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Speaker 1: cheers start however you lost you know, hughsy Jack might

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Speaker 1: pull me up a little bit. I've got I tend

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Speaker 1: to wheeze get We get complaints through from people.

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Speaker 3: What are the odds of that? Look, who's ringing me?

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Speaker 1: That's Joey Andrew Joey.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen Fabe brother recently?

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Speaker 4: I haven't seen him for a while.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of just skims across society.

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Speaker 3: It's a busy viewod for him through origin period.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's so busy oftentimes he has to have

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Speaker 1: where the action is.

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Speaker 2: Hugh'sy.

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Speaker 1: This is an incredibly busy couple of weeks for you.

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Speaker 1: So what's a what's a week entail the week leading

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Speaker 4: So yeah, lots of great support Mattie, first and foremost,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, just just I go to schools, I go

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Speaker 4: Yeah, looks good, looks good.

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Speaker 1: You should you should you have a sort of bringing

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Speaker 3: It almost looks like one right now. You might want

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Speaker 4: I did think of the balaclava range.

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Speaker 2: Really good coming up on the NBA news.

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Speaker 4: Lots of brand awareness, oh yeah, lots of great things

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Speaker 4: So you know, gett into appearances, get into games on

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Speaker 2: How many people you employed? Now?

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Speaker 4: We have four part time staff, which I'm very proud of.

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Speaker 4: I'm a full volunteer. I tell people flexible hours, but

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Speaker 4: So well, funny, Jack, I was thinking this morning that

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Speaker 4: I think I feel like a few a few blurry times.

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Speaker 3: Thanks mate, I really appreciate it. Surely wasn't the like

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Speaker 3: fantastic grand filing is one and a couple of weeks earlier?

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Speaker 1: well it just doesn't happen. You play a Grand Final

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Speaker 4: It was good because it was giving me that mental

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: What was the reaction when you and Albi, Darren Albert

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Speaker 4: Look, it was it was you know, this is a tradesman.

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Speaker 1: Saw hughs again today because he made he was a minimalist,

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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. Danny was the sort of guy I

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Speaker 3: Where did you just hide the cup?

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Speaker 3: Could have went past and holy fuck, yeah screen, I

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Speaker 1: Okay, just I want to ask you this question Feusy

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Speaker 1: and the diagnosis originally, and I can imagine you've said

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Speaker 1: flying life scale fantastic. The news must have hit you

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Speaker 1: like a ton of bricks. What were the first signs?

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Speaker 1: so when you land, you've got to be careful. They

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00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,399
Speaker 1: got the jam the brakes on straight away or you

438
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,040
Speaker 1: just ram into the back wall that close. And when

439
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 1: you take off, when you take off, this is terrifying.

440
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 1: You Actually they've got a really short runway, so they've

441
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,840
Speaker 1: just to go bang and you just go straight off

442
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,800
Speaker 1: the mountain and just hope that you've got enough.

443
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:43,280
Speaker 2: Wow.

444
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, the towns fac they for entertainment. They sit and

445
00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:46,679
Speaker 4: watch it.

446
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:49,160
Speaker 5: And watch.

447
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:53,360
Speaker 4: Every day.

448
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,120
Speaker 3: That's incredible.

449
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: We have some hearing moments too, because remember we couldn't.

450
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 2: Fly couldn't fly out.

451
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,520
Speaker 4: There was lots of you do, lots of waging around

452
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 4: for hours the right conditions what about?

453
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,919
Speaker 1: And I was told told this.

454
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 2: It was fully try used to be on the project.

455
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 1: His name has Casey. At the moment he's to do all

456
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,679
Speaker 1: these sort of special challenges and whatnot. Terrific bloke, an

457
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,919
Speaker 1: American guy. And he told me, he said, when you

458
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 1: go and do it, he said, I'll give you tip.

459
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,120
Speaker 1: He said, when you land first in Catman, do before

460
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 1: you do the track, he said, cat Man do, You'll

461
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: be going around going, oh mate, God, this is hectic.

462
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,120
Speaker 2: It's real third world city, he said.

463
00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 1: But when you go and do the track and come

464
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 1: back to Catman do, he said, Catman do, will feel

465
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 1: like Monika.

466
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,000
Speaker 2: True? Yeah, do you remember? Chief?

467
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 1: So we come back, You're you're eating basically bowls of

468
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 1: rice all the time at the tea houses, of course,

469
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: So we're fanging when we get back, and Chief's just starving.

470
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: We get we all go to this place to have

471
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:55,360
Speaker 1: beers and eat. Chief has forty eight chicken wings. No way,

472
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: he kept ordering them. He kept going, Chimpy, You've got

473
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:58,840
Speaker 1: to get I've got to get some more.

474
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 2: Just go for a big I'm surprised.

475
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,440
Speaker 3: I'm surprised they even have meat up there, because they're

476
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 3: like they you guys were eating a lot more sort

477
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 3: of like vegetables and things that don't up on the trek,

478
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 3: things that you don't have to cook as heavily, like

479
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 3: chicken and whatnot. But yeah, did you lose much weight

480
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:13,439
Speaker 3: up there?

481
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 4: Too much?

482
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 2: Really?

483
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 4: Yeah? You're eating lots of rice and yeah, whenever.

484
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 2: They take you.

485
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 1: Now, boys, really important thing is you don't drink on

486
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: the mountain.

487
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 4: Sure we'd find a cuple of beers. Oh wow, that's

488
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 4: so good.

489
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 2: Cu see how the old boys going.

490
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 4: Our boys going great, mate, We're proud of the old boys.

491
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 4: We've got to We've got a good group. You know.

492
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 2: Do you still train in the morning you blow.

493
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, bits of training and get together.

494
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 2: Who's the gang?

495
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 4: Kurt's the Kurt Gidley is a good ring leader of

496
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 4: that and Bedsy Chief Billy when he can make it.

497
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 4: We just whoever we can get there, Crowy, Jared d

498
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 4: just good blokes, get together, train coffee, good way to started.

499
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 3: You blokes are that tight even when we're playing us

500
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 3: up at New some More thing as you'd see that

501
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 3: the new Center of Excellence. They'd be in there before

502
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 3: everyone else. And then you drive past Merriwether near the

503
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 3: bars there and they'd be out there training and doing

504
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 3: their like in the middle of winter too.

505
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 4: Like if we go there early and train at the

506
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 4: Center of Excellence, and tell you, man, if we had

507
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 4: that gear, I'd be still playing. But it's hard to

508
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 4: believe we talk about our facilities.

509
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 1: I was I was saying to the boys the other

510
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 1: day we trained in a public gym. So Jack, if

511
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: you're in the midst of training, you'd have to wait.

512
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: There could be like two middle aged women and you're

513
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: going to sit and wait until they get their reps done.

514
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 4: You just you're in.

515
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: There the mercy and sometimes you be packed with the

516
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 1: public and you.

