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31. Clarke is impressed. Early in his debut, NREL season is and is keen to be a part of the

storm's future prompting the club to move quickly to secure him. Really smart work from Melbourne,

in my opinion. Yeah, I bet it because he looks a real player. So when they do this, now I'm going

to ask you because you quite clue on this part. I mean, it's only been four rounds or three rounds

and they've seen enough. Do you feel? Just the three games. So there's that saying, you know,

train like Tarzan playing like Jane. He doesn't do that. No. So do you feel that they've said,

right? Well, you've had three, if any had three rounds. Bus. Yeah. I can for sure the way he started

his NREL career is a bit part of it. But he's also been at the, he's been in the system for two

years now. Yep. He won a Jersey flag grand final for them, potentially. Last year, you got

to feel as well. I did. But he's, he's, I, this is the reason I reckon they're looking to lock him

up. I remember Bruce, Ken Munster, we're chatting to him about it. And he said, was raven about

Cooper Clark in the preseason. He goes a bit that Cameron and the rest of the club love the most

about him. His big fat heap. Yeah, that's right. He's ago. He was a foot. Now he leads the conditioning.

Okay. So he goes, when it comes to you, yo, yo, testing five minute Broncos, all that stuff,

he goes, it's money, normally it's money in Harry. And he mentioned one other player anyway.

And the fourth person was Cooper Clark. Okay. So they, they whack all that in together. And then they

just wait. They just buy their, they sort of keep their powder dry. They go right, oh,

and they've seen enough up for three rounds. I've noticed he hasn't missed many tackles.

I would look at his stats. He's not, I mean, he's with the ball in hand. He's, yeah, he looks good.

I remember the, the, the early parts of, he got onto the field early in that game against Paramata.

And he does all the little things right. Yeah. And people, we always talk about X plays. Well,

you can probably identify one percent as a little bit better, but kick pressure. Yeah.

I get into third man into a tackle when other people just retreat. They're worried about the six

again rule. He just does all the little things right. That Melbourne have just, you know,

almost they've been the leaders of that. Exactly. What's, what's, what's a three-year deal?

No, they're looking to, he's already contracted through to 2028. So they want to extend another

three on top of that. So they want to lock him up until 2031. Awesome. Awesome. There's some other

kids out there. Yep. Okay. Well, all right. Let's do this. Well, Cooper buy. He was at a bit of

a tug of war. Yep. Zane Harrison at the Goldie, Joey Walsh, Jackson Purdue. Well, the Jackson

Purdue thing. Apparently, it's done. Is it done? Well, we were saying this last week, we're going,

they're going to be careful in North Queensland. Yeah. Always because someone will come under,

but apparently it's, it's a, it's a done deal. Three, four years. Yes. Awesome. So just,

sure, you know, like there might be people sitting back not understanding how the salary cap works

and it's going to continue to rise. So maybe the way that they view what a 750,000 dollar

will be different. And it might be this bears that would probably be 500 to the first year.

Yeah. 600 to second year. Then eight. And then they all, yeah. This one here, we've got a tax

from Belters. A bears that you can stick Sydney up your ass. I parked in a loading zone and a commercial

vehicle to take an end gun. Didn't realize you need a ticket for a loading zone. Belters, yeah.

Not all of them. Not all of them. There's some secret ones around the city, but yeah, that's how

they get you. They get it with that stupid loading zone. Sorry, Belters. Tell us where you're from though.

I've got done a couple of times with the loading zone down Kujibai Road once. And was it a ticket

one? No, it wasn't a ticket one. It was a timed one, but this is where they got me. They've got,

it goes all the way up the start from Kujibai Hotel to the middle part going up to Malon,

had the car street. Okay. No, it's Kujibai Road. Kujibai Road through the middle where,

yes, the lines of Kujibai Hotel. So when you start from the bottom, little jack

corner in Kujibai Hotel, it goes all the way to the top. Anyway, it goes loading zone to 7am.

Yes. And I had the yut back in these days, right? So they six again. For two parking spaces,

they changed the signs from 7am to 6am. Oh, and I've got done three times before I realized

you've got to sus it out. What about it? And because you don't get a ticket anymore. Yes.

You find out on the app and you can't reload. It's a month late. And I've gone, I haven't

realized. So I've got, I've gone on to the app in month later and they've got me birds,

birds, birds. You know what? I got pinch ones. This is the old days when they used to chalk it.

