell. We've got Martin Weeks's touch
1057
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:40.639
floge flag from the ninety one Grand Final, the seven
1058
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:42.840
inch vinyl of Penis theme song from seventy eight, the
1059
00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:45.079
joke fridge is there, the Panther car, the Panther ET's
1060
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.760
cut suit, the tracksuit Gus was wearing when he got
1061
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:50.760
sin mind, the first edition of the Weekend from ninety one,
1062
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:54.880
the pause costume, the Grand Final DVDs that Peter Lang
1063
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.920
wacked in last week. The hardware House video referee board.
1064
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.639
Yes that you put in well this year this week
1065
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:03.000
I'm actually putting in getting. I'm getting leaning towards the
1066
00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:04.360
alcohol era.
1067
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.400
Can't imagine why after for a week.
1068
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:11.199
Rusty Penny local brewery here, they actually released their own
1069
00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:15.320
Premiership beers in nine, twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty
1070
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:17.199
three and twenty four. I've got all four of them.
1071
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:20.159
So I'm going to put a little display up here.
1072
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.119
Is it explained that this is a local brewery was
1073
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:24.440
getting behind the other Panthers, so we're going to whack
1074
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:25.320
them in this week. We love it.
1075
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:27.800
Love that idea, Troy. They do some excellent beers over
1076
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:30.880
a rosty pennies, so maybe they could Maybe we could
1077
00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:34.320
have a bar at the museum. Ah that's available, Where
1078
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:36.440
that's available? Yeah, especial panther.
1079
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:38.079
Great idea.
1080
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:40.199
Now there's I've been looking at this list, Troy, and
1081
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.320
I'm thinking we're missing something missing, something very significant. And
1082
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:50.599
now I know this thing likely doesn't EXISTEP, but you
1083
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.719
never know, it could some remnants of it could be
1084
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:57.159
out there somewhere. Okay, it's the old panther scoore but Troy.
1085
00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.320
Well, no, no, that's around us put it in stories.
1086
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:01.639
That's what I mean. We need to find the storage
1087
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:04.000
locker that Gus has put it in, all right, So
1088
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:07.400
I think that would be a great show piece. Maybe
1089
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:10.719
at the entrance as you walk through, you know, through
1090
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:14.159
the museum, that's there, ye proud.
1091
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:16.280
We may it may have to be a replica.
1092
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:19.480
Okay, I'm happy to remake it. But even if we
1093
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.239
found the same steel company that made the first one,
1094
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.280
you track down like who made the first.
1095
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:27.880
The latest result up there.
1096
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:32.400
Yeah, every week, Yeah, constantly. What's the updating that the results.
1097
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:37.239
Live scores them? You can watch it absolutely.
1098
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:39.239
I think that's looking at the list on that there's
1099
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:42.639
so many significant Panther items there, but we're missing we're
1100
00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:45.079
missing that scoreboard. So let's whack the scoreboard.
1101
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.639
All right, let's put the scoreboard in the museum. Who
1102
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:49.440
knows where in that story? You never know what you
1103
00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:51.079
can find in stories. I wrote a column about this
1104
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.280
last year old nineteen fifty sixties TV show The Aussie
1105
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:57.079
and Harriet Chase Yes, and they thought that there was
1106
00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:59.880
missing episodes and they found him in a storage unit somewhere.
1107
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.159
So you never know. Gus might be telling the truth
1108
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:04.320
at storage king there in Paris. He's got a plan
1109
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:06.800
to rent at a unit and he's forgotten about it.
1110
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:08.159
He's got the key sitting in his car.
1111
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:10.519
It might be amazing, like if the skate state government
1112
00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:12.840
knew about knew about it as well, Like you let
1113
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:15.599
the state government know and then once that stadium opens
1114
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:19.119
next year, that scoreboard suddenly appears.
1115
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.440
So you know what if the state government wants to
1116
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.039
win over Penrith fans, just build a.
1117
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:26.880
Replica building that school board again.
1118
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:29.119
All right now, Nathan, that we mentioned at the top
1119
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:30.880
of the show, and you would have mentioned last week
1120
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:32.679
when you're here with Peter Lange that I've just come
1121
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:36.039
back from Nashville and I looked up in the Nashville
1122
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:38.719
skyline of the last week and I see this brand
1123
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:46.239
new stadium getting built. So the current Nissan, the Nisson Stadium,
1124
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:48.480
which has been the home of the Tennessee Titans for
1125
00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:51.119
the last couple of decades, big concerts there. Of course,
1126
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.159
I was there on the weekend for Alan Jackson. Was
1127
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:55.239
that your first visit there? It was doesn't have a roof,
1128
00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:58.880
I tell you that got wet there, old school. But
1129
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:01.960
there stally building a stadium next to it, even though
1130
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:05.760
there's some questions about that in the city. You're not
1131
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:08.079
now it's three hundred million. Of course for Penris Stadium.
