\u201close my number\u201d<\/a> when he succeeded his close friend, sacked former coach Kevin Walters.<\/p>\nREAD THE FULL TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n
GT: It\u2019s the grand final replay (rematch) and he\u2019s your captain. I will not dodge the question, the first 24-28 hours is the most important time for treating your injuries. It\u2019s as simple as that. So maybe, if he didn\u2019t fly down here \u2013 maybe I was right \u2013 and he treated himself and he stayed home and sat on the couch and rested, then maybe he could have played.<\/p>\n
PB: But I\u2019ll say Gordie, you\u2019re actually wrong, and I\u2019ll tell you why. I spoke to Michael Maguire today.<\/p>\n
GT: You speak to him every day.<\/p>\n
PB: I do, most days. It\u2019s my job. But also, I spoke to a physio about Adam Reynolds and the rib cartilage injury and he said, flying is immaterial. It\u2019s not a soft-tissue injury.<\/p>\n
GT: So let\u2019s just reverse it then if you\u2019re sticking up for him. Blokes with rib cartilage injuries play. That\u2019s what happens.<\/p>\n
PB: But it\u2019s Round 3.<\/p>\n
GT: So it\u2019s not an important game?<\/p>\n
PB: Not in the whole context of the season. It\u2019s a big game but what I\u2019m saying is that your initial criticism was that he shouldn\u2019t have flown.<\/p>\n
GT: I\u2019m telling you, in my era when we won six (premierships), when the Broncos were winning six, if you got injured and you put yourself in front of the team and went to Sydney.<\/p>\n
Okay, the coach might have dealt with it and your physio, and your doctor, but the players would have frowned upon it. <\/p>\n
If you can jump on a plane and put yourself in that position, the dressing room would have frowned on it. I\u2019ll leave that to the players, I\u2019m not going to leave it to a physio that doesn\u2019t run on the field and play and I\u2019m not going to leave it to you to tell me.<\/p>\n
But if I\u2019m playing with someone and I\u2019m there, and he puts himself in front of us, it\u2019s not good.<\/p>\n
PB: But your initial grievance was that his flying affected his treatment, that\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n
GT: \u201cIt was three hours into a radio show. So you and Travis (Meyn, fellow journalist) sit there and wait for me to say something and you keep on digging at the Broncos. It was three hours on radio and I said \u2018he must be good because if he\u2019s not, he wouldn\u2019t jump on a plane\u2019. That\u2019s exactly what I said. So then you guys sit there, then you write it and hit the Broncos and I have to cop it.<\/p>\n
PB: But you should cop it because that was your initial analysis.<\/p>\n
GT: But when you play, and when you\u2019ve played the game, and you hurt yourself and you\u2019re the leader, sometimes you\u2019ve got to go through pain. Sometimes you have to. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying. That\u2019s what that jersey deserves and you can\u2019t tell me any different. If you don\u2019t think it deserves it, that\u2019s fine. But I do and I wore it and you didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
PB: But what I\u2019m saying is, Adam Reynolds, whether he flew here or not is immaterial to the recovery from the injury. It\u2019s not a soft-tissue injury. <\/p>\n
GT: Then play.<\/p>\n
PB: And whether he plays this week or not is immaterial. There\u2019s 25 rounds to go, why risk your season now?<\/p>\n
GT: Okay, so as the captain you can pick and choose when you want to play? Is that what you\u2019re just telling me now? You can pick and choose when you run out for the Broncos? Is that what you just told me?<\/p>\n
PB: You picked and chose when you played. <\/p>\n
GT: No, I played every week.<\/p>\n
PB: You sat out a whole season.<\/p>\n
GT: Yeah. That was from St George. You\u2019ve got to be a better journalist than that. I didn\u2019t sit out at the Broncos.<\/p>\n
PB: But I\u2019m talking about, you sat out as a player, immaterial of the club. In terms of being judicious over a whole season, why would Reyno play in Round 3?<\/p>\n
GT: Because you\u2019re the captain.<\/p>\n
PB: So the captain has to play every game?<\/p>\n
GT: If you\u2019re right, you\u2019ve got to lead. That\u2019s what leaders do. This is not about Adam Reynolds. You can say what you want to say but I know that I\u2019m right. In a dressing room, where I sit, when you want someone to follow you, you need a leader to follow.<\/p>\n
PB: He\u2019s a leader.<\/p>\n
GT: Okay. <\/p>\n
PB: He\u2019s won them a premiership.<\/p>\n
GT: Who won it for them? He was off the field when they won it. <\/p>\n
PB: They don\u2019t even make the grand final if he doesn\u2019t kick the sideline conversion against Penrith.<\/p>\n
GT: They don\u2019t make the grand final if Reece Walsh doesn\u2019t play. Go and ask any footy person.<\/p>\n
GT: Don\u2019t come here with all Madge\u2019s s**t, come here with your own original ideas.<\/p>\n
PB: This isn\u2019t Madge\u2019s s**t.<\/p>\n
GT: Oh please. Give me a break.<\/p>\n
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