The comeback Kings have done it again.

The Brisbane Broncos are the premiers for twenty twenty five after overcoming the Melbourne Storm in front of eighty thousand fans at the Core Stadium.

There was a night of redemption for their coach and their two veteran halves, and a night where Rhys Walsh went to a level no one thought was possible.

Here's the third meeting between please do teams this season, but tonight for the Broncos and the Storm, they're playing for everything.

Cameron Munster with the boy.

On the team, they get us underway Reynolds once they came up quickly, Mos get to the way.

Narroner Noness scores the first.

Try lot to start from the Brisbane Broncos.

Munster run around for Hughes.

Purple Housen meeting.

Look at it go.

What's been the storm, responded Hughes rubbers.

Chasing hard contours.

There most shows an inside comes outside to back the house, coats moving.

Quickly quick stairs run off.

Here and a high tackle Recemose Runner because he's forming that's off.

There's definite contact with the head, so penalty Warranton, but that's all they are just hanging on.

Here comes out to Hughes.

Now Katia cut out, ball out to ward Bread good the line he got there.

The Broncos need to find an answer and very click, very quickly quick playing the ball they go the wolf in behind the play the ball.

Still going wound.

Pots is my Common Grand Final.

So we had a plan to stop Reese Walsh.

It didn't work.

I think there's some things you can do tackling.

Obviously we didn't.

What a player responsh boy DA's a China half brand flights Hughes, Dancic back through the middle.

Melbourne respond and at half time in the Grand Finals it's Melbourne plays him Bunster runners Tabba Jamaker.

Then he plucked the ball down.

Oh he fuck the.

Reynolds for men shiver Saki breaches out.

The Broncos very much in it.

Coster Reynolds and Reynolds has a problem.

Unfortunate the Broncos that the good bit uneas of me and playing the arms in with this meat deal lead.

Then you signal war Rick clops the ball gee.

That was a great shot there for Mesrom.

The collision enough to jop the ball free.

Last tackle Pikes.

Host hot out ball out.

Tabarna watches everywhere hot out of all Shiver Saki is gone.

The Broncos have the line.

Chen Housen throws a dummy.

He poses Walsh.

Inside for warm Wrick.

The ball goes to ground Munster to the left.

Handsel has crown.

That's gone.

Oh boy, here I came out.

He's contact them high turned out on a poe there and goes to the Sudby two on.

The top and the book goes by four.

Guitar bat to the tackle, still going penn an outer.

What a tackle by race baf Gutura himn goes back to the middle.

Riga takes it and the cop back Cans have done it again.

Michael McGuire blames the brock goes in the first previouship in nineteen long seasons.

From the time I walked in.

We can meet none of the players.

They've been challenged, plane's been said, but they believed.

Man just to be here right now, like day one, Dodger and Magic cause I was too scared.

To talk to him.

He demands a lot, as he should demand a lot.

You know you're just want a column.

It's been nineteen years and you know we've just asd our names in history.

Welcome to Barols three sixty Rugby League from every angle, brought to you by Regain joining me for the last time this year, the great good and Tallergrath.

That's been the jays in buzzrock Field mate and Brent Reid and the Broncos have broken the drought after nineteen years.

What an epic Grand.

Final it was, Gordy, What a way to do it has been I think one of the best years I've watched, certainly the greatest final series and arguably the greatest Grand Final.

Both sides are up for it.

There's a lot of hurdles.

Brisbane had their overcome, but they jumped all of them.

It was outstanding both They come back sixteen bige Canbra fourteen or twelve against Penrith ten last night.

Someone told me today they only led in finals for about thirty minutes, but they just kept coming home, coming am hard and deserved premise.

Yeah, it was great game, Breath and obviously we'll get on the res Falce later that I mean, he was unbelievable and Melbourne had it in the bag of twenty to twelve at half time.

They probably should have won it from there, but you can't kick this Brisbane side down.

They're unbelievable.

