00:00You can talk all you want about Jerome's decision at PNG, but there's 16 other players or
00:0318 other players in the squad that need to do their jobs still.
00:07Do you feel, especially with no happy this week and I think still this is a real chance for him
00:12to,
00:13I guess there's been a fair bit of noise around him to come at him?
00:16I don't want him to think like that. I want him to go out and play the way Jerome plays
00:20his best footy.
00:21You know, and not take on the pressure and bear the expectation of the whole team. He doesn't need that.
00:25What I need is the guys around it. They're given a good platform enough to play his footy.
00:31Yeah. When Jerome's at his best, he's defending well, very aggressive, like upbeat with his attack and on the footy.
00:38And what we got to do is get around him and give him those opportunities.
00:40But it's going to be a team effort this week, not just Jerome.
00:43And the focus shouldn't be on what he's doing yet. It should be on, like, holds it.
00:47And Israel Folau, you signed in by those nice things?
00:50Certainly. Yeah.
00:52Is he right there?
00:53Nah. Not my own.
00:54Yeah. Look, you know, I don't talk about recruitment publicly, but that's the furthest thing from my mind.
00:58Right. Yeah.
00:58Like, honestly, I've seen there's been a lot of reports out there, but I need to get my team back
01:03on track.
01:04All right. And I need to focus on what's important right now.
01:06And that's us getting the performance we need this weekend.
01:09So I'm not even going to go down that path.
01:12Oh, so I was going to say, are you able to separate the fact confusions?
01:15They haven't done a briefing. So no, we're not going to stop.
01:18Not saying.
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