LIVE: Freddy's bold call on Cowboys' future

Brad Fittler was asked connected Wide World of Sports' Freddy and the Eighth if the Cowboys would triumph a premiership successful the adjacent 3 seasons - and didn't hesitate to answer.

"Yeah, for sure," helium said.

"I was going done their broadside past nighttime and conscionable going 'wow'."

It's a bold telephone but could beryllium proven close arsenic soon arsenic adjacent Sunday - with Todd Payten's men hosting the Eels contiguous and a spot successful the decider connected the line. 

"I'll archer you different happening - you spell implicit astir clubs and they person a 'fluke' signing. Luciano Leilua, that was a 'fluke' signing. Mid-year, onslaught player, tin marque a difference," Fittler added.

"Can marque an error, but helium is lethal - I deliberation you tin spell implicit astir teams that triumph a comp and they get a spot of luck determination with their roster." 

The Cowboys are chock-full of young guns who are already making a quality astatine the apical level - which tin lone assistance them going forward.

"Their inferior operation indispensable beryllium truly good," Andrew Johns said.

"The past 2 oregon 3 years, Hamiso [Tabuai-Fidow] has travel through, past you've got Heilum Luki, [Jeremiah] Nanai, Tom Gilbert played Origin.

"Their inferior pathways, their inferior coaching, the mode they're coaching them, their recognition of endowment - and astir of them boys are section boys."