517
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 3: Just well, one thing about rugby league plays through. They're

518
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 3: not very patient either. I can't imagine that.

519
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: It's funny you say that, Jack. I think every single

520
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: every single club, every single team, believe they're tight. But

521
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: I think sometimes in each club's history there is a

522
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 1: side that is really tight, and I reckon that some

523
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: of those ninety seven into two thousand and one teams.

524
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, success brings you together as well, and

525
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 4: we had a great team which helped. And I mean

526
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 4: ninety five of these boys did it awesome. Ninety six

527
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 4: it was a bit of a rough year, yeah, but then

528
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 4: from ice I FL from ninety five to probably two

529
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 4: the club could genuinely have won a camp if we

530
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 4: had the right injury and if we had a bit

531
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 4: of luck, we could have nearly won. You know, we're

532
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 4: a real chance every year. But we were so close

533
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 4: because we all lived within ten minutes of each other,

534
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 4: you know, so we when there was a lunch on,

535
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 4: we're all together and it was just a great mix.

536
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 4: Like you got your real serious lead like Butts and

537
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 4: Chief and MG. But then you had like Maddie and

538
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 4: Joey in their early twenties and blokes like Robbie Davis,

539
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 4: Adam Muir, Billy.

540
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 3: P mad Dog would have been young then too.

541
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 4: So then there's another tier of guys that were all

542
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 4: sorts of eighteen nineteen twenty. That was sort of Olen

543
00:24:52,960 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 4: Craigie was there, but kids, Betsy, Adam McDougall. Yeah, just

544
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 4: on Darren Albert. So there. You know, it was just

545
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 4: a really good blend of of and plenty of They

546
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 4: say pick on character, Well, there was plenty of character

547
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 4: in out to it.

548
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: It was put on a Peter sharp you know. Sharpie's

549
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: been a lifelong coach. He's Newcastle at Paramatta of course

550
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: did the Northern Eagles and Manly didn't have a lot

551
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: of success there, but he's just most clubs sharp he

552
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: goes to and he sits behind the scenes, they always

553
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: have success. He's just a he's just a fantastic bloke

554
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: at the moment he's with the dogs. Of course we're

555
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, but he just says all the time,

556
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: he said, Madie, one of the most difficult things to

557
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: find in the modern game, he said, is leaders, he said,

558
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: But I tell people all the time that Newcastle side,

559
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,719
Speaker 1: he said, I Reckon has had seven or eight leaders.

560
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 1: That it was just such a strong group.

561
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 4: Yeah it was, Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was a

562
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 4: dream for me, like from being from Curry.

563
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: And then you tell us, tell us the story of

564
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: how you got the aggression.

565
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 4: Well, firstly, I was Curry, Curry boy. I knew Maddie

566
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 4: and Jail. We were you know, cesn we went at

567
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 4: the same school. I felt like Maddy was in year twelve.

568
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 4: I never knew that, yeah right, yeah, so I definitely

569
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 4: need Madge twelve years. Maddie wouldn't have probably named me, no,

570
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 4: but I saw I knew Maddie. And then Joey was

571
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 4: in year nine, so I sort of had a few

572
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 4: more years there to get to name Joey on a

573
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 4: minor level, and that Joey was obviously the young gun

574
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 4: Knights player. So I was just a Curry boy playing

575
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 4: footy for Curry. But I had a big dream to

576
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 4: try and get there, but it was just a long

577
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 4: way away. At fourteen or fifteen, I wasn't anywhere near

578
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 4: strong enough or quick enough nights fifteen, seventeens, nineteen's not

579
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 4: getting a look in. So it was I was lucky

580
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 4: I didn't choose to maybe go in another direction because

581
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 4: it could have been tempting. But I hung in and

582
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 4: I got to start in my first year at grade

583
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 4: at Curry was in two thousand and nineteen ninety five

584
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 4: and Curry had won two premierships. It was just going

585
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 4: off the town. It was a great time and their

586
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 4: third premier ship. I snuck onto the wing for that

587
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 4: game and we beat Wes and I've scored two tries.

588
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 4: You and McGrady was in that team.

589
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, wow, yeah.

590
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got exposed to legend.

591
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 3: The mcgrady's are crazy. I've played with that many mcgrady's

592
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 3: too in my time footy and all sorts of grades

593
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 3: and huge.

594
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 4: I'd forgotten you played with Panda, Yeah that is that

595
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,959
Speaker 4: was no weekish and I'd watch him at training and

596
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 4: he was just going half pace and now and again

597
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 4: he turn it on and I'm just going, wow, this

598
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 4: is this is awesome. Big Dave Smith was there. He

599
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 4: was another Knights fella. And so the ninety six Peter

600
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 4: Brady and Shane Lee, a couple of Curry legends, coached

601
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 4: the twenty ones. They said, come and have a trial.

602
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 4: So I've got a trial and made the team for

603
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 4: ninety six. First time I made the Knights. Had a

604
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 4: nice steady year. So that was ninety six, and then

605
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 4: ninety seven started along and I watched the news and

606
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 4: there it came on nights I started their ninety seven

607
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 4: campaign and I'm sitting at home into my rissoles and

608
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 4: We're right, what's going on here? So I made a

609
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 4: call on said it's all started. Am I going to

610
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 4: get another trial? And oh yeah, yeah you sure, yeah, yeah,

611
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 4: We'll sort that out. So I've got a trial for

612
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 4: ninety seven season. So I was just trialing and did

613
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 4: okay and got him into the reserve grade team, and

614
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 4: then from there it just sort of I got a

615
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 4: couple of opportunities to sit on the bench and then

616
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: round fifteen we played the Roosters. It was a rainy

617
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 4: Friday night, Maddie. It came down to the end. We

618
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 4: had a draw one game, but I just remember the

619
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 4: extra noise in the crowd and the extra intensity in

620
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 4: the game, and I just thought, wow, and I think

621
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 4: someone roughed me up. I think it was even clear,

622
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 4: and I thought, how good is this? You know? Yeah,

623
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 4: it was just yeah, dream come true.

624
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: And we talk about Ivan and Nathan of course anonymous. Now,

625
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: how cool I under pressure. That's a perfect example, Jake.

626
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: It's absolutely it's ankle deep mud, just pissed down for days.

627
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: And we're leading them.

628
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: We're leading them ten to four, and it's literally about

629
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago. Andrew Walker the numbers out of one

630
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: of the halves playmakers for the Rooses. As he does

631
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: UNKI did a little chip over the top double chip,

632
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they scored right on full time,

633
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: right in the corner. So it's ankle deep Mart, We're

634
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: leading ten eight, We're standing on the try line. Ivan

635
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: clearly takes the ball and as he putting on the mound,

636
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: we're saying some fucking awful things, just fucking giving it

637
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: to him. He didn't even blink. He just went back,

638
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: came forward, just kicked it, looked over and said, fuck

639
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: you guys.

