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Speaker 1: I'll kick it off, you cane. It is that we

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Speaker 1: recording sway for Dad Kid to get his headphones on.

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Speaker 1: Guess you made that look hard.

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Speaker 2: Just like you.

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Speaker 3: You're interviewing style of suppose.

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Speaker 1: Okay, perfect? Brad Parker, Wow, what a guest to have

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Speaker 1: on today.

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Speaker 4: Pulled out all the big guns to get Brad really

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Speaker 4: broke the salary cap for the year.

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Speaker 1: First actual dad first podcast Brad Parker has ever done?

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Speaker 1: First time exclusive? How you gone this long without doing

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Speaker 1: a single?

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Speaker 2: I want to make a shout out to Hollow Sports.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry boys always said that that would be my

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Speaker 5: first podcast, but you guys got.

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Speaker 6: Me and just quickly scanning through, I think you might

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Speaker 6: be our first redhead on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I reckon that's probably true. Actually, Jack, is that true?

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Speaker 2: Can we do the confirmation? Jack?

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Speaker 1: Did Dale have a bit of ginger in there?

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Speaker 2: Coup?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: Kaylen Kaylen Ponger?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but I said red and he looked at

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Speaker 2: Did he get offended by it? He did? See?

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Speaker 1: I don't know that said by Red Edge said, I'm

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Speaker 1: strawberry blind.

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Speaker 3: I know you're in a relationship. This is probably comes

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Speaker 3: with information a little too late.

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Speaker 6: But my best mate in Irish and Brian Corney. Three

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Speaker 6: has got bright red hair and he was like, ah,

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Speaker 6: here you go, and every in Brazil like redheads are adored.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is Brad dating at Brazilian.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that? I swear to God.

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Speaker 6: When he arrived in Rio, they walked into the hotel

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Speaker 6: and everyone the cog grabbed the forest and he's going, oh,

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Speaker 2: Redheads is it?

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Speaker 1: Because redheads you don't see them over there, so they're like.

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Speaker 6: It was like Cano Alvarez, like he's adored there. He's

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Speaker 6: like the only redhead in his family.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So it's like it's almost an extinct species.

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Speaker 2: And all the beaches, we've got no larks overseason.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, obviously you only had to that's.

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Speaker 2: What you were doing about Brazil.

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Speaker 1: Did you meet her in Brazil? Okay, well, well that

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Speaker 1: makes right. So she was blessed, So she was blessed

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Speaker 7: Yeah, she was blessed for options, she was blessed for

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Speaker 7: redhead Hosyeah, Brad, they're not read at about Donald's brad retirement.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's kick off right there. Your decision to retire.

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Speaker 4: How did you come to that decision, because you've been

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Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't say that that long, but I did

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Speaker 5: have an infection, what was it, end of twenty three

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Speaker 5: First first podcast. I'm sorry, Yeah, I had an infection

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Speaker 5: and that just sent me back so much. And then

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Speaker 5: just basically this whole twenty four I was just struggling.

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Speaker 5: I just I was struggling to get to training, struggling

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Speaker 5: wasn't fun for me anymore. Like I just every day

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Speaker 5: And I just thought, like, I think I made a decision.

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Speaker 5: Before the first origin, me and Steeves had a chat

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Speaker 5: Like you don't really hear that many stories, but you

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Speaker 5: I'm very grateful for it, but yeah, it's just too hard,

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Because I felt bad.

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Speaker 5: I was thinking I a top thirty spot and there's

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Speaker 2: So I was like what am I doing? Like I'm

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Speaker 5: Made the decision and once I did that, I just

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Speaker 5: then finish off last year just basically supporting the boys,

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Speaker 5: a good year, which was good and it's.

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Speaker 1: Your energy, man, Like what was woods?

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Speaker 5: I was kind of I was kind of the guy

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Speaker 5: they looked too, and then they see me struggle around,

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Speaker 5: they go, well, we're not worse than that guy I saw.

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Speaker 2: It'll be all right.

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Speaker 1: But what funny you say that.

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Speaker 4: I caught up with Dalli chair Evans say for a coffee.

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Speaker 4: I said, howse training being he only just went back

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Speaker 4: to preseason, and he said, you know what, the hardest

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Speaker 4: thing's been looking like not having Brad Parker there, because Park's.

