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Speaker 1: My parents.

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Speaker 2: I'm not living with them. I'm just staying with them.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking I'm taking care of them at the moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because I don't know if you know, but these two

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Speaker 2: late you know there, they're getting old.

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Speaker 3: Let's hope you do look after me when I'm like

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Speaker 3: mid seventies and I'm actually shooting myself.

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Speaker 1: And things like that.

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Speaker 3: You to wipe my ass, change my nappy, all that

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Speaker 3: sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the home I put you in obviously when

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Speaker 2: i'm living.

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Speaker 1: Truth right.

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Speaker 2: Also, I'll make sure i'll redecorate your bedroom upstairs when

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Speaker 2: i'm up there as well. It'll be good fun just

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Speaker 2: through out the work bench, mate, I'm going to get

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Speaker 2: all the boys in here. Fox's family is going to

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Speaker 2: move in. I'm in here, Brandon.

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Speaker 3: The monsters.

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Speaker 2: I don't want them. That'd be horrible. Josh had a car, mate,

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Speaker 2: Good to have.

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Speaker 1: You any good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mate, I don't know if you know how to

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Speaker 2: work a mic before, if you work too.

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Speaker 1: Far away, yeah, you get it.

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Speaker 2: You'll be able to hear yourself in the We call

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Speaker 2: these things cans. Cans.

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Speaker 1: They're away.

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Speaker 2: No, you're not allowed. Just when you laugh, go all

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Speaker 2: the way back there. What have you been doing? What's happing?

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Speaker 1: Not much, bro, just family time with the kids. Missus.

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Speaker 1: Father again, huh father again? Well done? Another little boy,

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Speaker 1: Jack Jada Black?

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Speaker 2: Were you hoping is there? Are you thinking about? Were

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Speaker 2: you hoping there to be a girl? Because you've already

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Speaker 2: got a little boy. I want to try full of boys, bro,

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Speaker 2: you just want all boys.

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Speaker 3: I already got my girl right fighting troop by the graces.

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Speaker 2: I think the same too, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Make sure they look after the trouble.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be good. But they all play footy?

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Speaker 1: Yeah I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You want them to.

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Speaker 1: I don't want them to. But if they love it,

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Speaker 1: then you.

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Speaker 2: Were the same, right dude, You probably didn't want You

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Speaker 2: didn't want us to play footy.

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Speaker 3: I was happy to do whatever you wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: But look in an ideal world. I remember having a

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Speaker 3: conversation with Jack wants to mate, listen, why don't you

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Speaker 3: go go to the States to get a college education?

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Speaker 3: And he was like, nah, Dad, you know Friday nights

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Speaker 3: I corrupted you sitting every Friday night, me drinking on

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Speaker 3: the couch watching Friday night football.

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Speaker 1: It just bled into you. Blokes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you do? You choose your own path anyway.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you what to.

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Speaker 2: Do exactly, bro. And if you tell, if you try

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Speaker 2: to tell your kids what to do, you know what

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Speaker 2: they're going to do. Fox. Let them pick their own path.

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Speaker 2: I give them enough road to trip over.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the gifts to by the way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's try it, man.

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Speaker 3: I think I love this green. You know, green is

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Speaker 3: my color. Green, Green is my color. I mate, I

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Speaker 3: get attracted door things green. It's a roll leg green.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. I appreciate it. It's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk quickly. But Paramatta, right now, how are you

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Speaker 2: enjoying time over and paramounter?

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Speaker 1: I love?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just the people, the player group, the coaching staff,

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Speaker 4: everyone behind administration there. Transitioned really well into the team.

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Speaker 4: I knew a lot of the boys and the coaching staff,

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Speaker 4: so love and I know we're not getting the results

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Speaker 4: at the moment, we're not far off, but just just

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Speaker 4: loving the way we want to play in the stole

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Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: You've come from clubs with good fan base. Melbourne had

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Speaker 2: a good fan base, Bulldog's got a crazy fan base.

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Speaker 2: Paramatta like there is. That's as big a fan base

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Speaker 2: as called.

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Speaker 1: The Sleeping Giant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, how's the Roles files going Jason Rolls?

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Speaker 2: Obviously you had him as assistant coach at Melbourne. You've

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Speaker 1: He's been going good man.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's the same as when we were at

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Speaker 4: the Storm. But I don't think not much has changed.

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Speaker 4: But he's been good.

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Speaker 2: But this is still not alluding to what he used

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Speaker 2: to put on the powerpoints when he was an assistant coach.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, used to call Billy Billy Walters used to

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Speaker 2: call it the greatest showman because he had a really

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Speaker 2: good dummy. But he used to take used to do

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Speaker 2: was just like you know that one mate in a

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Speaker 2: group chat who always somehow gets the sickest videos. Let's

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Speaker 2: like sickening video just to get the room laughing, and

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Speaker 2: then he'd have everyone.

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Speaker 1: Does he still do that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls, probably the greatest, one

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Speaker 3: of the greatest coaches history of sports. When he used

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Speaker 3: and all those blokes, he used to like sort of

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Speaker 3: cut together into the film scenes from the Wizard of

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Speaker 3: Oz and everything. Get them laughing.

