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It took late night breakthroughs,
404s, a coffee machine that stopped working
a co-founder who did two,
new code, new investors who said maybe next round,
seeing the sector quietly pivot,
knowing your idea held true,
model trained, model failed, friends backing you,
reading the hype, re-heating the spaghetti,
another round a working demo and a first client.
For this AI developer to believe they might actually
have a business, it's not for everyone.
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Welcome to 100% 40.
We are on again for another year
and want to show to kick it off very soon.
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Shall we? Let's go.
It's your time.
The 2026, an oral premiership begins.
The outside, it's on Pogas in the clear.
Then gets it out the best.
Brutment best scores.
They get another chance.
I can't get a better chance.
The big game specialist has sealed a deal in Vegas.
There wasn't easy.
Round one streak under Craig Bellamy
extends to 23 and 0.
Boy in the ball has got it to the gold lead.
Damn, got it, Sam Cleared.
This butch can't play.
Look at that. Here we go.
Here's the inner set from Jenkins.
Who's away?
In the pavers.
Dr. Bones to Pogas.
W. R.R.N.
in red and triple,
coming at the fifth to ribbons.
Stable, braiding. Stable.
He's got it.
The kid.
He's excited.
He's broken the hearts of the Manly Seagulls.
His walk-up.
Oh, Perfeta outline.
John Stern.
And he's one trial way from England.
Kenner Bines record.
Well, here we go.
They're putting it out wide.
And it's not going to reach Johnston.
And let's roll scores.
I nearly fell out of the commentary box.
Trail.
Mate.
Just pass it to him.
Oh, yes.
It's going to be back.
It's great to have your company.
We're in your watching.
A hundred percent footy.
It's season 2026.
You got this motley.
We're in the car again.
And what about these guys?
A last studio audience from Gataway with us as well.
And they're ready to go.
Lots of different jerseys out there representing.
Holy moly.
We have golden point epics.
We have blowouts.
We have it.
Everything. Paul Gallon.
Nice to see you.
Yeah, Grace.
Ready to go.
Ready to go.
Ready to go.
Let's go.
And you please say to Mate next year.
Hello, Cameron.
Hello, Grace.
How are you?
A lot of Ferguson.
Hello, Grace.
Ready to go.
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you?
How are you, mate?
How are you, mate?
You, Simone Vegas?
Yeah, I did.
Well, for an old bloke, it doesn't drink in gambling.
That's what they do, you trip for me.
I looked after myself pretty well.
Sounds a bit dull.
Yeah, I saw a few dozen characters.
Yeah, yeah.
You, Simone, I'm just...
That's not fair.
Just...
Just, you've probably come back and leading that way.
You call me a carrot.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I don't know.
I just spent, thank you, with the panel.
Can't leave it, anyway.
Yeah, yeah...
What about this?
What was the name of this restaurant called, uh, the high-tech realtor?
High-tech realtor?
Oh!
Oh!
You've got the tada.
Now.
Well, Sebi said, get the demon out.
You actually said, get the demon out.
You were the one who said it.
You said, should I get the demon out?
And I said, yes, get the demon out.
Yeah.
She gave it a ride all back in.
Didn't look like you hated it either, just quiet.
Oh, very good.
A bit of fun.
James.
Yes.
You've had a very busy summer.
You've been across to the Australian open tennis.
You went across to the Winter Olympics.
One of the things we teach our footballers
is to get up when they're hurt.
They're not sad people, they're not playing.
What about you?
It was.
It was minus 14 some days doing the news cross.
Look at this.
Look at this thing.
It's so many layers on.
I love every single night when the news come on.
We would sit down and just watch you.
And we keep going.
It's the same thing.
Freeze every night.
One of the most beautiful places in the venue up there
in the outs, there's a privilege to be there.
What about our Olympians too?
And our Paralympians at the moment
are doing a great job.
Footy.
Should we get into it?
Correct.
This is going to be an amazing story, Cam,
if this unfolds.
Alex Johnston yesterday.
You were there at Suncourt.
Get's try number, what was it?
211.
Yep.
Hello everyone.
6212.
Why not?
How against the Roosters of Aliens?
It's set up beautifully isn't it?
There could have been more yesterday, too.
Yeah, there was a lot of chances out and they left hand side.
One.
Wait in one.
Really where Troll could have just fed him the ball.
Wait in the game.
He was wide open.
We thought he was going to equal the record of Ken Irvine,
but it's waited now for this week to play in the Chilks
and we'll know the history between the Rabados and the Roosters.
And it's set up beautifully isn't it?
If you can get across the line and possibly score another one,
what an evening it'll be.
Can you imagine if he breaks it versus Roosters?
What a story.
What a story.
What a story.
The hatred between those two clubs,
if he broke it against the Roosters, wow.
What a story.
He's a big chance of doing it.
Big chance.
It's a good side.
If you've seen him playing on Sunday afternoon,
they look so good.
Now, I know they can see it at 30 in the end,
which wouldn't have pleased Wayne Bennett,
but when everything clicks for the Min attack,
they are one of the best attacking teams in the competition.
I reckon we've enjoyed great at a fallback as a master.
Look, the Trollmitch is an absolute superstar of the game,
and at the end of the day,
Joy can't do some of the things he can do,
but playing fullback these days is such an effort area of the game.
You've just got to be on constantly.
You've got to be on the ball.
You've got to be constantly moving.
You've got to be running 200 metres plus a game.
That's not the Trollm.
You give the Trollm the ball in big moments.
He comes out of big plays.
The Joy Gray.
He's done a great job yesterday,
and it's just great to see him.
