EXCLUSIVE: Trent Barrett revealed to CCT he wants the Eels job 07:33

On the way to our next guest, Natalie sent us an email during the week from Toon Gabby. Good afternoon, boys. Just emailing in regarding the King Gutho's 200th game on Monday. I haven't seen anything regarding a suitable fuss being made. I understand that Gutho's 200th game falls on the King's birthday weekend, which is appropriate. Does anyone have any connections at Buckingham Palace...

Perhaps King Charles could send a shout-out to our king, congratulating him on his 200th game. Appreciate you finding out what is happening. Thank you in advance. Well, Darrell, I know you've got contacts here, there and everywhere. Do you reckon you could make contact with the palace and see if we can get a cheerio from His Majesty? Yeah, well, I haven't. I've never spoken to King. You were tight with Lizzie. Yeah, well, I've got an OAM offer.

No, I don't really have any contacts there. I'd like to think that would happen, though, but I love the King. See, I know you're a bit anti the King, Gatho, aren't you, Flannery? You don't think he's that good a player. Am I correct in saying that? That's a bit harsh. Well, he said it.

I might have said it once before. I just thought a period of time he was just sort of flattened out a little bit and now there's a bit of hype about him. But, you know, to his credit, he had a couple of weeks off. He was playing busted for a lot of weeks there with a knee injury and then they decided, OK, look, we've just got to bite the bullet and get this fixed up. And then he came back last week and he was outstanding. So I'm quite happy to eat my words. I think he's a great player.

Well, they had a good win last week over the Sharks, and I'm reliably told this man was very, very happy. The interim coach of the Parramatta Eels is a league legend himself in Trent Barrett. He's on the line. G'day, Trent. Hello, mate. How you going? Mate, very well. Congratulations on the win last week. Obviously, you'd love to back it up Monday against the Bulldogs in King Gutho's 200th game. Yeah, we would. They've had a good week, and obviously it's a big occasion for Gutho. He's been a great player for a long time, and, you know, it's...

He's been our captain. It's a big occasion for him too. So the dog's going well though. They're defending really good, not giving too much away. So we're going to have to play good, but we'll be okay. Baz, I know you had Moses out for a fair amount of time there, but for me, your forwards were getting trampled. That was sort of where you're losing the game. Then he's come back last week and all of a sudden everything just clicks. Your forwards were going forward. You win the battle on the ground. Everything clicked for you. Do you think you'd have that impact?

it's probably more the confidence that Guthrie and Mitch I suppose give the rest of the team Gal but I think they went back to we cut things back it's pretty simple we've had a pretty disruptive few weeks doing it it's never nice when you have a change of coach but I think we just went away from working hard for each other you know and our kick chase and our work from marker and our kick pressure and all those little things and

Our forwards did that last week. They ran a bit harder. Where Mitchell turns the ball over to gives us a bit of a leg up. He's probably one of the best kickers in the game. So that certainly helped. But our forwards did play well last week and they're going to have to win on Monday. Baz, you've had experience at both these clubs. Is the feeling still there between these two clubs? You know, like...

Like when they play, everyone said, oh, it goes back to the 80s. When they did have a great rivalry, is it still around, the rivalry between the Dogs and the Eels? Yeah, I think so. I think, you know, the modern play is a little bit different to even when, you know, we played Gal. I think a lot of the players from different clubs live together too now and half of them live in Cronulla. So they're all friends and we didn't really have that when we played and social media has probably brought them all together. But there is a rivalry there. I think it's probably more between the fans and the...

And, you know, senior players in the club don't anything. But, you know, that'll be reflected in the crowd we get. I think they're expecting 30,000 or 40,000 there on Monday, which would be good. But it's an important game for us. We need the win to stay in touch. We still think we can make the semifinals. But this week's huge for us. Jermaine Hockgood was great during the week, Baz. We expect him to back up.

Yeah, he comes through fine, Flannoy. So much like your two last night, Lomax and Benny Hunt, they were great last night. We need Maney to be the same. You didn't like Sewell? No, Sewell. Well done, guys. Well done, mate. Nah, just stick with them two. They...

Yeah, no, look, when they come out of an origin side, they always come back with a lot of confidence. And you can see last night, particularly with Zach, he's been playing fantastic. And Hoppy's, the amount that they learn in the air, being around the best players in the game, we're expecting him to play well. But he's fine and he trained yesterday, did a little bit yesterday. Yeah, he'll start for us on Monday.

Baz, Parramatta are obviously looking for a new head coach going into next season. Are you going to put your hand up for it? Yeah. Yeah, look, I didn't want to say too much the first few weeks. And without... You know, it's always a hard one when, you know, you're very close to the head coach and when there's movement there. But, you know, we've...

all got to move forward as well. It's something that I've really enjoyed. Parramatta's a really good club. It's a very stable club and we've got a good side. I've found this experience completely different to the last two I've had. I'm in a good position where I'm there. I'm sort of

you're in the shop window every day with the powers to be but you know it's certainly going to help if we can continue winning games and you know I'd love an opportunity to coach them long term but that's a little bit in our control I suppose so we go out and keep winning and that you know will help but

And, you know, my main focus is the players, mate. I've just got to get them to win this week and prepare them as best we can. Before you go, Trenton, we've got to let you go. I wanted to ask you a question about your great mate, Mark Piggy-Riddell, who's a member of our team.

Where is he today? Well, he's got Saturdays off. He's knifed the big man to get his co-commentary duty on a Friday. But now, Paul Gallen is obviously here on Saturdays. Piggy's with us on Sundays. Piggy tells me that, you know, he makes out that he gets around Shell Harbour as if he owns the place. You know, he knows everybody. He does. He's got a table down at the bar at the marina there and everything else. Can you just clear up whether or not Piggy is well-known down there and whether he has any pull anywhere in Shell Harbour?

He gets around a little bit, the big fella. So he's got a couple of good mates here. Trent Marron's down here. I think Barney was living here for a while. Zach Lomax is here. Half the Dragons live down this way. So there's a few here. But I drove past his house before and the car was in the driveway. He doesn't like the cold. He'd be inside eating and he'd put a blanket on the lounge. He never leaves his house. You know with him. I mean, you've known him for a long time, right? Yeah.

You know how his weight fluctuates? Like he goes from on a diet to being fat, then he's on a diet again. He's amazing. He puts it on, takes it off all the time. Why is that? Do you know? I don't know.

I don't know. I know I say to him, just find some consistency there, mate, and find a weight in between. But he will go mad. His mate owns the F45 down here, or one of them. And he will lose 12 or 15 kilos, but then he rewards himself by putting it back on. Oh, beautiful. We'll replay that to him tomorrow. You're a good man, Trent. Good luck on Monday, mate. We'll see you out there.

Good on you. Thanks, fellas. Thanks, mate. There he is, Trent Barrett, one of the good guys in the game. Bulldogs and Eels coming up on Monday. We'll be there to cover that one. Ray Hadley's going to call that game for us on the King's Birthday public holiday. Bulldogs and Eels, 4 o'clock kickoff on Monday, and we'll be on air from 3 o'clock.