640
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: Wow, I've actually seen that. Yeah, I mean how much long?

641
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 3: How much further after was it that you started living

642
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 3: with bedsy.

643
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 4: That was about yes after, Yeah, yes, I was just

644
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 4: finding my feet in ninety seven, getting opportunities at these blags.

645
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 4: I think I was. I was roomies with Maddie early days,

646
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 4: away games, so that was always good. I remember that.

647
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 4: I was thinking about that the other day too, and

648
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 4: I was thinking, I think one time Maddie might remember this.

649
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 4: But I gone to sleep early, and I popped up

650
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 4: and I've gone, you've got a problem? Have you got

651
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: a problem? But he looks at me and goes sit.

652
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 4: I must have been my head must have been spinning

653
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 4: and putting it on your.

654
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: Dad, because all the boys when we used to room together,

655
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: they always used to go because I had all these

656
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: I used to take all my boots away, so I'd

657
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: have about eight pairs of boods just lined up in

658
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: the morning and then go. I'd go to the ground,

659
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: do an inspection and know which I'd have.

660
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 4: Had all these beds. I haven't done lots stink sting rays.

661
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: But it's unbelievable.

662
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: Excuse you to think about the start of the year.

663
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: You're there, you're eating your wristoles and you're going in

664
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: a second, know where's my trial? And then Grand four?

665
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just amazing the break the break through.

666
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: We spoke about it before we come on here, and

667
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: I brought up the time we played the Southeast Coinsland

668
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: Crushes two thirds of the way through the year, and

669
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: I brought it up because it was a funny moment

670
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: in the fact that we played a game, and as

671
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: was the time back in the mid nineties, you just

672
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: go on a bender after rumed Brisbane. Anyway, the coach,

673
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: Malcolm Realley, who was a real discipline arean like just

674
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: legend but highly disciplined. He goes, right, we're going to

675
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: do a rehab session. For rehab, We've got a quick

676
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: turn around. I'm just going to do a ball work session.

677
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: And we're all still blind, right, and I can watch

678
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: him out and he's just getting more and more aggravated. Anyway,

679
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: he just us unloading on the team. He's a fucking

680
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: disgrace and everything. And Scotti Conley's nickname was the scrub Pig.

681
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: He thought Maut was joking and started laughing out, oh yeah,

682
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: this is hilarious, right, and he goes.

683
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 2: Fuck you, fuck you.

684
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,719
Speaker 1: But that game husy like I remember you putting your

685
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: body on the line. Tell us about the yeah moment.

686
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it was just I'm just trying to feel

687
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 4: like I'm trying to get the confidence out of these

688
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 4: guys because they probably didn't really name me, and I

689
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 4: didn't look probably the most likely type, so they Yeah.

690
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 4: I just remember they were on the sideline. They've kicked

691
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 4: this ball across field, and I've come from the wing

692
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 4: and I've charged across and I've dived in front of

693
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 4: the I've caught it and then someone's belted me and

694
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 4: I've flinged around the post. It was a really good take.

695
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 4: But I just remember Butsy getting on the bus and

696
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 4: got Eh making a big point of it to me,

697
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 4: and it made me feel real good and made me

698
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 4: start to feel part of the team a little bit

699
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 4: because I obviously lacking a bit of confidence. But it

700
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 4: was a nice moment. Blokes like Buttsy and like Maddie Butsy,

701
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 4: these blokes were always building me up from the start.

702
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 4: I was lucky to have senior players, you know, if

703
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 4: the Knights were coming last that year and I could

704
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 4: have got tipped out, just like if Curry wasn't a

705
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 4: good team in ninety five is it good and they

706
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 4: come last good chance, I wouldn't have got the opportunities

707
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 4: I've got. So I was surrounded by some good people

708
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 4: at the right time at.

709
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: That run through ninety seven, half Jack not long. I

710
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: reckon about four weeks out from semifinals and winning a

711
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: Grand Final is all about timing as well as anything

712
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: else is. We just just caught fire and we kept

713
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: playing manly right at the back end of the year.

714
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: Every song we played, and we just kept getting close

715
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: and closer and closer to the morning. You wake up

716
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: in the Grand Final and you just go you know

717
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: you're going to win.

718
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 4: A strong air of confidence. And I look back now

719
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 4: and go, hang on, you were twenty How could you

720
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 4: feel that confident? But you just get caught up in

721
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 4: the in that team environment, and I felt this inner

722
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 4: belief there was there, led from chief as captain to everyone.

723
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 4: But we just did and we'd had the fun like

724
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 4: we made up the CD with our you know, we

725
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 4: had film clear every time we're on the bus, the

726
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 4: songs are coming on. Then we're in the sheds the

727
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 4: songs are coming on. And look, Mail probably didn't agree

728
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 4: with it, but the leader he was, he knew that's

729
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 4: what we needed. Yeah, you know, and it was fun

730
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 4: and we're dancing around having fun in the sheds. Yeah,

731
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: it really was special.

732
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 3: Well, I've got a few a few things from your

733
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 3: old teammates have said. And then one of the things

734
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 3: was the Telegraph the morning of the Grand Final, when

735
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 3: you're reading the paper and they had something about they

736
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 3: had Chief Joey and you, and they had player bios.

737
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 4: I tell this story a bit, but I'll tell it again. Yeah,

738
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 4: so could you, babe. Plaza was where we stayed. So

739
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 4: we wake up the morning of the game and I'm

740
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 4: feeling great men, walk to the elevator, danced my way

741
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 4: into the breakfast room. This is my day. So I

742
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 4: walk in and there's a six or eight blokes around

743
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 4: the table and they're looking at me laughing. So I

744
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 4: sort of wander over and they hand over the newspaper,

745
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 4: the Daily Telegraph what it was, and it was a

746
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 4: lift out of each player player profile. So number one

747
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 4: Robbie o' davis, amazing under the high ball, great side step.

748
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 4: Number two Darren Albert, fastest man in the game. Number

749
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 4: three Owen Craigie schoolboy prodigy, brilliant talent, Number four Adam

750
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 4: McDougall blockbusting strong center. So by this I just can't

751
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,919
Speaker 4: wait to read what they say about me. Number five

752
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 4: Mark Hughes sholders like a brown snake.

753
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

754
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, not the best start to me day.

755
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 4: Or we show them Jack, so I tell people they

756
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 4: stung like a brown snack. So yeah, just a bit

757
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 4: of fun. But you know, like there'd been no off

758
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 4: season wait programs, like I hadn't really done any weights,

759
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 4: you know.

760
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 2: Public gym. There's other people on the machines.

761
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was playing center, like I hadn't played

762
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 4: any a center at one game at center as a kid,

763
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 4: I reckon, you know, I just got put into there.

764
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 4: So just finding a way.

765
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: What's your memory, hughsy Of, I said the last moment,

766
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: but remember halftime one of the like, so it's really tight.

