Ryan Lonergan

Those three.

Ryan Lonergan's not in there.

No.

And the voting period is from last year's Northern Hemisphere tour, correct? Yes, yeah.

Through to the last Wethersloh this year.

Through to the last Wethersloh this year.

So Ryan Lonergan doesn't pick up many votes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Yeah, well,

Finn was also lucky enough to be a Wallabies mascot on the day representing the mighty Bathurst Bulldogs Junior Rugby Club.

He got to walk out of the tunnel and sing the anthem alongside Ryan Lonergan, a day he'll never forget.

Cheers, lad.

Lads love the podcast.

They've got that stability there because those two players run your team.

I think we've found the nine, which is Lonergan.

Yeah.

Who's the seven slash – well, I'm talking league terms.

Oh, I like this.

Someone asked me this the other day, so I'm prepped for it.

Ryan Lonergan at nine, I think that's a given.

Goal kicker, shoots the lights out.

Not at all.

I walked out of that Marnica presser with Ryan Lonergan and a couple of the boys and I said, Ryan, sorry, mate,

did you

want to question

Obviously, Carter Gordon was there and he struggled with injury.

I've been really impressed with Ryan Lonergan.

I wasn't sure how he would transition in the Test match rugby because I've always been a big believer if you're going to, make it at that level you've got to have a point of difference about you and he's always been an elite level super player but I wasn't sure what his point of difference would be at test level but I think his his consistency and accuracy of his service has certainly been something of a point of difference and he allows the team to play a tempo and pace as well when we get rolling so I I've been really impressed with him, but in particular, you look at someone like a Roy guard and he's a bit of a throwback to, you know, the greats of old like yourself and free in particular.

I think I love watching him play.

So Australia, so New Zealand were so on the front foot.

and Australia just weren't able to stop what was coming their way they weren't able to come up with a I think Ryan Lonergan came up with an early turnover that actually led to that breakdown the right side but they just weren't able to stop the flow giving too many opportunities too many little corridors for this all-black team Damian McKenzie to slide through get off loads away and all the other players really in the back line just to find so much space and I thought the back row for the All Blacks, particularly in the start of the game, just finding those seams, maybe five, six, sort of seven defenders out.

Their skill set was on show on the weekend and that's from one to 15.

It wasn't like it was just from the people we expect, Damian McKenzie, Cam Roygard.

It happened so quickly.

I was like, how has he scored that?

I think probably that both Ryan Lonergan and Max Jorgensen are thinking the same thing, just caught in two minds.

And we talked about this on air, didn't we? That when you get scores like that put on you and you're trying to chase the game, you do get caught in two minds.