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Welcome to triple M NRL daily it's the Jernos edition Charlie White here and as always on

a Tuesday I've got two of the best Jernos in the game. First of all Brent Reed how are

you my friend Charlie how are you buddy? I'm very good I'm very good we've got a TV star

Charlie. TV star Mia we should say TV star to our right here the one and only David

Roy. The star of Channel 7's new show Agenda setters. Wow how are you going Dave? Yeah good

good very good. It was a bit of fun last night on on Agenda setters new footage show for

Channel 7 they're having a crack. It's a rating stage. It's a really good rating. I haven't

heard. Very good. You know over 700,000 people watched it. Okay. And nearly knocked off 100%

footy on its first ever show. I can't wait to see that. That's good news. No good fun.

You should mention it on three sixty tonight. Absolutely. Yeah. Charlie. You should mention that.

Absolutely. Yeah. Three sixty tonight with Nathan the gang. But Corey Parker, Aaron Woods, Luke

first show out of the blocks. I thought it was a pretty good good show. Good fun. A lot of

debate. Yeah. Now let's see where it goes. Yeah. I thought Corey did a great job as host as well

considering he's not done a roll of that before but now experience. Very smooth. Very smooth.

Now experience and you'd like to think like any preseason trial read man. It'll get better.

You're better for the run. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I read you on TV last night as well.

Yeah. Yeah. I read a good talk. Yeah. That's always well done. I saw it really blew

up. I watched it. I definitely watched it because. I watched it. And my what about how the

partnership with Bulldog Richie go? Because he's feeling a big seat there in Buzzy Rothfield.

No. Bulldoggy. Doggy. So he did well didn't he? I think so. I mean who would want to sit in judgment

and ask if you want to sit? When I go, oh, he did well. It sounds a bit patronising, doesn't it?

My doggy's been around a long time. He's been around 100% he's been out crying. The TV

world's going so good for reading that he was complaining about his sauna getting installed

today. No, I'm sorry. He's already been. You won't have time for storing.

They said I've got an app with it. I come from the app. So I've just texted them.

Why would you need an app for the sauna? What did he do? I went up in my lounge room. The

sauna's in the garage. So I can say because I'm rather walking down to it and starting it to get

it heated up, I can sit in my lounge room and hit the app, heated up and then walked straight

into it. It's fantastic. Yeah, that's a first world for me. Very much a first world for

the reading. I'm glad you do well. It's very good for me. Good things happen to good people

in your country. What about you speaking of good things happen to good people? How many times

you're on Sunrise and Channel 7 this week? I was on Sunrise on Monday, which was good fun.

And in the studio as well with Sherva, he's a great fellow Sherva. There's a little

sip around. You're trying to knife Sherva. Well, you know, eventually, maybe,

eventually. Yeah, I did their Sunday footy show as well, which is good everywhere.

Do you sit down all the way? They start to show. They go, you're on a Sunday

April footy show. Well, it's great for the game, isn't it? Another free-to-air broadcast

are really throwing that support behind Rugby League. This new show, it's amazing. You can think

on a Monday night if you're Rugby League. In Sydney, you've got two NRL shows on free-to-air TV.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, and if you're a footy fan, it's like going to Cisla Buffay.

Oh, it's a nice smorgasbord. Let's not forget.

Sinks. No, it's got a... No, let's try that.

630-360. 630-360. 630-360. 730-360.

Yeah. And then 930-100% footy.

It's World War Rugby League. It's incredible.

And Charlie will have his own show soon as well.

I think it's crazy going. Maybe 110% footy, some of that will go on a Wednesday.

But speaking of TV rights, I've seen Netflix have pulled out of the race for the Rugby League rights.

But really, this broadcast deal that they're about to negotiate,

is it the best place the NRL has ever been and ready with seemingly 7K as well?

Well, it looks that way, doesn't it? I mean, they've got a bit of a competitive tension there,

which is what you need. The speculation is 7-1's at least one game,

and they're on state of origin. And origins, you know, a cash cow for the game in terms of revenue

and broadcasting rights. So, and as we said, you're on Sunrise, you're on the AFL footy show,

Dave's got his own show now. So, 7-1 are a red hot cow, and that can only be good for Rugby League.

What do you think this is a very much a US model?

It's a splint of the rights. Yeah, yeah. I think it will get to that point, Rudy.

Well, it's interesting, right? Because no one have got maps on a Monday night, don't they?

Yeah. So, you can't imagine if they go to a Monday night slot. No one's not going to want Monday night,

because maps are ratings juggernaut for them. So, I'd imagine that 7's a good chance to go to

Monday night to get a Monday night, unless Fox bid for all the games and say we want Monday night

exclusive or design, sorry, design now, all right? So, I'm obviously the boss of design was in Vegas,

pretty prominently with Andrew and PVL, and we obviously work for Design Dave and Fox.

