Has Madge gone too far? Should DCE get Booed? + Shock Injury Update

Good day and welcome to Kenny Blitz, your darling hit of in our own news. I'm back with Paul Kent.

Kenny, welcome. Thanks, boss. Good to have you back. Yeah, good to be back, mate.

Everything's traveling along nicely. Crawl is doing a good job. Yeah, easy. What?

You've got plenty to say. You've seen to have this little bit of chemistry going on with him. It looks good.

I think you've done a pretty good job, mate. Yeah, very much to see. Thanks, mate. You got a bit color in your face.

It's not just the background. No, yeah. Yeah, I'm on the road recovery still, mate.

Yeah, very good. We'll get there soon. Good news. Well, some other news out of Red Hill, another week, another Bronco's drama.

It's fascinating. It's just a gift that keeps on giving it the moment the Bronco's. It's an interesting one.

I just don't remember this time last year. We were all sitting there and the darling cherry having stuff blew up.

And then after that, the kind of galvan stuff and... Dylan Brown was before that. Dylan Brown.

And then this year, you sat down and think, well, everybody sorted themselves out.

Imagine it looked like he'd finally got it all under control after winning the comp last year and suddenly blows up again.

So the Bronco's just can't help themselves at the moment. It's an interesting moment. So what do we know?

What do we know so far? Well, we don't know much. All that's been reported is that they had a robust discussion,

which was an argument during dinner last week, a couple days before the game against Melbourne.

And then out of that, they've tried to sort it out, couldn't sort it out.

And then eventually later, earlier today, Tio walked into Bronco's headquarters

and tended his resignation to the club.

I think... Look, I'm still on the phone trying to find out the exact nature of this.

We haven't sort out a lot of time. A lot of times when these stories happen,

how much you know depends on... It certainly immediately depends on how many people witnessed it.

And we're still trying to figure out that.

I'm a little bit skeptical that it's actually about a different sort of defensive structures or however,

because the fact is Bronco McGuire has a head coach and whatever he says goes.

And if Tio, Tio might strongly believe in whatever defensive system he wants,

that differs from McGuire's objectives, but the fact is one guy is the boss, one guy isn't.

So if the boss puts his foot down, eventually you have to put it in place.

Or Loof, which is done.

Which is what he's done.

And Tio can be a bit of a contancress kind of bloke.

So didn't he coach him at South at one stage?

Yeah, he did.

Tio had two years at South Sydney under McGuire, but interestingly,

his last season at South was the premiership-winning season.

And he left South Sydney after that to go and play rugby.

My recollection of that time was that they didn't get on during that season.

And Tio was one of the, I suppose, cheerleaders when, you know,

a little bit later when McGuire got sacked at the club.

He sort of had a very strong opinion.

The word is that once they came back together at Brisbane, they noted out their differences.

But knowing both men, then my corner of people, they both liked to hang on to a grudge.

So I think it would have been bubbling under the surface and it's finally come to fruition.

I'm skeptical to go the whole difference on defensive philosophies.

I think there's more to it.

I think every time we all find out there's more to it.

That's why I'm a little bit hesitant to sort of go with, oh, this is what it is.

Let's leave it at that.

Because there's a lot more to it, I believe, given the personality of both people.

Well, it wouldn't normally be big news.

You know, an assistant leaving.

However, stacked on everything that's going on at the Broncos.

It's just one after the next, right?

It is. And look, the Broncos, they just can't get out of their own way at the moment.

From an off-field point of view, you know, on the field, they finally got their act together last week.

But from an off-the-field point of view, the club, you know,

I don't want to sort of go all into the whole Gordon-Tales thing again.

But it's just, they've got very thin skin near that administration.

They've got super egos in the administration.

They don't take criticism of any core kind, really at all.

They're very sensitive to it.

And I don't know how they're going to handle this other than basically just stick it all on,

imagine and try and get away with saying it was a difference in defensive philosophies.