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Speaker 1: Oh really like that? He was really imagining.

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Speaker 3: If I mean, if you're gonna sit there in a

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Speaker 3: team meeting for anyhow, you may as well be able

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Speaker 3: to have a bit of a laugh.

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Speaker 4: And you want energy before the meeting too. I think

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Speaker 4: that's what rosal. He makes the meetings and training fun.

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Speaker 3: Got to hear some of the coaches, Foxy. Just imagine

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Speaker 3: sitting in a meeting with that for an how and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we just.

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Speaker 3: We sort of like, you know, I think we're better

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Speaker 3: than that, just going off. Yeah, I wonder some people

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Speaker 3: sit there, you know? Am I wasting my life?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What about the playing group? What about the boys

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Speaker 2: that you haven't seen? You a lot of them coming in.

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Speaker 2: But how is the because every playing groups like different

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Speaker 2: every you have loose characters in there, what's the paramatter?

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Speaker 4: Like? Let sleep, bro, I feel like we're a close bunch.

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Speaker 4: You know, they're good, They're good bunch of boys.

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Speaker 2: Who's your game?

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Speaker 1: Uh? One?

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Speaker 3: Or two senior player, you've got to basically after all

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Speaker 4: That's true because we live we live all over Sydney

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Speaker 4: bro We always try to catch up with a cafe

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Speaker 4: before training before captains run.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like we're all close group.

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Speaker 2: Did you play with Mitch at the Tigers?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I was that the titles with Mitch Mitch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's We always.

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Speaker 1: Talk about it. Back in the days, we had a

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Speaker 1: pretty good side.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you had a well like back in those

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Speaker 2: days to a lot of you young guys who are

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Speaker 2: all like sort of scattered around in the NRL now

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Speaker 2: and leaders at their respective clubs, but you guys were

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Speaker 2: like you were probably the you guys were the rat

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Speaker 2: pack of the West Tigers and now you're all like,

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Speaker 2: you know, good family man all your respective clubs. But

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Speaker 2: I imagine you'd have some cracking stories, not for not

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Speaker 2: for the.

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Speaker 3: Like what, he's a good players, a good kid.

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Speaker 1: He's a very good kid.

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Speaker 4: He keeps to himself, but I feel like over the

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Speaker 4: last couple of weeks he's really coming out of the

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Speaker 4: shell and has a laugh at the boys, comes out

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Speaker 4: the breaky like I said, and he's definitely a shigning like.

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Speaker 3: Tear Blake, I reckon, you get on really good with

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Speaker 3: He's an old player who went to Union for years.

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Speaker 3: Scotty wise Man or one of the assistants.

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Speaker 1: Scotty how good is love him?

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Speaker 4: Because I had the time of up in lenox Head

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Speaker 4: when Covid when Covid.

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Speaker 2: Here, Oh yeah, was he up there?

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Speaker 1: He was?

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Speaker 4: That's why who I did a little pre season because

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Speaker 4: I last stayed in Sydney and everyone had to go

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Speaker 4: to melbur.

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Speaker 2: You and George Jennings, Yes, yeah, that's right. I remember your.

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Speaker 4: Storm said, oh, we got like a couple of hours

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Speaker 4: to pack all that stuff up and drive down to Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: I said, I can't, like I don't know, I had

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Speaker 4: But end up getting stuck in Sydney and they were like, oh,

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Speaker 4: you have to move to to lenox Head for three

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Speaker 4: or four weeks, have a little mini pre season up

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Speaker 4: there because there was a green zone.

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Speaker 1: And Sydney was a red zone. Yeah that's right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had all these little zones.

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Speaker 2: I remember when you did it. Yeah, all the boys

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Speaker 2: were off because you guys were remember we were in

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Speaker 2: we were in Melbourne and it was like piercing down

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Speaker 2: rain and Foxy and Jenks were in Where was that Lennox?

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Speaker 2: And it was like every day they just post pictures

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Speaker 2: at the beach and just the locals made.

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Speaker 1: Us so fun for they cooked to the surf. I

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Speaker 1: don't have to surf. I don't even know how to swim,

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Speaker 1: but a surf I was.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to get out there. But I'm just you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm not the fittest person at all. I'm trying to.

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Speaker 3: Make your a Lando.

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Speaker 1: Bargain with a crack. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, why is he going to full circle? Why is

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Speaker 3: he played under twenty one for Paramount of President's Cup

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Speaker 3: that's called back in the day. Then he went away

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Speaker 3: went into the union coaching union with the war Tars Wallabies,

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Speaker 3: English Ruby Union back of Paramount. Tremendous fella.

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Speaker 4: He's so smart, like he comes up with little drills

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Speaker 4: that we can work on, like within our game. I'll

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Speaker 4: sit down with them all at the time, and obviously

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Speaker 4: it was part of the union there for a bit

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Speaker 4: and Rosie give me heads up just to try to

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Speaker 4: give him a hand and a few areas and that's

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Speaker 4: something I really enjoyed. Try to coach the boys and

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Speaker 4: help the boys and help our coaches as well.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 2: And let's go to your und our old journey for

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Speaker 2: a week. Let's start right in the beginning. You start

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Speaker 2: at the Sharkis of your South juniors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, he went Mattreville Light, didn't you?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Did you come through with any of the boys there.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of us.