I mean, it's pretty clear they want the rights. I want to want every game again. So,

the key, the key for the NRL is that competitive tension. Look, Netflix,

Pete spoke about them, but it's a bit of a pipe dream, right? I mean, Netflix hardly do like two

NFL games. Yeah, a bit of boxing. Boxing day. So, they're delving the sport, but they want

truly global. It's no use them having just a competent Australia, a game that's just in Australia.

So, I never thought Netflix was a realistic bigot. The interesting ones, Paramount, I think the

boss of Paramount might have been in Vegas, right? And if they get involved, that'll make things

interesting, but I can't imagine it's going to leave design. No, Fox. There's no other

alternative time slot, really, other than Monday night, 40, you could go and they know another Sunday,

but I was going through the schedule this year, the season draw. We've got plenty of three days

of three games on Sunday. I can't imagine nine and one a Sunday night game either, because

it's the same thing for the past 60 minutes. Yeah. So, again, that leaves seven in a pretty good

position to bid for that extra game, unless they get out bid, obviously, by Fox design.

Yeah. It would be amazing for the NRL if they had it on two of the free-to-air broadcasters,

because that just gives you such a big reach around the country as well. Even if it's airing on

some of those AFL markets, maybe it's a Perth game and it's airing on seven Perth for this next

ride still. So, it's a good position for the NRL to be in really. And we could be more geeks

for you, Charlie as well. I have some sidelines. Yeah, good one. What do you think?

I put it to Fort Ricca for the sidelines. Yeah, it was, well Ricca will be great in the

bar, so we can have it. Maybe I'll, you know, I might try and get on Seven's World Cup coverage on

the sideline. Yeah, that would be good. Yeah. You could chance that day, wouldn't you?

Maybe a huge chance, maybe. I'm just a small bid player. Oh, come on, mate. Just come on,

I'll try. Actually, you told us off here. You carried the show. I did not, or I did not.

He did his best. I'll try and pick up some measures around the road. Good leg speed,

good meters around the rock. You do your job, Dave. You do your job. And I want to know what you

boys think on Friday night. If the fans should do their job and charge onto the field, because on

the podcast yesterday, Wade Graham said that fans should not go on the field. What do you boys

think? I'm all for it. It's controversial. I know a lot of people in NRL will dislike my take.

There are a lot of people within both club, clublam will certainly weigh in,

bandit, won't agree. But I cannot believe the opportunity that this creates for your game

as far as I bought. And if you actually put in the grand scheme of things, that's what we've

been chasing in Las Vegas. And I don't care what anyone says, buddy, Franklin's thousandth goal

for the city swans is one of the great moments in Australian sport, the scenes afterwards.

It creates that much PR and positive press. And there are people going to this game now

that weren't previously going to witness a moment in time. And to potentially, I believe,

run onto the field. Don't like it. Of course you would like it. You'd boost in a quarter.

A bit of a wowser. It's just a thing. It's too risky. You've got these more. Do you

allow your kids to go do knock and run? I mean, you just, you're so, there you go.

Another round of the year if they knock on the sidewalk. But the other issue is you've got

these bitter rivals, you know, sourcing the roosters, they hate each other, they're fans hate each

other. The idea that sourcing the fans were run on the field. And, you know, you've got roosters

players here as well. I just don't think it's a, I don't like it. I just worry about what could

happen. I mean, it only takes one idiot to do something stupid. It would have only taken one

idiot to do that to buddy friends. Exactly. The large respect for the, for the moment.

Yeah, I don't know. I think some people just run on security and police. I mean, there's

one. Look, I think it's probably going to happen because it doesn't matter how many security I've got.

If one person does it, everyone's going to follow. Yeah. So class, class, classic one person,

well, this is sneezes. Everyone gets a cold. And that's what's going to happen. If one

person will run on and it'll probably happen and everyone will run on. And then it's going to be

good old-fashioned melee. So, you know, I'm not, I'm not a fan of it. I don't think you know,

I'm not. What do you need to do it? What do we need to do that to celebrate? It's a celebration.

It's a celebration. Can you celebrate at the end of the game? How many, do you remember in the 80s and

90s when we were all allowed to run on to the field after full time? Yeah. Do you remember how many

issues there were with players? Well, I don't know. Well, they must not. They've obviously stopped

it for a reason. No, they carry all them and go cleaned up once playing cricket. Remember that?

He tried to tackle the bloke around the field. Yeah. Broke his collarbone, poor old Terry. Yeah.

