'Worse than expected'. South's season in doubt. Hunt extends & Sam Walker's getting BANK!
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to Kenny Blitch, your daily hit of NRL news. Latrell's in the news again. Once again, it's a familiar place. The scans have come back, but it's bad news for Souths.
Bad news for Souths, bad news for New South Wales, bad news for Rugby League fans, to be fair.
What is the impact of Latrell's injury on South's season?
He's up to, well, look, it could be more than a month. We're looking at a month already of the scans. The scan, the tear in his calf was worse than first thought. We got told yesterday it was just a minor one, which most of us thought that would probably be a game. But anyway, look, a month on the sideline. It looks like we'll definitely blues her out.
How does Ben Hunt's contract extension affect the Broncos?
And you know what, though? This really starts to put questions now around South Sydney's season, I think, because I think he's played nine games this year. They're five and four with him in the team. They've shown they need him. It's pretty much... They don't have many spare games to throw away the Rabbitohs between here and the finals. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how it unfolds.
What are the implications of Sam Walker's Origin performances?
I think it is a bit of a shock to him too, mate. I spoke to Bennett last night just before six he rang, and his indication was, and he'd called the club about it just to confirm, and it was only a minor tear.
Yeah.
So then he's obviously gone off for scans, and the information's worse. And talking about a month out, yeah, it's at this time of the year. Yeah.
How does the growing 300-game club influence player contracts?
Well, he's had such a tremendous season too. There was a couple of games there where he really was the difference for the Rabbitohs. And he's such a high-impact player. They feel that so acutely at South Sydney. And, look, we know he hasn't played a lot of footy in the past years. I had a look. I think it was 11 games last year, 11 the year before, 16 the year before that. He hasn't played a lot of footy at the Rabbitohs. Less than half the games he could have played, to be fair. But this was the year we all thought he was ready and tearing to go. And he'd had a really good off-season because of what happened last year. He came in the season very fit, played very well. And South Sydney sort of – well, basically responded around that.
But I just don't see – where they go from here, I think it's going to be a real ugly dogfight from here to the end of the season for the Rabbitohs.
What challenges does South Sydney face without Latrell?
And he was, we spoke about it previously, he was really warming to the challenge because remember at the start of the season he had a lot of errors coming up in his game but he could still pull off two or three plays that would get Souths home. Yeah. But then it was like he got rid of that and he was maybe listening to your advice about legacy. Yeah.
Yeah.
Because he really was starting to.
He really responded to me when I criticised him. Look, I still stand by what I said, right? The question I asked was, I threw up and I said was, is he worth marquee money now playing in the centres? Is he worth full-back money playing in the centres? And until this point in the season, that point in the season, He played well, but he played well for a centre. You shoved that up your bum, though, didn't you? Yeah, absolutely.
I don't care what number he has on his back. His ability to turn a game in the blink of an eye is what makes him marquee.
Yeah, that's true. But look, without harbouring the point,
but I'm going to. No, you're right. Your argument's right because he's just turned, what is he, 29? He's 29.
He had his birthday last week. I checked that out. And look, the winning percentage of him in the team for South Sydney, it's a 56% this year. But that's only out of a small talent pool, nine games, five wins, four losses. But the previous two seasons – in fact, it might be the previous three seasons. No, the previous two seasons certainly – With him in the sides, South Sydney have a losing record. Now, there's other things going on at the club as well, okay? That's not because of him. But when you're trying to argue the impact he has on the team and how he makes them so much better, well, then when you do the stats, well, it hasn't reflected in the stats.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:17
2
What is the impact of Latrell's injury on South's season?
0:17–0:38
3
How does Ben Hunt's contract extension affect the Broncos?
0:38–0:59
4
What are the implications of Sam Walker's Origin performances?
0:59–1:21
5
How does the growing 300-game club influence player contracts?
1:21–2:15
6
What challenges does South Sydney face without Latrell?
2:15–6:33
7
How are the Roosters evaluating Sam Walker's future?
6:33–29:31
Speakers
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