767
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: It's eight six and almost the last play before halftime, they.

768
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 2: Do a full fulfilled shift.

769
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: Cliffy Lines drifts across and one of our players just

770
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: lays on the inside inside ballshit and Nevin and we're going.

771
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: They scored Rod on half time, remember going, we all

772
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: walk in fourteen six.

773
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 2: Down and Joey loses it.

774
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: Memory he's going fucking hell for the fucking hell and

775
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: everyone's going mate settled there.

776
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 4: It was yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, we like it

777
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 4: wasn't the most like there was holes in our defense

778
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 4: at times, and saying it wasn't the most perfect game

779
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 4: in footage. That was a brilliant like it was a

780
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 4: brilliant theater the game.

781
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: What do you remember you took the ball on the charge,

782
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: you threw it to Alby. What what's your memory of

783
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: that final play?

784
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 4: Yeah?

785
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 2: So yeah, so Joey got charged.

786
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 4: You'd hit the upright yep, moments before. So that was

787
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 4: that was a close one. And then did Joey go again?

788
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: Joey went again and got charged down.

789
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I went to myself and then I

790
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 4: just got the ball and running and then I just

791
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 4: as I'm going, I throw a pretty ordinary past to

792
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 4: Darren Albert. He gets tackled, yeah, five meters in and

793
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 4: then yeah, so then from there I run. I raced

794
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 4: to the short side. Joey gets into dummy half. Maddie

795
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 4: wants the ball. Mark, Ye, I tipped Joey off, but

796
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 4: that it's on down the short side. He has a

797
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 4: bit of a glance. Maddie's screaming at him. This way

798
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 4: on my call. He's come down the short side. And

799
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 4: just remember this play propelled him on a mortal yep.

800
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 4: And I made the call, he made the course and

801
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 4: he throws the dummy to you. Yeah, and then he

802
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 4: just refuses to give me the ball. Just you watch it.

803
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 4: Does these stupid little dummy.

804
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 3: I might have been your chances of immortality.

805
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 4: I had spud coming across Yep.

806
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 2: We wouldn't get that. India too strong for Marc Hu's grandstand.

807
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 4: Albie didn't pay for a beer for two years in

808
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 4: your car, so I did the Beau. I would have

809
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 4: saved don in fifty grand back then.

810
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: Well he will trice over the week before too. That's

811
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: on the everyone's I still I remember seeing it for

812
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 3: the first time and I never seen because he's gone.

813
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 3: Who was the winger again?

814
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: That's his who was quick?

815
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 3: So well, he was moving fast when now becomes into

816
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 3: into camera, Oh my.

817
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: God, Jack, I've never seen and throw Marling throw Slater. Everyone,

818
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: I've never seen someone so football fast as Albie in

819
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: the fact that like our Strength Strength Coast coach Bruce.

820
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 2: Gallah, who's story in himself.

821
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: But he's just say mate, if I coached him since

822
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: from when he as a kid, he'd want a gold

823
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: medal in the two hundred meters. Really, yep, that's how quick.

824
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: But think about it was stopping and starting stepping. He

825
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: didn't brush a meter.

826
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 4: Really yeah, all these fast guys I watched now, I

827
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 4: still compare him to Albi for some reason, a bit biased, but.

828
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: I just felt like that was so fast, oh that one,

829
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: and thinking about it was he was a completely different

830
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: winger to the ones you see now a lot of

831
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: times in the fact that he had no work rate,

832
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: Like just before the semi finals there was a blow

833
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: up in a team meeting because Albie had had the

834
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: Fords blown up. I suppose Rightfley, so he had one

835
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: run for two meters.

836
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 2: But when you needed something big, that's what he come

837
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 2: up with.

838
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: If he was a workhoorse, he doesn't pick up maxifats,

839
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: we don't win that competition.

840
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 4: Magic.

841
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: I just want to say, while we're talking about the

842
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: different characters, and we're skipping around a little a little

843
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: bit here, but I mean Adam McDougall, the success that

844
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: he has made in business, how much has he given

845
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: you think to your found.

846
00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 4: Out he'd be over five hundred thousand. Yeahs is just

847
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 4: an amazing character. Firstly, footy wise, it was just unbelievable

848
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 4: playing with him. You just knew he'd set himself for

849
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 4: the big games.

850
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: He would.

851
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 4: He was unstoppable when he was when he was like that,

852
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 4: So we're so blessed to have him in our side.

853
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 4: But then in later life, you know, he was doing

854
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 4: all this stuff and going what's he doing? What is it?

855
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: Because he could throw up polkies and he's saying he's

856
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: doing this supple but everyone's going yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well.

857
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,959
Speaker 3: Well how old would he have been around the ninety

858
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: seven Grand Final?

859
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: Early twenty or Toland? Yeah, he's only he was twenty one?

860
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 4: Was young?

861
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 3: Was there a crew of years because there was an

862
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: older crew and then sort of like a middle middle

863
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 3: sort of crew. Was there a crew of young like

864
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 3: the lot of yours that were real young that was

865
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 3: sort of was real surreal for like he's all stuck together.

866
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it was yeah, we were on this Yeah, we

867
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 4: were on this wave. Yeah. But yeah, so back to

868
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 4: just yeah, very giving, amazing person him and Belinda. What

869
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 4: they've done with the man. I don't think there's a

870
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 4: rugby League player that's had that type of success made.

871
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: He'll give them the fact they've sold He's maintained a lot

872
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: of the company and sold them to people who are

873
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: going to take into America.

874
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 2: He could. I think he probably end up as rugbul

875
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 2: League's first bionaire.

876
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 4: As far as players, they just couldn't be any happier

877
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 4: for him and a great person a Hughesy.

878
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: You've got to tell people the celebrations was something in themselves.

879
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 1: But fear play to you, your stamina and chiefs guts.

880
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: YouTube blokes were the last ones standing.

881
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 4: When we were the last light standing. But as their

882
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 4: story goes on, one of the nights might have been

883
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 4: Thursday night. We ended up at the Empire Hotel. It

884
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 4: was a lovely little twenty four hour unfortunately not with

885
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 4: us anymore.

886
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, plenty of blood, plenty of phlegm.

887
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chief Chief's feet was swelling and he had a

888
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 4: bit of gout, I think, and I mean g He

889
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 4: did inspire me on the field, but to kick on

890
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 4: with no shoes and feet like that, that's leadership.

891
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 2: That was huge.

892
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 4: Yeah big yeah, big balloons.

893
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 2: And new blokes are in the pub, So tell us

894
00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 2: about the Empire yeah.

895
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 4: So we get in there. It's a twenty four hour

896
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 4: there's karaoke on. Chief gets on a stool right in

897
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 4: front of the men's toilet and gets on there and

898
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 4: has a bit of a bit of a doze off.