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Speaker 4: Adnamshan Or Blake, Tyron Phillips, Aaron Gray, Dylan Walker.

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Speaker 3: Reno went there, didn't.

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Speaker 1: Boy Cord?

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Speaker 2: What was Blake like in school?

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Speaker 1: He's just stubborn brother.

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Speaker 4: I played so much football with Adam through school obviously

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Speaker 4: through Souse as well.

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Speaker 1: I've known him since under elevens or something.

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Speaker 2: He's a good player, He's freak. He's so good.

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Speaker 4: But if you if you looked at us two back

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Speaker 5: And that's why I went to the the So what

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Speaker 1: Then I played nine games there and yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Remember that Sunday like hard over against the same game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you'd signed with Melbourne two weeks before.

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Speaker 4: Because I was obviously going really well in this of

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Speaker 1: Didn't telling And the back of it, I'm like, I

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Speaker 3: It's an incredible coincidence though, that your first grade to

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Speaker 1: It's crazy when I look back at it.

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Speaker 3: Now, do you like still speak to him just on Instagram?

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Speaker 2: I just reply to his stuff here and there.

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Speaker 1: He's still not crazy down he's in.

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Speaker 2: I think he's in Japan at the moment.

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Speaker 4: I think he signed with like overseas quiet, but every

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's one of the great mysteries. He hasn't

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Speaker 2: A real bad hamstring remember when he first went and

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Speaker 3: So Fox, just when you went to I don't want

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Speaker 1: You just tell me if I've gone a little bit too.

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Speaker 3: You go to your plans, you can see you can

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Speaker 4: And the.

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Speaker 2: Bloke behind us.

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Speaker 1: When you went.

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Speaker 3: So when you went to Melbourne, what was the first

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Speaker 4: It was at the front of his house with that

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Speaker 2: In Oh yeah, what is that?

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Speaker 1: To be honest, I can't remember, but.

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Speaker 4: I think I was telling him at the time, like, okay,

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Speaker 4: I can't remember what the common station was until I

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Speaker 1: Yep. He's like, yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Can't be doing all this Larry stuff after trials and sweet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah done, but no problems. But the first ever meeting.

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Speaker 4: I was so worried about, like moving to another city

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Speaker 4: with no stress. So you don't need to worry about that.

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Speaker 2: Oh really, he always gave you that option, Like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I always that, Yeah, give me that option. But so,

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Speaker 3: Did you ever have that temptation to go back or

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Speaker 3: did you love it straight away?

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Speaker 4: Rather the first year I was struggling. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so I bought a brand new car.

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Speaker 4: I was paying a fortune for that, and then I

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Speaker 1: I ring my best man.

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Speaker 4: I said, but I don't think I can stay down anymore,

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Speaker 4: And I almost almost moved back. My best man was like, no,

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Speaker 4: I just stay down to stick to it. And that

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Speaker 2: So so you didn't know like obviously that Melbourne preseason

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Speaker 2: because look, letting people know like Foxy is a is

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was very tough, but believe it. And I

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Speaker 4: we'll finish on.

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Speaker 2: Running.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be away at the back like it was

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Speaker 4: because Craig didn't come back to training for like two

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Speaker 4: I think it was the hardest day. It was like

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Speaker 4: we're doing M A S. And I was way at

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Speaker 4: your head starts going off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the squibvel.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, He's like, your head's not gonna make you run

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Speaker 1: Some stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: So we used to I love the noises used to

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Speaker 2: when we were running, because you go fun like the

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Speaker 2: takes his boots off and he just would run barefoot

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Speaker 3: What about the work we're having to do? The work

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Speaker 4: Early on Fox, Oh, I was a laborer brother before

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Speaker 4: we went the Bulders, I was all right, ah.

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Speaker 3: You're wrong.

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Speaker 2: So you were across the word pro.

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Speaker 1: I was already cross it.

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Speaker 4: But the tough thing was obviously getting uper three or

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Speaker 3: Do gym and then and then go and work all day.

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Speaker 4: I was actually blessed with them with the work I

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Speaker 1: Did you yeah, yeah, So who do.

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Speaker 2: You work with that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I can't Tony. I think it was Tony. He was

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Speaker 1: a he was a concretor.

448
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, far out because that is that work program

449
00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,360
Speaker 2: is so tough. What did you do the end when

450
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,680
Speaker 2: you did Army camp that year, because obviously first players

451
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,240
Speaker 2: every it's pretty well documented, do a big Army camp.

452
00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 2: Was that a team the whole team one? Or was

453
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,040
Speaker 2: that just all the new players.

454
00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,400
Speaker 4: And I just saw the new players because we had myself, myself,

455
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,360
Speaker 4: Jerome Juzzy two.

456
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,560
Speaker 1: He that was our first year there. So Jerome's never

457
00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:53,720
Speaker 1: done that because he's back.

