Cam Smith and Denan Kemp’s Round Two Preview – SEN THE CAPTAIN’S RUN

Cam Smith and Denan Kemp discuss all the big talking points ahead of Round 2

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Is there any concerns with the with the Broncos that you saw in round one obviously it is only round one but is there certain parts where you felt like could be better um I just look I think they looked a little bit unorganized at times CI yeah and that comes down to you

Know the the communication and the combination of your 9 s and six mainly your your number one is is involved as well but I just think that you know communic there was a bit of a breakdown between the organization between um Walters M and Reynolds you Reno kicking

Was a little bit off too so he man he’s he’s been in the game for a long time he’s a professional um coming back to Australia I think you would have done a lot of work on that um like I said mate I I think I think they’ll fix up those

Um those deficiencies that they had over in Vegas and uh they’ll they’ll play well that that’s the amazing once they have that cohesion back um they’ll be hard to beat wasn’t it interesting seeing like how small is space Reese Walsh usually works in because he was probably the only player that really did

Struggle with that short uh that tighter field in Vegas you could see him you know constantly running out of room where usually that’s the space that he attacks and he just slides through somehow some way yeah absolutely and and M they they last year in particular they

They did a really good job of um creating space for ree Walsh just to use that blinding speed right so he’ get him out the back of those sweeping block plays and then he’d have his little skip he’s little Goosey um he’d get outside the opposition Center and he’d have that

Space then to either go through it or you know draw pass to his Center or Winger whereas that skin a more narrow field of the NFL it just that space wasn’t there right so it’s easier there’s less there’s less field to defend for the opposition but he still

Come up with that unbelievable play oh my God unbel aable play where he put that sort of in and Away on a Defender and then was able to drop the ball onto his left boot just uh just oh mate when you watch it you’re just like how M he

He’s how do you do that his highlight re by the end of his career is going to be outrageous like seriously outrageous uh all righty sharks V the Bulldogs uh CRA fitzg um he’s only made one change and that’s Rudolph mov to the starting side who I thought was outstanding against

The Warriors hunt goes to the bench he yes he did um he struggled with a couple offloads that didn’t need to be I guess thrown but hopefully he can bounce back Ido has been named 18th man so he might come in soon adoc car out for a few

Weeks as he recovers from an AC injury with a new recruit Tracy taking place on the wing besides that Caldo was stuck with his round one side SE to get a sniff in the halves this year potentially as Jerry at 18th man apparently he went well in attack in New

South Wales cup struggled a little bit in defense what do you reckon about this yeah look I think Shy will win this one we still I think this Bulldog side will will take a few weeks to get going um given you know there’s some new players and whatnot and they’re still I reckon

That their team is not quite settled particularly their starting 13 I don’t know if zaldo sort of um yeah settled on what is his best 13 uh and we’ve covered a fair bit of the doggies already um so we’ll talk a bit about the Sharks you

Know Fitzy you know of course he sh in faith in the side that went over to New Zealand had a strong win cuz they played so well Rudolph of course comes in he’s he’s a great front rower this will be live on senen as well Kempy Jimmy Smith

Timmy mana and Justin horro covering this one look you can’t look past the Sharks really they love Shark Park they love playing at home um I think this will be one that’s a little bit too hard for doggies yeah I think that the Sharkies will probably get the job done

I guess the question will be can the sharks attack click because their attack on the weekend was pretty clunky oh pretty clunky as an understatement um for the Sharkies they’re actually favorites outright favorites to be top of the ladder by round five and round 10 because their run to top eight sides is

Is you know very minimal and if I’m um if I’m cravis gibon you know I wouldn’t be you don’t want to look too far ahead for sure but at the same time you need to take the points where you can get them and if you can finish that round 10

Winning seven out of the 10 games yeah geez that puts you in good stad heading into the back end of the season yeah well M we we’ve spoken about this on the show before like if you can Bank wins early you put yourself in a really good

Position coming into you know the last part of the season because you just don’t know who’s who’s going to be available um who’s playing rep footy um you know big chance that niiko Hans will be playing start of origin football this year so there goes your half for yeah

Maybe two possibly three matches um during that origin period depending on you know the structure of your season and and the draw but you got a banker mate like you really do and and I don’t think when I was playing I I didn’t have an issue looking

Ahead slightly you know this was a big no no for Craig like he just he he was dead set he he was dead set day at a time yeah W you know let alone you know sort of looking forward to who’s who’s coming up next but like for the Sharkies

As a player I I I don’t mind looking ahead thinking well okay let’s let’s look at the next month and and put a bit of a goal of of where we should be sitting like you know they take on the dogs this week and then after that

