Brian McDermott

He says, well, you know, Super League, and he was very dismissive of Super League players, the Super League competition.

He said, you know, they don't really know how to train, do they?

They don't really know how to, you know, get the best version of themselves.

And I pulled him up and said, woo, woo, woo.

The coaching over there and the players' attitude over there is equal to hard work in terms of determination or professionalism or leaving no stone unturned in terms of preparation.

But I get back to the analogy I used earlier.

We just get given less tools to use in Super League.

And you come over here because of...

because of the, what do you want to talk about, the appetite for the game over here, the money invested in the game over here, the facilities of most, if not every NRL club over here, the junior grades that support the NRL team over here compared to Super League, it's ridiculous.

It's astonishing.

And I'm even more proud now of Super League and the English game.

Now I see that some of the disadvantages that Super League has yet still gets so close.

I believe you can only get so close if some of your preparation is elite.

if you've left North Stolen Turn.

So the coaching that goes on over there is probably a little bit more creative.

And, you know, you have to have a little bit more innovation about how you knock together a team every week when some of your stars are injured.

But he understood what he was saying, though.

So, you know, there's going to be two things that we have to do.

One of them, we have to attack in a way which creates moments for us.

which is not an easy thing to do against, you know, whether you're playing Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, you know, all the other emerging nations, all the supposed tier two nations are getting better and better every year.