Yeah. Yeah. How I was in the yut. And I instead of, instead of going around the block and

get the same spot, I just rolled forward to smother the chalk. And they'd like to saw me do it.

And he says, mate, you've stayed too long. And I said, mate, I haven't, I moved. Look,

the guys need him. There's your chalk. Oh, God. At all these days. Oh, it's Benny from Newcastle.

Sorry, Benny. What about some of these youngsters? Is there anyone else like Cooper Buys extended?

Anyone else sort of stands out? We're here at Manley now, Joey Walsh and the large brothers here.

Makasani's the one. Is he on a big deal? Is he on a long term deal? I think it's, you know if he's

on a long term here. No, he's, he's, they're still trying to negotiate that. I think they were saying

they wanted him and fight, fight if on a deal worth six million between the two. Oh, that's right,

Sam Weller, because Sam Weller still needs to be done. Okay. You know who I want. I want Hamie

Stuart and Buchanan and Kouchman and Dylan Egan. They're my, Egan's done. Egan's done. Egan, the Egan

just got done. Hamie Stuart's a player. Yeah. And I also like Buchanan. Yep. I agree.

Dragon. Don't let him do it for Jackson Ford on you. Please don't do that. Imagine if Jackson Ford

was still the dragons now. And then you had Keon coming next year. Oh, so who they got now

as option? So Emory Gullar. You probably, you probably lose a guy like Blake Laurie. But then

then they got young Loco Pacificy Tonga. Yeah, Helen Gahul. Helen Gahul forgot about him. Yeah,

he's a, he's a very good one. Now just out here now, we've got a band. I mentioned that they were

doing kiss covers. Well, they seem to the rockers have seemed to drop back on stage and we've got,

looks like the Dixie chips. Yeah, I was going to say the landslide. I've got three young ladies

with violin side. I don't know what the hell's going on here, but I'm looking forward to half time.

Yep. I don't know which, uh, what sort of genre. I don't know if they got to, it looks like the

voice. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it does look like a little bit voicing. All right. Um,

anything else for that, mate, with the youngsters? Are you all good? I'm done that. You're doing,

what about Sam Healy? Oh, Sam Healy, love Sam Healy. Love Sam Healy. Okay. But the tough thing with

that is Wade Egan. Yes. What do you do? Because Wade Egan's going under the radar right now. But his

service off a quick play the ball is close to the best in the league. Getting out, attracting that

marker and just letting it rip out the bat. Yeah. It's an avoidant and the like. Okay. Well, Wade Egan

has to be there, but he can get a little bit injury prone. Yep. Sam Healy might have said the

body's time. We've got more NRL news. Some big extensions in the end out of the last 24 hours.

He's Scopey. Raiders captain Joey Tapini. Well, he's security's future in Canberra. He's

re-signed a deal that could keep him until the end of 2029. He'll be 35 when that happens, but

he's still, I mean, he was on a million dollars. I know a lot of clubs were courting him. Yep.

He signed that big deal. So he's still flying. Yeah. He's come on that. Like 35 years old is not

the 35 years old of 10 to 15 years ago now. So, mate, he is well worth anything that he gets. He

is showing no signs of declining. No. And he's and he's similar to Mitchie Barnett. You just

know what you're going to get out of him. Those middle forwards, experienced middle forwards are

more valuable now than they've ever been. And Big Papa, he was thinking about going to wing on

last year. I feel that this is, he's like, he's on the one you do. Yeah. I think Big Papa might

not even go overseas now. I think you've just finished up. I know he's keen to go to St Helens.

All St Helens were keen to have. Yeah. Yep. So, meanwhile, Canberra, they're going to face

uncertainty around Maddie Tymico and Chevy Stewart, who both hold mutual options for next season.

Okay. So, the reporters, the Raiders are unlikely to take up those options on their current value,

meaning the pair could test their market before deciding whether to stay. Well, they'd be in

demand. Maddie Tymico was playing for New Zealand last year. Yeah. Pacchamps played awesome.

Had a rough end of the year for Canberra, but played really well on the Pacchamps. And Ricky was

talking glonely about him recently. He was, you know, basically alluding to that. Everyone is

team first when they're team first. Yeah. And they're in the first team. He basically put it down

to the former Simi Susangi in Noel Martin while he was out injured. Okay. And he just has to wait

for his time. So, I think it's probably more than more likely that Maddie Tymico was back in the team.