Where does that game rank in terms of Grand finals over the years, in over the history of.

Our game, our great game, well, most points at halftime, I thought it was entertaining.

I you know, everybody might have a comment on a referee, but I thought the players sorted it out.

The fatigue that come into the game later.

I know there was injuries and the guy that got the DLM.

I thought it's probably one of the greatest performances ever, so I rank it up there.

I don't want to put him.

Above others because I think it's disrespectful to the other guys at are one Grand Finals, but it certainly would be on the padium.

I believe what I've watched.

You talk an individual performances, We're going to get to Reese Walsh off the charts.

It's a Grand Final, wonderful game of football.

We'll talk to ratings in a little while too, so the fans obviously loved it.

It'll be in my certainly in the top ten in the last few years, without a doubt.

Last buzz is quickly, are you feeling all right today?

What do you mean, am I feeling okay, you know, just a fit it out?

What's wrong?

I can't do I'm just asking a question, yeah, and I'm about to answer, but I don't understand.

I just the reaction today and all that.

What reaction you're talking about?

You haven't noticed any reaction from I saw.

Jordan Ricky what we started singing a buzz Rothfield song or something like that.

But you know what, and I've said this to you many many times.

I can sit here on Monday night.

I cannot have opinion.

I can become a press release journal and write everything sanctioned, or I can have an opinion and I'll voice that opinion.

I think I got it right right, I'll tell you why I got it right.

What do you get right?

Well, I'll tell you what I got right, and we got to We're going to talk about later how Mad changed his ways, and that is, in fact, how a couple of players went to him.

They didn't you're right, they didn't bar about army camps, they didn't up about Harbor and all that.

But I was just checking in you.

Well, I'm here to defend myself.

I would have taken but if I was embarrassed, I would have to.

We'll get into detail a little bit later.

This is one hundred show hundreds of the year and I was I was hoping to walk out without having a stink with you.

Well you've got me off.

Just think Tod Meet You're wrong Storm, He'd be loving this.

When you come to focus off your performances.

Well, a couple confused though you were storeman or a Brisbane broth.

I couldn't win.

I couldn't lose foot in both camps.

I'm a Brisbane fan of be a long time Brisbane fan.

But you know, you know wins.

You had that system you coming with four six both.

The system was a historical system that was based on.

Holiday and look the print media press box.

I was sitting here and Brent was sitting here.

I know you were cheering for Storm.

That's incorrect.

This I raised some concerns of some calls early in that game, got the brawl.

They just happened to be against the Storm.

That was just a quick we'll get to it.

But what is important here is the Grand Final smashes a f L with record ratings.

What does this say about the season and the NRL where it stands right now?

You asked was the best Grand Final.

Where is it rank?

I reckon?

This is up there with the best final series I've ever seen.

The television rating last night was four point five million.

Now that blew the a fell out of the park, nearly half a million, more than the AFL Grand Final with Snoop Dogg and all the works the week before.

Now, high than Maths, which is one hour shows.

It's of yours well, it's among the top rating shows in the country.

High than State of Origin, even the Decider, higher than the Australian urb and Tennis, higher than anything we've seen on television this year.

The highest ever rugby league game.

What do you put that down?

You've been covering the game longer than all of us.

I put it down to there's a lot of things called you take half an hour that the start we get in Vegas, and the new eyeballs that brings to rugby league, and there's people stay stay connected.

To our game.

And you look at the ratings in Melbourne last night, there are only one hundred and fifty thousand less than Brisbane, which is an iconic rugby league.

So we've won Melbourne over.

And then there's a fellow called Reese walf It is the most popular player ever.

That's a big part of it.

The personality is playing the game at the moment, and a lot of it's got to do with the leadership too, and Andrew, they've done.

Seriously, we are so lucky and we had Arthurson and Quay and we had Gallop and we've had all those people.

But the shape the game is in right now.

I think the product on the field, like both Gordy.