They’ve got the West tigers um at lart then they take on the Raiders round four round five they got the buy yeah so like if you’re shark he’s looking at that thinking well you know what like it’s it’s it wouldn’t be unfair of us to think that we could be undefeated in

Round five yeah M I think that having a goal as a playing group it just it almost focuses you a little bit because sometimes I feel like if you just and look who am I to question the great Craig Bellamy he clearly knows what he’s

Talking about um but I I do think it does Focus you a little bit especially not necessarily in the tougher games but in the not so tough games yeah um because if you go okay boys we can win four out of five and you roll into your

Second or third game against a lower tier side quotation it focuses you in and says not just like oh we’ll go out and get it done it goes no no we have to because we have this goal that’s right mate keeps you on task does yeah for

Sure yeah um okay next game para sorry Panthers versus the eels Friday 8m uh that’s weird yeah so Friday 800 p.m. blue bet Stadium huge Clash Kenny returns I think he is one one of the most underappreciated hookers in the competition he takes his place going um

So basically he’ll start and then Scotty senson also returns in the back row another guy super underrated uh eills team news Arthur has gone with the same 17 that got the job done over the dog over the doggies there was doubt around Moses and a groin injury which he will

Overcome yep what are your thoughts on this absolutely huge Clash yeah great matchup um not just with the teams but also individuals you know you got Moses versus clear in the halves uh the what I’m Keen to see is how how do penrith bounce back how do penrith

Bounce back because all I I believe in these early rounds particularly after that loss against Melbourne I think there’s going to be a few eyeballs on penrith right now they they have done what no other team’s done in a in a very very long time and that’s won three

Consecutive premierships right um in a in a extremely competitive competition but the way they’ve started out this year um with you know they went over to England they lost in you know I guess controversial circumstances but then they come home they well below their best against Melbourne and they lose that one as

Well I guess now is how do they bounce back against the side that they you know parata out of all the teams in the competition off the top of my head I’m just trying to think that they’ve probably got the best uh win loss record against them in

The past three years campy would that be before saying that easily I’ll actually I’ll get it up um in a sec here because it was actually posted to Instagram and they are so they have a 45% win rate against the penth Panthers during this dynasty then it goes Melbourne storm

With 36 then it goes west Tigers 33% wow um so param absolutely they’ve won five of 11 games which is pretty incredible when you consider penris Dynasty record yep and that’s thanks to random sasy by the way on Instagram there you go um so if there’s ever a chance of someone

Knocking them off I guess eels are the team to do it and they and they’ve won at penth too mate yeah they they’ve beat them up there at Blue bet so um yeah Battle of the West I’m really looking forward to this one well it’s it’s such

A unique position because you know we’ve never really had a side in our generation win three premierships in the right row and I tell you what sells papers penth Panthers go 0 and3 you know what I’m saying and I’m not saying that will happen but people that

You know to the to the hardcore footy fans we all know that these guys could kick into gear by round 11 or 12 yeah but if they go loss loss loss or something along those lines which is it’s a tiny fraction in the grand scheme

Of things of what they can do y the the headlines will WR themselves and that’s when external pressure will really test their you know resolve of not pointing because for the last three years there’s been essentially no dramas I know they started a little bit slow last

Year but you know it wasn’t wasn’t that slow now it’s all everything is much easier when you’re winning footy games but then CRA you know cracks that were there the whole time but you’re winning footy games they don’t you know become apparent but when you get get pressure

From media from outside noise things that maybe weren’t so good do get exposed now I don’t think that penth are a club that have a lot of cracks I think they’re absolutely incredible but what I am saying is is that there are so many people in the media that cannot wait to

Write that article that penrith have fallen off and you don’t want to give them that ammo no but you’d think like it’s coming soon right so it’s what Melbourne’s cop for the last how long do you reckon years seriously forever you know what I mean like like uh this is the

Year this is the year and it’s just the storyline that’s written about teams that have dominated and so I suppose when you look at a side like penth who have done such a great job over the last three season well you’d say Four Seasons they they finished Runners up in 2020

Yeah um but you know for a team that’s done so well like they’re starting to um have to give up players yeah and it’s just a it’s just it’s a consequence of their own um you know well their development but also their the quality of their performances and and the way

That they’ve gone on and won many many football games you know clubs are out there they they want they want their players they want their players to come to their club and have that influence on their Club so how many how many players have they lost now over the last couple

Of years oh man because of because of constraints on the salary cap so they start out as Juniors they come through that that entire system out there at penth and they do so well to you know to bring them up through that pathway they become consistent first graders then