But I think there'll be more to come out of it.

Can you how much of that is the fact that, you know, they are the biggest in our real club in Australia.

They are pretty much a one club town on the dolphins there.

But, you know, they dominate the news.

There's upteen journalists there every single day looking for stories.

Well, that's a big part of it.

You go to Broncos training any day,

and there'll be three or four journalists sitting there because that's their daily beat.

Okay. Now, in Sydney, that doesn't happen.

You generally turn up when there's a press conference announced,

and they'll turn up, watch that and then go.

But Broncos are their rain house. Oh, the Broncos media.

And they are a big brand.

They've been a big brand since day one.

When they first began, they ran out with eight new and origin players.

And they've had a history of continually putting out origin players.

And basically being the call group of Queensland's origin teams.

So that combined with the private ownership that they've done,

and which they've established and done such a good job there.

The fact that they are such a dominant brand in Brisbane,

nearly every player in Brisbane,

at the Broncos has got a private sponsor of some sort,

which helps tremendously with their third party.

They've all got cars.

They've all got cars.

Every single one of them.

Yeah, all got a car.

It's an amazing one can happen in one team.

And the advantage that they've got in that area is significant.

They don't acknowledge it.

Yeah, because it just adds to the fuel,

adds fuel to this whole argument about the advantage they have.

But they are a big team.

They're like calling with an AFL.

They're Manchester United.

That sort of team, Dallas Cowboys.

They have the big brand in Rugby League.

There's an interest in them.

There's as much interest in watching them fail

from the 80 Broncos Brigade as there is to watch them succeed.

But they're a club that can't be ignored.

Some clubs, they get a mention in the paper.

They sit back and applaud.

But the Broncos, they actively try not to be in the papers so much,

but it's just every day there are numerous Broncos stories

in the career mail.

It's just the way it rolls.

Do you think things are starting to go

right at the Broncos?

Are there matches at a sinking ship?

Or is it starting to blind?

No, I don't think so.

Look, I know there's the whole...

Okay, we've got Adam Reynolds.

What's he do there?

They finally hit form when Adam Reynolds doesn't play.

Okay, so he's going to have to figure out

what do his halves look like going forward?

Because you get argued, they're much better with Ben Hunt.

They have been the previous two games.

For whatever reason, the stuff that's happened out of the summer

has brought a lot of inspection on the club.

And as I said earlier, I don't think the leaders at the club

and I don't mean football staff.

I mean the administrative staff.

I don't think they are tremendously strong

from an ego point of view.

I think they have enormously good,

but they're fragile they go.

So they don't handle that criticism.

And part of that is because they get such an easy run

in that Brisbane media.

They really do get an easy run.

So when drama hits, they're like,

how do we deal with this?

Whereas the Sydney clubs, they get bashed up all the time.

West Tigers could give Brisbane less than on how to handle all this

because they just keep rolling forward.

And I just think that that's...

It's got to be handled.

But I think McGuire is a kind of guy who can handle it.

The administration needs to take a heart.

Look at him.

It's been a multitude of reasons.

Underlined by the whole renaming of that meeting room,

which was just...

It was an embarrassing...

For two men, it was supposed to be leaders in the community.

Dave Donahy and Carl Morris.

It was embarrassing.

Okay, it was really embarrassing.

But that said, you know, just to get on to that,

you're broad and probably needs to pull back a little bit too.

Okay.

The fact is, Gordon, Dave, they won the comp.

And he's starting to sound a little bit like that Japanese soldier,

jumping out of the jungle in the Philippines 30 years after the war,

still ready to go.

The battle's over.

So that's how I see it.

But they need a good club with good administration,

good strong leadership,

would have this knotted out.

But the Broncos don't have that.

They would be sorted by now.

Do they love the circus, you think?

No, they don't.

No, they hate seeing any criticism of themselves.

Well, this weekend, obviously, on Friday night,

they take on the Dolphins, who are their little brother, obviously.