I know that was cricket, but there was no issues. Okay. But, you know, it's a different world

we live in now, Dave. He's lost the plot, reading. He's lost the plot. Why do you need to run

on the field? There was sense of occasion. Because it's, it's never happened before. You know,

this is an incredible moment. I was trying to break in a record. Yeah, everyone tried to get points.

It's a good point. It's a good point. But this, Ken, this is a huge moment. This, this record that

AJ will get, it probably never gets beaten or most likely won't get beaten. We never thought,

can you ever want to record a get beaten or got beaten? Someone will beat it down the track. I

don't know. I think you've got to run on the field, mate. You got to get on there. Get it

amongst us. Charlie, Charlie, you are encouraging Anarchy. Yeah. I am. I was on the field for

Buddy Franklin. Where you going? Yeah. What was your run on? It was fine. People, you're

actually, if everyone's a moron, like, yeah, like, yeah, some morons. Everyone's respectful.

No one's going to go out there and deck a player. Like, it's a great moment. If someone runs

up and attacks a player, they'll get attacked. Like, no one's going to attack. Do we want that,

Charlie? No, but what I'm saying is that won't happen because people, people are smart enough to

just celebrate the moment. Alex Johnson wants it. He wants it. AJ wants it. AJ wants it. Well,

that's great. Well, AJ is not worried. What's the matter? What's the matter? What AJ wants?

You, you get what you're giving in life. He's got a real day wanted. It's, it's late.

Ben, he's coached. That's a one ex father lectures with Brent Reed. Does Wayne Ben,

actually care, has he been asked by the NRL to say, hey, making you say this? I don't think Wayne,

that Wayne doesn't take orders from anyone. I think Wayne is very much his own man. I don't think Wayne

would tow the line just because the NRL wanted him to. I mean, Wayne's, what is he?

Well, how old is Wayne? 66. I mean, Wayne's not going to take orders from the NRL. Yeah. He

well, Wayne's an old man. Anyway, he's an old man. Charlie, it'll probably happen. It'll probably happen.

And if some like gets hurt or some punter gets into a stink, you know what, we're next week,

we'll be on the show and I'm going to say, I told you so. Okay. It's always that shouldn't happen.

The NRL would definitely want it to happen this week rather than central coast.

Because central coast stadiums are a bit like it's a bit easier for everyone to get on the

other fence, too, Charlie. Yeah. I was over the side of that fence on the side,

I don't actually preseason. It's a great stage for it to happen on, too. Can you imagine against

the Sydney Roosters, mortal enemies and South, but I reckon we'd love for him to break that.

An alley on stadium, well, it's not the home ground, but our playing two or three games

there this year. And at some point, it will be the home ground again. They'd love to take it over the

store. Did you not pick up on the trell's social media posts? Yeah. Two Alex that we need to be

strategic when we give you the troughs. They're setting it up. Yeah. Because he couldn't give him

an extra one on the weekend. The trell had AJ White open to side, not to pass.

Am I giving the Roosters right side to fence and South's left side attack this week? He could get

five troughs this week. That was excellent. That Roosters. Well, let's talk about the Roosters

because the injuries are stacking up for them. Obviously, it was a tough loss on Friday night

against the Warriors. A lot of issues for them, but Spencer, then you ruled out before kick off

the hamstring injury. What are your boys hearing? It's about four weeks.

joins a long list. So a couple of how many? How many? It's a half. It's got a calf.

Yeah. It's Joel Harrison. He's let us down. He let us down. Yeah. But anyway,

the he's out for four weeks, but also joined Savala who's out at the moment. Tommy

allowed it as ACL. But you think Rob Toys can be right play. I think Toys back. That's

Roys and I think Toys will be known. He'll be known. He'll be in every opportunity. He plays

outside Daly. So that's pretty important that he comes back. Because I imagine I would have worked

on that combination all summer and then Toys gets ruled out and they probably packed

their right side. So that's a pretty big in for them, American. Yeah. And he'll mark the trell.

They marked each other in origin. Had that great tussle. So it's good. Any concerns with Daly's

form to start the season? Do you think it's going to be a bit like the Cooper Cronk set up

and take a bit of time to build? Well, there's a big difference that Cooper was a bit younger

than Daly was when Daly was 37. And you don't you don't be far the time, right? Only underfooted

opponent. Is that the L.A.? Yeah. Yeah. And he's coming off. He's coming off a difficult G. Daly.

I reckon tough year for for me and Lee. So it's, look, it'll take time. But I don't, you know,

I have a lot of focus on Daly, Terry Evans. I regret that. And so there should be, right? He's

been bought for a reason. But until the roosters fix their discipline, it's, it's unbelievable.