Yeah, so when Souds played, Titans are playing for a wooden spoon, wining against Daisy and if they were the two worst teams.

In the competent, actually get your foot in another kid flattering shirt.

But anyway, we got a pink shirt on it and they've got bright green shoes on.

Are you colored?

I was just pressing them the power are you talking about?

I was just telling them how they get game could be approved next year advice.

Really cared.

They But you're right about those two guys and missions there as well.

Missus is doing on the great medium and league dips mate.

I mean, Andrew and Peter are doing an amazing job at the moment.

Obviously we're heading into this era of expansion and they've taken the game overseas and I think they're doing an amazing job of the game.

All right, our top story brought to you by the by d Shark six And what else would it be?

Reese Walsh what a performance?

Take a bow?

Was it the best performance individually by a player in the history of again in a Grand Final.

I think it's the longest performance.

I think there's been some amazing performances, but not for eighty minutes.

From my gotaway, look Reese.

People talk about when Reese doesn't have the footy.

I think his biggest three plays were the chase on Papenhausen, the collision with Kamakamika, and then the last tackle in the last minute on Papenhouse and when he threw the dummy on Katowa and makes it their three amazing defensive plays.

Brody, I'd say it's the best.

And to say that when I saw clearly a couple of years ago, last seventeen minutes beat Penrith, when he just took an unwinnable Grand Final away from them, he was That was Billy Slater and more last night, and people like Ray Warren on record of saying Billy Slater was better than Changa Graham Chang of l Englands and Immortal, and that was up there with anything Billy Slade was ever done in any game his entire career.

I think it's the most I called the most complete performance we're seeing a long time.

As you said, Gordy wasn't just with the balls what he did without the ball.

I looked up the Clive Churchills just perform and there's a couple of come to mind, g I and seven outstanding and Joey and O one probably were two that stand out.

But I think this one in terms of big moments, owing the big moments on the biggest stage.

I mean, no one's done about all that.

The only thing they had to do was win at half time.

I reckon he had enough, like just watching highlights and moments and big games are about moments, but he had the middle a half.

There's such seeing as a one man full team.

We got to tell you something.

The three swaths for somebody in that Brisbane so they get knocked out against Camber a couple of weeks ago in the Nationally.

There's no disrespect to any other former five Churchill winner.

And I'll agree with all of.

You, like from every grand follow of watchince I was born, which is every one of them.

This was the best performance and this was the moment because at this time Melbourne were in full control, full control, and they needed someone to stand up.

He stood up all night.

But this was one of the best individual solo efforts tries that you will ever see in a Grand Final.

But he was organized so and I saw footage he's out the back, organized and talking to the center out there on.

The right, telling him like they come under.

So he's organized on a play season opportunity and his reaction time that's one of the.

Greatest business to scored that try that he had no business to do it.

There was enough defense there to stop a couple of players so brilliant, so strong.

I believe he has a potential to be one of the best players that's ever played our game.

And I tell you back to in Vegas.

I've said it a few times on this show when he played over there in Vegas a couple of years ago, and watching him in the flesh and watching the speed and the way that he glides and the way he changes directions at speed, the way that he holds the ball out in the front, can play short all along at any given time, and even his only deficiency was his defense, and last night he was first class.

But again being at the game, which I don't get too often these days, being in studio here at Fox and watching him at the speed at which like at halftime, oh down, And I said to my mate, I was next to you.

I said, this is far from over.

Because every time he touched it he was electric.

He was he was always going to play a big part in this game.

And let's have a look at his defense.

It's happened because if anyone has been critical of him, this was a big moment.

Gordy, Well, they chase, right, said Papenhausen.

But that's tackle one.

So Papen has a good numb better but that chase and on the by and I don't think that it's all always been and is, but Papa hows and comes across the field, spots the back rower goes through and Reese is on his bike and for all money, like you think, oh he's going to score, and Reeese kept on coming.

But it's everything about him.

No break.

This was a big one because you know it's a two on one essentially and he makes.