I hope they've hit that position,
and they've got to start at the line-up,
don't they?
Climb a tonguey walker, Murray.
White and Mitchell Graham.
That's an absolute stars in their side.
They're a good side.
If they keep everyone on the park,
they'll be a good side this year.
I tell you what I love to see
and can Murray back out there, fit and firing.
Because like the big guns,
they stood up when they needed to.
I thought Cody Walker's 40-20 really got them back into the game
in that second half,
but their pack are so hard working,
but to see Ken Murray back in there doing his thing,
and he does so much gas.
He generates the quick play of the balls.
He's got footwork.
He's got the ball playing ability,
but that's what helps ignite those edges
that they can easily just get to work when they've got
that field position and to play off some of the work
that they do in the middle.
Yeah, there's no doubt they've got strike power.
I thought yesterday both teams wanted to play
when they had the ball,
neither team wanted to play when they didn't have it
40 to 30.
I don't think would have pleased.
Which I was a bit disappointed in the dolphins
because I was looking forward to seeing them this year.
Last year they had a lot of injuries in their forwards.
They scored 700 points more than any other team,
but they can see the nearly 600 in defense.
And I thought, well, that'll be what the sum is all about
in keeping that defensive record
because they know they can score the points.
But I thought both teams were pretty average in defense here.
So entertainment,
but you want to be defending better than that
if you're going to win the game.
And now it's rapid rooster Friday night footy.
It doesn't get much bigger than this.
With the Alex Johnson layer to it and a rooster side gusts
coming off a disappointing loss across the ditch
and DCE's first game of his new card.
Yeah, well, who saw that coming?
Firstly, the roosters to go down like that.
You know, it's not unusual for them to start the year slowly.
They did it last year.
They pick up pretty quickly.
But for daily Terry Evans, you know,
I've seen this a lot with players who transfer clubs
late in their career.
They go off to training and they train through the offseason
and you think everything's all right.
And then that day comes where you've got to put on that new jersey
and run out into the NRL game and go again.
And then it gets very real.
And it got very real for in the other night.
I think it'd be a lot better for the run and better for the experience.
And so too will be the roosters.
That combination might take a little while,
but they're both experienced players.
But, you know, I think it hit him in the face the other night.
I'm not a manly boy anymore.
I'm here with the roosters.
And until you actually get out there and do it, you're not quite sure.
So that's a Friday night footy special.
Gal Tuesday night.
We've got a Broncos side coming off the back of being held schoolless
by the Panthers like the roosters.
Broncos, one of the preseason fancies to go all the way.
Yeah, it wouldn't be overly concerning from the Broncos fan.
You've got to remember, everything's only a couple of years ago.
The Panthers won a premiership.
We'll keep schoolers in the first game in the year after by a team.
So, look, they weren't great the other night.
They had any board.
The key to early matches early in the season
is to control possession, control field position and complete well.
And that's exactly what the Broncos didn't do.
And the Panthers did.
So I mean, look, mistakes like that.
They're probably not acceptable.
The catch will be filthy about that.
But if you're a Broncos fan, it wouldn't be overly concerned at this stage.
It's only around one long long season.
And I'm sure they'll come good.
Not only that.
We didn't even go in final last year.
They had to come back from England after going across there and being beaten by
whole KR.
They weren't good.
But a lot of that goes to the Panthers.
The Panthers were at their grinding best.
They really just sat back and allowed Brisbane to beat themselves.
They didn't do anything fancy.
Panthers scored four tries.
Two from kicks.
One from the intercept.
And one where Dylan Edwards ran past an injured player.
So it's not as though they were brilliant in attack, the Panthers.
But they're ball control.
They kick chase into the corners.
And they just allowed the Broncos really to self destruct.
And that's what happened on the night.
Kevin, your new role at the Broncos?
I know a lot of it's on the mental side of things.
What's the chat to them this week when you're training?
Well, it's really about addressing what went wrong for them on Friday night.
And I think...
I just don't think they handled the expectation of the occasion.
They were of running up at home in front of their home crowd since the first time since the premiership.
Big crowd, of course.
There was nearly 50,000 there.
And they're playing against, you know, who's regarded as the best team across the last six years of our competition.
So I just think when it got a little bit hard,
at times they were guilty of overplaying their hand.
And trying to go one out and trying to solve the issues individually instead of playing as a team.
Like we've seen them play in the white in the last eight weeks of competition last year.
Now, we've seen them come from behind in those three finals matches.
You don't want to build your season around performances like that.
You want to start well.
They haven't done that in their first two matches this year,
one being the World Club Challenge, and again in round one.
So what they need to do is they just need to go away,
individually look at their own game,
and fix up those fundamentals of the game where they let themselves down.
Now, I agree with Gaslight.
We call that game.
They were that poor with their skills and their execution.
Ponderance just sat back and just said,
just keep dropping a ball.
Is it key?
Ponderance kept applying pressure.
I think that was the perfect draw for the Panthers.
I mean, there were four time premiership winners going into last season.
They lost their title in the ring at Suncorp Stadium against Brisbane.
Low and behold, when the draw comes out,
you're playing Brisbane at Brisbane in your first game of the season.
But they put a big red circle around that and said,
well, we'll be going there to win.
And they did.
They didn't even concede a point.
All those great players in the Bronco side.
And they never looked like scoring a try on the night.
The Panthers were just controlled.
Brisbane did it to themselves.
Oh, I forgot you're up there, Smithy.
So that means, technically,
that's your first round one loss in your career.
Oh, nice game.
Good job.
Are you OK?
Are you OK?
Are you OK?
