Going into the NRL Finals | Te Maire Martin (10/9/26)

0:00Timonnie, final's footy. Water's warming up, bush is getting a little bit dry. Are we renaming Timonnie, Timonnie, mate a month? Yeah, it's a good month. It's a good month. It's a good time of year. We're starting into the nice time of year. Final's footy, water's getting warmer, kinnis are getting fat, pigs are getting good. It's actually a good time for everything, so it's a good time to be alive. And Chanel says you've taken up the golf, you've got the golf bugging out as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, actually, yeah, I was so anti-golfful a little bit there. I can see why they like it. I just fed a terrible, kind of, run the last couple months, it's been too windy to go fishing or... I can't be bothered driving all the way home to get pee on it, so... I've been tagging along with them going golfing and it's been all right. What do you like about it? I just enjoy hunting my balls back. I'm always, I'm always, every type of hunting. I'm always hitting them in the rough somewhere and I've let them try and hunt my ball back. I end up, yeah, end up going on the course of six balls and I end up coming out with 12,

1:02so it's all right. Yeah, yeah. I live with more balls than I went with them with. On Chanel, I said it's time for four. It seems you guys have a very joyful relationship and you play with a lot of halves over your time, not just at the Warriors. What is it about your guys' relationship? I don't know, I think this pretty cruisy dudes, easy to get along with, I don't know, we just, I suppose, when you're off, when you're happy off the field and everything's going well, we just transfer it on the field and yeah, we've got a pretty similar mindset and the way we like to play I just enjoy playing with them on the field. Yeah, it's just good times. What's making you happier at the moment? I'm just, I don't know, everything. I think the start is off the field, everything's going good. The connection with the boys, good, we're still hanging out all the time, even like when we're not training and I think that that's probably a big thing too, like the connection

2:02around the group and how well everyone's getting along and it's a lot easier said than done, like trying to grow that and you know, just say get along with each other but something that doesn't work and it's taking a bit of time to build but I feel like it's pretty close connected groups. So everyone's happy and everyone's sort of rowing in the same direction, like I felt a lot of boys stepping and play this year and sort of just the way everything's rolling at the moment, like everyone's confident in anyone playing and whoever fills in or whoever steps into their role, any role, we're confident that they'll do the job. On stepping into the role, obviously, you stepping into that heartback role is unfortunate for Tanner and you've gone to another level. Have you managed to put your finger on? Why? No, I think it's the system we've got. It's just the system that works and if you buy into it and now I've been here for three years now, so I've sort of clicked on to how we'll be thinking and

3:04and what he's trying to do and everyone's pretty clear, everyone's clear on their roles and I think that's the main thing when you're clear on your roles and what you need to do, everything else flows off the back of that, so it's been huge that everyone's confident in their own ability and I think it brings out a lot of a lot of the players and brings out the best in them and just simplifying their role and just running out, tackling hard and different shapes with different spots, but maybe I'm just enjoying it. I've asked a few of the other boys, we just seems to be this player whisperer and you've brought it up organically there and what's he done for you as a player but also as a person? Yeah, I think like I said before, he just simplified everyone's roles and my role especially and yeah, just nothing changes too much, so you're not doing too much different, we are thinking too much and even when we've talked I sort of play my best when I'm not thinking too much and I know

4:07exactly what's going on and get a lot of confidence out of how you train and our leaders that drive that, they really drive like train hard and iron sharpens iron sort of things, how you train is how you're going to play so I think you get a lot of confidence out of how you train. One man that's just wondered over here is Kurt K, well who are we going to chat with very shortly? The leaders in this group though just seem to give that confidence to a lot of these players, it's awkward because he's what are we calling that two and a half meters away from you, but what are people like him, fish, bani, done for you for confidence? Yeah, they just clear on the overall, they do their job well, we have one sort of follows, they don't say too much on what everyone else needs to do, they just do their role when everyone else sort of backs it up and I think it goes back to what I said before, they train how hard they train, like it goes back to that, like I keep says I'm really trained too much, he's always on the side. Including the extended group, the rehab, but the way they train is 100% every time and

5:12it's good for the angle boys coming through because they see how what it takes and keeps it on a premier ship, fish is on a premier ship and it's not easy, so it takes a lot of hard work so I think that's what everyone's getting out of, what are those leaders to always do? You're a proud Kiwi, how amazing is this place going to be on Saturday filled up, sold out on a Tuesday? Yeah, it's going to be hectic mate. Yeah it is and we got good support everywhere we gave it, it's always special playing here, Mount Smard and yeah I feel we can do, put on a good performance for our crowd here and let's look at it. Playing a week by week and winning game, week by week and getting to the end result of winning the premier ship but there's a lot of footying between there and the end so we're going to take it one step at a time. Just last one, once you're able to time you don't know one year contract extension, have you started thinking long term or are you just happy going year by year at the moment? No I haven't, to be honest I haven't thought of it at all, I've only just recently, not so long

6:15guys, so we'll just see how it goes but I'm happy so I think you hear about it a lot like when you're playing good footying it's sort of that stuff looks after itself and you start thinking about it too much and you start dipping in form so I'll just play how I play and try and keep going with it and yeah I'm enjoying it here so I would have, yeah she now just got a bag so maybe you can buy you some golf clubs to keep you down. I know, you just got a monster deal too so, if you can just pass me over some, there's golf clubs are more expensive than the Kaua just tell them you're in for it so yeah, however you can chuck one over, chuck one or two over, always good to check, thank you, take care, cheers