HE’S the oldest player in the NRL, but Paul Gallen has revealed the numbers that prove he’s still one of the game’s elite forwards.

Meanwhile, Nathan Peats rips into his Gold Coast teammates.

All that and more in this week’s NRL Confidential.

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

Round 19

Paul Gallen has still got it.

At 36, the Cronulla co-captain is the oldest man in the NRL but he hasn’t missed a step.

Turning 37 in August, the lock shared his time trial time on social media.

How’d he do?

Made it with two seconds to spare.

Paul Gallen posts on Instagram. Source: Instagram

In fact, Gallen told The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday he’ll keep playing on as long as form holds up.

“I’m not going to stop just because of my age. Age is only a number,” he said.

“If I can still do my job, to the best of my ability and better than other people, then I’ll keep doing it.”

PEATS’ PET PEEVES

From training to competing, NRL players spend almost every day together during the season.

It’s no different at Gold Coast and Nathan Peats has revealed the players who get on his nerves the most.

“Jarrod Wallace thinks he’s the man, he think thinks he can get hook-ups whenever he wants,” Peats told Fox Sports.

“He think he can just rings someone and get stuff down.

“He calls the plays on the field like he’s a halfback. He does my head in, he does everyone’s head in actually.”

Peats didn’t stop there, with Konrad Hurrell and Ash Taylor also in his sights, although his playmaker escaped relatively unscathed.

“Koni, he needs a translator 24/7. I’m struggling to understand him at the moment,” he laughed.

“Ash is pretty good actually, I don’t mind him.

“He kicks it dead every now and again and gives away seven tackles.

“I feel like saying ‘come in the middle and tackle for a set’, but he’s a world-class player so I don’t mind him.”

TONYA’S PUNISHMENTS

By now most people would know about ‘Tonya’ the Dragons’ bus that transports 12 Red V stars based in Sydney to and from Wollongong for training.

The players, including Ben Hunt, James Graham, Tyson Frizell, Matt Dufty and Jason Nightingale, have come up with a game to help make the bus ride more memorable.

“There are two dice and 12 punishments,” Frizell told foxsports.com.au.

“There are a couple of rules and standards that you need to abide by to make sure the trip goes nicely.

“One of the toughest ones is getting the train home, that’s if you roll two ones.

“If you roll two sixes you can pass a train as in make someone else do it.

“If one of the boys is mucking up you have to roll the dice and it just makes for an enjoyable trip.”

HAYNE INSPIRING NFL STAR’S NRL DREAM

He’s not the ‘Hayne Plane — more the Reddy Jet — but former Washington Redskins running back Silas Redd is drawing inspiration for his NRL quest from Eels superstar Jarryd Hayne.

Having played just one game of rugby league in his life last November for the Ipswich Jets in an exhibition match in Hawaii, Redd arrived in Brisbane on Tuesday morning and will suit up for the Jets in their final trial in New Zealand this weekend ahead of the start of the Intrust Super Cup season.

A round one start in Ben and Shane Walker’s team may be a stretch too far but the former star college player told NRL.com that he already has eyes on the NRL and completing the “reverse Jarryd Hayne”.

Hayne quit the NRL at the end of the 2014 season to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL, a dream he fulfilled with the San Francisco 49ers and which Redd is drawing inspiration from.

“Jarryd was able to do it at the highest and most elite level of football in America,” Redd said upon arrival.

“I’m not quite the reverse Jarryd Hayne. I still have to crack the NRL but that’s something I’m planning to do.

“He’s been an inspiration to me and I just hope that for what he did I can do the same thing.

“I’m here to do whatever I have to do to contribute to this team and play at the next level, and that’s the NRL.

WILL YOU MARRY ME?

A Penrith and a Roosters walk into a stadium.

One thinks she’s there to watch a trial match but the other has grand plans.

See below!

A Penrith fan proposes at the trial on the weekend. Source: Twitter