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Speaker 1: In warm up.

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Speaker 2: Dad, You'd look over at parks every back and he

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Speaker 6: And just when I was young player, I never had

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul Harrigan.

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Speaker 6: Like for us, for him to just do the last

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Speaker 6: fifteen minutes of a Baalwak session towards the end of

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Speaker 6: his career, he'd have to like literally he used to

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Speaker 6: numerous times, get a rub and everything come out to

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Speaker 6: do ten minutes, and You're right, it just takes all

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Speaker 6: even just the games like Brad, like in a game

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Speaker 6: at the very end, for me, the thing you look

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Speaker 6: for in the game is you want space, and then

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Speaker 6: when your body's failing you, your dread space.

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Speaker 5: Oh my biggest few is open space. If I was

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Speaker 5: wading it, I was ready to get it into that

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Speaker 5: I'm just like, I'm just gonna trip over himself.

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Speaker 2: I'm just done.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it was just yeah, it's going to the

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Speaker 5: point like when you say old players like caring for him.

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Speaker 1: Like the way.

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Speaker 5: Before twenty twenty two in Panas Round one and I

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Speaker 5: he couldn't even run.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, how you And.

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Speaker 5: Then shows up game day and just has a blinder.

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Speaker 5: Like I just watched him. I was like, how do

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Speaker 1: How do you do that for a whole season? And

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Speaker 1: Fozz is still going.

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Speaker 5: He's still going still, He's going to finish off this

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Speaker 5: year and he's obviously going to I hope for the

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Speaker 5: best for me good year.

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Speaker 4: But Tommy Tommy Turbo is a good example of that.

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Speaker 4: Like you'd get into try like when I was at

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Speaker 4: eight o'clock. If you get in there at seven, Turbo's

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Speaker 4: his It's like an hour of prep for turboah, just

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Speaker 3: One of the best players of all time will certainly

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Speaker 3: round up my year. It was Terry lamp the great

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Speaker 3: Bulldogs player. In the last three years of his career,

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Speaker 3: he could not do one He could not even do bullwork.

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Speaker 6: And they used to make that compensation for him because

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Speaker 6: the night before the game, he's going for a twenty

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Speaker 6: he said, that's what it takes for me to get

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Speaker 6: he spent the whole week on the rower or the

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Speaker 6: the game for twenty minutes and then game day and

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Speaker 6: you know what, he played his the best football.

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Speaker 5: League career AfOR was like that too. You're right when

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Speaker 5: he's mainly just like basically round the whole week captains

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Speaker 3: Then you got Beaver the.

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Speaker 6: Other end of the gay, who was honestly played for

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Speaker 6: like four hundred and eighty games when he played in

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Speaker 3: He's fine, and he's fine. You made three tackles and

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Speaker 1: Believe in Cliffy Lions, Cliffe Lions still playing touch footy

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Speaker 1: down at the park, like I go down and play

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Speaker 6: I remember we're playing mainly once and it was the

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Speaker 6: and we walked into the Lewes Club like and as

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Speaker 3: Really before the game, before the game, did you win?

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Speaker 3: I didn't walk up.

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Speaker 6: I was against him that they wasn't a tap on

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Speaker 6: the shelf, so the gun and slappers here, Yeah, you get.

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Speaker 1: Up or I'll go fifty.

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Speaker 3: He did lose the game that day, so I hope

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Speaker 3: he did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. What do you miss most about the about not

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Speaker 5: That's it? Really like I hated like the boys. I

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Speaker 5: saw when to dinner with them last night and they're like, oh.

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Speaker 2: Do you miss it?

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Speaker 5: I was like, nah, like watching you guys do precers

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Speaker 2: I was just like nah, Like I don't miss that.

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Speaker 5: But like last night, I was like, oh, this is

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Speaker 5: sad because you know it's not an everyday thing. Now

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Speaker 5: we're going to see him. Yeah, that's all I really like.

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Speaker 5: I just loved footy doing that. Like I obviously everyone

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Speaker 5: has ambitions to play rugby league in the first grade,

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Speaker 5: but I just I never really thought I was going

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Speaker 5: to make NURL. And I know a lot of people

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Speaker 5: say that, but I genuinely or that. I just did that.