And the consistency of their ill discipline, yeah, including season upon season,

it's their Achilles heel. Yeah. They can't, you cannot afford to have that level of ill discipline

penalties against you. And then as a byproduct, leak that many points because you're so exhausted

because you're on the back foot defending. Yeah. Year on year. And until they address that matter,

Daly can't plan the front foot doing that. Like they have, they have to rectify that issue.

I don't disagree, Dave. I mean, that's pretty clear. They're disciplined. I think it's

we're the stat last night, not in all three six. I think the past five years, four of those years

have been in the top three through three. They've conceded the top three most penalties each year.

And I think twice have considered the most penalties in a row. So that's been a bug bearer there

for a long time. And they go, well, a lot of penalties with 18 penalties and round one,

I mean, it's insane. And you can argue about the referee or not, whether the referee got it right

but 18 penalties, they don't get 18 wrong, right? So they've got an issue there. They've got a fix.

They've got issues defensively. They've had defensive issues for a couple of years now. I think

Robo's a a defense mind to coach. So I reckon that'd be driving him insane. The amount of points

they can see. But the issue now for me is they've got Daly on one side. Sammy Walker on the other.

I love Sam. I love him as a player. He's fantastic. But you're now got two guys who defensively.

And most teams, the halves get attacked, right? They get two guys defensively who struggle a little

bit at times. So you've got, you know, south, I reckon south is going to go after Daly with that

left side attack this week. And they're going to make his life hell. So it's going to be a really

interesting game. Yeah, it's interesting. You speak to players who have played for Trent Robinson.

He's not, it doesn't have discipline as a huge focus as a club. Well, penalties can be

deceiving, right? Because some of them are tactical. You know, if you look at those, those penalties

over the past five years, it's years where Melbourne at the top of the list were penra, right?

And they've been able to compete and be really good. So sometimes clubs give away obviously

penalties for tactical reasons. But to be there every year for the past five years, that's the

concern. Yeah. Joel's just texted us that it was actually channel nine that said calf, but

they were wrong channel nine. It is a hamstring. So defending Jal's family himself.

We can. Well, how does it go?

Dave, you're in the hot seat today. And it's because I think you and really broke

your story together. Yeah. But you're a man closer with his ear closer ground in in New Zealand.

Across the Dutch. Across the Dutch. We'll war brick. What's happened? Yeah, this is a good one.

Well, if you're a warrior's fan, I certainly believe it's a good one. We'll war brick Melbourne

storm winger. He will join the warriors from 2027 on a two-year deal. Look, both parties are,

they weren't too happy that we broke this one. They just wanted to keep it a little bit under the

radar. And there is still a cooling off period to unfold here. And I think the warriors as a football

club are also cognizant of also keeping Dalin Watanese, Lesnar and Roger Tua, Vasa Shek,

inside the conversation of why they're bringing war brick to the football club for the Melbourne

storm. I've got to say it's another one gone for the for the storm. And I reckon two to three,

you know, clubs do their planning, roster planning, two and three years at advance. So I just

wonder whether all these, well, not all these, but the increasing departures would have been

part of the plan. I don't think so. Tyron Wishart, Ryan Peppin-Hausen, Nelson Assoffa Salamona,

Elika Taylor, unfortunately, sideline. That's an unfortunate one. And now we're war brick and Nick

Meney. It's an interesting situation for the storm. They'll have plenty of money to spend.

But he's a good player. I like him. He has had his head knock issues, but he is New Zealand

obviously heritage. And it's an opportunity to get back home. I think this is in the cooling

off period of the moment, Dave. And look, I think Melbourne would love to have kept will. But

the money is getting out across the Tasman just makes it. I think my understanding is that makes

it almost unrealistic for Melbourne to keep him because it's a good offer he's getting over there.

Look, I mean, use these heads. I thought he was amazing around one. We'll war brick.

For like, as you said, I spoke to him last year. It last you about those concussion issues

and he's had a few, but man, he's physical block rod. He's good in the air. He's a really

high-class winger and Melbourne have to replace him somehow. Melbourne is obviously going to be in the

market now. They had the Red Hook go in Zacklow. Maybe that's part of the reason they went off

the Zackso hub because the new wheel was going to go. Potentially go back to New Zealand. But

that won't be happening. They need a couple of things next to you, Melbourne. They need a

winger or an outside back. They need a goalkeeper. They don't have a goalkeeper because

Manny's leaving as well. That's another reason I think Zacklow makes us so attractive to them.

