NRL Season Review Part 2: Who’s Rising, Who’s Sliding & What’s Next | Kenty Prime Time
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What can we expect in the first week of NRL finals?
G'day and welcome back to Kenty Primetime, our season review edition. We got to team eight last week, uh not in order actually, uh in our order from round four or round six Kenties. Uh preview. So here we are back with Paul Kent. Kenty, welcome. Thanks, mate. And also uh the great Paul Crawley Cross, welcome. How are you, mate? Yeah, good, mate. Uh final start tonight. We Kenty and I spoke a little bit o a blitz last yesterday about or last night about where we thought the games were going. So we might just talk to you about where you see the next four games of this weekend.
Mate, it's it's really hard.
Can Wayne Bennett spark a finals run for South Sydney?
I think all games are there to be won by both teams and and I say that because when you look through the fact This season, three of those games, the teams have played each other twice and they won all. The the the one game where they've only played once was the Cowboys and Cronulla and the Cowboys won that game, yet the Sharks go in as favourite. So what I'm saying is anyone can win. Mm. I don't think I think South have got a great advantage over Newcastle because Newcastle are missing their two props. You know, they've got a young guy called Cody Hopwood, who's twenty years of age. You know, he's probably played about fifteen first grade games and he's going into a semifinal up against that South pack that
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is at full strength and and almost an origin class pack. And Newcastle have all go also got two young back rowers, one's twenty one, one's twenty two, so that's where they're gonna have their work cut out. But if those boys can hold their advantage, Ponger and Fletcher Sharp and those sort of guys can do anything.
How has Justin Holbrook’s coaching impacted the Newcastle Knights?
Are you surprised that Newcastle are still in the hunt, considering that the injuries that they've had, you know, to Dylan Lucas, to Dylan Brown, they've had some key injuries in key positions.
Because they haven't had that, they haven't had that feeling at Newcastle for decades. And and he's gone up there. There was a wonderful story in the in the Herald yesterday morning about how when Holbrook first arrived he'd um that th his two assistant coaches, they he got 'em together and they all live together. And it just seems like such a good bloke. And that's that's transferred into the football team. And a few weeks back when they were playing the Warriors, like they had Safidi sent off in the twelfth or thirteenth minute.
Yeah.
And they took 'em to the wire. They just did not stop going.
What is the future outlook for the Canberra Raiders?
And so that's what you know that they're gonna turn up and give their absolute best. I'm not sure if their best is gonna be good enough against this South side at the moment. But Souths can come in and out of a game.
Yeah, they can that's the other thing too. Yeah. It's still entered. Have not won three games in a row all season.
Is Manly’s roster reset under Kieran Foran working?
No. So their consistency consistency even though last week was a bit of a stroll in the park for them. Souths are an up and down side and th they will Newcastle will score
their points when South start to wander. Yeah. Which they do
after about thirty minutes. There's one thing about this competition too, you know, everyone always says you can't win from outside the top four. But if you go back through history and I know it was a different competition, but you can.
Will the Gold Coast Titans’ green shoots turn into a strong finals push?
And and Bennett did it in ninety three. It was only a top five at the s at the time, but they finished fifth.
Did the Parramatta Eels recruit the right players around Mitchell Moses?
They played in a less game, one less game too much. No, no, they didn't. They they played four they had to play four elimination games, mate. I I looked through the records during the week. The Bulldogs also did it. It was a top eight in um in ninety five. Ninety five, yeah. And and they won the competition too. So it it can be done.
What does the St George Illawarra rebuild mean for the next season?
Like it it's it's an almost Almost an impossibility, but Bennett's a coach that goes into this final series, I reckon. Who will have his players believing that it can
be done. It has it hasn't been done since the
top eight went to this current system. No, it hasn't. Since that's since the old Macintosh system was one would play eight, two would play seven. Yeah. Now we and that got changed.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What can we expect in the first week of NRL finals?
0:01–0:39
2
Can Wayne Bennett spark a finals run for South Sydney?
0:39–1:39
3
How has Justin Holbrook’s coaching impacted the Newcastle Knights?
1:39–2:26
4
What is the future outlook for the Canberra Raiders?
2:26–2:42
5
Is Manly’s roster reset under Kieran Foran working?
2:42–3:10
6
Will the Gold Coast Titans’ green shoots turn into a strong finals push?
3:10–3:14
7
Did the Parramatta Eels recruit the right players around Mitchell Moses?
3:14–3:33
8
What does the St George Illawarra rebuild mean for the next season?
3:33–1:04:35
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