458
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeromes Hughes, the only person who plays in the

459
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,880
Speaker 2: Melvin Streamer still hasn't done a proper Army camp.

460
00:19:58,920 --> 00:19:59,560
Speaker 1: Hasn't heard him.

461
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, he used to be hurt every pre season. He

462
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,160
Speaker 2: have a surgery Liz Frankie out of Gary Jack one

463
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 2: and he just could never put him in because the

464
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,199
Speaker 2: physios were like he'll break down. Yeah yeah wow, And

465
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 2: now it's just too far gone. I think he's just

466
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:13,959
Speaker 2: like he's not a dallim.

467
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:14,119
Speaker 3: Now.

468
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,320
Speaker 1: Was it was it Foxy Camp?

469
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 2: Yeah?

470
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 1: It was? It was. It was very very hard. I

471
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,720
Speaker 1: don't three days no sleep. You know. We had a

472
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 1: good crew. That was the thing.

473
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,320
Speaker 4: Like we had the best thing about the Army camps,

474
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,320
Speaker 4: like you get good stories and good laughs out of them,

475
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,720
Speaker 4: because no matter what you do, you're gonna fail and

476
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 4: do penalties in the Army camp. So I probably should

477
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 4: have won it, but bells are don't given things.

478
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 2: Who did when you're on.

479
00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,119
Speaker 1: I was just edited through that the whole throughout the

480
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:50,919
Speaker 1: whole you.

481
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 2: Would have been good for Anna.

482
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

483
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 4: The first night killed me, but we walked we walked

484
00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,120
Speaker 4: up to the thousand stairs.

485
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

486
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,080
Speaker 4: I think we did about three laps of that and

487
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 4: that killed me. But after that I was I.

488
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,679
Speaker 2: Remember there are stories of two we because I did

489
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,239
Speaker 2: the one the year after you and the boys were

490
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 2: saying two. He was like just a machine.

491
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:09,240
Speaker 1: Though.

492
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 2: There were some nights when two we would pick up

493
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 2: like some of the boys and just put it, have

494
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 2: him over his shoulder, and he'd be like soldering on

495
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 2: with him too. He's had a man mountain.

496
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 1: Like he because I was his partner on the thousand steps.

497
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, you have a big drum of water.

498
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bro'm back.

499
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 1: I can't walk up this because I was at the back.

500
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: Hole it from the back, you know what I mean.

501
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 4: And he goes, it's all right, my brother, that's all right,

502
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 4: picks up what his shoulder, brother puts the both on

503
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 4: the thing like that.

504
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

505
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, seriously, He's like, it's all good, my brother.

506
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 1: I got to you. I got to that's awesome.

507
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 2: Nothing phases to like everything. Two he is, you might

508
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 2: ask might be having the worst week of his life. Yeah,

509
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 2: and you just go brah seki my brother, Yeah, my

510
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 2: brother And then he's having a really good week and

511
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,400
Speaker 2: how good is that? Mate? You just scored four tries?

512
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,640
Speaker 2: How are you going? I can seeking. My brother always

513
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 2: is always the same ade.

514
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: It was always the same fresh ass and just cruisy.

515
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 2: Yeah he's so good.

516
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 3: What are they like on the sea, Like the says

517
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 3: blokes on that camp, do they get in your face?

518
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 3: And yeah, you got to.

519
00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,880
Speaker 4: Rip in from the very very start. If you rip

520
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 4: in from the very start, they leave you alone. But

521
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 4: if you're just like just not not putting the work in,

522
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 4: I'm not bringing energy in that, they'll fucking get into

523
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:23,440
Speaker 4: your other whole camp.

524
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,199
Speaker 3: Who was the guy on the camps boys? Which was

525
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: there anyone that really struggled they went after in yours caups?

526
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 1: Apart from yourself?

527
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 2: I remember, very low blow, very cheap for that. There

528
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 2: was one bloke and I think he's played first grade

529
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,719
Speaker 2: at the Warriors. Actually he didn't. They were tipping him

530
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 2: to be the next Suley. You remember Junior Retover. They got

531
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 2: him out of Fiji and he was he was a winger. Yeah,

532
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 2: he was huge a he was six foot seven. He

533
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 2: was a man mountain like he was a could run too,

534
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 2: just didn't really love training back then, and they just

535
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 2: went after Junior. Yeah, and I remember we had to

536
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 2: so Brandon Smith won our camp, right, and remember that

537
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 2: on day two with you go right, they might get

538
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 2: foxy up and you've got to rank everybody from last

539
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,199
Speaker 2: to first on how they've been at the camp with

540
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 2: like a brutal honesty. So you just got a hammer.

541
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 2: The ones that have been bad, you pull them up

542
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 2: straight away. You you haven't done this, You haven't done this.

543
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,719
Speaker 2: Junior come last on everyone's reviews. But Brandon. So, Brandon

544
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 2: got told by the army guy because Brandon was killing it.