They then they become representative players Premiership players and then they can’t afford to keep them all so that’s the challenge now for penrith is to keep rejuvenating their squad when they’re consistently the losing players to other clubs going in and and just offering money that they can’t afford to

Pay um which we’ve seen you know with Kon with you know Spencer linu now um Lui will be moving on next year that’s the challenge for them as well as aiming up every week yeah because every team is out to get them yep every team a lot of you know a lot

Of fans because you know we all love the underdog coming through but as soon as they get on top you know we we love to find a reason to hate um look I think Panthers are are prepared for this I think that just recently they announced

The resigning of T um of tongo which is a great resigning um but this this Clash oh man it’s going to be fireworks we’re going to head to a break after the break our preview of round two continues Australia’s most awarded extra virgin olive oil grown harvested and

First cold pressed in Northern Victoria let great straight into it shall we Raiders host the Tigers Saturday 3 p.m. at Gio Stadium cber team news Chris returns for sus suspension I got it out eventually and has been named in the centers with rapar retaining the fullback jumper cotri drops to 18th man

Danny Levi has been named at hook despite leaving the field with a crot injury against the knights team news for the Tigers Benji Marshalls first NRL coaching appearance at the Tigers starts their 2024 campaign Lan Galvin will be making his first grade debut with the 18-year-old being named at 58 joining

Jayen Sullivan in the hars Caesar named at 14 assuming Caesar will play a bit of hooker uh apologies Solomon fape apologies I’m saying that incorrectly makes his debut in the centers and fu is named on the bench for his Club Debo what do you reckon

Smiy yeah well this is a big one for the West Tigers they sat back uh last weekend KMI and was able to just watch you know the the competition play out and have a look at all the teams and the way the foot he’s being played and they come in

Fresh um so you could probably look at that from a positive point of view that everyone’s fresh and ready to go and Keen to play their first match or you could say Well they’re they’re one behind everyone else the Raiders had a great victory of course up in UI we

Spoke about that earlier and do they continue that that run at home in Cambra um mate if they do I think it comes down to their starting props tarpy and U Josh papal were fantastic on the weekend man how good’s Josh papal he just keeps producing so apparently he lost eight

Kilos in the offseason eight kilos yeah so that’s why he’s looking so fit and lean wow yeah big fella still 120 big boy big bit of gear the big fellow and maybe um maybe two like last year he decided to um retire from representative football well you know particular I well

He’s not playing state of origin and I don’t know maybe that maybe that was just that’s freshened him up mentally as well knowing well you know I don’t have to worry about that that that midyear rep stuff anymore I can just concentrate on my my club footy um I reckon he’s had

A pretty good offseason well it looks like he’s had a good a good um preseason with the Raiders and got in there and got some ks in the legs because he was fantastic on the weekend mate that forward pack for the Raiders it was missing horra and Elliot Whitehead and

The two guys that came in hosking and smiies were outstanding so to think that those guys will probably be coming off the bench when they’re full strength y I understand that they’re spine you know probably going to take a bit of time to gel but I I was just I guess surprised

At how exciting their play was through the forwards now we know they can roll their sleeves up but at an offload here and there like look I don’t have the Raiders in my eight I don’t but they might be one of the hardest teams to play in the competition and what do I

Mean by that I don’t necessarily mean they’re going to come out and play the best level of football but a lot of teams that are top to you will go yeah yeah we should you know look it on paper we should beat this side they’re never

Going to give you an easy win this Raiders side they’re never going to do it under Ricky Stewart and that’s going to be exciting for Raiders fans yeah absolutely I think um you know when when you look at their forward pack in particular like they they compete it

Doesn’t matter where they play who they play they they just go out and compete and scrap and they’ve got some similar players in the backline as well and then you throw throwing a guy like Jamal foggy um I I still scratch my head as to why the Titans let him go oh

Man I don’t know what the backstory was there and and I’m not I’m not um sort of up to speed with with what happened but you know I think he’s been one of the signings of the last couple of seasons for mine you know I just think he’s done

Some great things for the for the Raiders he just control controls things nicely for them at seven he’s got a great kicking game he’s a good goal kicker as well you pretty strong Defender he’s a he’s a shorter sort of nuggety little fell but I just think he

He gets the job done you know consistently every week well he’s such a good example of so when it happened at the Titans basically they resigned him and then I’m pretty sure seon came in and played some good games at the end of the year and then the CEO came out and

Said that seon will be the seven next year and then before you know it uh fogged is off to the Raiders and he’s such a good example of we often get um almost romanticized about the next big young seven and we forget about the the older seven that is structured gives you