So they actively in the market now, Melbourne, and they're in attractive club. They'll

find someone. Will this have any domino effect on other warriors players? They've got next year,

they've got RTS, Dalmatian's Lesniak, Camp Pereira. Do you imagine a couple of those move on?

I think we'll have an impact for sure. It's just a matter of how or who they prefer to keep. Now,

in a perfect world, I think Roger Tullvast has checked, retired as a warrior. I'll probably rule

out a rival club picking up Roger now. I know what I only think rugby is his opportunity outside

of the NRL. He was considering R36. He was. Yep, absolutely. He's still a good player, Roger.

Yeah. He's still a good player, so I mean, he'll get a home in rugby somewhere. He might

grab the seas or something. Dalmatian's Lesniak has an op. It's a club option, too. They can

actually trigger an option to keep him next year, so that's the situation. I just think

I think Luffy Camp Pereira is definitely in their long-term plans. I think going forward,

I think it's Warwick and Luffy Camp Pereira as their two wingers. Speed and power, you could

argue on both sides of the field. It's not a bad situation to be in. Now, I want to tell us

something that came upon a gender set as last night, Dave, where the talk is that PNG is getting

a lot more coverage and love sort of in the media than the Perth Bears. Do you think that's correct?

Yes, I do. Yeah. And I think that's a by-product of Michael Chambers, who understands the media,

landscape and understands how to sell a story. And that's probably where the Bears,

you know, Mal hasn't done many interviews at all, really, since he's press conference

in his fuzzy room. We did one last week with Toys, and he said they're going to win the

comp. And he's fuzzy radio number. Yes, that's outrageous. Yeah. That's our most just crazy talk.

Even there on social media account is pretty dreadful for the Perth Bears. Like, don't

want to hammer their social media producer, but like they're doing these lame tiles with everyone

in a black t-shirt when they sign them. And the content looks dreadful. Like, you need a

videographer these days at NRL, and you don't want to hammer in, but it's dreadful. Yeah, it's

dreadful. It is dreadful. It is dreadful. Like it's like for an NRL club, you need a videographer.

You know, you'll be making the content. You look at clubs like The Dogs, The Warriors,

The Newcastle have got Jacko over from The Warriors. He does a great job. You know,

these are the simple things that they're getting wrong. Yeah. And only three months ago, they were

working out of a small little office with a fold out bunnings table. Like, it was still pretty

raw over in the Beers. And so maybe these are the two thing problem social media included that

they're encountering, but they the Punjab definitely getting better press, more press. And I didn't

understand males claim. I mean, it's great that he had a lofty crack at potentially being a

premiership side, but there's no chance in the hell that happening. The Perth CEO as well. He

said, yeah, we offered him an opportunity to come and triple M. But on the origin in Perth,

we offered him a five minute interview. Perth had just recently been announced. We're here

doing origin in Perth. It was the perfect opportunity for him to come on and talk up Perth a little

bit. He rejected that interview with good would have been the most humble interview. He'd

ever gotten his life. How good for ease in Perth. It's amazing. Perth, like he's saying no to

stuff like that goes to show his understanding of the game of rugby league. It's maybe limited.

Yeah, well, it is. And the Zach Lomax aspect now playing for the Western Force in the back

out of the bears. It takes a little bit of Lomax too, ready. You disagree.

No one cares about the Force. Let's be honest, they're home crowds of 5,000. Well, they're

they're a bit of a what is what we call Black sheep of Australian rugby. I don't think you want

to really give us a stuff about Western Force. I got tipped the other way. They were looking at

playing some games out of the new Western City stadium at Perth. And I don't think exactly

Lomax is going to help the Western Force increase their numbers in WI. I mean, no one really

knows who he is and WI. No, that's going to help them from a crowd or marketing perspective. I

think they're a bit of a non-entity. One game out of four. I don't know. Do we come on

back? You get back at me. You get back at the Western Force. No one cares about the Western Force.

No, this was picked the people of Perth. Well, it's true. I mean, there's no check out there.

For us about the only Blake who cares about them. So check out their Instagram on the Western

Force. When Zach Lomax was announced as a two-year deal, it's had 16 and a half thousand likes. If

you go to the previous post where tickets are on sale now for their 2026 home games, it had 87

likes. Yeah. Yeah. 16 and a half thousand likes for Lomax signing, compared to 87.

For their previous post. I don't know how many of them from Perth or WI. How many of those

looks? I do think that League fans are probably going to tune in for Zach Lomax's debut, aren't they?

A lot of fans are going to tune in. Yeah. I got a conspiracy theory for it. I got a conspiracy theory

for it. Is it a backyard entry to the Bears for Zach Lomax? Dave. Which has no

which leaves paramount of high and dry because he's found a back door entry back to the NRL.