That's anticipation.

You know, that's incredible.

Thing is six weeks ago promise ship Monday night, we're sitting here saying the Blakes rocks and diamonds.

But he's got to become more diamonds and he has to become more diamonds when it really counts.

He's picking his moments three now, so your developed did you imagine in two or three years?

No, I can't.

He's different.

Do you think that Margine guy has had a lot to do with these guys?

Madge McGuire, are we on the Madge I'm talking about We'll get you.

And I just talk about Reees.

Just for one thing, I'll tell you Nathan Brown had he met the Warriors, I'm going to go to a coach and a bloke and play with, said Gordy.

This kid, this was said like I think he was young.

He said, Oh my god, if he wants to adapt and put his you know, you get those guys with talent, but to get his mind to it.

You played with guys with so much talent, So to get him to want to do this right and be the team player that he's turned out to be.

I think there's all.

Serves a lot of credible.

I think one of the best parts of Reese Welsh's speech last night he paid tribute to.

But we're going to get we just give some credit here because he played under Kevy last year and played nothing like this, So let's get that straight.

There's not a Mage beater, right.

But he got knocked out twice horribly Tailor Maye and then so like, and then he was injured, so to come back no is that he had last year.

Young kids need time, and I think getting as many games underneath his belt this year, and even when he was injured at the beginning of the year, he Reese wasn't playing his best.

But Madge has done a great job to watch, I'll tell you it is those two wingers have turned into first class high performance.

I think Mariner has improved out of side those and when you see a coach those guys that are on the bench and of those those one hundred, they've improved, they've probably doubled them.

That's a good point.

But I'll also say that if Madge isnt coach, I'm not sure if those two wings a player in that game, because Cobbo and Arthur's were the preferred, and he dropped Cobbo and he dropped Arthur's to put the two wingers in there.

Magedy that that was Mage's decision.

I'm anxious to get to Madge and talk about him and talk him up like you wonders to Mate.

I'm not taking anything away Heathington.

I just I just think he's very important.

It's very important to give Madge the credit because I don't think he's got enough on this panel.

That's my opinion.

Can disagree, Yeah, well I do disagree with you, and that's fine.

Let's get to the shot.

Reese Walsh, the hit that he put on I think it was coach, was it?

Yes?

Now this was debatable.

Maybe I thought he should have got ten minutes in the bin.

I thought any other game this season, Reese Walsh is straight off.

That was much just my take on it.

And Camber he goes to the bin probably last week he goes, well, maybe not to the bin.

I thought a head button Canberra.

I thought it was ten minutes.

Personally, my initial reaction was at the game, SimBin.

I look at it now and.

There's pretty significant mitigation here.

As OVID coaches four, he's down on one knee when he hits him.

Look, he's fallen a long way, and they take into account mitigation in these circumstances.

And I think in that situation there's significant mitigation where they.

Didn't fall a long way tee, where they didn't take mitigation into account.

Origin one at the stadium last year.

Not going back to that, no, but just.

That you listen to mine was off his feet and lost control over because he was falling.

It doesn't matter with your fault.

The onus, as you know, is on the defender.

You just cannot be sitting here as seriously safety.

I'm only doing continue used to stupid analogy.

Super.

Analogy.

Does he get hit in the head?

You're comparing the I've got two things.

Does he get hit in the head?

Yes, but shoulders of forget hit gets told every week as a fan did he get hit in the head?

Yeah?

But was there enough it was a.

Penalty mitigating circumstances and Brown eight when nineteen players went to the same being Okay.

When we come back to that, we learned from that.

We we moved on from that.

Direct contact and force and mitigation mitigation.

There is maybe it was on one knee, it was on one need he did.

Your vest ready, one.

Time premiership winner, but the Broncos coach says the best is yet to come.

Yeah, I've talked about about the players.

I mean it's takes it seem really good team to be able to achieve what they've done, and the leaders through Buddy Paine when hunting to Tony the probably the mains the leaders, but I had a lot of boys coming underneath that that actually really jumped into the expectations standards what they built so off the eli they're only at the indistry of where where the starting point is.