The Dolphins coming off a big winning against the shark's 38-10.

Probably adds a little bit of spice to it,

but I don't think much spice was needed

because the Dolphins are starting to play good football.

And they're coming up against Brisbane

who have been wanting...

They played very well on the second half last week,

but up to that, they were wanting.

Yeah, I've not convinced about the Broncos at their back yet.

I know they played tremendously against Storm in that second half,

but in six halves of football so far, they've played well in one,

maybe half a half in another game.

So I'm not convinced they're there, but that said,

the Dolphins were awful against the Titans.

Terrible.

Now, I know that they came back a little bit last week,

but they've still got a lot of improvement.

They're defensively, they're still finding their game.

And it's a hard game to get involved in as far as picking one of that one

because you don't know who's going to be up on the day.

And it could very much be one team might not turn up on the day.

And that's been the history so far.

We've seen no consistency for me, the team,

in the first three games of the season.

To try and anticipate what might happen this week,

it's going to be pretty difficult to pick, to be honest.

It looks like Adam Reynolds will return to the team.

What does that do with Hunt?

Do you think, do you think he stays at six?

He goes to nine, goes to 14.

You got to opinion on that.

Reynolds has been named as seven.

Okay.

I don't, look, I think there were times Hunt played quite well then.

I think that times they probably looked better with him playing seven,

and they hadn't had previous weeks with Reynolds,

but Reynolds is the captain.

So he'll be there.

He'll be there.

Would Hunt go to six?

No, he wouldn't have him at six.

I think they're too slow through the house when he's at six.

There's not enough danger there.

Man, man's you guy.

Yeah.

I know there's an argument to bring him off the bench.

I, I, I'd persist with him.

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Thursday's clash between Manly and the roosters

has a lot of layers, canty.

And I want to go through that there's a lot of little subplots

to this, to this game.

Obviously the first one, pressure on DCE and the roosters.

Yeah.

You know, they haven't performed on its early days, right?

We're only at round four.

They haven't performed like they thought they would.

People are talking do, you know,

do the two players mesh two sevens?

Who's the dominant seven?

What do you think?

You got an opinion on that?

I think they'll get there.

I think it's panic stations at the moment.

One of the things,

I think the Chief Ruiz and Daily Cherry Evans

is playing at the roosters now.

It's during COVID.

And no one's spoken about this.

But during COVID,

when the players were all forced to stay in Queensland,

the Trent Robinson and Daily's

from the friendship there.

They often sit and have a coffee together.

And that's where Daily first started.

I think over time,

they're all living up there at the time,

if you remember.

And over time, what happened was they started to talk a lot of food.

They started meeting more regularly.

And Daily really got an appreciation of Trent Robinson's

foodie knowledge and his approach to foodies

is about how to play the game.

And his approach to life,

which is very different to other people.

And Daily's a very different person as well.

So they really bonded over that.

So there was a mutual friendship that was established then

that's been maintained.

And I think that that's what brought him

to the roosters ultimately.

And part of that philosophy,

Daily's got to play a whole new way to play the game.

Okay, here for years has been the dominant player at Manly.

And the Manly game has basically been

very much built around how he plays.

At the roosters, he's got to go and fit into a system.

It's not his system.

It's not his style of play.

And he has to change.

And now a couple with that,

Stan Walker's an unorthodox halfback.

He doesn't play a traditional halfback role.

So it's always going to take time for them

to find a way to gel,

because they are two different,

one's coming from a different system.

One's a completely different mindset of how to play the game.

The fact is they're trying to play not left and right,

but they're trying to link up a lot.

They drift around the field.

They will want to be on the left,

want to be on the right,

and a little bit later be opposite.

So they're finding different ways to play the game,

which hopefully is the future of the game.

Hopefully there's more allowances given to halves

to get out and just get on both sides of the field

to link together and to do that sort of thing.

So I'm hoping that the experiment works.