Hey, Gell, you can't win them all, mate.
You can't win them all.
You did.
Well, it was obviously Craig Bellby, not Craig.
Good early smile.
Well, that's a good one.
And the big news, the talk is two-year,
$1.5 million deal for Mitch Barnett as well.
That helps in a way fill that void that Panthers
is going to be leaving alone.
Yeah, it certainly does.
I mean, it's a massive loss.
They've still got him for this season, obviously,
which is huge.
But just that generation in the momentum in the middle of the field
is crucial.
You need to have that bull.
You need to have someone in there.
So to be able to fill that void is huge,
I don't think it's too worrying for the Broncos.
As everyone said,
like they just need to get back to their own footy.
But there were two teams coming into round one
that I had extremely high expectations of to get the job done.
And it was the Panthers and the Melbourne storm.
And they both played exactly the way that I thought they would,
like, true professionals.
They know how to get their pre-season work done.
They know how to handle the occasions.
And they kicked things off brilliantly.
But by no means, I don't think many people
would be running this Broncos side off just yet.
Way too early in the year.
No doubt about that.
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You're great to see you, mate. Thank you.
You've got source of papers, jerseys in the crowd there too, mate, so you know how to do that.
They're getting some papers for their bucks tonight.
A huge year ahead and going from the early indications with your side, massive on the field,
but before we get into the footing, just a welfare check on you and your house.
Have you sorted out the roofing situation?
We had a guy coming out today from the insurance company, so he's out of luck and hopefully
get the ball rolling a bit and get it off fixed.
What exactly unfollowed you on the socials?
That's a big party.
Yes.
Yeah, fired the roof down.
No, I was at training and then I was actually in the ice path and dad had come in and
goes, mate, your roof's caved in.
I said, what?
Got back to my phone and you know, just had all these messages and missed calls of someone
that was home and then yeah, just came home to that.
Well, the hell I sport boys, we'll hear from them a little later on, they're helping you
out as well, mate.
Good men.
Or we'll be well.
26 out of answer points against the running Premier, so that's a pretty nice day for you.
That was really pleasing.
Definitely not a performance that we're going to fall in love with ourselves over.
It's definitely, it's very, you know, round one like.
There was a lot of areas in the game from both sides and certainly not our best footie,
but I thought good signs in terms of our defence and turning up for each other and scrambling
hard.
Obviously, keeping a side like Brisbane to zero, yeah, it's no easy feat, so yeah, very
pleased though.
Well, round one performance, Gus and I spoke about it on the night.
Did you have any thoughts about last year, though, coming back to Brisbane up against
the Broncos?
They're the team that knock you out of the competition.
Did you eye that?
Did you eye that off?
You'd be honest.
You could be honest with that.
A little bit.
Like, we watched some periods of the game through the preseason, it was really disappointing
periods that we watched more so in terms of effort.
Now, I thought, you know, it was the first time in the sort of four or five year period
of dominance we've had where I thought, you know, we were beaten by a theatre team and
the team coming home stronger, and that was disappointing.
So, we just wanted to, you know, not let that happen again, more than effort areas, and
then, yeah, coming into half time, I've seen, you know, I've been in this position
before, and, you know, there's a few of those nerves coming back, but again, very happy
with the way we came out in the second half.
Now, the one I actually about your partnership with Blastelungy, it's obviously your second
year together.
Now, you're the senior figure there.
Yeah, guys like James Bloney, try to bring you through.
What are you doing to try to bring him along?
I think just trying to bring him out of his shell and allowing him to play freely and
play confidently, and I thought he did that well the other night.
Also, you know, I think it's so easy to think about your attack all the time as a young
player, and Blastelungy's worked super hard on his defence, so I just encourage him to,
you know, put his body on the line.
I thought he's out to the centre of the other night, you know, there's always big boys
getting sent at him, but he constantly put his body on the line and, you know, shut them
down in defence.
What about the madman, Liam Martin?
When's he back?
He's got a sort of car for you with a car?
A car, yeah.
So, he's a big chance for this week, but, you know, he's going pretty well, so we'll see
what happens.
Dave, you wouldn't have been in that opening round match if it wasn't for your old man.
I've been dead as to do to eat a heart out.
So, you need an arm, you need to treat it to us.
Right, run us through, so there's the shot, you've got too much pain in the trials.
And he goes in, he throws the book at the NRL and you are free to play.
What was it like to see your old man there?
It was like a court case, isn't it?
It was pretty, yeah.
It was a pretty weird experience.
I've never done it before, and it was very nerve-racking, but, you know, Dad's held his
own and spoke well.
We've got the points across how we wanted to, and we obviously thought we had a pretty
good case.
That's why we went in there and...
LAUGHTER
That's the best you've done in the year, aren't we?
Oh, I mean, yeah, Dad's been claiming it ever since, so...
No, good result, and we'll work out.
You've always said with Ivan, you've sometimes had to check it for a pulse.
He's made for the legal world.
Yeah, you know, he's highly intelligent, but he had a good case there, because I don't
think you hit him in the head, did you?
No, I didn't.
LAUGHTER
That was what I thought.
And it's like, it's fair to you, there you go.
You're not as good a witness as he is as QC, but...
But that's important, because if you didn't hit him in the head and you've gone to the
scene, and that's a big game, that's a huge loss for your team.
They've got to get that right, haven't they?
Yeah, I think so, and, you know, I could only imagine if that was for a preliminary final
or a grand final, and it was on the line, I was so nervous, I was round one and two, so...
Yeah, and we initially said straight away that we didn't believe I hit him in the head,
and then there were some still shots that proved it, and...