David the Bears. If he spends two years there, he and wants to come back to Rugby League, he will

be a Melbourne. They just went to court for him. They paid his court fees. If he doesn't go to Melbourne,

they're across the road. I don't care. If he doesn't go to Melbourne. If he spends 12 months

with the Force, ultimately slapping the face, he spends 12 months with the Force. If he goes

this year, the Force is rubbish and he doesn't. And knocks on Mel's door. Why not? If he spends

this year at the Force and now in the IRL commission also have a say on who, how the Perth bears operate,

that doesn't mean it matters. Let him expect to win NRL through the Bears. Dave, if he goes to the

Western forces here and he's rubbish, right, he can't play. And he runs across that door.

And he's not a chance plan for the Wallabies. Melbourne will come knocking at the end of the year,

and they might have already moved on, ready? Well, maybe, but as if they're going to turn the back

on Zach Lomax. And Zach, mate, Zach, that's the very least Zach Lomax hose, Melbourne, to go back

at the end of this two-year period and play for the storm. He doesn't have to leave Perth. He can

run across the road and start playing Rugby League. He's home. He's not Perth. Well, he's already

he's already banking, he's already banking on being there for two years by 12 months with the Force,

come through the back door and play with the Bears. He signed a contract for two years.

That doesn't mean Zach's banking on being there for two years. Thank you. You just thank you.

That's my point. He might be there for three months. That will suggest who knows.

I'll give him the 12 months. I'll give him the first 12 months. I can. Are you ruling it out?

Yeah, I don't think I think if he comes back to Rugby League, he will come back to the Melbourne

storm. On Sunday show, you said that Perth wouldn't be interested in Zach anyway. The knowing

cultural reasons. At the moment, it's on his tent that they have no interest in Zach Lomax

for cultural reasons because of his number 10 point of view. There's baggage now.

Yes, and the last two clubs, he's left in pretty difficult and trying circumstances. My

esteem is right now. They've got no interest in Zach Lomax. I don't think that'll change.

They might change if they go this their first year and they're rubbish, right? But by then his

contract will be up in Rugby and he'll be free to go wherever he wants. As I said, I think

I'd be stunned if he doesn't come back. If he comes back to Rugby League, if it's not with Melbourne.

I tell you who'd be sitting back like nodding and knowing about this entire situation is the

dragons. Remember, dragons fans lost their mind when Zach Lomax, the Saints administration

decided to let Lomax go. They knew what they had and it was time to read his point. That's

probably why the bears aren't there because of the character. What is everything in

back at Zach Lomax? No, no, no, it does. He's playing across the road from the bears

reading. He makes noise. He makes things happen, Zach Lomax, but we've got to take a break here

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Welcome back to Triple M. NRL Daily. It's the Jernos edition on a Tuesday,

Brent Reade, David Racheo and Charlie White and boys, before we get into all the team news for

the weekend, I've got to talk to you about code sports. It's incredible, isn't it? It's incredible.

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Bradley goes really well. You've got to lift a game in that area to be honest. Yeah, you're just

starting to train. What would we do really after this? We'll get in the Tesla. We'll go find a place,

and we know we'll film some training content, you know? Sounds like a ball. Northern Beasts

or something. Yeah, why not, manly? But let's talk the team news, because the big thing coming out

of Brisbane, Reade, Ezra Mams. Yeah, it looks like he's back in the starting side this week, Charlie,

and what hasn't been said or hasn't been told, explained properly or hasn't been explained at all,

Ezra had a little quad problem last week, and that was part of the reason they held him back.

It was a niggle. It was a precautionary. They started on the bench. I think the club,

obviously, they tried to keep that up. They're slated and want Pennworth knowing about it, but

it's now merch here that he had a bit of a niggling injury last week, and that's part of the

reason he didn't start that game. It would have been handy to know that, because there were obviously

a couple of lot of flak over that, so I think Mams straight back in the starting side this week,

so that's where he should be. He's a good player. The other thing I'm looking forward to from this

weekend of 40 days, Makassini, starting on the master of tigers. Yeah, well, I think he could

play left centre. Oh, wow, wow. So that's it. I look, Benji could be doing some old Swifties here,

but he did spend some time there training on Tuesday alongside Luke Lallili on the win.

So we could see Makassini at the left centre position Lallili on the wing. Tom will tell

Stafford Teller trained separately from the main group. He's got a niggle, which we're

they're keeping under wraps at this point in time, and he's out of play. So

OK, genuine chance for Makassini in the centre is there how promising he's got. How big

that game at Leicart against the Cowboys, following the Cowboys, you know, that vagus seems so

long ago now, and Todd Payton needs to find a win, and the tigers get off to a start to crack and

go. Yeah, that's the hour three o'clock after three o'clock, so they aren't triple AMU catchers.