But I don't think it's panic stations for the roosters.

The only problem for the roosters is they're one and two.

And they have to start.

They have to stay in contention.

They have to.

If they lose too many early,

then it's going to be very difficult to draw that back

and get in top four.

That said,

we saw what Penra did last year.

So it can be done.

And they certainly have the roster to do that.

What about the fact that the three turns they've played

so far,

Warris, Robert Eisen, Penraith,

have all tacked pretty much down.

DCO saw it.

And they see that as a weakness.

Well, as soon as the weakness,

because let's go back to last year with Penraith.

Okay.

And remember what happened when Ivan Cleary bought

a blaze to Langey up in the bodymate from Paramata.

A case in McLean came up and started playing full-time

on the edge.

And the Penraith players,

there are other players as well.

But the Penraith players really struggled with understanding

the Penra system and making it instinctive.

How to defend.

Okay.

Now, they threw that struggle.

They lost all those games early in the season.

And if you remember, we all talk about round 11,

they're running last.

It's similar with Daly.

Trent Robinson has a very complex,

yeah, I remember talking one day.

And we're talking about defense and tackling.

And he told me there's 12 different ways to tackle someone.

Right.

And he went through the ways.

And it all depends.

It depends on,

okay, is the ball run?

Is he coming out your straight, like Square,

or some, some like to come and turn it, the shoulder,

that's got the ball,

some like to turn the shoulder, that has got the ball.

Okay, just, so there's three different ways right there,

about how you, how you try and tackle the guy.

And Daly's, I think, struggling with that at the moment.

Again, he's come from a system that he is basically

had it built around him,

because he's been a dominant player there.

So I don't think the, he's,

it's not natural with him.

It's not instinctive with him.

And that's how he's getting found out,

because he's got to think,

the minute you got to think on the rugby league field,

you beat,

and that's what's happening to him.

But eventually it will click.

It just has to click, hopefully sooner rather than later,

for Roosters fans,

because, and the Roosters themselves,

because they, they're losing games,

and they are being targeted through that era.

He's not, he's not a weak defense dream, so.

No, he's just struggling on the standard system.

Do you think it's a worry of 37 years old,

or do you think he's smart enough?

No, no, it's not because he's,

I think he's in good shape for 37.

Yeah, other players,

when they,

they'll get to an age,

no, he's a physical decline.

There's a couple in the competition right now,

who physically just aren't where they were a year ago.

But they,

daily is not there yet.

Daily is still in good shape.

He's just, he's just confused about

some of his reads when he,

when he's got ball runners coming at him.

And he's press conference this morning,

he said that he wouldn't stand in the way of

a junior player or a junior rooster coming through

if he didn't think he was up to it,

but backed himself.

He also tried to control the narrative

a little bit by saying that he didn't think

it was a negative him playing it mainly

in the way he left.

Do you think he'll get booed?

Yeah, he'll get booed.

Yeah.

I'd be disappointed.

I'd be disappointed in mainly fans if they didn't,

to be honest.

Of course he'll get booed.

Yeah.

But that's,

that's rugby league.

Yeah.

And I know,

I know,

I wanted to be nasty.

I just think that's part of it.

That's part of the fun.

That's the color of the game.

That's what it is.

It's just that.

You should boo everywhere, right?

Well, yeah.

I need to be the opposition.

I need to be the referee.

Yeah.

You buy your ticket.

Yeah.

You're allowed to boo.

Like there's obviously a line there that we don't cross.

That's fans.

Yeah.

And we all know where that line is.

booing.

I think in many ways it's good natured.

Yeah.

And you talk to some of the real warriors in the game.

They love it when they got booed.

Mainly used to love it when they got booed.

But they get sensitive to it.

Okay.

But in the old days,

the old merely,

the later you booed the better they played.

So, yeah, he'll get booed this week.

You talked a little bit about Robbo before.

Do you think there's pressure on Robbo?

No.

At the roosters?

No.

No.