899
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 4: And I noticed that and then sort of people can't

900
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 4: get it through that through where he was, so I

901
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 4: felt I had to do something. So I went up

902
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 4: and I whacked him over my arm and I got

903
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 4: him up, and the people ask me what did it

904
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 4: look like? And I say, fink winfeld cup, I've got

905
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 4: the cheap And as I get him up, everyone has

906
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 4: one stands. Everyone in the joints to it and they're

907
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 4: just clapping their leads getting him out of the door.

908
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 4: We get out, open the door, we start to fall.

909
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 4: I'm maneuver Chief, so he cushions me on the pavement.

910
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 4: He takes the hit. I put him in a cab

911
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 4: and that that's the story.

912
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 3: So what do you think you're weighing?

913
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 2: There?

914
00:41:53,960 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 4: Usually oh seventy eight that around Jack, But oh yeah,

915
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 4: but yeah, that's just fun memories and we have fun

916
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 4: with that. But for me, like the leader Chief is

917
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 4: and still is to me today, like I just stay lucky.

918
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk another characters, Jack, little things had happened to

919
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 1: remember your twenty first? Twenty first but shortly after?

920
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 3: Would this be my one of my godfather's because you

921
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 3: couldn't decide.

922
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 4: So this is December after Grand Final, So this is December,

923
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 4: December fifteenth. All raids lead to Western Town Hall, yep,

924
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 4: which is just next to Curry Curry, where I'm putting

925
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 4: on a twenty first. Reality is the team. So I'm

926
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 4: all excited yet nervous. So this is everything's coming. So

927
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 4: then the boys turn up. Oh this is the first

928
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 4: one with my present, my gift.

929
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.

930
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 4: What's this? So there's this newspaper wrapped around this tall thing,

931
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 4: it's about this high, and Maddie and Butts and Crowy

932
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 4: or I think it was, they hadn't present you my presence.

933
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 4: So I start unwrapping it and there's this big skinny giraffe.

934
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 4: The boy said that reminded me of so that was

935
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 4: my president. The giraffe didn't last too much longer, didn't.

936
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 2: It was Crowy doing the twirl over his head. I

937
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 2: think it fractured his neck.

938
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: But so Adammir, of course you're one of them, one

939
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: of your god fathers and what had happened our skills

940
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: coach slash he.

941
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 2: Had hid me and Roles Steve Dunstan the Swede. I remember.

942
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: Swede used to always like he was almost like the

943
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: cheerleader involved with the good skills stuff, right.

944
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 2: But he's always morale to the point.

945
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: But he used to take upon himself sometimes to like

946
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: sledge the opposition. So we're playing North Sydney one day

947
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: and Greg Florimer is there, who's legend flow and he's

948
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: he's he's about to walk down in the sheds and

949
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: he just goes and Sweed goes a flow. He goes

950
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,760
Speaker 1: mate the loser's sheds when you get to the bottom

951
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: on the right. But you're you're more than aware of that,

952
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: you've played here for twenty years, right, and he's and

953
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: he was known sweet as he used to carry the

954
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: ghetto blaster everywhere and we flow. You alled out in

955
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: the dressy up to the grand stand, just play.

956
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: On the on the boombox, your fuck with mate strength

957
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 3: conditioners and more so the speed coaches there, there's some

958
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 3: different breeds out there.

959
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: Well, Adam Mua signed to go to North Sydney, right,

960
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: So Swede had had he on to one of our

961
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: back rowers and said to one of our back rowers

962
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: on the quiet, just trying to boost him up.

963
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 2: Wasn't so much about Adam Muhr.

964
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: About Hurts he Adam Mill's nickname. It was more about

965
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: building the a guy up. And he said to him, mate, Hurts,

966
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: He's gone, that's all right, forget about that. You just

967
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: train hard, you'll be You'll be twice. You could be

968
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: twice the player he is, So word you back to

969
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: Hertzy that he said that. So we're at the Boosey's

970
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: twenty first and Swed gets up on stage and starts

971
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: performing songs with this guitar that was like a family

972
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: ill his family in New Zealand, like for Traia. So anyway,

973
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: Herts he cats upon one stags and says, may can

974
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: I do a song? And he goes, yeah, good as

975
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: gold hands it and Hertz he just smashes the guitar.

976
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: There were wood chips. We got back to the town hall.

977
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 4: We used him in the garden.

978
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 3: Oh my god, oh cry fast for a little bit

979
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 3: for hughes. See my god, my other godfather, Stephen Crowe

980
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 3: actually asked me. When I asked him, I said, oh,

981
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 3: we've got Hughgy and I got to jump in for Coop.

982
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 3: He actually asked me to ask you about two thousand

983
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 3: and one, your Origin debut. He mentioned that at the

984
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 3: time it was sort of Betsy was the one that

985
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 3: people were going, it's very likely that Betsy will be

986
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 3: in the squad, and he said, you couldn't have been

987
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 3: a more supportive friend. But when the team was announced

988
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 3: you were in and Beggie hadn't been chosen. He was saying,

989
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 3: what are we to ask you? What was it like

990
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 3: for Betsy? Like he reckons? Beggie was nothing like couldn't

991
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 3: have been a more supporting roommate and friend at the

992
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 3: time for you?

993
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we had a great partnership Betsy and I.

994
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 4: And in two thousand and one, Betsy was very big

995
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 4: tip to be the hooker. So we played Saturday night

996
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 4: against the Dragons. Joey went off, he got injured. We

997
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 4: won the games, a really good game. But Joey said

998
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 4: to me after game, mate on you're a big chance here.

999
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 4: But it's like Joey, you know boy that cried wolf

1000
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 4: types And yeah, I mean, okay, well, yeah that'd be good.

1001
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 4: But I didn't think too much of it. So then

1002
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 4: we went. We went went to local league next the

1003
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 4: next day on the cans, having a good day out

1004
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 4: and then yeah, sure enough that the phone rang and

1005
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 4: they said, yeah, you're in the team, and I was

1006
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 4: a smoky, so yeah, it was amazing. Had to rush

1007
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 4: get it done, and Beds he helped. And although I

1008
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 4: did say to take all the messages back then you

1009
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 4: had your home phone because I knew me relative and

1010
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 4: that take take down the messages and I'll get so

1011
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 4: then he ended up, yeah, mate, I've done it all.

1012
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 4: There's a list one hundred long of names and anyway

1013
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 4: lost that list. Anyone out there is still waiting for

1014
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 4: a call playing well yeah, but no, it was awesome.

1015
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 3: Because that was that's a like I never knew that.

1016
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 3: I actually thought bed you played before, but you played

1017
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 3: fullback that series as well.

1018
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was our one, and then Beds he didn't

1019
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 4: miss a beat after that. You get in two thousand

1020
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 4: and two and away I've.

1021
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 3: Seen his the debut when he got the kickoff. That's

1022
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 3: one of the great origin moment, some iconic.