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Speaker 5: Like me and Jackie is playing a sheep all together.

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Speaker 5: We had a great team, played good footy there. Then

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Speaker 5: you know, hang around the lads.

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Speaker 2: That was the best.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing with you, Brad, is you're like a

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Speaker 6: So you get sorry I was trying to be, but

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Speaker 3: All the time.

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Speaker 6: I used to say all the times, often very oftentimes

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Speaker 2: Up and play.

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Speaker 3: They don't ride the roller coaster before games. Not so

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Speaker 6: I get really nervous when you play sides around the

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Speaker 6: I've got so much more mental energy.

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Speaker 5: Like I felt during the week was pretty good because

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Speaker 5: But the day of the game, I just hated it,

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Speaker 5: I just I used to hate. I used to think

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Speaker 6: Standing at the urinal before the game and as you're

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Why am I?

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Speaker 5: And I always used to think about my schoolmates who

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Speaker 4: You're like when you're young, when you're eighteen ninety twenty,

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Speaker 1: They just live in life. They're traveling to.

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Speaker 5: Europe and this is I would never do for anything.

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Speaker 5: I always just get mby. It's just the of the

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Speaker 5: I used to hate it.

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Speaker 3: And they're doing the same to you. They're sitting in

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Speaker 1: What I Yeah, what I.

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Speaker 2: Would do to be? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What's doing now?

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Speaker 5: What made I'm going to go into commercial real estate

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Speaker 5: we kind of look after each other. Yeah, you just

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Speaker 5: is really good, so I'll say that. And then the

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Speaker 5: end of the month, which is exciting and nerve wracking

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Speaker 5: at the same time because.

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Speaker 1: How do your Arabia League skills translate over.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like I've done.

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Speaker 5: I started first grade the first year out of high school,

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Speaker 5: so I've done nothing. So is this is your first job,

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Speaker 2: I've made lawns, but.

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Speaker 5: You know that's not really anything that I can hang

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's.

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Speaker 5: It's really nervous because I've you know, football has been

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Speaker 6: So it's everything you need because you deal with people

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Speaker 6: every day. Yeah, you learn people how to treat people,

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Speaker 6: that emotional intelligence and it's work ethic.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's the thing like commission based jobs. I

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Speaker 5: feel like it's you know, it's really on you too

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Speaker 4: So did you ever think about because you were when

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Speaker 4: we played together. You're a very smart edge defender at

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Speaker 4: Santa and wing like helping sort of sander wingers and

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Speaker 1: And how to handle different shapes. Do you ever think

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Speaker 5: That like an architecture, like yeah, look, yeah, maybe down

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Speaker 2: But I kind of wanted to break for footy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a couple of jobs offered to me around,

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Speaker 5: you know, I was very very blessed to get the

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Speaker 5: job offers, But I just wanted to break for footy

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Speaker 5: a bit. Like it's been, like I said, since high

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Speaker 5: break from it because you know, media and stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: So I kind of want to break from footy and

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Speaker 5: Jackie to ESU board for the mainly and help out

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Speaker 2: But yeah, kind of wan a bit of a break.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, because Jack letting people know, Jack is trying

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Speaker 4: to recruit Brad to help out their mainly SG ballside.

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Speaker 1: But Jack's assistant, one of the assistant coaches, and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack needs a hand with ruining some people's careers.

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Speaker 1: Brad, well, look, congratulations on a stellar career.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Me and Matthew went out during the week and we

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Speaker 4: just went out on the northern beaches and we interviewed

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Speaker 4: some of the locals on just some nice messages and

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Speaker 4: you know how they remember.

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Speaker 1: Brad Parker as a player. So if you can get comfortable,

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Speaker 2: A little listen to this product.

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Speaker 6: Got a father son here down the streets here in

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Speaker 6: do Why fellas are you going here?

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Speaker 3: You going, Maddie going? Good mate?

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Speaker 6: Big news news came through that Brad Parker has officially

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Speaker 6: retired Brad Parker.

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Speaker 8: Brad Parker, remember we went to that game a couple

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Speaker 8: of years ago and it was we got there a

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Speaker 8: bit early. Yeah, No, it was that guy on the

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Speaker 8: wing paying for Blacktown. I'm pretty sure on him.