545
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 2: They said, you're the like you know, we can see

546
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 2: that you're the leader of this group. You hammer who

547
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 2: he thinks last, and you go after him. You set

548
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 2: the tone. And Brandon goes out there. He goes, yes,

549
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: sweet fuck it, Brandon. Brandon just starts going, yeah, Junior,

550
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 2: you haven't done this. This this, you know, I wouldn't

551
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 2: want to lay the boot up next to here. Oh no,

552
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 2: And me and Harry are looking at each other going

553
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: holy shit, but this is ruthless. And Harry was up next.

554
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 2: Harry Grant so Harry's going, I've got to follow this,

555
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 2: and he's going, yeah, I wouldn't. He goes seeing what

556
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 2: I've seen this, I wouldn't play alongside yet, like I

557
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 2: would not like Sabuda hammered him. Anyway, Junior was the

558
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 2: last person like he you know, everyone sort of hammed him.

559
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 2: I felt bad because he just wasn't a good trainer,

560
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 2: like he was a gun player. And then Junior gets

561
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 2: up there and he goes, okay, guys, and he was

562
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 2: last after everyone just hading him, and he goes, okay, guys.

563
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 2: So my last is Brandon. And just because Brandon hammered

564
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 2: him and went really personal, he put Brandon laugh and

565
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 2: hammered Brandon. And Brandon was sitting there going like clearly

566
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 2: he was going to win it. All the army guys

567
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 2: you could see them actually laughing because I was like,

568
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 2: he's just hammerding him because he like is off branded.

569
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: It was funny, man.

570
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: That is so good. What about you.

571
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 2: The big your first interaction with like Smitty Coober Crunk,

572
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 2: Billy Slater.

573
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, that must have been pretty What was that like

574
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 3: going to training watching those plays?

575
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I back then, but I just loved playing football.

576
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 4: I didn't know, I didn't know what fill in the

577
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 4: space was. I didn't know what time in the town

578
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 4: of Shape was, like all that kind of stuff. But

579
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 4: me and Bill and Coops and Smithy like how professionally

580
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 4: they were and like just just genuine people. I remember

581
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 4: I remember meeting Cam and I was shaking his hand.

582
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 4: I say, Bro, I'm Josh and He's like, hey man, I'm.

583
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: Cameron, and I'm like, bro, I know you know what

584
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: I mean.

585
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 4: It just blew me away that like he introduced himself

586
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 4: with his name. He could have just been arrogant, like

587
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 4: knowing that I knew who he was already, but that

588
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 4: just blew me away in itself, you know, just just

589
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 4: to show like what type of person he was. Even

590
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 4: Coops and Bill were the same as well. So there's

591
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 4: probably a standout moment there when I first moved to

592
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 4: the club.

593
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 2: Did they Like a lot of people always say, you

594
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 2: know how and you would have seen it when you

595
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: come back to Sydney clubs and stuff, the culture of

596
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 2: a club where it's like you're in a team meeting

597
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 2: and all the big dogs talk. But I imagine it

598
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: would have been and you probably would have been the

599
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 2: first few weeks you're in there. You've got Cooper Kronk,

600
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: Billy Slade Up, Craig Bellamy, Cameron Smith, the Bromidge Brothers.

601
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 2: You're probably sitting there going, I don't want to say

602
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 2: a word, but they probably they actually forced you to speak,

603
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 2: Like I imagine that would have been a bit of it,

604
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 2: Like you would have been so rad on having to

605
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 2: talk give your opinion.

606
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 4: And it was because I hate, like I know what

607
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 4: I'm seeing like in video and that. But like Bells

608
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 4: would be like, Josh, what do you reckon here? And

609
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, man, I don't know, but yeah, I

610
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 4: like come to a point but where I was just like, mate,

611
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 4: I don't know, like you know what I mean, Like

612
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 4: I wouldn't beat around the bush because like a head yeah,

613
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 4: and then like straight made, I don't the boys would

614
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 4: start this cracking up.

615
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: He'd appreciate that, would yah, Yeah, that's what I mean.

616
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: Like I didn't beat around the bush. I'd be like

617
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: fu made, I don't actually, but.

618
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember at that time, Bells were talking about

619
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 4: retiring and you could see why because we had.

620
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: You can see you can see why because.

621
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 4: The senior players how much they took over video. They

622
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 4: drove the standards of train and fucking bells are just

623
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 4: kicking back, just collect the money sort of thing, you know.

624
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 4: But yeah, I remember I remember that period, just thinking

625
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 4: about retirement because of all the senior players. But obviously

626
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 4: he really enjoys.

627
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: What he does.

628
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

629
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, But.

630
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 3: Whenever you go to a new club or you might

631
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 3: gant it when you're younger, going at it in the

632
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 3: first grade, you're looking for that breakout performance where yeah, yeah,

633
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 3: proved everyone I belong. Do you remember do you remember

634
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 3: a moment or anything Foxy in Melbourne?

635
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: Yeah?

636
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,479
Speaker 4: Fuck, probably not too after probably the Grand Final, you're right,

637
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 4: the first Grand Final against Cowboys. I just yeah, against

638
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 4: the Cowboys. Yeah, I just felt like it wasn't my position,

639
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 4: just yeah, just I don't know, just yeah, looking back

640
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 4: at now, I just felt like the wing spot was

641
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 4: my position to probably he won the Grand Final.

