Blues Admit Blunder, Cleary's Origin Test & Slater's Coaching Edge
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What bench rotation mistakes did the Blues admit to?
Welcome to Kenny Blitz, your daily hit of NRL news. State of origin night, mate. Matt King does a press conference on the morning of the game, New South Wales assistant coach, where he concedes, to his credit, that the Blues got their bench wrong in game two.
How does Billy Slater's coaching style differ from New South Wales?
Yeah. Disturbing is the word.
Part of what he said is, is that they've got the rotation wrong. We spend a lot of time looking at different scenarios. And we've got another meeting today on game day just to make sure that we're all on the same page.
What strategies can NSW use to target Sam Walker?
That's what can happen. Blokes on different pages in the coaching box tends to lead to indecision. And that's something we need to make sure we're all sweet on and on the same page tonight.
What do you make of that? I'll tell you what this does for me.
What challenges does NSW face with their dummy-half position?
What this does, it takes everything that has been said in the lead up and of all three games following the first two games and basically puts a bow tie on it. That the concerns about...
What is Nathan Cleary's role in the Origin decider?
What's some of the coaching decisions and some of the things that have happened in the New South Wales camp, which have been denied, ignored, looked over, which has basically been treated like, look, you guys don't know what you're doing. You're not inside here. Matt King essentially admitted today about the inexperience in the coaching box. The fact that he conceded that they got their bench rotation wrong in game two
How can NSW overcome their bench rotation issues?
when Abbie Coruscant didn't get on the field, when they sat there and according to him, they weren't on the same page. So him, Brett White, sorry, and Laurie Daly weren't on the same page. I find it extraordinary, full credit to him for conceding it, but I find it extraordinary that when we keep continually being told that these guys are the right guys for the job and that we don't need full-time coaches, that they come out and they admit they got something as simple as your bench rotation wrong.
It's extraordinary, one, that he admitted it, but secondly, that it got to this, mate, like...
I think he admitted it out of pressure just quickly.
Origin's the biggest and the best of the best. You've got the best of the best players. Surely you have the best of the best coaches. And, you know, like Matt King, he's renowned as a great assistant and a guy who is coaching waiting stuff ready for NRL.
What are the implications of Queensland being clear favorites?
Boyd Corner, massive rap on him. Yeah, Boyd Corner. You've got Laurie there who has been in the new Blues system for years. Yep. Right? But still… During an origin series, all this shit that should have been worked out, and like Billy says, every time they speak to Billy Slater about it, we've got plan A to Z and back to front worked out. Blues get it wrong time and again, mate, time and again.
After game two, Billy revealed that on the night before the game, I think it was the night before the game, he called Thurston into his room. And he said, right, let's just go through this one more time.
How does coaching experience impact the Origin series outcomes?
And they went through all the scenarios. This guy gets sin binned. This guy gets hurt. This guy over here gets sin binned. He gets hurt. What do we do? How do we shuffle the team and make it work? I remember talking years ago to Gus Hitting, the former Socceroos coach. It was during the World Cup in Germany in 2006. And he used to work out his substitutions before the game. And if you remember back then, he brought Cahill on in the last 20 minutes against Japan, went Australia down 1-0, and he got Australia home 2-1, and everyone just hailed him as a genius. Now, the reason he said he did that back then, he said, because the emotion of the game can affect you. It can affect your decision-making. So he would sit back before a game and with a cool head and say, okay, this is what I will do.
This is how I think the game will play out. And he would have his various scenarios. And he would have his substitutions all planned. Clearly, the Blues got overwhelmed in game two with everything that was happening and overlooked what they needed to do. And that goes to the very heart of this argument about do you have celebrity coaches, for want of a better term, former Blues greats who haven't coached as a head coach since
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What bench rotation mistakes did the Blues admit to?
0:01–0:21
2
How does Billy Slater's coaching style differ from New South Wales?
0:21–0:40
3
What strategies can NSW use to target Sam Walker?
0:40–0:55
4
What challenges does NSW face with their dummy-half position?
0:55–1:12
5
What is Nathan Cleary's role in the Origin decider?
1:12–1:38
6
How can NSW overcome their bench rotation issues?
1:38–2:39
7
What are the implications of Queensland being clear favorites?
2:39–3:20
8
How does coaching experience impact the Origin series outcomes?
3:20–30:42
Speakers
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