Right. Sooner rather than later. But Chevy Stewart, he debuted a couple of years ago. He had, remember

the game against the Broncos when they just absolutely ripped into him. And it wasn't that he didn't

make a, I think he might have made a couple of errors, but they just bashed him. But he was, he was

not physically where he is now. No. No. So obviously, obviously, him recently, he looks like he's

put on a few kilos, apparently been killing a New South Wales Cup. So he's just, he'll be a guy

that's looking for an opportunity. Just on Joey Tapini. He was on Arbor's with the cock of the P

and he's what he had to say about the current pace of the game. Yes. It's much quicker. He adds

different fatigue levels. You know, you get much more tired and then maybe your tackles a

bit more sloppy gives away penalties, which just keeps compounding. So it's, it's an ongoing effect.

So you just got to adjust a bit more fitter. And yeah, it's a bit of tackle tech stuff, or when

you're fatigued, it kind of goes out the window as everyone knows it plays footy. You just get into

that, they're treadmill kind of running and tried to do your best. But if you don't adjust,

you're going to get left behind. So I think a couple of teams have done well, like Pinterest.

And so I think a big thing is two, it's any three rounds in. Usually takes a couple rounds to

your game fitness. So I think the boys will start to get better as the season goes on.

Yeah, that's what makes it go. I like Joseph Tapini. He's so more valuable on the modern day

basehead because he's a big boy. And he carries it well and works his back side off. So he definitely

wasn't on the ozampic. Definitely not. No, definitely not. They're looking to control him too.

This guy might have been Craig Fitzgibbon. He signed a two year extension with

Cranella Sharks. He's locked in with the Cranella Sharks as the head coach until 2029.

Since taking it taken over in 2022, Fitzgibbon has led the club to four straight final

appearances, a couple of prelims. How is he enjoying it, mate? Do you speak to Fitzgibbon?

Yeah, what are you good mate? Yeah, he loves it. This is his, he always wanted to be. I mean,

he's just a footy head. I know that you know, there's players out there who just footy head.

Yeah, Fitzgibbon is a footy head. Yeah, yeah. He, like, oh, that was his roomy. Like, I'd want to

watch different shows and he goes, no, we've got to watch the footy. Is that why I used to go

along so well? I think so. Opposites to try. I think so. So we have some things in common.

But this is great. And I know, like, this is a wrap on himself. I know that Cranella's supporters

out there are saying, you know, well, it's Fitzgibbon is the man to lead to lead. He is,

100% and the knock that they say on him, Fitzgibbon is they go, I keep picking the same team.

Well, one, he's very loyal. He's a very loyal blight. And two, maybe there's no kids coming through.

Like, it's all well and good to make changes, but there's nothing underneath them better than the

current mob. I can't, I can't think of it. Maybe someone can listen on the text line. I can't

think of a Jackson Ford example anywhere else that has come through the Cranella system that's

gone on and played anywhere else that has flourished. Can you? So that's Williams. He's gone to pass.

Oh, yeah, Jack Williams. He's probably more. Yeah, you're right. But he's not, he's not where Jackson

Ford is at the moment. No, no, but he had a really good year for power. So that's a good shout.

There's one. Now, the thing with Fitzgibbon, what you'll always get is effort. And that's what,

that's what sort of player he was. And that's all he wants from your, from your play. I suppose

at the end, the thing that like last year when they gave it to camera, I thought, oh, this could

be the year. This could be the year. Fitsy, well, they're one way or one game away from a green

final. They're ready to depend on the other penance mob who weren't going as great as they are going

now. But now, Fitsy is the man. Fitsy is definitely the man to be to be the Cranella Sharks coach.

Yeah, I agree. I was one of those guys last year where I was just questioning selections whether

he needed to make some changes. And he took a lot of, he took a lot of heat for it through the

middle part of last year, and then they went on that run. And he shut everyone up. Yeah. So there

is, there's that balancing arc all the time. It's been a head coach, you know, making do you do

you make a switch? Do you stay loyal? And will the playing group repay you? So now it's up to the

playing group to repay Fitsy again early on in the year because he's sticking with them despite

two losses in a row. Yeah, well, he didn't make that hard decision on, because Billy Burns was flying.

And he got suspended and then didn't put him back into the side. That was huge. Yeah,

that was, that was bauzy. So that well done, Fitsy. Yep. Congratulations to Fitsy.

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