Yeah, it's important.
But they kind of react to the collusion and the crowd and everything like that,
and then there's this compulsion that they've got to service that with some sort of punishment.
Yeah.
But you didn't hit him in the head, in the story.
So part of the reason was they thought that I came out with unnecessary force as well,
but I don't know.
That's technically too hard.
Well, that argued the fact that it's not against the rules to use force,
and that's part of the great game of record.
Well, I'll throw those ridiculous, I remember saying it.
I'll throw a beer, penalties will be sufficient, then you get ten to bin.
The issue for me that I was right across the board, you see, that happened that week,
and the next week, over in Vegas, we see Burns hit Pong in the head.
Pong stays down for a couple of minutes, realises that he's going to get a penalty,
then realises that if he stays down too long and go for HAA,
Burns gets ten to the beer, now faces a grade two,
could be suspended for a couple of weeks,
and Pong stays on the field, doesn't go for HAA,
and then we see Crit as one, where direct force straight to the spot we hear from the referee,
that's where we heard the referee that night, direct contact with the head.
Crit had made direct contact with the head, but it wasn't sent to the scene bin.
How?
I want to know how you're going with some of the rule changes that have happened over the summer as well.
There seems to be a real bracing of the attacking side of things,
the extended interchange as well, what have you made of it all?
I don't mind the extended interchange.
I think it puts those guys in a hard position though,
so we had a guy on the way and Clanny going, he made his club debut,
but he wasn't sure if he was going to get on and on.
So it's like you can't really celebrate those things to after the fact now,
but that's just rolling with the punches,
and I think it does create better scenarios for the HAAs,
and sometimes they weren't carrying any utilities on the bench last year,
and they had an HAAs that outside back completely changes the game.
So I don't mind it in that regard, but it will say how it goes.
A couple of questions.
Firstly, in review of last season,
I mean, I don't think you lost it at the end of the year,
you probably lost it in the first half of the season, set yourself a big task.
What's different this year about it?
And in previous years,
being defending Premieres,
you've been World Club Challenges or you've been to Vegas,
this year you've sort of flown in under the radar
to that perfect round one game.
What's the feeling different this year compared to last year's?
Yeah, but it continued to read it.
I don't know.
Continuation.
Continuation I've from last year.
Also the fact that we didn't lose a significant member of the squad as well.
Every year we've lost one or two huge members of the team.
So this year we've pretty much kept the same 17.
So that definitely helped.
Yeah, not going overseas as you touched on
and sort of gave all of us a full preseason.
And yeah, I agree.
I think last year,
it was a massive effort to get back to the finals after where we were after 12 rounds
or so coming dead last,
but there were things in those first 12 rounds that read their head and that Broncos game, I think.
And we addressed that and a lot of it was around our training standards,
keeping each other accountable,
having trust to do that as well,
and really valuing that teamwork side of things.
And yeah, I think the preseason's been great,
but you know, you've got to invest in that every week.
It's not saying that you can just turn on when you need to come final.
So when I thought it was proven last time.
In your team,
a lot of the blokes that don't get the wraps of the ones that probably deserve it,
your forwards,
I thought were really good the other night, really diligent.
They are immense, our forwards.
Honestly, they've been the absolute backbone of our team over the last five, six years.
And you're right, I think they do get overlooked sometimes.
And yeah, there's just,
there's actually a lot of guys in our team
that just put their body on the line,
put the team first each and every week.
And without those guys,
you just can't have a high performing team
and very go for play alongside.
Not only those forwards,
but the rest of those guys out there as well.
We interviewed Dylan Edwards off the coming off the field at half time.
We were talking about what round one football looks like.
And he said something.
He said you have to put your ego in your back pocket and play for the team.
And it looked like you played the perfect round one sort of mentality.
And it really frustrated them into plenty of areas during the game.
I suppose that was the idea of the night.
Yeah, for sure.
There's definitely not going to be too many pretty tries in round one.
We knew that and we knew we had to invest in our defence
and that teamwork side of things to get a result
and put them in tough positions.
And yeah, you sort of look at the tries we scored
and they're all,
I guess you look at it as sort of lucky sometimes,
but we'll put ourselves in the right positions to capitalize on it.
And that was a nice point thing.
Casey McClain, how good is he?
He's just scratching the surface.
He could be absolutely anything.
Some of the things he does are trying to,
he rolls into training with a bedhead every single morning.
Isn't that the look these days?
Yeah, it was only not any.
So he's just, you know, at home playing playstation and rolls in
and he's just an absolute freak.
But he does, once he gets into training,
his attention to detail and his willingness to get better
and just his care for the game as well is really impressive.
No, if you're 28, you still got plenty of footy in front of you.
But many people, like us, believe you're the best player in the game currently.
Representative Australia, representative New South Wales,
couple of Clive Churchill's four premierships.
What does it that you think about,
or you want to try and work on and get better at every single day?
Well, I think that's what drives me is that the opportunity
to try and get better every single day.
And that's probably more of a holistic approach,
not only as a footy player, but as a person and as a leader now too.
There's so many young guys coming into our squad.
We'll have him lunch today and there's a young guy in our squad
who's born in 2008.
And I was just like, this is just unbelievable.
I'm 11 years older than this guy.
What is going on?
But that offers new opportunities for us as the senior figures
to turn these guys into NRL players and make them the best that they can be.
And I really enjoy the aspect of it.
And I don't see my journey as I've got to tick off the premierships
or the medals and all that sort of stuff.
I think that's a byproduct of the day to day grind.
And yeah, just trying to squeeze the lemon of the talent
I have as much as I can.
