‘Origin’s impacted us’: Brisbane legend’s big admission after season demise 05:06

Now let's preview the game that you boys will be calling this afternoon here on radio. You'll see it live on Nine's Wide World of Sports. The Dolphins taking on the Titans, a Queensland derby, and a great Queenslander's on the line to preview it for us. Darren Lockyer. Hello, Locky. Good afternoon, gents. Wonderful to catch up as always, mate. We love a derby. Dolphins, Titans, this one at Suncorp Stadium. How are we looking? Good.

Yeah, I'm here looking at the field now. It's a beautiful day here in Brisbane. So I think you've got some speed out wide on both teams here with the Dolphins and Times. So I think you're going to see a lot of points. Both teams probably need to get their defence in order, but I just feel like the conditions...

You're going to see a great game of football and you're going to see some tries. Hey, Lachie, a huge game for the Dolphins because, you know, over the last couple of weeks, they're just starting to lose touch a little bit. They find themselves in eighth position at the moment and they really need to jag this win this afternoon to keep them in touch.

Yeah, they need to stop the slide. I mean, last year, you know, they started well and they slid down the ladder, but it was a little bit earlier. They looked better this year. They obviously improved with a bit of maturity. And, yeah, I think there's a stat out there they might have let in more than 26 points in the last five games. So that's alarming. And when you consider Wayne Bennett, you know, he likes to keep things simple and he has a real defence man.

So they need to get that in order. But as we saw last week with the Titans, when they move the ball around, they're very dangerous. Hey, Lachie, the Titans, they're sort of a different story. They started the season dreadfully, loss after loss after loss. Then all of a sudden, they seem to adapt to Dez Hasler's style of play. What have you been making of them in the last several weeks?

Yeah, exactly that, really. They've been improving, and I think it just took them a while to understand the way Dez wanted to play, and once they got that and they're on board, they're a lot better football team than where the letter suggests. I guess it's just that six weeks at the start of the season that's put them in that situation, but...

Even last week when they were playing Manly, even though the score blew out, that wasn't a reflection of how close the Titans were to Manly on the day. So for mine, this game will be a great spectacle, but I also think the Titans are a good chance here of getting a win. It's interesting. Like you said before, you thought there might be a lot of points scored in this game, and I actually agree with you. I'm not a mad stats man, but there's a couple of stats here that

It's just frying my brain. The Dolphins have won three from three against the Titans, but the Titans have won three of their past four games at Suncorp Stadium. So I've got no idea who will win this. I've got absolutely no idea, and I'm an expert. Well, I know the Titans do like playing here. That's only from a Broncos perspective because the Titans seem to do a job on the Broncos here. But, yeah, they haven't been able to beat the Dolphins. But maybe the day's...

Like I said, I can't really, I think it's a toss of the coin. But like I said, the conditions, I think we're going to, we've already seen some great rugby league this week, but I think we're in for some more this afternoon. Hey, Lachie, the Broncos, we didn't see much great rugby league from them yesterday afternoon. What are you feeling about it 24 hours on?

Look, I just think the origins impacted us. I know because we're where we are on the ladder, Kevin didn't have that luxury of being able to rest his players a lot, so we've had to

risk versus reward type thing. They backed up when they played against Newcastle and they played well, but they were very flat last week. You look, just look at the strapping on some of those guys and the padding. That game three was so brutal. It's had an impact on particularly players that haven't been able to get rested. You know, like Penrith had the luxury to do it and they'll obviously long-term, they'll get the advantage of that, but the Bronx just weren't in that situation and

full credit to the dogs too I mean I think they're a bit of a smokey to win it just defensively they're very good with their habits and their movement and their attack yesterday was quite surprising Darren away from rugby league dentists Mark Piggy Riddell has just declared to Australia that he enjoys going to the dentist and can fall asleep in the dentist chair what say you Lockie

No, well, it depends on what's being done. I don't think I could fall asleep in the dentist. Just to clean and polish. No, no, that's not relaxing. They're putting things down your mouth. Painful. You're right, Lockie. See, that's why you're the voice of reason. This bloke's an idiot. LAUGHTER

Good stuff. He didn't comment, but I know he's with me on that one. Righto, Darren. Well, mate, good calling this afternoon. You're there at Suncorp Stadium. I'm sure there'll be another big crowd to watch the game between the Dolphins and the Titans. Thanks so much. No worries, gents. Have a good hour. There he is, Darren Lockyer, the Queensland legend, rugby league icon, and, of course, a member of Nine's Wide World of Sports.