1132
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:11.719
This one's costing two point one billion dollars. But it's
1133
00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:13.719
going to be a fully indoor stadium, great stadium. Now.
1134
00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.679
Of course they're holding the Super Bowl in a couple
1135
00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:18.480
of years time. I think twenty thirty they've got the
1136
00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:22.480
Super Bowl. Now. Rugby League and Global Row. We've been
1137
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:26.639
hearing about Global Round and the prospect of various cities
1138
00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:29.880
around the world hosting matches. Now, I think you've got
1139
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.159
to host matches in places where people want to go.
1140
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:34.280
And I don't think you can just randomly host a
1141
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:38.559
you know, an RL gaming you know Phoenix, you know,
1142
00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:40.440
like you've got to it's got to be a tourist destination.
1143
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:44.000
I'm declaring Rugby League can get one up on the
1144
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.320
NFL and actually get into this new stadium before the
1145
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:50.000
Super Bowl and kick off Global around there in either
1146
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.559
twenty twenty eight or twenty twenty nine. And I think
1147
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:53.880
the pair that should be the team to go.
1148
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:55.440
Oh, that sounds like a great idea.
1149
00:49:55.639 --> 00:49:57.719
So I'm calling for it mainly because I want to
1150
00:49:57.760 --> 00:49:58.280
go back again.
1151
00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:00.880
And this is your excuse. This is like, I'm going
1152
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:02.360
to go with you this time. We're going to take
1153
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:04.760
the show over there to Nashville. I think it should
1154
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:05.880
be Panthers Cowboys.
1155
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:10.239
Yes, okay, a element, But let me tell you, like,
1156
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.000
Nashville is an incredible city. It's obviously, you know, if
1157
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:15.840
you are a country music fan, it's basically Disneyland. If
1158
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:17.519
you're not a country fan, you know, it's probably a
1159
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:19.519
one visit and no, that was cool. But if you're
1160
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:21.760
a country music fans. There's not much better than Nashville,
1161
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:25.599
but it is a city in an absolute tourist boom
1162
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:28.760
at the moment, there is no question about that. I
1163
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.400
just think, you know, let's let's bring some rugby league over.
1164
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:33.880
And when you were over there, did did you see
1165
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:35.599
any other Panthers fans while you were there?
1166
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:37.719
I saw one in the stadium, believe it or not.
1167
00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:40.840
Jack too far oh yes, too far away from me
1168
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:44.039
to even see. But I saw him on the on
1169
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.079
the floor. I was away stands and he was wearing
1170
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:48.480
the Vegas jersey. Certainly he may have been American for
1171
00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:52.320
all I know, and he's saw the Panthers in last year.
1172
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:56.280
Well, I think if that guy can contact us, if
1173
00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:58.480
you are listening and you were at the Allen Jackson
1174
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.599
concert wearing your Panthers vague jersey, contact us here at
1175
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:04.880
the Western Weekend. I would love to I would love
1176
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:08.199
to know that you had a hard time getting tickets
1177
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.519
to that as well. So for some other guy potentially
1178
00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:13.400
from out here that's gone to that game and chosen
1179
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.320
to wear his Panthers, Jey not even wore like a
1180
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:18.199
lot of people would have been wearing country gear.
1181
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:20.039
I wore my Joline shirt.
1182
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:23.599
Yeah, like something country inspired. Yeah yeah, cowboy hat or
1183
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:25.880
whatever for him to wear his panthers. That's a die
1184
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:26.360
hard fan.
1185
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:29.079
One thing I did notice and I got a little
1186
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.639
bit disappointed in as far as the new Penros Stadium
1187
00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:34.519
is concerneds just that the obviously in America things are different,
1188
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.480
but just the mammoth effort that they go to in
1189
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:41.440
terms of the stadiums there, Like every gate there has
1190
00:51:41.480 --> 00:51:45.440
got a different missing car that's up from really old days,
1191
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:48.960
like an old school. Yeah, that's on display from Nissans
1192
00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:53.079
from over the years. The technology from the food and
1193
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:57.760
beverage perspective pretty remarkable. Think about like the lines. Now,
1194
00:51:57.760 --> 00:51:59.639
I know it's it is less at Combank, so we're
1195
00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:02.079
getting at that, but there was no lines for food
1196
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:05.239
and whatever else. You basically had zero human interaction unless
1197
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.159
you you wanted an acoholic beverage and you needed to
1198
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show ID because they have these things where you walk in,
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scan your card and if you described a popcorn and
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walked out, that's what we do. You walk out, they
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just know that you've that's crazy, that's what you're getting.
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So but but yeah, let's get the NRL to Nashville.
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What for food did they have at the stadium? Try
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so you had.