No.

It's funny.

I've already heard it.

I've been watching obviously a lot of the commentary around the game.

Got nothing else to do, right?

Well, you sit around and watch everything.

Just playing against under pressure.

Yeah.

Michael Wise under pressure.

You know, Trent Robinson's under pressure.

Yeah.

They're both under pressure this week in that game.

Like, I just, it's too early in the season to really, it gives people something to talk

about.

It gives us something to talk about.

That's all the issue.

Yeah.

It's just a big bullshit argument.

So, people want to sit there and try and find what the hitting issues are.

But the fact is, you're not going to get sucked after three games.

Eight games, they start to look at you.

Particularly if you've had a pool season last year as well.

Yeah.

Out of those cases.

Trent Robinson.

He'll coach you as long as Nick Polis is alive.

Yeah.

I think the other thing with the Roosters is everybody probably expected the D.C.

Anything to take a little bit of time.

The other thing is Reese Robson got injured and then he came back last week.

Yeah.

He's a crucial player for them.

Well, he is.

And let's remember that.

They are a star started team.

They've got rep players right across the board.

Yeah.

So they do need to be going better than they are.

They're not going, yeah.

So, they're not playing well.

But in terms of getting a Cakes sacked over the performance, that's just absurd.

So there's no pressure on Seaball, do you think?

Well, look, there's pressure, but it's too early.

Yeah.

I think it's the first pebble in the, you know, the avalanche that could come if he doesn't turn things around.

Seaball's, you know, he probably creates a few points for himself.

He said last year that he wanted to go into a, like a general manager type role at one point.

Straight away, that question's, you know, that's just something the coach doesn't say.

A question's his commitment to the current job.

Okay.

It seems to suggest to some people, he's already got an eye on what's next.

So that just gives them ammunition.

I don't think you should have said that.

I think in hindsight, I wish, you know, he'll wish he hadn't.

But, and certainly the way they're playing mainly aren't reaching anywhere near the potential of the roster that's running.

Yeah, they've got, you know, it's not a complete roster.

They've got a few holes in it, but they still should be going better than what they are.

And certainly, I think their performance within games, not just results,

but the performance within games is not where you need it to be.

So there's some, there's some hard coaching that needs to happen there, really.

Kenny, it's interesting you talk about coaches saying things that they shouldn't say.

And, you know, we talk about Wayne Bennett and how he doesn't say anything, you know,

and everybody blurs up and he doesn't say anything.

And then when a guy does come out and stays up, you know, he's like Shane Flanagan down when he said that they couldn't win like.

I tell you about it, but I applaud Shane Flanagan for that.

Okay.

Because it makes sense.

Can't win.

Same is why we win the competition.

No chance.

We've been saying that for a few years.

Yeah, and that's true.

It's just the reality.

That team, that squad, they just do not have enough star quality in that squad to win the competition.

The only way they win is if half the competition gets blown up.

It's the only way they win.

And even then it's a fluke.

So I applaud Shane Flanagan for that.

And I think it does put realistic expectations.

It doesn't say they're not trying.

Okay.

So, yeah, I think he said the right thing there.

I think when you put the question to him, I think he's managing expectations.

I would mind all the same fans out there letting us know what you think.

Do you agree with Kenty or watch a position on that?

Just the last thing on, on Manly.

Let's talk a little bit about Jake Turbo.

Because there's been a lot of discussion that he's times up.

You know, we should be pulling up stamps.

He's not what he was.

I mean, I've noticed a significant change in the game in the last three weeks.

It was the first three weeks of the season.

I don't think Jake Boyvich is under pressure to lose his position.

He does have another contract.

He does have another year of his contract each year.

Yeah, he has an opportunity in his favour.

Yeah.

So, it's funny, you know.

Like, I'm 55 now, right?

I remember as a young boy growing up, never saw it, but growing up with the legend of Changa Langlands.

And his last game, being that 75 grand final against the roosters,

where they'll be in 38 new only water white boots.

