Mark^Bastard
Great White
Sorry AB, should have written the key points out while it was fresh in my mind.
Some things I remember.
1 - Praise of Graham and Townsend
2 - Kelly is a good kid who messed up and they're going to look after him.
3 - David Peachey is an off-field mentor of Kelly
4 - Tyrone Peachey is an attacking machine and is in the full time squad for next year. He wants Tyrone to put on some weight and joked that maybe George Rose could help him with that.
5 - He was giving it to George Rose all night. He coached him in 2005 at the Roosters in some junior grade.
6 - He mentioned that the difference between coaching an NRL side and a junior side is that with his junior sides for example at the Roosters he had a team full of star players and didn't have to do much, where as now it's different, but then sort of realised that sounded a bit wrong so covered it up a bit.
7 - Said he's not thinking at all about next year yet. Seems to take things one week at a time, or is holding his cards to his chest.
8 - When asked about his game plan against the Raiders he immediately shut down as if someone asked him the recipe for his mum's special sauce or something haha.
9 - Again mentioned that they'd been focusing only on defense, so it's weird that the attack has been good. You may remember that he said the same thing after the big Panthers win. I think he's being a bit sly though personally, no way do those attacking structures just come out of no where. We have some talent, but not that much talent.
10 - Gave lots of praise to how confident the kids are when they make grade, how they'll be vocal and organise players much older and more experience than them. Total lack of shyness. I got the impression he was talking about Townsend and Graham.
11 - Said that AK is training but he made out the doctors may or may not give him a pass, and said he's a week away.
12 - Said that Snowden's injury was a neck injury and after that it's been his lower back lately but he seems to be over it, but hasn't trained. I got the impression he'd be fine to play this Monday but probably wouldn't be match fit, so I guess it's a call between a match fit Cordoba or a not match fit Snowden. Personally I think Snowden would be more match fit than Cordoba even in those circumstances.
It was a great appearance. He was on there a lot and talked about general NRL as well but I can't really remember much of that. What I liked was he was calm, came off as a real nice guy, while also sounding really knowledgeable. He seems like the kind of guy that can earn respect without having to yell at people. He's intimidating without having to try to be I guess? He also had a good sense of humour at appropriate times, mainly giving crap to Rose about being fat and unfit without ever being mean about it.