642
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny.

643
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 2: Didn't feel comfortable.

644
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never felt like it was yeah right, yeah,

645
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 4: like I just I don't know why, but yeah, looking

646
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 4: back at it now, I just never felt comfortable in

647
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 4: terms of that's my position. Yeah, you know what I

648
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 4: mean say comfortable, But yeah, I just felt like there

649
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 4: was boys that were killing it in reserve grade. I

650
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 4: train and that probably deserved the spot as well.

651
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 3: It keeps you sharp, they've done it, it does, but yeah,

652
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 3: it does.

653
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 4: They showed so much evidence in training and how much

654
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 4: boys are putting in and it's just like, fuck, you know,

655
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 4: I need to do that too, yep.

656
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: And that's what I think. I'm so great about the storm.

657
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: When you've got depth in the club, everyone's up on

658
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 3: their toes, you know, like you never when you never

659
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 3: really feel like, yeah, well.

660
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 2: I imagine like you would if you if you had

661
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: a half a nigga, you know, now, like you get

662
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 2: a half a nigger, you go, I can't train for

663
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 2: a couple of days. They want to get this right

664
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: back then, Like you know, if you have a couple

665
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 2: of days off, or you have a game off and

666
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: somebody goes in and scores a hat trick, like that's

667
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 2: your position to lose, you know, I mean, like they

668
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 2: keep him in there. So how many did you miss

669
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: many games that year?

670
00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: I miss nothing?

671
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 4: Did I didn't miss gave for fucking free. I'm pretty

672
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 4: sure three three years unless they pulled me out to

673
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 4: give me a rest, you.

674
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: Know what I mean. I never was an injine or anything.

675
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 4: But yeah, Bells will be like, oh I just have

676
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 4: the week, I'll get ready for the finals or something

677
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 4: something like that.

678
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

679
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: Other than that, we're talking about keeping sharp and like

680
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 3: you know, at a club like Melbourne where there's so

681
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 3: much depth and so much going on. Evidence of that

682
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 3: is remember Billy had about eighty months up with that

683
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 3: bad shoulder. I remember seeing him down at the twenty

684
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 3: sixteen Melbourne Cup and I saw him and his wife Nicole,

685
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 3: and he just looked down and I want to said, Billy,

686
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 3: how you going, mate? We're having a chat and I said,

687
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 3: you're right, made everything O came and he goes, oh, no,

688
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 3: really said mate.

689
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: I sort of.

690
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 3: He said, you know, Monster took my spot last year

691
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 3: at fullback and I sort of feel like a lot

692
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 3: of people are writing me off. And then I was like, mate,

693
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 3: your fucking Billy Slater anyway. But that's how he felt

694
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 3: in himself.

695
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: It just shows the type of guys.

696
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 3: And then the next year that that season up on

697
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 3: his toes and feeling unsure.

698
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: Mate. I don't think they have ever been a more

699
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: successful season.

700
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 3: He won everything, Bill, Yeah, every award, every trophy, he

701
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 3: held them all.

702
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, even like you'd know this foxy too, Like I

703
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: remember my first year twenty eighteen. It was the year

704
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 2: after the Grand Final and he'd come back that year,

705
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: you know, won everything. And then the first few weeks

706
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 2: there he invited me and Harry over for dinner just

707
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: to make us feel comfortab we moved him down the

708
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: road from where him and Nicole lived, and Dad said

709
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: he was sitting there cooking dinner and in between tosses

710
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: of the saucepan would do like push ups for shoulder rehab.

711
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 2: He had like one of those elastic bands tied against

712
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: like the tetawel rack, and would just be like talking

713
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: to us while like just trying to keep his shoulder strong.

714
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 2: Like the amount of work that slats he puts in.

715
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 3: Full time, professional, full like full lot.

716
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 2: Like it's a good example for kids in that because

717
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 2: I used to go home, I'd have like a little

718
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 2: Kentucky bucket. You know, I'll be like you go home

719
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 2: and too, if you want you to put a couple

720
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: of wilkilos on yeh sweet. He didn't say how I

721
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: do it, but I'll be down like wicked wings and

722
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: mash plaid on grave. I'll be pumping.

723
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: Them between wicked wings. You don't push up.

724
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: Harry's rubbing me.

725
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 4: Out really like he's he's he's my biggest mentor.

726
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: Like I learned everything off everything I know.

727
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 4: Now like he he taught me and I still bring

728
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 4: to my game now, Like everything that I teach to

729
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 4: younger players.

730
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: I learned off Bills. Yep, learned off the best fullback

731
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: in the world. You know what I mean.

732
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 4: I probably haven't said that to anyone, but like looking

733
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: back at an hour, like you got me thinking, like

734
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 4: he was my biggest mentor in terms of being an

735
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 4: outside back. And b he's a he's a man, Like

736
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: he's a good person, he's a good player. But yeah,

737
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 4: he invited my family over for dinner and how good

738
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 4: is this house? Does He's just beautiful, beautiful, soul, beautiful

739
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 4: for and I'm so grateful for him because I probably

740
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 4: wouldn't be the player I am today without got.