A good foundation yes is he going to do the big plays maybe not but not every player needs to be that and so I agree with you mate I just never understood uh why they got rid of him when they’d already done this Den uh sorry the

Titans they’d already done this Dan with Ash Taylor where they brought in a seven too soon and it just didn’t seem to to work out for him anyway sorry we got to head to a break after the break we got plenty more rugby lead to talk about uh

We’ll talk a bit about the Tigers don’t worry Tigers fans and we’ve got Cowboys VI the nights shall we uh here’s a text the media will be frothing at the mouth for p to go 0 and three there’s been never been a dynasty team like them who

Constantly get torn apart by the media even when they’re killing it uh the teams they are versing are lucky to be getting them right now when things are not telling this could go on and with we could win the Prem even with a zero and three start probably the only te to be

Out to I say you know storm dealt with it for quite a while I understand storm didn’t you know win three in a row but you know put put it this way if you’re a dominant side you know people go after you no matter what you know the first

Couple of Ro you know honeymoon years we all love you and then after a while it’s like you know uh you can speak to this more than me SMY yeah no I think it’s um it’s the way we do things in Australia isn’t it I think you know we enjoy

Watching a champion go around for a little bit and then when that champion keeps winning we just we’ve had enough we want someone give someone else a go yeah give someone else a go well that’s what I you know it it it felt like that you know playing

Those years at the storm and I’m not saying those teams I played with at storm were like penth because they weren’t we didn’t win three premierships in a row We we played in consecutive Grand finals but we weren’t good enough to win them like penth um but you know

As a club they they’ve played 15 of the last 18 prelim finals the storm so they’ve been very consist uh sorry 15 of the last 18 Seasons they’ve been in the top four so they’ve been very consistent um a lot of those 15 years they played

All the way up to the prelim final if not the Grand Final so um yeah and people got got sick of it they just that’s why they said they they spoke about it like when is this team going to drop off the cliff and give someone else

A go but you know penth have done a great job and I agree with with that that comment saying they’re possibly a side the only side in this competition that could go 0 and three and still win it yeah absolutely now 100% could we just quickly uh storm take on the

Warriors uh big big Clash for obviously both sides but how do you see this playing out yeah look I think you know for storm they want to build on last week you know Craig would have said let’s try and back up that defensive effort um he did mention in the post

Game that he you know he was a little bit wasn’t overly happy with the way they played in general I don’t he said they didn’t play that smart so he’ll won an improvement there for the Warriors I think they just they want to bounce back from that from that result on the

Weekend I think you they should have been good enough to finish it off they didn’t always a big match this one kmy storm taking on uh the Warriors in Melbourne given you know there’s a lot of expats living in Melbourne as far as kiws are concerned it’ll be a big crowd

Big atmosphere both teams will be up for this one now we’re going to head to a break after the break we’ll get into quickly more teams and then we’ll uh round the show off Eagles versus The Roosters how do you see it Smithy yeah look I’m tipping Manley although there’s

A couple of big names back for the chuin uh jwh he’s back from that lengthy suspension uh Spencer leenu out of course though Dom young we’re hoping hoping to see him back on the wing after that little soft tissue injury to the neck that he had in the preseason game

So but I’ve got Manley they’re strong at home mate they love playing at Brookie and I don’t think did chooks fans travel that way get across the bridge don’t think so I don’t think they even know it exists to be honest um no mate I’m going

To go roosters I think okay um Dolphins V the dragons how do you see play now uh I’m going dragons just based on their first out performance so they very good they’ve got a settled side um and there’s there’s mass changes at Dolphins uh you and Aken comes into the back row

Lelu injured himself so that’s a force change sha O Sullivan out um younga comes in um into the halves Jake avillo really interested to see how he goes he’s making his de boo for the fins um he comes into the centers for Tessy newu um on the weekend who you know wasn’t at

His best so Jake a gets a start lots of changes for me so I’m going to go the red V mate dragons mate I’m uh I think I’m going to go with you I think the dragons look good uh and I agree with you in regards to a bit of changes for

The Dolphins so it might take a couple weeks to get used to them uh but that’s uh another week done and dusted to the captain’s run thank you SMY thank you mate let’s hope the tips go better this week boys oh no no seriously they’ve got

To they’ve got to come on these teams mate like come like favorites can you just have a win please and uh up the Corum and Eagles eh yeah the yeah the eagles they got the week off they had they had a trial game last week they

Went well the young fellas they got a week off training tonight might be a little bit of Fitness you know what I mean and just quietly uh my face could be your mascot the Eagles uh anyway let’s go I’m the team mascot as well as the assistant to the assistant