Roland Dane

Like it was not the easy way to go about getting Cooper Murray into that team.

This is a long way of saying that Roland Dane is a very good chess player.

Yeah, it would seem that way, but it does kind of like, So the sense there is that this is vindicated.

The effort to go through to make this happen before the season is over because that's a really quick payoff.

Let's just finish up by having a chat about the Team Bosses presser.

This morning we had Barry Ryan in there and Simon Brookhouse from Tickford and Roland Dane from Premier Racing.

There was some interesting points made by all on various topics.

One kind of interesting or amusing exchange was Barry being asked, you know, is Jared Hughes locked in for next season in a full-time capacity and sort of saying, we'll announce that when we want to.

Barry and Roland did say, like, we're not helping Anton this weekend.

well and that's the test right because if there's anything that comes up this weekend where it does look like they've made a move to deliberately help team 18 it will put a question mark on what happened on the gold coast

that is true there was some interesting reaction around the calendar obviously that was announced on on thursday um You wrote a piece about this today based on some quotes from Roland Dane and Barry Ryan.

We're really heralding this thing as a win because it is that we have 14 rounds.

And, yeah, I understand that we had to be very diplomatic.

And I think as it turned out, you know, especially a year later, for whatever reason, there was, you know, Roland Dane didn't really have that much of a fondness towards him.

In fact, he seemed to have more of a bias, it seemed, or at least of a... leniency you need to lean more towards Muller's camp and I think it was there was some kind of talk about the fact that apparently it was something to do with that Muller was on a different status contract than Plato of some way shape or form if I remember correctly or something along those lines where Muller was perceived to be almost like a slightly higher status than Plato because he had I don't know more experience in racing wherever he was So in order to be kind of pulling those kind of tactics early on, it's quite mystifying.

And yeah, it's one of those things where you can try and explain it, but unless there's a concrete reason behind it, it's believable.

They dealt with it professionally, as they do.

And yes, is it a different team now with Jamie Winkup at the helm instead of Roland Dane? It probably is.

Let's be real.

But again, it's that experience that I was talking about earlier.

We're going to talk about Chas in the show.

Mine's Roland Dane.

RD.

RD.

He held his end of the bargain up, and it's good to see rookies delivering on their opportunities.

Absolutely.

So for us, Roland Dane and Jarrod Hughes are our RICO Performers of the Week here on The Undercut.

But, of course, there's so many more things and people to talk about.

But here's the bigger thing.

And I said on the Sunday night pod that I couldn't imagine Roland Dane effectively cheating to that level.

And I stand by that.

But the more I thought about it last night and during the day, the least believable part is that Barry Ryan would participate in a stunt like this.

I walked back to the garage, which were up this end.

Roland Dane, the team owner, said, look, I can see you're upset.

I was.

We can put Jamie in to start the race.

And my only real surprise in it is that Erebus has allowed Cooper, which is probably their best asset at the moment, to leave early.

So clearly Roland Dane and, and Premier have leaned on GM to make all that side of it happen.

Yeah.

Yep.