Dragons Potential Target | Isaah Yeo's Origin Career & Origin Vs Premierships | Ask Kenty
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What is Kenty’s opening sledge and how does the episode begin?
Welcome to the latest edition of Ask Kenny, and I'm really looking forward to this, mate. There's some good questions here. I thought we'd kick off with this one, Superstitio. I used to think Kent was a dickhead, and he may still be one, but he does make a lot of sense. Right of reply?
Case closed. He might be on the money. Who knows? Oh, he's giving you a rap, mate.
Oh, yeah. You make a lot of sense.
That's about as good as I get these days, so yeah. So I'll take that.
Christophe. Do you think the other clubs should also ask for salary cap relief for the next decade? Maybe they can go to the ATO and ask for all NRL contracts to be tax-free. What a dog's breakfast. Yeah, and you know what that highlights to me?
Highlights the anger that fans are going to feel. I tell you, there is going to be, I believe – Forget all this bullshit about Papua New Guinea being everyone's second favourite team, which they're trying to sell. They'll be hated, Papua New Guinea, because of the unfair advantages they've got with tax-free contracts. And now the Bears are getting in on the gig. and the NRL has just, with a swipe of the pen, rewritten the rules and given them an extra $500,000 essentially in their salary cap. The lovable Bears won't be the lovable Bears. If they have any success out of this, people will use that as evidence why you should not support the Bears and not cheer for the Bears. It's going to have an enormous backlash on the game.
My concern about the game, is where are the football people in a headquarters who are making these decisions? Like, I get Valenis and Abdo at that top level. They're trying to expand the game. They've got eyes for bigger things. But whoever's running the football part of all this seriously needs to be replaced because they're sitting there and they're making decisions about – the structure of the game, the integrity of the game, the makeup of the game, which at its core should have an inherent fairness.
How will recent salary cap relief decisions affect fan backlash and competitive fairness?
That any team, and if the salary cap worked like it should, which it doesn't, but you add that to the list, but there should be a fairness there that every week when your team runs out, you think you're a chance of winning. And it's not going to happen with this new competition.
And it's a level playing field and it's just not.
Well, it's not. Yeah, exactly, mate. It's just – anyway, and it's got to be – the NRL won't understand the backlash when it comes because fans are going to sit there and they're going to get beat by a team who are essentially spending twice as much money as them or at the very worst now half a million dollars, legally more than them. Now, look, the Roosters have been putting up with it for years with no evidence. So now they've got evidence against these two new franchise teams – I just don't get it.
And they can cherry-pick your players. Timu Fumu, I hope I got it right, the pronunciation, read your 300-game convo on Tuesday.
Yeah.
I would argue that 250 games back in the 70s and 80s was a better milestone than 400 in the modern era.
Hmm.
Also, would you rather play 250 games against Ray Price or 400 games against Cam Smith?
No. Well, if that's the parameters that you're using for 400 and 250, I get it. Look, you'd much rather play 400 games against Cameron Smith than 250 against Ray Price. Cameron Smith would have had its moments when he gets you in the Sleeper hold? Yeah, that's true. But, mate, 250 against Ray Price, all you'd have left at the end is the left eyebrow and the tongue of your shoe. So I get that. He was a tough man, wasn't he? And just ruthless and relentless, you know, just never ended. But – The 400 is a very special milestone. There's one player in the history of the game that's made it there and the next player is 30 games off. The next player is nearly 10% behind that period, well, that milestone. So 400 is better than 250 but the 300 is not like 300 used to be.
It's funny, you know, when my son was a little boy and we were on holidays up on the Gold Coast and we'd pulled up at the lights and And there was an old bloke that had got out of his bus and he had his little tray of money and he's got these wobbly knees and he's walking up to the end of his shift.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is Kenty’s opening sledge and how does the episode begin?
0:01–2:19
2
How will recent salary cap relief decisions affect fan backlash and competitive fairness?
2:19–19:32
3
Is Isaah Yeo still the right Origin captain and how is he viewed as a leader?
19:32–30:00
4
Is podcasting starting to rival mainstream media in rugby league coverage?
30:00–31:38
Speakers
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