And that hung around him for a long time.

And towards the end of his life, I became quite friendly with Chang.

And to the point where you could take the Mickey out of him about the white boots,

and he told me to go and get.

But he was, you know, he didn't like talking about it.

Yeah, right.

And he realised the stain it put on his career.

What, what, what, what do you wear, white boots?

It was a favour for a mate who was trying to sell them back in the early days.

Yeah, well.

So, he was, you know, he was an influencer well before.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, before the current model.

But yeah, he, now he was a mate, it was a favour as a mate.

The funny thing is, he said to me one day,

he said, I wish I kept them maybe worth a fortune.

He actually threw them, he went away on the same,

I think it was a World Cup tour of 75.

And he threw them over the goalposts on a footy field in England and left them there.

Yeah.

I was just hanging off the crossbar.

Yeah, well.

So, I don't know where they ended up.

But anyway, yeah, but I remember that was the most present thing

I remember about his career.

And just because such a great player had such a ignoble sort of end to his career.

And we all want Jake to avoid that.

Okay.

Now, look, statistically, everyone's talked about that.

I don't know where he's at, mate.

He's certainly not damaging as a ball runner anymore.

Not that he ever particularly was a damaging ball runner.

Defensively, he was where his strength was.

But even that, he hasn't really waked any guise or anything.

I don't know whether he's just going through a bit of a slow start to the season

or whether it really is the end.

But it's not up to me to tell him to retire.

They say he hasn't made a line breaking 28 games.

Has a broken attack?

Yeah.

Well, statistically his last line or last tackle bust was 2024.

Okay.

Which is not good, particularly when you use your front rower.

Or 13.

Yeah.

Well, he plays that middle forward.

It's middle forward.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But anyway, I just hope it ends well for him.

And I just think he needs some help around him.

I think that the manly character should come out now and they should rally around him

and really work to allow his form to get better.

Bring him along, bring Jake along with him and work for Jake.

Kent, you've been in the game a long time.

What does Seaball do with Jake?

Because he's kind of damned if he doesn't, if he doesn't, right?

Does he drop the club legend and face the wrath of the fans?

Or does he...

He won't face the wrath of the fans.

I think the fans are starting to see it as well.

So I don't think he'll face it.

So let's go a little bit longer.

No, I think he makes a pure football decision.

I think Jake would want to be...

Jake's such a man.

Okay.

I mean that and the way it's intended to sound.

He's a man.

Okay.

He's asked for no favors.

He's given no favors.

He expects no favors.

And for Seaball, it's got to be purely a football decision.

If he thinks the team's going to be better by putting someone else in that third in jersey,

he makes that decision.

And Jake will accept that.

Because that's the sort of person Jake is.

Until then though, until he finds someone better to put in that jersey,

he finds ways to try and improve him.

Yep.

Meanwhile, he tries to improve him anyway.

He talks to the rest of the team and says, guys, rally around here.

Yeah.

The way he would have handled this, he would have noticed it last year.

He would have had a chat to him out of the old season.

And he would have said, mate, how about you think about retiring?

You've got two more years left on your contract.

We'll medically retire through the concussions.

You get two more years of your contract paid out.

Yeah.

That's how it should have been handled.

That's the smart way to handle a player like that.

Okay.

Now whether that conversation happened or a doubt, whether it happened,

he might have had that conversation.

Jake should know.

Now I want to keep lying.

Well, Jake did say he was one concussion away from retiring.

Oh, no.

And that was the perfect opportunity to sit down as a club and say, listen, mate,

we're going to look after you.

But mainly on a particularly clever club to be honest.

And, you know, it's been a bit of change here.

It's been administrative through the administration.

But that would have been the conversation.

I would have had that at the end of last year.

But I wish him well because Jake really is one of the great champions of the game.

As a player and as a bike.

And there's just not a player man.

There's just not a knock on him.