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Speaker 3: There was any memories he really stick out of Brad.

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Speaker 1: Recently.

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Speaker 8: No, usually I remember the games from this season, but

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Speaker 8: I don't think we saw him.

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Speaker 3: Actually, that's a good point.

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Speaker 2: Strapping.

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Speaker 1: I remember a lot of strapping. It was he was

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Speaker 1: strapped very well. Have you got a message from Brad

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Speaker 1: Parker his retirement from Yeah, man, I love Brad Parker.

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Speaker 8: Like I'm a paramo of support, Like he's a great

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Speaker 8: cycle line, Like he's so so tough, He's got like

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Speaker 8: the best ringer.

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Speaker 6: Bid got a gentleman who tells me he's a pretty

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Speaker 6: big ragul league fan.

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Speaker 3: Brad Parker has retired your thoughts, Brad Parker.

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Speaker 9: He's the young bloodnut, isn't he. Fred Parker used to

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Speaker 9: get knocked out a lot when he took the ball up.

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Speaker 3: That's him, you yea, the low running style. Are you

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Speaker 3: ever going to miss him?

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Speaker 9: Yeah? He's played an integral part of the new South Wales.

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Speaker 9: I give you my best wishes.

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Speaker 3: Mate, when memories are really sticking out for it.

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Speaker 9: He played like a like a true redhead mate, very

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Speaker 9: hard running. You know what, I wouldn't mind playing outside

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Speaker 9: Brad Parker. I reckon he was a good, good inside

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Speaker 9: man for a winger.

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Speaker 1: I love to make him play for one more year

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Speaker 1: in Paramatta. We needed a few centers on our reserve grade.

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Speaker 3: There might have been a little bit of coercing.

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Speaker 2: The same voices kept popping up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was only a few.

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Speaker 7: But mate, you know, in all seriousness, Bradley, you know

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Speaker 7: the Blacktown workers will.

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Speaker 2: Miss Yeah, I missed the boys, So that was fun. Brad.

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Speaker 3: How many gender player it was about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: forty games.

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Speaker 2: For Black Sound fifteen hundred and fifte hundred and seventeen games.

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Speaker 6: That's that's an incredible effort. I think the average NRL

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Speaker 6: career is about six awake games. Yeah, it's you know,

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Speaker 6: I mean that's well NRL stands for not real long.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, correct, Yeah I didn't know that, but yeah, I

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Speaker 5: mean I really should be at one fifty. Like I

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Speaker 5: I just draw hands everything. So yeah, injury sent me

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Speaker 5: back a bit, but look, I'm still I was probably

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Speaker 5: was just like, yeah, one hundred is at least you've

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Speaker 5: got something to your name, Like if you don't play Origin,

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Speaker 5: you don't play Australia or anything like that, I feel

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Speaker 5: like you've got.

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Speaker 2: That one hundred next to your name.

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Speaker 5: It was a big milest at least I can say

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Speaker 5: I've done a hundred and you know, walk out the game.

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Speaker 6: But the best thing of the whole game, of the relationships, Like, seriously,

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Speaker 6: it's not games play. I even say it's not representative jerseys,

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Speaker 6: origin jerseys, A strange jersey's the most.

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Speaker 3: Important thing you get out of the game.

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Speaker 5: The relationships we had to beer with Glenn and Brett

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Speaker 5: Stewart and the players they talked about the most is

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Speaker 5: people I didn't even know of, Like the players that

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Speaker 5: were just like hard, tough, funny, Like the whole conversation

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Speaker 5: wasn't around like all the superstards they played with. Was

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Speaker 5: like all these guys that played ten to fifteen games,

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Speaker 5: and they were the guys they talked about the most

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Speaker 1: Brad, we're gonna shift over to you. Was a player

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Speaker 4: June football, you played a fair bit win and against

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Speaker 4: Jack John's dad actually coached you.

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Speaker 2: But first game, yeah, your first ever game of league

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Speaker 5: Yeah, got me in the match, got fresh, freshy chickens,

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Speaker 5: a little voucher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did dad give you that?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: They you guys were lower numbers or something, and Barron

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Speaker 5: Leech messes me, you guys, mate, we need some numbers.