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All your usual fair but they also had one of
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their main brands, like your Hattie Bees and things inside
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the stadium. Yeah, so we're obviously seeing a bit of
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a bit of that in Australia at the moment with
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like Eljana. You saw Red Rooster. I couldn't believe it,
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but yeah, they've got a lot of those sort of brands.
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And then just your classic sort of you know, popcorn,
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and there was this little sushi stand not very popular.
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I can't imagine why no one wants sushi.
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A little but but yeah, look it's a great city
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and I'm still recovering from a very big week in
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that so there's nothing quite like you've been there, but
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there's nothing quite like it in terms of what it
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is from the country music. Yeah, any perspective. The fact
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that you have thirty or forty bars basically alongside each other,
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all playing live music twenty hours of the day, you know,
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pretty remarkable place.
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Yeah, and that's what America is great at being to Nashville,
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New Orleans, Memphis, very similar vibes but obviously different styles
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of music. So yeah, nothing like it in Australia is there, Troy.
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I was in Sydney actually on Friday night, went out
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to dinner there and then we walked down to the
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harbor and there was like a live screen set up
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at a called the Cruise Bar, like when the cruise
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terminal is at Sydney Harbor. It was dead and me
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and my wife went and sat and watched roosters broncos
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there like the second half, and we were the only
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people out in the outside beer garden area. And they said,
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I said to the security guard, I said, you guys
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open He almost laughed. I thought I was being a
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smart ass. I'm like, well, because there's no one here,
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and he's like, well, that's winter for you. In Sydney.
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No one comes out. This was prime spot, you know
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where the cruise terminally is, looking over at the harbor,
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Sydney Harbor Opera House and no one was there there.
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You go, well, you wouldn't find that in America. Wouldn't
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find that in America, no matter what time of year. Yeah,
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I'm freezing cold. I've been there. I always going to
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winter and it's always packed.
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Absolutely all right, Well, let's if Global Round happens, Nash's
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going to be on the list on declaring. But let's
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see if Peter and Andy's actually makes global round happen.
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Let's hope he does, because I reckon it's be pretty good.
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All right, it is time for Where are they now?
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Now?
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Nathan? You always give us three suggestions?
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Yes, I do, true, we got this wee week. I've
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got a Barry Walker. Oh yeah, I've got Duncan mcgil
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ray and Peter Jorgensen. Remember the aeroplane guy and you thinking.
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Playing rugby union? Yeah, at the moment, really well, you
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know what, I'm going to go Barry Walker because I
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remember him from I think the late eighties early nineties.
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Correct, Troy. His first go career was only with Penrith
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from nineteen eighty eight to nineteen ninety six, so he
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was there for some pretty pivotal years Troy. He scored
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nine tries in one hundred and seventeen appearances for the Panthers.
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So people that don't know Barry Walker, he was basically
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a Ford second row prop, hard working, loyal player. He
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featured in the nineteen ninety and ninety one Grand Finals
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and obviously he was you know, in that victorious Premiership
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team against the raiders. He retired in nineteen ninety six Troy,
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due to injuries. And then after that this might surprise you,
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but he actually worked as a paramedic real ambulance officer. Yeah,
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with the Ambulance Service of New South Wales and he
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was based in Mount Druitt at the time. It was
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one of the and this was a bit of an
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unfortunate thing to happen, but he was one of the
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first responders to the glen Brook rail disaster. Remember the
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Green Books in early two thousands. I think I was
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at school at the time. After becoming a paramedic, he
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later drove a beer truck and coach Penrith representative teams
1276
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you know, in those years. And in twenty twenty one
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Troy he worked in corrective Services transporting inmates.
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Okay, so have a very varied career.
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Yeah, so he basically this is my research online. I
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hope it's true. These are from articles that I've pulled out,
1281
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but yeah, it went from being a paramedic to you know,
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to being a self employed driver a beer truck. So
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then coaching again in penri system and then yeah, as
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of twenty twenty one, he was working with corrected Services
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so you might still be doing that old Marry. But yeah,
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one of those guys that you know, he doesn't get
1287
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:36.719
spoken about much even though he was in those premiership
1288
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:39.000
win premiership winning team in ninety one. You know, we
1289
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:42.920
talk about the big guys MG. Freddy's and Alexander's and that,
1290
00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:44.639
but Barry Walker he was there too.
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Yeah. Okay, all right, well there you go. It's Barry
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Walker for you. Well that is it. Four Tensions Running
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High this week. New episodes of course, out every single week.
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Visit Western Weekends that I'll commodate you follow us on
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the app lap store. I'm Troy Dodds Nathan, thanks for
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joining us. Thanks Troy, and thank you to Paris City
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Automotive for their sponsorship as well. We'll see you next
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time on Tension Running High. Go the Panthers