So I don't I'm so I don't. You're so I can't read me. We almost weren't going to send you.

I drive there in a bulldozer, but it's a huge game for the Cowboys as well, because if they lose

that, it starts getting. Yeah, already the pressure comes on top. The blowtorch gets applied,

doesn't it, Charlie? I mean, he's the coach under most pressure heading into the year,

disappointing performance in Vegas, and if they lose the tigers, oh, and two, the walls start

closing in on Toddy, so it's crucial. And it's a big game for the tigers, you know, they

absolutely. A lot of optimism around them this year. I tipped them at the eight. It was a bit

out there, but I just got a feeling about them. They're building a little, there's something

brewing there. Benji's I reckon doing a great job. And I'm a magazine. He looks a beast man,

a Troy school in the preseason for an 18 year old kid. He is a handful. Yeah, yeah. I can't wait

to watch it. And it's apparently Tallah Mace. Train the house down. So yeah, that's Center Perry.

It could be something special. Yeah. Do you know much about what Benji does well as a coach?

I mean, there's obviously, it seems like the players love him. That's going to be the week. Yeah,

I think that's the thing, right, Charlie's. I mean, he's obviously tactically very smart because

he was a smart footballer. That doesn't always translate into being a great coach. That's

some of the greatest footballers we've seen haven't been great coaches. But I think it's the loyalty

in gender amongst his playing group. And they love him. And the senior players, particularly

the upies and Jerome Lewis, the world. I mean, they swear by Benji. So it seems to me like he's

learned a little bit on the job right because he wasn't coaching long before he was the head coach.

But every indication I get is that and every, every sense I get out of there is that every

year he's getting a little bit better. And as I said, the players love him. And I think if you've got

you, the players have got your back. That's one thing Wayne's always had over the years. Well,

players love Wayne Bennett. And Benji's a Wayne Bennett disciple. So I think if there's one

thing Benji's learned of Wayne, it's to breed loyalty amongst his playing group.

I think what Rudy's saying, I agree with you. And one of what I believe is he's transitioning

into an NREL coach now where I didn't believe he was when he was first appointed. And I reckon standards

weren't met. And I think things slip through the crack cracks that don't now. And I think he's

I think he's now setting standards and behavioral aspects within the four walls that are befitting

of a strong NREL team. And that's I think that's the biggest difference. He's at the grow-up

vast as an NREL coach, having never coached before. Not a lower grade team or anything. And so I

think that the standard element and what you're willing to accept as a coach has changed dramatically.

I think Triple M prepared him well for coaching John because he was a Triple M star for wall.

It wasn't he Benji. He was. We had him on the the original Monday Scrum, which you were on

radio. And then he was on the Thursday called you to great show. You know what? He had the red

carpet rolled out from media. He could have done that for 20 years. He could have been one of Fox's

main scum folks. So for him to go and do this, it's good credit to him because it's a hard it's

the harder part than what he's done. But I want to ask you about the contract extension you got

during the off season because it was pretty heavily criticized at the time. Yeah. And all

was one of the guys who questioned it because they thought they didn't need to do it. That's

premature. But time will judge that whether that was a good decision or not. And every indication

we're getting right now is that as I said, Benji's getting better and better as a coach. And they've

shown immense faith in him. So as I said, the only the only way we're going to be able to judge

that contract is in two, three years time. And we see how the tigers are going. Yeah.

And maybe he'll be maybe maybe he becomes one of the great coaches. I mean, there's every he's

still young. He can do this for 40 years. You know, I don't know what's Benji in his 30s or 40s.

He's in his 30s. Maybe he's just kiss 40. Yeah. He could do this for another 30 years Benji. And

remember just one of the great coaches. Yeah, he could. And there's no, there's always potential.

But in a day, you need talent. Yeah. And then they've got something. I reckon they've got some

I think they've got a they've got a immense young talent coming through the system. However,

they also have to hold on to one of them. One of them's terrain baller. Yeah. That's the big one

coming. Now, if he loses, I think look, I think the tigers will roll that mutual option over and

keep him. But if he was to go, there'd be a blow. He's a, he's, he's huge for that team.

And that's the key. Good coaches are good coaches. But at the end of the day, they still need a roster.

They still need a lead talent. Spoken to a few people who work at the tigers and they love

Sean Miller camp as well. He's getting so many wraps inside those four walls of the West.

He's only on an interim basis at this stage. Yeah. Surely he gets signed down.

Well, who knows with that board, Charlie? Who knows? They could just turn on him one day and he'd be

out the door. Well, mate, what about that trying to get pay rises now for all of the board?