1023
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, accuse me to check. Just two thousand and one,

1024
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: the night second premiership. How did it feel going from

1025
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 1: being a young bloke who was just like, I can't

1026
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: believe I'm here to suddenly bring someone who's on the

1027
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: cusp of a senior player.

1028
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 2: Different.

1029
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 4: It was a different feel because I felt it was

1030
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 4: three or four years of hard work and training and

1031
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 4: you certainly felt I definitely felt more a part of

1032
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 4: the team. So it's still as much enjoyment and you know,

1033
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 4: it was still an amazing thing to be a part of,

1034
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 4: but it was slightly different to the one being the

1035
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 4: young kid just on the edge of it. But yeah,

1036
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 4: it was just a brilliant, yeah, brilliant thing to be

1037
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 4: a part of. You know, the first ever Night Grand Final.

1038
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 4: We really we had the team in two thousand and

1039
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 4: Maddie or know this, but we just just didn't quite

1040
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 4: get there. We were winning aid En Neil against you know,

1041
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 4: and we had like Butt's Maddie peat shields, someone else

1042
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 4: leaving real senior players, and we felt two thousand was

1043
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 4: our window to really do it and we just missed out.

1044
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 4: So there was a bit of a rebuild year in

1045
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 4: two thousand and one, but out of the blue we

1046
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 4: sort of put it together at the right time.

1047
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 1: You had a player like in Joey who suddenly emerged

1048
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: as the best player in the world by away, and yeah,

1049
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: like Paramatta had broken all the attacking records that year.

1050
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: They were red hot favorites. There's a famous story about

1051
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: the Grand Final breakfast with you. Blokes were joking having

1052
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: a good time because it is a luxury being an underdog,

1053
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: and they were really tense, but particularly you said, you

1054
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: basically start clowned around and were asking questions like you're

1055
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: part of the press of Joey.

1056
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's been since to us said over that.

1057
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 4: But we had these big game players in like BK

1058
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 4: and Joey had done it all before, so they were

1059
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 4: our leaders, and we rubbed off on us and we

1060
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 4: were having fun. And at the breakfast, we were we

1061
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 4: were felling good. We were just enjoying the week. So

1062
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 4: the media scrumbs there and they've got the players up

1063
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 4: the front, and I think it was Haig's beds, Haig's

1064
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 4: Billy and Joey. Billy was club captain, I think, and

1065
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 4: Billy and Joey, so yeah, they're just getting questions fired

1066
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 4: at him. So I snuck into the scrum and just

1067
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 4: and fired a couple of questions to the amusement of

1068
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 4: the boys. That were watching the back, but it was

1069
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 4: just yeah, simply like because I think Buttsy was the

1070
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 4: captain the year before, so I was like, oh, Michael

1071
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 4: at the start of the year, a lot of conjecture

1072
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 4: for captaincy, a lot of talk about Mark Hughes. You

1073
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 4: ended up going with Andrew Johnts. Do you regret that decision?

1074
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 4: Then he caught it under it was me and he

1075
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 4: said no, I definitely don't regret that. He but it

1076
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 4: was just fun. It was good fun and you know,

1077
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 4: was just part of the week. And you know, like

1078
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 4: I said, we had Ben Cannedy had Joey. They were

1079
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 4: at the top of their games. Yep, Paramatta had a

1080
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,399
Speaker 4: great team, great team.

1081
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 3: Can I ask what was Haggs like as a coach?

1082
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 3: I haven't heard too much about him as a coach.

1083
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 4: Yes, it was interesting. We had Mal who was inspiring

1084
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 4: and a real leader. Then we had Warren Ryan came

1085
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,280
Speaker 4: in for a couple of years, more of the educator,

1086
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 4: real footy brain. And then I felt Michael had a

1087
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 4: bit of both where he's probably really nice sort of guy,

1088
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 4: knew his footy, just a real nice bit different. So yeah,

1089
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 4: that were the three coaches for me. Yes, they all

1090
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 4: had their strengths. They all did really well. Warren was

1091
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 4: particularly a very educational sort of coach.

1092
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: And that was important and that era for the nights

1093
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: we had a lot of success because purely by accident,

1094
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: each coach was different, Like each coach who superseded the

1095
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: last was what the team needed at the time. So

1096
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: he go back to David Waite. David Waite Wade, he

1097
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: was a great educator, but we needed someone to teach

1098
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: us how to give mental toughness and be men. Malcolm

1099
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: really come in. So Malcolm, then it was time to

1100
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: be topped up with.

1101
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 2: Alcohol.

1102
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: Now with education in comes Warren and then all of

1103
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: a sudden, we need the intensity to drop a little bit,

1104
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: you know, getting too much. And suddenly Hayes comes in

1105
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: as a really affable sort of man management sort of guy.

1106
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 4: So I'll say, with Maddie and Joey, like the education

1107
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 4: that they were given out the team, you know what

1108
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 4: I mean, they ran a lot of stuff. So that

1109
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 4: was a real awesome learning curve for all us outside

1110
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 4: backs and that we were playing outside these guys and

1111
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 4: it made a real difference.

1112
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: But you're talking about a lot of leaders in the side.

1113
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: One of the untold stories about it. Jack was mileig

1114
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: for a lot most of the preseason. We were doing

1115
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: a lot of coaching ourselves. On two occasions during the

1116
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: lead up to the competition started, Malcolm had to return

1117
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: to England. His mum was very very and then I

1118
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: think he's no more. Dad passed away, so he went

1119
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: over a fair stint. We basically coast ourselves because Sharpie,

1120
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: who is a reservery coach, got pinched by Paramatta. So

1121
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: we're like, right, how are we going to play this?

1122
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: And Malcolm mate was so without ego. He just goes

1123
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: right out what he is doing. Yep, sounds good, comes back,

1124
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: has look what we're doing, then has to go back

1125
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: to England again. It didn't arrive back to about round

1126
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: four and so it just shows you if you've got

1127
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 1: soon your players and everybody is on board, just things

1128
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: just happen.

1129
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 2: Such a luxury.

1130
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 3: You see it a lot now, just because you know,

1131
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 3: because the game is so quick, you know, and everyone

1132
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 3: a weird time in rugby league where a lot of

1133
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 3: the older playmakers are about to move on or have

1134
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 3: moved on. You can see where a lot of those

1135
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 3: clubs get their edges, like when Reno went up to Brisbane.

1136
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 3: You know how much he educated the rest of the team.

1137
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 3: What an impact having you know, experienced playmakers. Hasn't the

1138
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 3: rest of the squads like how much it can help?

1139
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 4: Watching to highlight the other day and it's against paramatter.

1140
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 4: In ninety seven, Maddy and the left edges are doing

1141
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 4: all these flicking and then we play the ball. Then

1142
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 4: the half back, the dumm hour passes it to you.

