NRL Media Playing Games, Tiger Trouble, and Cowboys BIG decision | Kenty Blitz EP179
6/16/202633 min
Today, the fellas break down all the games the media are playing to ramp up this Origin series. Plus, Benji and Luai back each other... but at the expense of the club? And the Cowboys have a decision to make. Todd Payten.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Start
00:20 - Media Games
24:02 - Tiger Trouble
28:43 - Cowboy's Decision
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First 90 secondsWarren Smith· Host0:00
[upbeat intro music] Welcome to Kenny Blitz, your daily hit of NRL news. G'day, mate.
Paul Kent· Host0:04
Hello, mate.
Warren Smith· Host0:05
Excited?
Paul Kent· Host0:06
Uh, getting there. Getting there. I'll tell you what, uh, it's just starting to heat up a little bit. I th- I'm, I'm waiting to see what we read tomorrow to see if, uh, there's gonna be any blood-boiling. But, um, just starting to get a little bit of a temperature rise in, uh, in the courage of the game.
Warren Smith· Host0:20
Well, you can see it at the moment, can't you? Kalyn Ponga's in the news at the moment.
Paul Kent· Host0:24
Karate Kid.
Warren Smith· Host0:25
His dirty little tricks. Well, you got the ... Yeah, you got the karate kicks with catching the bombs.
Paul Kent· Host0:30
Yeah.
Warren Smith· Host0:30
You've got his shoulder charges.
Paul Kent· Host0:31
Yeah.
Warren Smith· Host0:31
You've got an article that was, um, came out through The Telegraph this week written by Dean Ritchie. Um, Bulldog's name on the column straight from [laughs] straight from the, um- Straight from Ruth ... New South Wales camp.
Paul Kent· Host0:42
Yeah. It's funny, isn't it, the media games? I know ... Look, I get a lot of coverage through a lot of questions here and a lot of interest here in this, in this podcast about the role media play and the manipulation that goes on and things like this. Uh, and obviously, yeah, people know it goes on. Okay? So Bulldog's column this week, the Karate Kid about Ponga. Firstly, let me say this. It is a, uh, a dangerous act, I think, when Po- Ponga jumps for the ball and puts his foot out like that. Uh, we know it happened years ago with, with Billy Slater. Uh, he was warned then by the NRL to stop doing it, and he did stop doing it. But it's all about just applying this, a subtle pressure to the referee and how the game is adjudicated through that. So the New South Wales camp has, uh, come out and basically identified