It's a great insight into the mind of a champion of the game.
Can you stick around for a little bit longer?
Yeah, of course.
Right.
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Kim Monster, one-on-one with Molly Silver as well.
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Welcome back to our first episode of 100% 44 of the year.
Now, more with Nathan Cleary, just the moment.
But if he's house partner from that successful kangaroos
and a disastrous tour of the UK, who is switched focus to now.
For Cameron Monster, well, 2025 was massive on the pitch.
From Origin Glory to Grand Final, heartache,
but as we're about to see with Molly Silver in this one-on-one interview,
there's always a lot going on off the field for the Melbourne Stool Mad Men.
We start with some tragic news this morning.
From Origin Monster's father, Steven, unfortunately passed away.
I watch you, Stonewall.
Camelix, it can't be with your family.
What I love about the game so much is that it is a community.
You were going through a pretty horrific time with the loss of your dad.
It felt like the community wrapped themselves around you
was that how it felt for you.
Yeah, it did, Molly.
It was one of those things where you feel like a robot
was a rugby league who's been told to do this and told you to do that
and you just put your body line all the time,
but then when you look back on it and be able to see how much support I got,
not only from the Queensland Rugby League,
not only in the New South Wales Rugby League,
but this rugby league in general from everyone around the game.
Whether they've hated me or loved me in my time
as a Queensland player, I was playing for Australia or playing for the storm.
I just felt so much support around the game
and I would prefer a thankful for the community.
It's really sad to lose a little loved ones.
And I'm obviously still hurt to this day.
You obviously have so many memories of your own.
Parents have certain things that you like to look back on,
but there's always someone doing it tough in themselves.
Like, yeah, I lost a...
I love one in an idol and they're probably a mentor for me
and he's probably the mold of me into the person I am
and probably won't change my values ever in life
with the way he pulled me up.
The siren's about to go!
This could be in!
It's all over!
You can see the disappointment and the Melbourne storm.
This season, it seems like you've got some young fresh talent,
clean slate after the loss last year.
What's the plan?
The last couple of years we've been in the Grand Final
but that was because of our hard work and what we've been able to achieve
as a group and as a core.
But probably as a whole collective,
we've probably been inconsistent and at the show in the biggest stage.
That was too easy!
We had some chances last year.
When you look back on it, we look for the review.
They scramble really well, Broncos and they wanted it more
and they were all a little hungry.
Yeah, we can sit back there and go,
we want high expectations, we want to go one further
but more we look into the future and we're worried about
what we can't control.
We want to even make fun of us.
Get back and enjoy the Melbourne storm.
The Worlds are always doing.
Hopefully we can build on the last couple of years.
Get used to that!
Cameron Monster, always a great yak.
One of the game's true entertainers and last year
like Noah and I were going both on and off the pitch
and look, Nathan, I guess one of the things we love about Rep Foody
and we see it made against Mate,
state against state and state of origin,
you then get impeded with him in a kangaroo's jumper as well.
What was it like actually been alongside him and getting to know him?
Yeah, I always enjoy being out of team up with him
because it's always so much against each other.
But again to know him, he's a champion human being
and you see that in that clip there
and he's also a fantastic Foody player.
He comes across as this larykin
that he's got everyone's laugh and all the time
but he's like Rayman with Foody.
He remembers everything, every game.
He'll bring up saying from a punitive game
four years ago in round three,
just saying that we did and yeah,
I really enjoy getting to spend time with him
and playing alongside him.
I know you don't miss any of the Foody.
You watched every minute of it, Nathan.
When the Melbourne Storm took on the eels
they put 52 points on them.
I'd love to know what you thought about the way
that they handled the ruck and obviously they've always been all over that
and they made so many of their meters through the middle.
Harry Grant came in and he dominated it
but even just the new rules and how much they are
calling up those six against and gaining that momentum.
Do you think that at the moment they're coming into this
as prepared as you possibly could be
because it really didn't look like they missed too many opportunities
and also maybe just your take on Harry Grant as a whole
and the way that he conducted that whole performance.
Yeah, well I think it's just their spine as a whole.
Like they are probably the best when there's one marker
or a quick rock and they're all genuine ball runners
and so strong and got a great awareness of the game
and you saw Harry the other night.
There was so many times that they're strong forwards
you'd leave one player down and they'd be one marker
and Harry would just get out and just be conducted at all.
So yeah, I thought they were amazing.
They were definitely the best team in the weekend I reckon.
I'm just the way they play and the way they connected.
But yeah, I think their spine just does that so well
when they generate a quick rock.
They're ready to play and they're all very strong balls.
How did you find playing with Harry?
I mean, is it difficult to read?
I mean, have you got to be more alert with him?
Is it much of a combination?
Are you trying to tap into more the way he runs?
It's definitely different.
Yeah, I was trying to tap into what he's sort of looking for
and where he's going to go.
But a lot of times it's sort of hard to predict that.
So I think the more you get to play with players
I like the better, you understand them
and know their sort of nuances of what they usually do.
But yeah, it was a little bit different
but again, just such a great player to play with
and really controls that rock
and jumps out much more than someone like Mitch Kenny
but yeah, it's sort of adapt into that
and find the right holes to run into.
So the eels I'm receiving at big time there,
that first 10 minutes, if you're a paramount of fan
you're thinking this might be the year.
How do they find that and do another seven times
over this week against the Bronx?
Yeah, I probably have a great side
and I think they would just blind away a bit
by some of the rock speed
and Melbourne spine just capitalising on that.