We've only had twelve months getting the popcorn out.

It's time to talk about Michael McGuire and what a performance it was this year by the head coach of the Brisbane Broncos in his first year winning the premiership.

Now did he change throughout the scene?

Oh look, I've got no doubt made change.

And look I had a lot to say and I said it on at Vegas.

We didn't have to shower in Vegas, and I said, you know, he'd driven them too hard and you know they started strong and then they went into this massive slump.

Now they lost to South, they lost tous Saint George.

They got beaten thirty four to six by Manly Brook val Obel.

And I'm told, and I've had it confirmed from journalists in Brisbane, that ben Hart and Adam Reynolds went and saw Madge not to complain about cruisers, camps or spit buckets.

That wasn't what it was about.

It was about intensity, some of the stuff we saw in Tales of Tigertown, some of the stuff that when he finished up at South saying the players are happy to work hard, nine hour days, not a problem, but we're just feeling a bit of anxiety around the place.

Would you mind rolling it back.

At the same time, they hired a crisis manager at guy called Grant Williams.

Grant Williams has handled police commissioners, all sorts of high rollers, and he's what are you laughing at?

I'm not laughing all right, Okay.

Anyway, he's gr Grant Williams worked very closely with Madge, and I can tell you now that Madge pulled back a little bit.

What do you work closely?

What do you make specifically?

As he worked closely, I just.

Think I just explained he knocked back a bit of his intensity.

They were in big trouble mate.

You know in the first twelve rounds grew they had won five games of footing, and Madge himself was right over the appointment of Grant Williams.

He wanted from there.

It's a Goodison.

It was a great decision.

And what I wrote this morning that was really really Sittney.

I just thought, ready coming, well, I think we see what the player.

We saw what the plane.

I don't think this meeting happened.

I think we saw what the plan.

Do you think this meeting got no idea?

Buzz your was you generally generally get things right, so it suggested.

Last night.

I just said, you probably generally get things right.

What I'm saying is all the talk about Madge is intensity.

Baseball bat, spewed buckets, army camps.

We saw what the players thought of that commentary, with the reaction after the game.

Hess was getting around with the baseball bat, they were taking the Mickey O winners.

That commentary with you respect to you, I don't want to.

I'm not going to.

I don't want to you because you've done far more than I have in this game.

But that commentary was.

Ridiculous, staying quiet last Monday.

I'll standwaving that I said about Mage.

My beef was him was when he took on Billy Slater and the glasshouses, and that's where it started, right And then I read out his record at the West Tigers and I said, how does the management come up with this guy right with the record that he had?

But they did, and now he's proven me wrong.

But the thing is, I'm not saying that Kevin wouldn't have the players in the same spot, and I'll never walk away from that.

That's fair enough.

We got in the player.

We all understand what I.

So Broncos and I want to congratulate everybody involved because it's amazing to have that stadium the way it was, to have it humming, to have those ten thousand people the other day and those piers that I've watched when there's wooden spoons and paint.

Has what he's given that Jersey now's been I question that I've got to I've got to question that.

I got to question the Kevy thing.

Like I love Kevy and I think he's a great coach, and I can't say you wouldn't have been able to do what Mad has done, like it's imposed, no one can.

But what I will say is when he got to the club, he major said that he thought they were unfit, right, so he trained him hard.

Spewed back at Army camps all that the last they had six comebacks ten plus points against top eight teams in from around sixteen onwards.

Now you can question would they have done that this time last year?

I mentioned before he dropped Cobbo and he dropped Arthurs.

Now with the previous coach done that, we don't know.

But I don't know.

Right Shibasaki he plucked from oblivion and gave him the opportunity this year which was outstanding.

And I believe that he's a big part of the transformation.

We cannot sit here and say that, and he can disagree with me going and that's fine, And I'm not saying that he couldn't have done it, but before he's not getting.