741
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 3: The whole stud there now too, and yeah, fwine, sex

742
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 3: just all around him.

743
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, excellent. But you just sparked my area.

744
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: Then when you're talking about what you tell young players,

745
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 2: because you are you probably only played a couple of

746
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 2: years at Melbourne when a lot of that young crew

747
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: started to come through, like, yeah, you know perhaps and

748
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 2: you know a lot of the stars you see today,

749
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: like you know, perhaps even Hughsey who hadn't played a

750
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 2: lot of first grade Harry, but you were very good

751
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 2: at communicating and like coaching a lot of us young

752
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: players there, which which is you weren't considered like the

753
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 2: oldest player there, but I imagine you would have learned

754
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 2: a heap off the big three that year, and then

755
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 2: you started communicating so much and helping out the young boys.

756
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially on the field. I wasn't the best at

757
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 4: educating players with everyone in like a meeting room, but

758
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 4: on the field, like I'd be like, I'll be so

759
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 4: into zone that I knew what I was talking about

760
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 4: in them, but in the meeting, I'm like, oh, it

761
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 4: just so rattled.

762
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: You don't want to get shame.

763
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to shame, but yeah.

764
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 4: Just get just being older and obviously being around a

765
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 4: lot longer, just just getting the reps in every day,

766
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 4: it's just maybe even more comfortable, and it just feels

767
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 4: so much more comfortable speaking the meeting and all that

768
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 4: kind of stuff.

769
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: Now. So yeah, but back, yeah, back in a strong

770
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: days like I was like, but on the field like

771
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: I'm sweet as yeah, yeah sweet.

772
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: He was the loudest on the field. Yeah, like you'd

773
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: be counting, you would be sledging everyone, you'd be yelling out.

774
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 3: The tackle, count bringing the vibe he was.

775
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 2: He was a massive trendsetter in Melbourne, like the amount

776
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 2: of state. Like you see your Let's Trot brand now

777
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 2: before you even turned it into a brand and the merged,

778
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: he was I reckon. He said it for two years

779
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 2: straight and we were going, he's not shutting up.

780
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 3: This is going to be a clothing company.

781
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: One day did we know he was setting up he

782
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: was marketing it through the playing group, and then all

783
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 2: of a sudden he here we go. But you used

784
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 2: to always you'll like that.

785
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: We love it, Yeah, we love it.

786
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 3: All the talk about you had the funniest saying a

787
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 3: question boys in the dressing room in the Belbourne Storm,

788
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 3: because it seems to me, I think a lot of times,

789
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 3: you know there is it seems like a pecking order.

790
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 3: We've got the really experienced guys, you know, but generally

791
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 3: in a dressing room, is everyone sort of equal in there,

792
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: even if you're a young guy, not like do the

793
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 3: younger players, like have a ride if they see something

794
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 3: in the video and they went, Craig, can you just

795
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 3: hold that for one second?

796
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 1: How is that?

797
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 4: Like?

798
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: How do they respond to that?

799
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 4: I remember what stands out for me. I remember when

800
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 4: Coops first come to the Storm, Like Coops would be like,

801
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 4: I've got a question, Craig, what do you what are

802
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 4: your thoughts here? Like they made it so comfortable for

803
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 4: the young boys to have a say or ask questions.

804
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 4: And that's that's what the Storm do. They make you

805
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 4: feel comfortable, make you feel wanted. But yeah, I can

806
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 4: just remember, like when you.

807
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: First come to the club, they'll always ask questions, did

808
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: I do the right thing? Inveriably? He would say no.

809
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 3: Always tells about the biggest spratt. I think Coop got

810
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 3: a massive stray one day from being late.

811
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, do you remember that shit? So you'll probably

812
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 2: remember this Geelong Camp. My first year in Gelong Camp,

813
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,439
Speaker 2: me and Sammy Cassiano, we were late for a meeting

814
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: when I slept in. I said, I can reveal it now.

815
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 2: I said that I had been told the wrong meeting venue,

816
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 2: but I'd actually slept past my alarm and I'm running

817
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: around trying to find where it is and Sammy Cassiano

818
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: I crossed him. He was riding a Razor scooter and

819
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: I went cass and he goes, what's up, bro, And

820
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: I went bro, we got a meeting and he was

821
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 2: like shit. So then we went and we were running to

822
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: the meeting. Me and Sammy cat two polar opposite. Sammy

823
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 2: was like at the end of his career and one

824
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty kilos. I was at the start of

825
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 2: my career in sixty kilos and I walked in. You

826
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: can imagine whoeverone was off, not Sammy. Everyone was off

827
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: me because then belly Ate was like where you be

828
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 2: and we said, oh, you know, we thought the meeting

829
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 2: room was here. He goes right sweet. Next morning, remember

830
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 2: we all had to get up at four and we

831
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: did a wrestle session on It was all technique, but

832
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 2: it was still everybody was up early and we did

833
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: a wrestle session in the middle of the park at

834
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 2: Geelong and it was the worst day out for me.