But he looks to the team and they're very dangerous
and they show that they're 12 minutes at the start
and they put on a great try
but I just thought they got a bit blind away
and I think what better scenario than upper the Bronx
to turn it around and I'm sure they've pointed a bit forward.
Do you want to about games?
A lot of the people are talking about the six agains
and the increases, six agains and the speed of the game.
Did it feel different, the football on the weekend?
Did it look different to you compared to what it was last year?
Not really, to be honest.
I don't think it was too different.
I think the game as a whole right now is very fast anyway
but I think it makes it enjoyable to watch.
I think it's just momentum is a big part
and a lot of people talk about that
but that was such a big part of it last year too.
So it's fine, the best way is to deal with momentum
when it's against you but also capitalising
when you have that momentum.
Nice one more before we hear from the Hello Sport Boys
and they take on your current predicament at home.
Zach Lomax today announcing two years off to Rugby Union.
Western Force wants to be a Wallaby in 27
out of World Cup here in Australia.
This one will divide opinion in the Rugby League world
whether or not someone got that view.
Don't let the door hit you on the bottom of the way out
and never come back.
Would you like to see Zach?
Are you disappointed with how this has played out?
Yeah, it's sort of hard to say.
It feels like it's been a bit of a whirl in this whole saga.
At the end of the day, Zach was probably jump the gun a bit early
and leave him power.
But we're also losing such a great player from our game.
It's sure it's torn from both sides.
I know what power fans would be thinking
but in the day I think we want our best talent
staying in the NRL.
So yeah, all the best to him, I'm sure he'll kill it there.
Well, at the moment he's only signed for two years
so if he comes back to Rugby League,
I know you played a lot of junior at Rugby Union.
What are some of the skills that he could learn
and I guess come back and contribute even more to League?
Because he's already a weapon of a player.
We know that's why we don't want to lose him.
But what do you sort of think he can bring back
if he comes back to League?
I think it's just an experience thing as well.
I think you grow by doing different things
and obviously he's got the opportunity
with the World Cup next year in Rugby Union to take that on.
But I think he's such a threat in the air
so I'd love to be able to see that once he takes that over
to Union and also got Joe Suley there as well.
So hopefully one day they all end up back in League.
I'm not going to miss it and bring him back new skills,
but you have to wait and see.
Big loss for the Blues, no doubt.
No low max there.
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Alright, now let's kick things off here
and we'll have some off-season scandals.
Nothing too salacious.
We know it can get salacious.
But there were a couple of things that I reckon people thought
had gone through to the keeper that we went,
not so fast.
We could not miss this one.
Dear close personal friend,
Phil Gould, if you heard of him.
Yes I have.
Now Phil has walked into the toilets of a restaurant out bush
and has been so taken back by the dunny door,
right, that he's had to take a photo of it.
What he didn't realise when uploading it
was that the down lights reflected off the sheen of the door,
illuminating the fires,
and also the double-hand hold of the foam of the beautiful gold wind.
Very boomer, very elegant, very understated.
It was fantastic.
It's honestly one that feels in a career of great moments
and obviously he's got many great rugby league moments.
So this might be his best off-field work.
And they're nice little acknowledgement once he's deleted it with a whoops.
Yeah, whoops.
Chef's kiss.
Love it. Phil, come on the potty.
Come on the pot, come on the pot.
Phil wasn't the only person to fall foul over camera
over the summer months.
Manly Seagulls coach Anthony Seabold
after a morning run.
Some would assume took a moment on the Manly Corso to meditate shirtless.
It was breath work.
It was going internal.
It was manifesting a great season.
He obviously needs to do more of it after the weekend's performance.
But I quite liked it.
I say this, he's in bloody good neck.
He's in bloody good neck, which is probably why he's doing it down on the Corso.
Tom, lot of eyeballs, lot of traffic.
Look at the new board.
Shout out to his epic.
Paramaterials got pumped on the weekend.
Eddie and you hate to see it.
52 to 4 against a Melbourne storm.
That's back to back, round one of 50 point humpings that they've received.
The coach Jason Riles, he came out after the game
and said that they need to have a schooner of reality.
You just have to have a big schooner of reality and move on.
Yes, he did, Tom.
And here's the reality, Jason.
Any team that's conceded 50 points in the regular season has never gone on to win the comp.
So you can already put a line through the eels.
Seasons done.
Move on.
No, wait.
This is my shark.
Heels are done.
Seasons open.
Move on.
Mate, this is our segment.
We channeled on.
This is our big segment.
And he kept interrupting me.
The season's over.
He's gone.
It's finish.
I'll make jump across the mic in any second.
OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
OK, OK, we'll move on.
Now, if we can just get serious for a second here, Ed.
NREL superstar Nathan Cleary's move collapsed during the week.
Reports are suggesting that it was the weight of the marble and gold police.
That's right.
Just hold the kitchen and just decimate it was decimated.
I mean, it's terrible to say, Tom.
We thought this one better opportunity than now
to start a go fund me to help Nathan fix the gold marble roof.
