WEBVTT - Connor Watson | Part 2 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.040 Kind of We'll talk about the decider on a second 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.960 in this series, But how did you feel going back 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.640 to club football? Like that's one of the most satisfying things. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.760 You know, you've succeeded at origin level. Then you go 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.279 back and the pace of NURL has flat out, but 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.239 it actually feels like it's slow motion that game and 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.280 you go back to it's such a big difference. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:25.840 Yeah. Well, actually, so going back after game two I 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.160 felt sweet. It was going back after game three I 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.520 actually found it really hard to be honest, because I 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.000 just had this like big emotional high and then we 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.559 played on Saturday night against the Storm down in Melbourne 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.720 and it was probably the worst game of footy ART 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.199 played last year, was that Saturday night against Melbourne and 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.600 it was just like, yeah, all of these emotions and everything. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.200 I just felt really flat in that game against the Storm, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.320 and yeah, really sort of for it. Just it was hard. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.560 It was just really hard that come to motivate yourself, right, yeah, 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.640 just like not motivate yourself because you're coming up against 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.440 the Storm, so you know, and like we hadn't won 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.840 against the Storm for a long time. But I remember 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.800 speaking to like Spencer and stuff about it and it 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.720 was like that was probably the hardest game of first 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.920 grade we'd played all year, just because one they're a 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.240 tough opponent, but you've just had this mental high and 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.240 then three days later you're trying to get yourself up 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.640 for a game again, and it was pretty tough. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.000 I reckon, that is I reckon, that's the worst place 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.120 of time. Three days. Yeah, Like we've played games or 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.360 test matches and had to play the next day, and 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.960 playing the next days a piece of pierce because you 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.319 still buzzn't stille, you know, and you don't think you 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.240 just get it there and play. But you know, they 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.520 tell me that by the third day, when you're really 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.440 your sorenesses just starting to peak and you do have 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.240 no adrenaline left, that's that's really tough. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.520 Yeah, And I yeah, because we just did a four 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:49.040 day one going into the Cowboys on Sunday, and four 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.080 days was like really good because, like you said, day three, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.480 but you've had you've been able to just rest and 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.000 completely shut your mind off, like you know, you get 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.280 a sort of the full day off, and then now 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.000 it's focused on the Cowboys, where that three days is 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.320 kind of like you know, you travel on the Thursday, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.960 and then Friday you're doing Captains Run and then Saturday 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.880 you're going to go again. You haven't had that time 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.600 to like just have a break, just to mentally. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.840 And keep in mind you've just won an original series 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.600 and you're up in it was up at Suncourt last year, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.160 and he's wrong the beat like you're celebrated. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.880 Yeah, we had a big, pretty big night after as well, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.880 So there's all of that that stuff that you're dealing with. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.320 Did you find match enjoy his coaching? 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.480 Yeah, I loved. I loved working under Matche. I thought 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:36.119 he was awesome. Yeah, He's just the way he brought 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.240 us together I thought was pretty cool because you've only 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.880 got ten days to really, you know, have like a 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.640 deep connection with these guys because the game is so hard, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.359 as you know, and like you know, there's going to 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:48.800 be times where you need to look at the bloat 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.799 next to you and want to really turn up for him. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.680 So he did such a good job of that. But 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.760 then also I think the way he incorporated the old boys. Yeah, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.079 and I don't know like if you can speak on that, mate, 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.000 but I know some some of the other old boys 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.800 have and just said, like I haven't really felt the 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.760 way he sort of went back to that and incorporated 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.280 the old boys, and you know, we had the big 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.960 theme around Turvy and like a big focus on him 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.760 what he did for the Blues, and yeah, brought got 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.000 to bring him in and just we had like going 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.760 into the decider, you know, we had this sort of 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.600 dinner where like they brought I don't know, I was 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.200 twenty or thirty of the old boys in Peter Winn 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.919 like all of these sort of Yeah, I've had beers 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.000 with all of them, and it was just like really 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.120 good to have that connection with the past and then 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.080 also you know, being made aware of what opportunity we 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.040 have to go up to some to create some of 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:38.880 our own history. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.160 He's yeah, gone into that first series match, carried a 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.360 blue jersey wherever he went, and when he come across 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.480 you know, an old player, he just grabbed He grabbed 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.320 you and say you know what this means? You know 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.080 what is this moon? And what does his jersey make? 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.720 Like he did to me And I said, I and 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.800 you know, like I support the Blues all the way, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.560 but it's funny, I'm probably more passionate, which might sound 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.640 about Newcastle. That makes sense. Yeah, because I've been through 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.800 a lot more so I said to Madge, Mate, I said, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.000 I support the Blues, and Madge, I'll support you the 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.400 whole way, like I'll support all the players, and like 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.400 I'll support Laurie in this one. But I said, you know, 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.000 I'm not going to be that guy to go right, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.280 this is what it is to be your Blue because 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.520 I got to put my hand in my heart and say, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.400 I'm not that guy. I'm not that passionate. I'm not 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.640 as passionate as what Madge was looking for. Yeah, you 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.440 know that's and that's just being honest, you know, but 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.359 that's not take anything away from my enthusiasm for the team. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.719 But for me, I don't up there sort of beat 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.760 my chest saying, mate, let me take you back to 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:49.040 game three. What about the difference between Lourie and Madge. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.440 Yeah, I think there's been a lot of similarities. Have 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:57.039 pretty much kept everything the same from like a preparation standpoint, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:02.839 so where camp is all the staff except Dean Young's 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.360 come on board because Cardi went over to coach at 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.160 whole Yeah, and then loss as well, so like all 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.440 the staff, so it's very similar. Yeah, But the I 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.560 think you know, Loss being an ex player and being 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.840 one of New South Wales's greatest ever players, you can 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.920 see how passionate it is for the Jersey. There's obviously 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.400 a difference in that, a bit of personality, you know. Yeah, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.000 Madge is very intense, where Loss is pretty chill. But 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.440 when we're training, Loss is very Yeah, there's times there 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.479 where you come in and it's sort of you don't 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.880 really expect him to drive you as hard as he has. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.960 But yeah, it's been good to see him have I 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.480 guess that balance and he probably learned a lot from 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.720 his first experience as doing it and he's coming with 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:43.919 a bit of a different mindset now. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.000 We had him here on backstage and when we did 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.680 the interview, I went afterwards, I thought, it's the old Lorrie, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.559 back when Lorrie took the job the first time. I'm 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.919 not saying he said, but you could see he was. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.320 I say this, put it this way. When Laurie was 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.120 a young player coming through, he was a fucking like 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:11.599 up on his arm on the charismatic, confident, aggressive, fucking 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.000 Laurie daily and in retirement, like most people do, they 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.520 lose that. And I didn't think he had the first series. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.479 But interviewing here, I thought, fucking the old Lorry back 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.880 because Connor made I'm telling you he was unbelievable. And 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.560 I've said this a couple of times, just you know, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.320 to reaffirm the guy who's coaching you. In the ninety 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.520 four series I wasn't a part of, but Paul Harrigan, 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.520 our captain Newcastle was. They played an epic game against 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.240 Coinsland and New South Wales pipped him, piped him late. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.560 Lorrie scored and after the after the game, I said 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.080 to Chief the next day, I said, mate, that was tough. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.039 I thought you were gone. What do you think he 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.800 has no and you were going to win? I said, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.160 how did you How do you know you're going to win? 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.400 He said because we had Lorry Daily. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.800 I mean, like that's that's has a presence with him, right. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:09.000 What about Craig Bellamy? Has that been your first interaction 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:10.520 with belly ate this Origin series? 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.600 Yeah, well actually last Origin series last year because when 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.679 we played Game two down in Melbourne, mag had brought 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.680 was a couple others down to speak to us. Yeah, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.400 like two days before the game and have dinner with 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:26.920 us and stuff. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:27.160 They did. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.160 They still do it like we did it this year. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.200 They get a couple of old boys and usually they're 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.840 like sort of interviewing and just so we did the 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.080 same thing again this year, but Craig was there. And 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:42.800 Craig's actually so he's from near Lithgo, Portland, Yeah, where 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.800 my pop is from. And so Craig used to play 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.560 in the same club as my pop's brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.440 So mum sort of spoke to Craig and was like, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.920 do you remember Gary Yeah, and he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.840 I do, and then say I sort of had a 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.640 good chat with him last year about all that. And 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.680 I can remember Craig speaking last year about Origin and 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.960 what the experience was like coaching and sort of like, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.800 you know, you know, some things that he wish you 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.080 could sort of take back from that time. And then 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.920 for him that like when they said Loss was coaching 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.680 and then that he was going to come on board 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.520 as the advisor, I thought, how cool is that because 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.600 he sort of like spoke about, you know, he'd love 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.880 to sort of have that opportunity again. And he's been 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.680 able to do that this year. Obviously in a different capacity. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.040 He's like not really coaching, he's more sort of i'd 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.360 say help like helping lot like laws, but he still 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.559 spoke like he's delivered some stuff in meetings and spoke 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.040 to us and he just has this aura around him 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.400 that's crazy, Like you trained under him for a very 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.520 long time and yeah, and for someone who's done so 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.320 much in the game, you just have so much respect 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:51.720 for him. So it's just been cool to connect with 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:52.120 a guy like that. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.640 I ask you just you touched on the dynamic, the 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.000 dynamic there between Los, the assistance and then belly Ach, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.960 who's sort of that outline that looks over the top 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.160 if you think, what's his involvement at training, Yeah, what's 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:09.400 his involvement like at halftime before his runout, that's the 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.400 dynamic Craig Craig. Yeah, so. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.120 With all sort of like the halftime game stuff like 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.720 that's all sort of like loss thing. Ye, Craig like 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.160 has sort of done some stuff in meetings where he's 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.800 like delivered different things for us, and then you know 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.680 after the game like he was sort of loss was 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.240 like Craig, I want Craig to sort of say a 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.040 few words about it. So he did as well. But 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.280 I'd say, like it's mostly Los, like he's sort of 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.360 leading it, and then you know Craig has just come 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.080 in and added like bits and pieces when Losses felt 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.200 like he's wanted him to sort of add at his 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:46.800 point of view. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.960 So you win game one, so that that game too, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.880 where you know, lots of people made the penalty count, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.240 but the main thing was disciplined. You the really is 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.719 down would have been disappointed. How was Craig because if 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.800 that was if you blokes with the Melbourne Storm, he 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.760 would have gone in the sheds and gone you blokes 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.400 a fucking kid and gave it to What was he 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:09.840 like in the sheds after game two? 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.160 No, not like that, not like that, Like he did 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.720 speak to us just about you know, yeah, sort of 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.920 the discipline stuff, but also like sticking together and staying 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.120 rock solid, which was like sort of Loss's main point 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.600 was like, you know, we were so ill disciplined, we 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.160 made so many errors, but at the end, like you know, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.280 we put ourselves in a position to win this game. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.480 So let's take a lot of confidence out of that 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.640 because that second half was good, but we need to 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.240 be better in these sort of departments. And Craig just 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.400 spoke about that, like yeah, just not giving them a 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.079 chance not giving them a sniff because we did that 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.040 in the first half and we let them play the 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.600 football that they want to play. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.640 Okay, nessie on to ask you. You're sitting sitting on 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.760 the bench for game one yea and Spenceerlan who gets 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.079 the call or just before he gets the call and 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.880 we know he's on the field. It's just unbelievable where 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.880 he's just reving the crowd up. Then he gives kicked 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.720 to me and they don't how was he? What's it 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.000 like sitting on the bench with the bench with Spencer. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.480 I love playing with Spencer, honestly, I just because I 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.439 remember when he signed he'd signed to go to the 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.720 Roosters and then do you remember the stink you know 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.160 he had with Jared on the field. Yeah, and then 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.600 like he's trying to fight jar but he's already signed 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.160 up the Roosters and then he's coming off and he's 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.040 spraying the fans. I was like, this guy's a mania. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.840 He's got some big yeah. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.800 But the thing is like you're like when you're with 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.480 him every day and I don't know if you've come 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.880 across him coople matey, but he's like such a very 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.320 like chill guy, pretty quiet, like unless you sort of 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.000 know him, but very just doesn't. And even when he trains, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.320 it's not like he trains with this intensity where he 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.320 wants to kill people. But it's as soon as he 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.920 becomes the player in on the game day, it's like 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.840 he just has this switch and he just flicks it 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.640 and he just becomes this yeah. Because even playing with 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.920 him last year, you know, like he's going back for 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.000 the kickoff, he's like telling the crowd to pump up 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.240 take the kick off, and just comes steams into him. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.320 And then I remember the game one and there was 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.200 like a video of it that come out where so 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.600 we've done the anthem and everything like that, and then 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.960 I've gone, like three of us have gone to sit 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.240 down and three on the bench, and Spencer's like, come on, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.760 let's go, let's go for a run. And then so 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.960 he just I'm like right, and then he just like 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.720 starts running because he was the most hated man in Queens. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.640 Then he just starts giving it to the crowd and 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.000 they're like giving it back to and I'm behind him. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.719 It was Stratch and then Stretcher just cracking up, like 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.880 look at this guy. He loves it. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:46.880 It's good. It's so good. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.720 Imagine like you as a bench, so good for the emotion, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.800 Like you guys are sitting there getting pumped up, because 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.679 it can be quite yeah, it can be quite melancholy 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.600 on the bench. You're waiting, you're kind of getting cold. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.840 Sometimes you're a bloke on there who is just ripping 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.920 it the skin waiting to get on. It must be 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.800 good for the energy, right, yeah. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.480 It is. And it's just good to play with a 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.840 guy like that because you know, I remember versuing him 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.640 at Penrith and he's honestly the hardest play to tackle. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.600 I just remember he'd come off the bench. She's probably 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.600 a bit more unknown then, like early days in Penrith 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.480 and just thinking, this guy's the hardest dude I've ever 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.920 had to tackle, Like he was only a few games in. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.439 So to play with a guy like that who brings 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.920 that energy every week, like, it's awesome to have a 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.160 dude like that in your team because you know, as 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.360 a player, it just it's a bit of a throwback 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.120 to what players used to be like and how they 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.800 would approach games. You know, a lot of guys go 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.000 into games a bit more calm now, like, but this 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.000 dude just brings so much energy and like makes you 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.000 just want to go out there and get really full. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.120 It seems like him and Jerome they and even blowslik 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 because he's even like both like to real mate, they 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.440 really kind of like they they love it, like they 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.200 whether you get bad attention or good. We talk a 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.439 lot about, like you know, getting hate on social media, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.280 and that those three boys like they've got it right 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.079 like inside their head. How they their perspective on it 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.600 is they actually use it for motiva, like they channel 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.240 off it and they thrive off it. Not saying that 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.040 they probably love reading that ship all the time, but 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.880 they actually they like being the villain. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.160 Imagine one of those cock kids who'll be trolling Spencer. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.520 Spencer comes across one. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:18.040 That'd be scary. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:18.840 He's going to good. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.320 He's got a good YouTube. Actually, Spencer, I. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.280 Think it's just Spencer len you's been popping off. He's 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.400 got like in two weeks or in a month, he's 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.640 got a few subscribers that yeah, he's got over twenty 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.080 thousand subs and like his videos have been doing one hundred. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:42.160 To shout out to him, what we should do, We'll 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.920 get him on the We'll get him on the potty 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.840 here if you're out there, Spence, do that because the 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.920 other mind I want to come across Spencer. I think 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.160 Spencer could learn a thing or two about your man 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:59.240 back fence. Bruiser. Let's let's put it on the podcast 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.240 and show it for the for the visual. I mean, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.480 who does it better or Bruiser? Yeah? 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.920 Can we get a side by side carry and a 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.280 Bruiser carry. I'll tell you what that'd be a run 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.560 out straight from the ages. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.640 You know, probably like uh not last New Year's the 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:20.040 year before we stayed just got like an airbnb at Avalon. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.880 and there was a few of us there, just some 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.000 of my mates from home and then Gussie was staying 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.720 up that way with his family. They were staying at 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.520 Avalon as well. And we went for a beer at 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:35.720 the Newport and so Semi Verels is there, like Billy 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:41.080 all that crew and Bruises was there that night. Yeah. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.600 You know what's fine when I put that video for 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.160 Bruiser right because Bruiser was loving How good is this 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.040 the amount of like footy lads who specially the ones 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.840 that have been up at the Newport Because Bruises just 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:57.480 fighting around there, stuck to the floor and Gussie. Gussie 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.840 rang Viyls and he said, just put a video of 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.240 that Bruiser because of family. He was just running the 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:05.119 whole afternoon. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.120 Yeah, he was. He was just and you know what, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.960 So he's like, let's get a drink. Let's get a drink. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.120 So Gussie gets me, him and Bruiser around. He just 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.720 kept kept coming at us. It's like, let's go, let's 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.000 get a drink, sweet mate. And then it got to 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.960 his term, like Bruises, get us a drink and he's like, oh, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:27.200 I'm not shout and I've got no money my sponsoring. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.560 Is he famous? Now? What? 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.680 Verels so Verrel's last week they played against the Eels, 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.520 the Titans versus Earls. Bruises went out to the game. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.960 Verels said at the end of the game, he went 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:42.000 over and seeing his brother and Bruiser and kids were 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:47.160 getting pictures with Bruiser at Combank Stadium. And apparently even 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.640 like even Chris Randall and Mo Fodder wake Up were 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.200 walking around seeing their family and they looked over and 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:58.840 they is that Bruiser. If you haven't I haven't seen 0:16:58.920 --> 0:16:59.880 the video on my Instagram. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:00.560 Have a look. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.000 I love the deep breath. The deep breath was the 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:04.040 best part. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.920 My evorite part is the fact that even it actually 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.440 like disillusioned me. Like I was going on the weekend 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.560 last week, He's coming off the bench. They put the 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.280 demoted into the and I'm going, why would they do that? 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.640 What idiot's coaching? Then I just thought to myself, all 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.240 I've seen is is a carricter. I didn't even watch 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.680 the rest of the seven mistakes before. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:32.840 And the carryall he actually wants to come on the 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:40.480 body said, coming into Game three decider at Sydney, big occasion, 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.879 it's been a big build up. What what did you 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.040 learn from game two when when you guys have sort 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:47.800 of looked you suppose you haven't reviewed too much of it, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.000 you haven't got you going to camp this week? How 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:50.640 do you say it? 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.639 I just think, you know, like we just got to 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.040 be disciplined. Yeah, not give them, Not give them a 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.320 chance because we saw in that second half from when 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.560 we got into the sort of more of the live 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.479 boar style of footy. You know, we were able to 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.199 come up with with a lot of points there and 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:09.159 almost win the game. But as disappointing as it is 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.480 to lose there, like we would have loved to wrapped 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.560 up the series. And I think there was like a 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.800 chance for us to be maybe the fourth or fifth 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.800 team to win yeah four and four and four games 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.040 in a row and like an Origin series, and you know, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.359 we sort of missed that opportunity, which is disappointing. But 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.080 there's a big chance, like big chance for us to 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:28.480 go back to back and then to be able to 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.560 actually do it in New South Wales in front of 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.720 all of our home fans and to have a lot 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.760 of mates and family and all that stuff there, Like 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.160 it's pretty exciting. So I think just the biggest thing 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.919 for us is, you know, take the lessons out of 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:45.359 that game, you know, be hungry because we did lose it, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.960 like we needed to go in there and from the 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.920 start be a better team, but also to be really 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.480 excited about this opportunity to go to a corps and 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.120 essentially win a decider in front of all our friends 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:58.359 and family, Like it's pretty. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.800 Eppy kind of just questioning the games. In that last 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.800 training session when Nathan he's practicing his kicking and just 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.760 tweaks his cooling a little bit, did that like going 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.040 into the game such an important player in so many aspects, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.000 the fact that you know he wasn't one hundred percent fit. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.480 Did that did have any impact on the group before 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:17.160 the game? You think? 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.280