Dean Young Takes Charge, O’Sullivan Lifts The Lid & PNG’s Money Talk
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G'day and welcome to Kenti Blitch, your daily hit of NRL news and just off the top today I'd just like to pass on my condolences to the Crawley family. Paul and Steve Crawley's mother Doris passed away recently and that's why Kenti is up at the funeral on the Central Coast. We understand that she was a wonderful woman and our condolences with the family we're thinking of you today. which means we have the great Sean O'Sullivan with us again. Welcome back. Welcome back. Thank you. Thanks for having me. No worries. Today is also our 200th episode. Would you believe? Lucky me. Yeah, there you go. So a special occasion. So thanks to everybody who's watched us over those 200. We certainly have come a long way from the first stumbling, but we're happy to be here and thanks for everyone for watching.
We're coming out a little bit later today because of Sean's commitments. Mate, run us through, for the punters out there, run us through as a professional NRL footballer what your day-to-day looks. Let's pretend you played on Sunday and your next game's on Saturday. Run us through how the week looks for you now.
No, so it's... it's pretty interesting the the way that your week kind of gets formulated is depending on your turnaround so if it's a seven-day turnaround six-day turnaround or five-day turnaround so for example this week we have a seven-day turnaround so uh we got two days off um yesterday you know you go do your your recovery you go to a gym go do go get a lift in so you can kind of tick that box get independent of the club yeah yeah yep so they kind of let you go get refreshed away from you know get out of the stale of just say coming into belmore and you know going out and going into a normal gym um going to the beach and then today was is like our big session so you know you come do review
go see every coach. How long does a review take? Yeah, so review in the team sense will probably take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. And then your individual reviews, you'll go sit down with your attacking coaches, your defense coach, and now there's last play coaches. So they'll talk through your movements on last plays. And for me, it'll be like how you kicked and how you escorted. So it's one-on-one? Yeah, so that's all one-on-one. And you make sure that you go sit down with all of them. They've got lists of, yeah, a lot of things.
So just run me through the last play coach. That's a new addition.
Yeah. Yeah. So that's kind of only really been around. The first one that I had there was at the Panthers. I had Benny Harden, who is now the Penrith attack coach. He's very good, but A lot of clubs now have a last play. They call them transition coaches. Just little wins that you can get, whether it's how you turn to escort or last plays, how you want to chase and IDing where fullbacks are or how wingers defend. Now clubs don't leave a stone unturned with all that.
Who is that at Canterbury?
It's a guy called Luke Vela. He's actually an ex-player at the Bulldogs and he actually got an injury. He's an Aussie schoolboy, I'm pretty sure, and he had an injury and he transitioned to coaching and, yeah, he's doing a wonderful job.
Wow. Yeah, wow, that's a great position. Yeah, so I keep going.
What does a professional NRL player's weekly schedule look like with different turnarounds?
So that's today.
Yeah, and then so had a big field session, do gym. And then for the Bulldogs, we train two days before we play and then do a captain's run. So tomorrow's a day off and then we have a big GD too, which is whatever time we play. That's obviously what time we, yeah, we do that training session.
So if you're playing at 8 p.m., on a Friday night or train at 8.
Yeah, so that's what they'll do. Maybe not 8 o'clock, they'll maybe make it like 6, 6.30. So it's a later session just to kind of get used to the conditions. Yeah, it's something pretty cool that we do and then a short captain's run and yeah, into the game.
So the captain's run is generally the day before.
How long does that go for? No, the captain's run now is, you know, some weeks, mate. You could honestly be on the field for 10 minutes.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:12
2
What does a professional NRL player's weekly schedule look like with different turnarounds?
3:12–6:32
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How do NRL teams run video review, one-on-one coaching and the new 'last play' role?
6:32–31:48
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How do top-30 and development contract players integrate into club culture and review systems?
31:48–34:26
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