The last thing I want to ask about is the Ali Katoa news.

There was something on a seven's the agenda set as which is their new two.

Actually, you didn't get a call up for that.

No.

Have you gone here?

I'm currently in the lost and fan box of rugby leagues.

No, I didn't get a call up.

Okay.

Well, last night I talked with Craig Bellamy was on and he talked about the fact that Ali Katoa

might never play the game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's...

Look, I got...

I'm a bit dark on all this.

As you know, and we were over in England last year and this happened.

So when all of the feedback started to get to us in England,

it was sort of a bit hard at first to get on top of what happened.

It took a day or two before you could watch the incidents and see it all.

I think...

I think there's a smell about it.

The NRL came in and did an investigation.

They suspended the head doctor for two years.

They suspended the assistant doctor for two years.

They suspended the head trainer for two years and they gave a warning to another trainer.

But I believe...

I believe the coach dodged the bullet.

Okay.

I think...

Because I think the final decision...

There's no way in the world...

Well...

Yeah.

Unless there's...

Groce incompetence from those four people that were investigated and three stood down

and suspended in the first...

The fourth trainer given an official warning.

Unless they are grossly incompetent, I can't imagine not one of them mentioned it to the coach.

And ultimately, what happens still sits with the coach.

Coaches tell you that they will take the advice and Christian will say this after the game.

We take the advice of the doctors.

But the truth is also that if a coach sees a player get a head knock,

he can sit there and say, you know what, this doesn't sit right with me and I'm going to sit him down.

Ultimately, it's the coach's decision who runs out.

The doctor has his role, which the doctor in this instance failed and the assistant doctor failed.

But for the coach, the coach will also say, okay, send him out.

I know Christian will say he didn't see the incident,

but I'll find a hard to believe that he wasn't told about the incident.

And I think the coach has got...

And for it to change going forward,

firstly, the coach has to be told.

And secondly, the final decision has to sit on the coach.

So that way, they sit there and they will make a decision based on the player's welfare

and not whether they think they can get him out there without getting caught.

Now, I'm not saying that happened in this instance, okay?

I'm unsure whether...

Well, said he didn't know, okay?

We have to take him out his word.

So we do that.

But if you put it in there that the coach must be informed,

then even if the player...

Because he didn't have to do an HIA, if you remember, with the pre-game concussion.

That was the loophole.

But if you saw the knockout, it was a bad one.

So he should have been sat down.

And that should have been sat...

Well, the doctor should have sat him down.

But secondly, the coach should have said,

hang on a second, we can't play this guy.

And that's why you got the...

That's why there's a strong evidence, suggestion that he got the concussion in the game

because he was already in a concussed state.

It's like in boxing, you get concussed, you get hit on the chin

and you start to stagger.

You are ready for the next one because your reflexes aren't as strong.

Your presence of mind is not what it should be.

And that's why you put your head in a spot.

You shouldn't do it.

It really sits uneasily with me that.

And I just...

Yeah, this kid...

My costume is Korean now.

Melbourne has done everything they can.

He said brain surgery.

He was in a coma for a while.

It was a series of serious gets.

And it might now cost you Miss Korea.

And you can see the fact that the Broncos have trained him out to be the blue shirt

to run on and off...

Sorry, the storm of training him up in a blue shirt now to run on and off the field.

It's almost like they're preparing him for life after 40 now.

So it's a really murky one.

I think in many ways, the entire leadership of the game failed in this one.

I think it was a real chance to sit down and show everybody how serious they are about all this.

And I think they dropped the ball.

Let's hope that Elik's time gets back to fitness because the whole rugby leg is hoping that...

Anyway, thanks, Kentie.

Thanks for another great episode of Kentie Blitz.

We'll see you back on Thursday.

I got crossed tomorrow.

Are you on Thursday?

Yep.

And we might do some ass Kenties on Thursday.

So leave your comments down there and we'll get to them then.

Until then, see you then.

Bye-bye.