1143
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 4: You do a twenty or thirty meter left to right

1144
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 4: to Joey. Then Joey does a thirty meter left to

1145
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 4: right to me and I hit a hole and untouched

1146
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 4: and scored and I thought, so the defense we were

1147
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 4: over there, and then two quick passes and we're over

1148
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 4: this side. You know the way we got shot. Yeah,

1149
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 4: the shot shot and the way we spread the ball

1150
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 4: would have been hard for sides. To a fan.

1151
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: Two thousand and one, when you win the Grand Final,

1152
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,479
Speaker 1: how different was it because ninety seven we come back

1153
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: and it's it's you know, something like eight o'clock at

1154
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: night and the whole city is still away, and that

1155
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: you get back about one or two in the morning. Yeah,

1156
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: was that feel strange?

1157
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 4: Well, not really, because we went to the stadium and

1158
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 4: the stadium there must have been ten thousand there, five

1159
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 4: to ten thousand, So we did a lap around the

1160
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 4: ground and we're getting these massive rules. But it was

1161
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 4: definitely a lot later. I do like the day game

1162
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 4: format for that, but yeah, it was different because it

1163
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 4: was a bit later. But I think Mad Mad Monday

1164
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 4: just started a bit quicker. Yeah, what about so obviously

1165
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 4: the ninety seven one that's become how that Mad Monday

1166
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 4: has become legendary, Like we've got Lego, We've gotten on

1167
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 4: Joey on the skateboard.

1168
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 2: Tripping Ken he can he kick Chase completely naked? That

1169
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 2: I met Kenny at the Old Boy's Book.

1170
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: Kenny was like, it shows you, like how inclusive is

1171
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: not the right word, you know. It's like just well,

1172
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: like we a lot of scaley wags and everything, but

1173
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: there was a real decency about the players. Like to

1174
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,879
Speaker 1: let people know Kenny. Kenny was a guy who grew

1175
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: up with a lot of learning difficulties and suddenly he

1176
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: was looking for something in his life and he couldn't

1177
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: drive a car. As a result, he used to he

1178
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: used to ride his pushbike from Windale into the city,

1179
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 1: which I'll let people know is probably a twenty minute

1180
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: twenty minute drive he'd ride and how he what did

1181
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: we started to do? We didn't know who he was

1182
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: Kenny Hamilton, but we when we do a training session,

1183
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: we're practicing our kicking. He just come on the film

1184
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: and start kicking the ball back. So he ended up

1185
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: earning the nickname Kenny Kick Chase. So then he started

1186
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 1: becoming our game day. So make Kenny, You're just part

1187
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: of the see him come in. So we had a

1188
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: pass and he come to the sheds and then we

1189
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: go out to warm up and this would entertain the

1190
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: whole crowd. Part of the warm up, he would stand

1191
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: under the sticks and Joey just launched these massive torpedo bombs.

1192
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 2: And Kenny trying to catch him. Sometimes he would and

1193
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 2: the crowd had just be going nuts.

1194
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 4: To catch him. And yeah, Kenny and grew his own

1195
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 4: cult following. He think I'd see him signing the odd

1196
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 4: jersey and he'd do everything like I mean, I'm in

1197
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 4: the big power aide buckets. Yeah, yeah, I remember him

1198
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 4: pouring the water and then putting the powder in and

1199
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 4: couldn't find the stir.

1200
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 3: The first time I heard about Kenny was John Thomas Tomo,

1201
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 3: So Tom, I would have been there when when you

1202
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 3: were there. He's still there now, Tom, he still works.

1203
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 2: Do you do anything with the club?

1204
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, game days, Maddie, I m C the corporate area,

1205
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 4: which I enjoy just get in and have a chat

1206
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 4: and set the scene and meet some great sponsors and

1207
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 4: people say. I enjoy that side of things. Obviously very

1208
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 4: close to Bedsie, so I keep in contact of everything

1209
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 4: that's going on there. So yeah, I'm.

1210
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 1: Still part of it to all the games.

1211
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 4: Every home game. Enjoy that, watch that, watch the other ones.

1212
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.

1213
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: Who are the features? Because we've got the Old Boys Box?

1214
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 1: Who are the regulars? And the Old Boys Box?

1215
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 4: Who are the regulars?

1216
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 2: Do they do shift? Now?

1217
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 4: We try and shift it around and try and share

1218
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 4: it around and we get them there and so now

1219
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,760
Speaker 4: the Old Boys is it's it's it's a good strong group.

1220
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 4: And I see that other clubs are doing a good

1221
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 4: job with it now as well. I think it's important

1222
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 4: to keep these X players together and give them some

1223
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 4: purpose and it's great.

1224
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to ask you. I've been I've been

1225
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 3: teetering on it. The house you and Bensie lived lived in,

1226
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 3: can you tell me about the bar.

1227
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 2: The bar.

1228
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 4: So yeah, So Bensy was living on his own and

1229
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 4: I said, let's just move in together. So one rainy

1230
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 4: Tuesday afternoon we decided to move in. So we got

1231
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 4: all the game. We're moving him across and we had

1232
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 4: this cupboard that we couldn't get through the door, had

1233
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 4: this like couldn't work out how to get it through,

1234
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 4: and we were stuff. We just give up. We ran Krowey,

1235
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 4: who was working at the club at the time as

1236
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 4: an admin. Crow can you come? And we're just over

1237
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 4: this and we can't sort it. So Crowley comes in,

1238
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 4: loosens the tie, measures it all up, and it was

1239
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 4: like magic. He somehow knew the angles and got us

1240
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 4: through that door straight away. But then it sort of

1241
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 4: clicked to me that sort of years of maneuver and

1242
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 4: the years through corridor, yeah makes him the perfect removal ust.

1243
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 4: So Crowley moved us in and yeah, so we had

1244
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 4: a great partnership. But downstairs we constructed a bar and

1245
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 4: we called it Whispers Whispers because we found everyone was

1246
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 4: coming there all the time, but they weren't bringing their

1247
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 4: own liquor, so no one was ever shouting.

1248
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 2: So very good.

1249
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 4: We used to call it whispers. I had a pool table,

1250
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 4: had a jacuzzie. It was like a little clubhouse Inweather.

1251
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 4: The boys all close.

1252
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: They said to me, excuse you said, mate, come over

1253
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: all have a couple of beers and jump in the chacuzzi.

1254
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: I turn up. I had one or two beers, but

1255
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: I tear what the chacuzi like a laxa.

1256
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to well.

1257
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,439
Speaker 3: Joe text me his reckons they used to they called

1258
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 3: you guys, called yourselves Bedsi, you and him the three Musketeers.

1259
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 3: And he asked me to ask Yujo about the Darwin

1260
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 3: trip you did. Was there a trip to Darwin?

1261
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, we went to Darwin a few times, spreading the

1262
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 4: rugby league gospel. So Joey, myself and Betsy and yeah,

1263
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 4: I just had great time, just hot weather, having fun.