Right now you've what you can to a man who's clearly got going through it
It's going to be struggling and factors even able to perform on Friday and I was shocked
Well, it's a miracle. Yeah, it is listen like on behalf of obviously our smart stand and the whole family at night in
Stamco holding fluid
Just thinking I'll be nice. They get any money
Let's move on now manly loss to the Raiders and Golden Point and you couldn't wipe the smile
I've eaten sand his face to hit the game when I that's not actually what I want to talk about it
It's about a young man named Xavier Savage have you heard of him? Yes, I have Tom now
He was taking photos with fans after the games doing the rounds now
There was two gentlemen up in the four ponds Japanese Lager bar who couldn't get Dan to get a selfie with Xavier
But where there's a will there's a way
He'll have an arm there's idea he'll have an arm son
That's right and that's us done and dusted for week one Ram one pump to be back
Shout out to Channel 9 for arm and it's back on shout out to good day
It's the least you can do and I hear beaver men's he's just coming up on the show asking about the WhatsApp group we're going to get
Just asking beaver's best friends asking about that. I'm asking about beaver's best friends asking about it unless that was maybe a secret anyway catch an actual
Are they good now I sport boys
They could go funny face
I think it'll be like oh well so generous of them such great guys
That's good stuff before we let you go to I know you went to the Matilda's match last night see Mary and her mates
Three all draw a win would a captain in city you want to send a lot more I remember now she's on the way to w-a
Yeah, she's off the w-a now unfortunately, but yeah, just a little bit in the radar
I'm sure they'll turn around having a plane on Friday night over there, so
Yeah, I just want to wish them all the best. We've got to get a small ball, Nate
Straight to Mary. I'm not joking
Yeah, it took my daughter. It was awesome. It was really cool. Great to have you on thanks for all the insights in everything
Like to clearing join us here on one hundred percent for the first time in
Twenty-twenty cents and you heard it from the hello sport boys Steve beaver mentees is in the house
There he is, hello beaver
Hi, mate
He's going to join us here. Our red trope Rick. Yes, go get them relayed
Right after this very short break. Thanks so much for watching us. See you in a minute
Oh
There he is and listen to the crowd boys
He comes to be back. He's got the head gear back on
Love the same screw a trope
It's come from all pet to beaver
He got it away from rubber chain. He got it back to the beaver
He says he's got it
Oh
Steve Boeber mentees what a moment that was way back in two
And item replace to say our retro guest tonight is the line of angry baby great to see him right
You know to praise in the crowd over there. Yes a couple down there. I was looking for the sigils jerseys
That is one there's one. I've put I made them put them at the back. There we go
I'm going to say yeah Kevin Smith was here
It's that sideline to watch what you did back in our eight and he chose not to be here tonight for this segment as well
But when you look at that and you think back to our eight and you know and what you've been out of achieve as a footballer
That one's got to stand out. Yeah, look that's that's to to grow up and
Yeah, be a local junior and only ever want to play for one club and sort of go through and that's yeah
You dream and then you play so many games and then you get one more chance to win a grand final and to go out and do that and score the try and
Like that was 18 years ago
Yeah, it's a bit freaky. Yeah, but um now you're very very lucky to
um, you know
And Nathan sort of touched on the plays you play with there's so many other
Heroes in the team that allow you to do that for 16 years, you know
Yeah, that's probably one of the highest you career
But I want to ask you about playing with Cliffy lines. I'm pretty sure Cliffy lines too running around today
Somewhere with it with a dice. He's still playing somewhere
But how was it playing with him and how many tried drinking you got off him?
I should find that out because I don't know the the actual answer but Cliffy was just one of those
He just say get me the ball and off he'd taken
Speaking to Cliffy afterwards. We never sort of had a set move, but he he just said I would just wait for the defense to
React and he would do the opposite. Yeah, he'd run and we just had a combination that running off him
Could you feel how much extra time he created? Yeah
It was as a ball run of your dependent on the ball play you can hit the best hole in the world and without
Someone hitting you on the chest at the right time. You're irrelevant. You're useless. So and I've run off
Yeah hundreds of ball players and there's maybe two or three. I could just run
Anywhere I want if there was no gap there. I'd cut inside or skip to the outside and
Talk my way through and he'd just look and go boop and just
Hit you on the chest. It's um just a pleasure
You understand the skill that these people have when you when you're relying on so much when you talk about football like that and playing like that
All right, and you obviously watch a lot of the football today. How different is it today?
I mean if you walked into training as an 18-year-old today
What position would they put you where would they put you but that's that's well like a
People asked Cliffy the same question. I did a gig with man Cliffy
Yeah, maybe a month ago, and they said if you play today, would you would you make it?
But if someone came in and said you need to do yeah, 15 carries a half and this and that that that wasn't my game. I don't think I would have
I wouldn't definitely wouldn't be the player that I
Were you a lot forward who just followed Cliffy all around the field right side left side down short sides on long sides
All over the field you're a lot forward. You look at the way the lock forwards played a day who are virtually ball playing front rowers or
Play like halfbacks. That wasn't you
And today they don't let them row ball around the field. They let the 5-8 row around all of it. It's just different football
It's different and it's the bigger fastest stronger better athletes
You know that the anticipation I still think there's a place for a row but they can be
You know half an opportunity or
Being in the right place at the right time
Can turn half a chance into a try and in tight games. They can be the difference. So it's it's it's a good question
I'm not sure I would have made it. Did you enjoy playing under this guy at origin level? No, he was amazing
His his knowledge of and yeah, I hear it in the commentary
You know when you hear you hear things and he sees things other people don't see and it's um
Yeah, when you're at that level to
You know sit and just have a chat to someone that
sees different games and sees yeah
Every player he can tell you right right un carry left arm off low. He's got a weak inside shoulder or
It's um. Yeah, it's pretty special
When you look at that head gear, right? That's that was anonymous with you
Beaver and the head gear now. We're seeing Jay to avoid which run around in this new
2.0 high-tech thing
It is and point it could be through point that could be made could be 10.0
It's been a while since you're on the field beaver, but look I mean this thing's amazing about the technology behind all this
It's all about concussion protecting the head and and data downloading
Yeah, look I think it's
When you first look at it looks a little bit in your face
But once he's running around to be honest. I didn't I didn't notice it too much
It's just honestly to be a couple where you get a bit in your hair gear, don't you baby?