835
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 2: They put me with Jesse Bromich Nelson and Sammy Cassiano

836
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 2: just to teach me a lesson. Even though Sammy was

837
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 2: late too. They refused to pull Sammy up obviously, and

838
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 2: I got palmp day like I was getting absolutely palmel

839
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 2: but I was never late again. I will say that

840
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: they do have a great knack of if you're going

841
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 2: to do something wrong, they make sure you never do

842
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 2: it again.

843
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: A tea at Foxy one hundred and eighteen games the

844
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 3: Melbourne Stool ninety six tries. I'm just trying to think

845
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 3: there's not many in the modern game better strike rates

846
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: than that.

847
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: Must have been a time sitting like.

848
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 3: In that game, just going man, just sitting there and playing,

849
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 3: just going amongst all those ways.

850
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: Again, how good is this?

851
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 4: This footy was so fun ra like straight out just

852
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 4: love obviously playing trained as well, just love rocking up

853
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 4: every day. But I just back then, I was just

854
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 4: so blown away by the players I was around and

855
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 4: people I was around, the coach, star Frank Ponisi. I

856
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 4: was around the best of the best, and everyone brought

857
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 4: the best out of each other.

858
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what I love.

859
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 4: They the Storm played to everyone's strengths. They figured out

860
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 4: everyone's strengths and then they played to that.

861
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a good point because you talking about the

862
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 2: connection you had like that left edge for a few

863
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 2: years there majority of your career where it was Monster,

864
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: can he be Kenny Brummage, Chuzzy justin Olum and then

865
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 2: you on the left.

866
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 4: Around Curtis was there before Juzzys Well, Curtis Scott, the

867
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 4: Curtis Scooter was there. Scooter was there, Yeah, but he

868
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 4: moved on and Juzzy come in and then we had

869
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 4: a like we I think there's five years old, was there? Well,

870
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,479
Speaker 4: we're the best attacking and defensive side for I'm pretty sure,

871
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 4: if not maybe one year will probably second, I'm pretty sure.

872
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 4: Well yeah, well the best defensive and attacking side.

873
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 2: Well, I remember like when I had come up to

874
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 2: first grade, majority of the time I was on the

875
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: right because it was like Hughsey who had gotten hurt.

876
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: But I think only one game I went on the left.

877
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 2: And how easy or not easy, but how easy you

878
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 2: guys make it for your half like Monster used to.

879
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: Because Monster wasn't a good organizer. You guys used to

880
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: organize the whole shape and the edge four. Monster he

881
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 2: could just do his own thing, and then when he'd

882
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 2: come out, you guys would already be on formation. You'd

883
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 2: just tell him about what play you guys are running,

884
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 2: like it it's so different to a lot.

885
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 3: Of other edges Like that is incredible. People who don't

886
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 3: know it's usually the half that dictates the shapes and

887
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 3: the calls.

888
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 4: But you like, wow, that's not that's it. That's the

889
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 4: connection we had. We knew that Monster would organize the middle.

890
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 4: But because we always played in big games was always loud,

891
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 4: the three of us would always fall into some shape

892
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 4: outside him and Kenny, Kenny Broblems would be always be

893
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 4: the closest to him, so he would be the link

894
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 4: men to Monster in our edge. And we even like

895
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 4: because it was so loud and we're trying to scream

896
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 4: like our plays, we come up with silent sign language

897
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 4: like we yeah, like we had this thing like we

898
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 4: had to see I won't.

899
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 2: Say it, but there's a play that starts to see but.

900
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: There's a player that starts to see that that we did.

901
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: We like this.

902
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 4: We like pointed to Kenny and then Kenny would pointed

903
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 4: to Monster and if there was a if there was

904
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 4: an offload or something, we'd just fall into the shape

905
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 4: because that's good.

906
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, so wow, that's but there was such a good

907
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 2: culture of like also, if Juzzy saw something, everybody was

908
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 2: so had such a high i Q of what the

909
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: defense were doing. Like Fox you would say, oh, the

910
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 2: wing is tight, and then let money know, next player

911
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 2: will do an early kick for me, like and then

912
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: Juzzy would be like, oh, I can see the center's

913
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: jamming at the moment, so let's.

914
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 1: Do this place quickly.

915
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 3: Jazzy, Juzzy justin Olm, justin Olm.

916
00:39:52,840 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 2: Yeah sorry, so yeah, yeah, yeah, Jazzy just but it

917
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: was it's just so it's such a good culture that

918
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 2: you guys created, like a news your own little gang.

919
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 2: You review all your own footage, and you guys would

920
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 2: just be trying to get better every week, like that

921
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 2: right Edge that year, Well those two years kind of

922
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 2: chopped and changed different Beau people go in and out,

923
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 2: but you guys were like the core of that squad,

924
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 2: Like nobody sort of got chopped and changed out of

925
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 2: that left Edge.

926
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 4: Like we had so much fun and we enjoyed working

927
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 4: hard for each other and it was so enjoyable.

928
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,959
Speaker 1: It was yeah, we'll just we just love playing.

929
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 3: That's the end of part one, right that time to

930
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 3: jump over for part two, which I hope you enjoy

931
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 3: every bit as much.

932
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 1: I know you will