I've seen that story of the camera last week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How do these guys find headlines

constantly? What are they doing? The only thing I would say, and look, I'm not going to defend them

right because the, the form suggests in terms of football club, it's been a bit of erratic,

right? But this is the home and Barnes group. What they're in charge of is the Lee's clubs.

Not so much the 40, the 40 club, but the Lee's clubs, their main charter. But I don't know how to

lead the Lee's club want to be making money hand over a fist Charlie. And then you can say,

well, I can't, the Lee's club's making a Mozart. They probably, even if it is, though, it's like,

you need to, all you have to stay out of the headlines, like the, you've had all your drama,

just say nothing for at least 12 months. I can't. They don't know how. They love it.

They love a headline. There's so many ergos involved with 40 clubs. Yeah. And particularly a board

level. Yeah. Poor Tiger's fans. I hope they go well this year. I really do. There's green

shoots there, Charlie. They are green shoots. There's a blue sky. Some great blue skies.

Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. Wait till Saturday first. I think, you know what?

They haven't played a game, man. Can I clear this? Oh, here we go. Here we go.

Here we go. I reckon they're going to put the absolute cleaners through the Cowboys.

Oh, that's possible. I thought you were going down the south. I think they can win the

Premier League. I think the Cowboys won the last. I think I did side off that. They put like 70 on them.

Yeah. I think the Cowboys pump and the Cowboys have a, they had a good record.

They had a couple of years ago, Tigers beat them by 60 and then the Cowboys beat them by 60.

The Cowboys got a pump up. Oh, just got a feeling. Yeah. Got a feeling. It could be wrong.

That could be wrong. Let's have a little side bit. Yeah. What do you want to do?

Some of us are working out, working out off that. I want to talk to the top 50 listed

code sports put together this week as it's a fantastic read. Some of the best journals in the

game have ranked their top 50 players. Brent Reed, Carrie Arnest, David Rickey, of course.

Now, tell me, boys, how. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Sorry. Sorry. I didn't say anything.

I just took a breath. I said they're out. Brent Reed and Brent McCarrie Arnest. What do you think, Bill?

No, it's just me. Just me and MC. I was an upside guy. I went for the upside

place. Oh, you're very good at it. I'm in K.P. High in the list. I had La Trelle on the list

and tell you what, La Trelle was good. I left Cady Walker off, which I'm a bit disappointed

with after the way he played. I gelven high in the list. You got Carl and Ponga ahead of Mitch

Moses. Yeah, that's right. That's right. You've always been a Ponga man. I'm a big Ponga fan. Always

have been. I love La Trelle. I went for guys who I think on their day, on their day, on their

best day. You got La Trelle Mitchell ahead of Cameron Munster. That's insane, isn't it? It's a

bit out there. That's insane. You are out there. Especially as a Queenslander,

you're a Queenslander. That's right. You've got a lot of Queenslanders on the list.

Yeah, but care months. You've got the Dalian player of the year James

to Disco in 11th, but again, coming back to K.P. at 5th. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

Must be, my boys. How much worse? You're not giving much reasoning. You're not giving

much reasoning on my life. I mean, K.P. is hardly played. He's played 11 games each

of the last two years, but he's spectacular. You see him in Vegas, he was unbelievable.

That's how you speak K.P. James to Disco is a Dalian player in the year. You've done

disagrees a good player. The big one for me, Reese Walsh, you had

of Nathan Cleary as well. Yeah, I based that larger on last year and what he did last year.

I mean, look, I said with the debate about it, the video about it, and I said,

if you judge on the last five to 10 years, Cleary's far and away the best player in the game.

Number one by Amal, but I didn't. I based it on recent form. Now, it was this was done before

it should stress before round one. Right. So in that sense, I based on recent form.

In the James to Disco, Kalamponga sense, I based it on other things. Yeah. You've got Mark

Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen needs to say 46 angst, cry at number 50, but we're going to lose both

those players, Saturday and I should have put Zach Lomax in it too. Shouldn't

it? Yeah, that would just be more. You should have. Yeah. You know, it's purely a subjective

thing, but people won't agree with a lot of it as Dave's clearly doesn't. But that's what it's

about the bait. If you want to see the whole list, you can obviously go to coach sports and get

in there. But, mate, boys, great show. Thanks, Charlie. You got another TV to get to.

Yeah, got a TV appearance to get to. I'm sure you do as well, really. You do as well, Dave.

What are you on? I think I have a sunroof. I'm on to white.

There you go. Well, rugby league cross on fire. Yeah, it's cool. We'll see exactly.

But well done, boys, great show as always.