1264
00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 4: Betsy met Chris's. I've heard that in the nightclub. But

1265
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 4: we had great time doing that. But we we beds

1266
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 4: and I would drive Joey to train and a fair

1267
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 4: buddy his lordship couldn't drive.

1268
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, make him live and then he's the sort of bloke,

1269
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: Joey that you'll be driving a training You've you've you've

1270
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: driven that road a million times, but he's still sitting

1271
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: in the team.

1272
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 2: Which way to go? Go left to you left? Yeah, mate,

1273
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 2: telling the story right?

1274
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: Excuse the trial game And that went down to Notoriety

1275
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: where he went and played a trial game and Joey

1276
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: said to Beds, don't worry, you don't have to play.

1277
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 4: I was, I was. I wasn't there for that one.

1278
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 4: But that was in Brisbane, sorry, in Darwin as well,

1279
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 4: and they had they had a trial and they weren't playing.

1280
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 4: So I think they had a two day long then drinks.

1281
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 2: And of course talking about benders.

1282
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: Your wedding, who could forget about that?

1283
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 4: So the boys the night before, the boys got a

1284
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 4: bit excited. My wedding party was my brother mate Maka

1285
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:08,959
Speaker 4: and Bedsie and Joey and yeah, we were having fun.

1286
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 4: And I went to bed and the boys just stayed

1287
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 4: in the house and drank a bit longer than probably

1288
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 4: most groomed. It has a fun day. It's became a

1289
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 4: bit of a legendary.

1290
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: Shoes you read me and goes mate, you've got a suit.

1291
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: I haven't, but I can get one, He goes mate.

1292
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: Because these two blokes, he goes, I don't know if

1293
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to.

1294
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 5: Make it and make the anticipation because we knew Joey

1295
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 5: could sort of hold himself together. But mate Bensy completely

1296
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 5: loses his ship and everyone's waiting at the church and

1297
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 5: everyone knows it's gone around anyway. The car turns up

1298
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,439
Speaker 5: and going, oh, here we go, poor old Beds mate.

1299
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 5: He dragged to the altar, Paul.

1300
01:00:51,240 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 4: Normally it should be the bride. Everyone's looking at putting this. Yeah,

1301
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 4: but yeah, just just fun times and Joey, you know,

1302
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 4: he's done. He's always done anything for me, you know,

1303
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 4: and very grateful for the friendship. And yeah, we lived close,

1304
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 4: so we had lots of amazing times, lots of fun,

1305
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 4: but also had lots of success.

1306
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 3: And it was just because it's a very unique thing

1307
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 3: in Newcastle, like people don't people at other clubs don't

1308
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 3: realize it untill they actually come to Newcastle. A lot

1309
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 3: of chat with Tyson Gamble about this when he first

1310
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 3: come to the club. But everyone lives within even if

1311
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 3: you're a little while away, it's within fifteen minutes of

1312
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 3: training generally, so everyone lives so close together you always

1313
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 3: around each other. You don't see that as much as

1314
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 3: at other clubs. Maybe clubs that are similar, like Cowboys

1315
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 3: up in towns will possibly. It's a very unique thing

1316
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 3: to have at a football club in the NRL.

1317
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, very unique. And I you know, I think if

1318
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 4: you go to another club you experience other you realize

1319
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 4: how good that environment was and is. And that was

1320
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 4: a yeah, it was a great time.

1321
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: Jab Now the stories that were thrown him before we

1322
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:00,920
Speaker 1: bid our dear friend for.

1323
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 3: Will actually a little quiz prepared for you, just three questions.

1324
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 3: And I didn't want to. I was going to do

1325
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 3: a game where rattle off your list of teammates. But

1326
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 3: you're too good a bloke. I know you don't want

1327
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 3: to put.

1328
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 4: On that game was coming.

1329
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, No I'm not.

1330
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 4: I was picturing I won't to do a better teammate

1331
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 4: Maddie or Joie or is that the game?

1332
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 3: I know how much I know how much you love

1333
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 3: your team. I'm not going to do that to you.

1334
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,000
Speaker 3: But I got only I only finished on the second question.

1335
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 3: This is for a funny reason. Actually, Game two in Sydney,

1336
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 3: the Blues return Serve twenty six eighteen, You guys won

1337
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 3: from a seventy thousand You're playing fullback who was the

1338
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 3: debutante that game for New South Wales. For New South Wales. Yeah,

1339
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 3: so your your forward power in the forwards. Yes, it

1340
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 3: was Ogre. Now to fact check this, I actually text

1341
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:43,920
Speaker 3: Ogre and just to check it. He goes, Yep, that

1342
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 3: is correct. I think I've still got the most meters recorded.

1343
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 3: He proceeded to send me a photo of him celebrating

1344
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 3: someone's try and then sent me the stats from two

1345
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 3: thousand and one.

1346
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 2: He's all time Ogre, He's all time.

1347
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 4: From memory with had a massive night. We're having a

1348
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 4: massive night and the paper was in the pub and

1349
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 4: it was a big article on Ogre. Bean off the drink.

1350
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 2: Those ones we always goes off the drink hue. Where

1351
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 2: can people get the beanies?

1352
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 4: Yeah? So best place is lows right across Australia selected

1353
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 4: I g a selected woolworst or online or most of all,

1354
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 4: come to the games over across the bean around and

1355
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 4: grab your beanies. Get on the Marquis Foundation website. We'd

1356
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 4: love your support.

1357
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 3: That's at Mark Yu's foundation, dot com, dodau.

1358
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: And the business the gym. If people are heading up

1359
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: to Newcastle, yeap.

1360
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 4: So I've got air locker guitar if you want to

1361
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 4: come in and do an air locker session.

1362
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've done a few. It's a it's great training,

1363
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 3: really good training, especially if you're going to go on

1364
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 3: something like a trek as well.

1365
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:49,600
Speaker 4: Cooper came in the other weekend.

1366
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 2: I heard. I heard it.

1367
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: He wasn't as good as the older bloke. I heard

1368
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 1: he disgraced himself.

1369
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you got a bit sick.

1370
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 2: Isn't funny? It run in there going? Oh I made

1371
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 2: here we go.

1372
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: We've got an X bloke recently retired in our role

1373
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: player and he's the one vomiting.

1374
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 4: Here's the vomiting and the other thing I'm doing, Maddie.

1375
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 4: I'm doing corporate speaking and stuff for corporate so people

1376
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 4: out there want to hear my story. I'd love to

1377
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,479
Speaker 4: do that. It's something that I am passionate about.

1378
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 2: I've heard so heard you give a couple of those talks.

1379
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.

1380
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, unreal, all right, thank you very much, Usy.

1381
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 4: This has been a pleasure. Here's mate, Thank you Jack, Maddie.

1382
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 2: Here's he always great to say.

1383
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 4: Thanks for everything, Mate, I really appreciate it. On your comrade,

1384
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 4: thank you.

1385
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 3: Thanks com