Enough credit for this.

And hold on, you obviously didn't McCollum responded before this jumped in as I was halfway through explaining it.

Madge's biggest when this year was his lack of stubbornness that he took aboard what Ben Hunt and Adam Reynolds said to him, his leaders behind closed doors and he changed.

He just backed off and uson.

Of the players after the game, every single one that was in sums it up.

He said, he demands a lot.

We just want to camp.

Yes, that's all it needs to be said.

But I think the reason they got in there was everything we saw in the latter of stage of the season.

They got in there to add some steel, some starch, some resilience to that footage club because it didn't didn't mean to.

Be there last What do you want.

Is a big thing, and that's what they've got.

That's exactly what the pay.

He's done it, and he's done it.

Do you want me to sit here and say what?

Do you want me to say?

Whatever you want when when.

They're fired from twelve thirty four to six Beach and George Beach South, do you want me to just come in and say good week?

And you know what do you want us to do?

Do you want us to analyze?

And you know what Goddy Gordy said that he Madge proved him wrong just there?

Did he prove you wrong?

I said last week he proved me wrong.

But I'm not apologizing as these some people want me to, some people have and I'm not here.

Madge proved me wrong.

Madge deserved his premiership.

You're happy.

I'm very happy.

And you've been wrong to this year.

Of course, you started with Canterbury, started Nick, and then you bounced on the bridge.

That's untrue.

But you're the biggest turn case.

You did cheer.

You were cheering Brisbane.

I saw that, but that Nick is like a father.

And I'm still I've been making the whole time, and I've spoke to a million times, sorry, spoke in the gas and all the other guys as well as me in time.

So that's actually wrong.

But I know you want to reflect to me.

I am not.

It's a good player.

It's a couple of broadcast players, Adam Menalds and Ben Hunt.

What a moment it was for them to get this premiership.

The redemption story behind it was.

It was amazing, wasn't it.

Yeah?

I think Ben Hunt the moment in Canberra, the field goal, Like I know last night was a really tough game, but the moment that he had he needed big moments outstanding to war how emotionally he was.

Adam Reynold's a poor old buggery.

His body broke down again.

But it's great to see those guys like what.

I think they're the oldest halves pairing in the history of rugby league the way they embraced after the game.

And that's what I did, Like I sat back and watched the moments with those guys.

Ben Harnt if we stuck the contract should still be feeding the scrums at George Lawira Barton.

He wanted a new opportunity, he got it, sat George didn't fighting and Adam Reynolds.

I was sitting there last night just before he got carried off.

I'm thinking, what is House thinking?

You taking this thinking because there's another number seven players.

I think it was more significant for Ben because Adam had a Adam's got a premiership.

It was a long time ago.

But for Ben, after what happened in fifteen, I think that was a huge thing.

Is it redemption?

Well, as close as you get breathon, that's pretty big.

What about Ezra Man Like you talking about Rhys Walsh and you talk about two pronged attack, Now you're watching the game again live and the speed at which Reach executes and performs his next level.

Then you've got this guy coming off the bench who is electric and dangerous with every touch, and he made a massive impact in't he he's.

Physical two break.

I think that's the other thing you don't notice about that he plays a physical game.

But I thought he was outstanding at the end of the game.

It was only half that leapt threat threat of Man and Reese out there live was unbelievable.

Still debate boys and not taking anything away.

There's a debate whether he should have played after the off season thing.

And I wrote a story on the weekend about him getting a flight by the NRL, getting a flight by the Broncos, And I spoke to the poor mother the victim he play out his car and doing and I spoke to the uber driver, you know, and they're still struggling and seeing him on TV, seeing him with his life back together.

But I did stress in this column, and I'm not aiming this at Ezra Man.

I'm aiming at the system where we didn't have a system, where we'd be outed for twelve months.

That's what I thought should have happened, something that serious.

But yeah, a lot of people agree with you.

Buzz