But what about the what about the what about the manly side dishy?
Anything they'll go I mean
It's a bit a little bit of doom and gloom and talk talk about it
Yeah, I actually don't think they'll make the eight on one that has been a little bit he's doing
I don't think they they will make the eight but what do you think they're not sure enough the other not I don't know what I got they got beaten
But what they got back in the comfort
I still I still lost all right
So we got this game on Sunday. It's our Sunday 40 up against the Knights who played tremendously over in Vegas
But it's a big trip coming home. What positives did you take out of your boys?
I mean Fogrid is coming. I thought he's kicking game in the first half was pretty impressive
But what gives you hope about this Sunday in particular? No, obviously Sunday Brookfarl Aval
Is big for the boys they'll go get a huge crowd again
I just think they competed there was probably 15 minutes of that second half that they're off the ball
Letting three tries and that was that was a difference
You know you got to in this game and it's been mentioned on the on the panel
You got to use your momentum you got to score points when you have it when you don't have it
You've got to stop the tries and if we stop another try then that's then they win it and camp are a pretty good benchmark
So it's yeah, they shouldn't be too disappointed massive match on Sunday always is a broken before we let you go
What's keeping you busy as these days? I'm a mortgage broke up real jobs. So it's um yeah
Get home loans for people
No in business. It's good and then with Cliffey doing a few gigs on the side
As a
Cash yeah
I'm sorry
So
Ah be but enjoy Sunday you'll be there sideline. No, there's 100% line of playing for the Monty Seagulls great to have you on it
For the true champions of our garden
Steve Beaver mentioned is our record first ever so one hundred percent
Still coming on a calm very soon. We're looking into round two
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Loving the vibe here tonight. We keep off the masses these nine
It is time for our tab top three three big issues leading him around two. What are we most pumped it out?
Yeah, they're all made Josh Heney at the Titans under pump after a fifty-foot drop again
Yeah, it went there went there woeful and they play uh the Dolphins this weekend
But the the time done that they were terrible with that this should be the times last year
They could have tied they could score points
But they couldn't defend and you think that's all able to work in the offseason is defending and
Passing defensive systems, but they they were terrible and I think the issue for me at halftime
There was 34 nil to the Sharks the Sharks played great
Not taking anything away from the Sharks is but at halftime the times at 51% the ball had 26
Tuckers in the Westpac red zone and school it's couldn't score a point
So for me that was a bit the biggest issue for them um again their defense is horrible
So they've got to fix that very very quickly. So Josh get the tackle bags here
Queensley Darby Titan V dolphin gal goes whack. Uh we get to see the Tigers
Gus for the first time in 2020. Yeah, they had the boy in the first round
So that'll be interesting to get some football
We saw a little bit of them in the trials, but their season starts this weekend
And they've got see they've got such good players in this team if they can just put it all together
I think last year was a great learning curve for them
And I'm excited about what the Tigers can do this year
It's a dream baller all eyes on me. Oh, he's a freak, isn't he?
So good. He's a great man. It's all I had to say. That was an epic try
Well, I'll tell you the great player Makasini. Yeah, sure. I'm allowed to say that. I'm not allowed to say that
You can give anyone a wrap in Gus play on heaven ever Makasini the wing on
To see the drawback
Manage
It did say like General Amit
He's an absolute weapon. They kid. It's the only 18 too. Someone who's a gun wing
If it doesn't look anything like the size of General Amit Alex Johnston
Will they all want they the crowd storming the field look we want the game to go on
So the advice is if he gets the record
Stay in the stands cheering from there
Uncle Wayne Bennett even saying the same thing. He doesn't want to see it happen a half our stoppage in a game
Is a huge momentum killer Alanis. So we're going to celebrate the star regardless though
Oh won't it be awesome? I think everyone would be pumped to see it happen in this game too hunting history in
The classic game the roosters versus the rabbit. What are you chuckling at?
The roosters aren't going to let that happen
Do you know what I thought? Do you know what I thought South Sydney did really well round one to stop it was actually thought they played right a fair bit and attacked and just took a lot of that pressure off
Particularly early on they hit some lead runners Kurt Capewell had a blinder as a result of it
But they've also shown that they can ask other questions to throw them off
So I'm not underestimating that versus entire game plan is going to be do not let this happen first
Well, when you've got them thinking like that. Maybe that's when you're surprised them
We'll see I can't wait for it
So you're encouraging people to jump on fear. I said don't don't don't do that. I'm saying don't do that. No half our
No, I thought he just says I'm bitchy 20 seconds. I just get a deal. I'm not doing it. I just get a 30-second editorial on this
There's a button. There's a button. Yeah, there was no button. No, no, there was no
Stay with us. We're coming back after the break out. That's what we're coming back
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All right, it's been good fun tonight
We're wrapping things up with our tips for the nine games this weekend
Broncos are yours first day night, and then of course an action pack weekend along the way
Gal, your swing winners of going the Broncos of Roosters and Manley
Alana. Oh, I'm gonna go the Broncos into the rabbits into Joey's Nights actually
All right, Gus Topdog. I'm going into the three losers to bounce back Bronco Rooster Seagal
Always matches right here on 9 7 32s day and Friday Eastern Dalai Times 3 p.m. Eastern Dalai
Tomi Denikin the team from Brookie on Sunday gal
Nice to have you back in the thank you
Alana great warmers always thank you Topdog
And a massive thank you to this light here tonight you guys are amazing
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