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Speaker 2: I said, okay, I'll come and then yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Didn't even play that well with bad You had a

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Speaker 3: bad hamstring.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I did remember. What do you remember his dad

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Speaker 1: as a coach?

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Speaker 2: Look on.

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Speaker 3: Hungover?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it was good. I can't really remember the

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Speaker 5: With the match, I don't even play that good.

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Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like you've got you remember that he

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Speaker 4: had a hamstring. What did did Brad surprise you out

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Speaker 4: in that field?

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Speaker 1: What was he doing?

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you you mentioned born luch.

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Speaker 6: His dad, Douggie teach me how to teach how to

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Speaker 6: Doug You Dougy, Douggy dig Doug. He he's told me

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Speaker 6: a couple of years he's to make this this young

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Speaker 6: guy coming through. He plays for Harward Harlequins. He said,

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Speaker 6: I guarantee that. He said he'll make it with the

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Speaker 6: manly first grade side. He's not playing rugby league yet,

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Speaker 6: he said, but I reckon he will if we get

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Speaker 6: him across.

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Speaker 2: And he was right. He was right.

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Speaker 6: I remember what I remember is I remember at the

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Speaker 6: time your hamstring was bad. I remember you're pretty happy,

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00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:31,520
Speaker 6: go lucky sort of bloke.

450
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Speaker 3: And I remember your mum was very nice.

451
00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,000
Speaker 1: Yeah I remember, yeah, yeah, how things changed?

452
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,640
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, well, I'm glad you think.

453
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,520
Speaker 6: But you were not much a rap player, a happy

454
00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:50,240
Speaker 6: go lucky and you whose mom's mean these days, the

455
00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,320
Speaker 6: particularly junior part.

456
00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:59,960
Speaker 1: She's backing Jim's mowing. You were a bit of a like.

457
00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:03,160
Speaker 3: I suppose you were a bit of.

458
00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,280
Speaker 4: A boom junior coming through it manly like in your

459
00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:07,920
Speaker 4: age group. I know you're gonna be humble with it.

460
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, and I wasn't like young young.

461
00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,640
Speaker 5: I was very good, like to under twelves. And then

462
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,240
Speaker 5: everyone got puberty and I didn't. I hit puberty so late.

463
00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,840
Speaker 5: So I remember Harold Mattz. I made this team enough

464
00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,760
Speaker 5: the first week I got dropped and did it actually

465
00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,200
Speaker 5: drop me? Glenn Moore?

466
00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:26,960
Speaker 2: Did he?

467
00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, Glenn Gino Moore letting people know he's.

468
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Speaker 5: He works it merely now doing the welfare and stuff

469
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,840
Speaker 5: like that. But it was our first my first hel

470
00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,760
Speaker 5: MAT's coach, and he dropped me after the first week.

471
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,920
Speaker 3: Ironically he's working at Yeah, I.

472
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 5: Was working at welfare, and I go, not doing well now,

473
00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,440
Speaker 5: but yeah, but yeah, And then I kind of sat

474
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,080
Speaker 5: in this little weird, awkward phase of everyone was getting big,

475
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,320
Speaker 5: I was still small, and then I hit my grosspurt

476
00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 5: around seventeen eighteen. Yeah, and then I had that Eschu

477
00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 5: ballside with Jack. We had Chad Randall coaching. Mark Bryant

478
00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,639
Speaker 5: was assistant co Michael Robson was the outside back coach.

479
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,159
Speaker 5: So we just had like the best coaching staff. And

480
00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,320
Speaker 5: that's when I started to really get him to be

481
00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,640
Speaker 5: like a more of a professional. Started to think, this

482
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,199
Speaker 5: is you know something I can do?

483
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what about Jack? What was it? What was

484
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,840
Speaker 2: Jack was a really nice guy. I had a really

485
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:24,280
Speaker 2: nice mom. Lucky bad hamstrings, but nah, he was good.

486
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 2: Everyone loved Jack Jack anything.

487
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: No, it was a fun year.

488
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 10: It was a fun year. Actually the hamstring got me

489
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 10: too that you think Bradman, Yeah, Bradley, do.

490
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Speaker 1: You remember anything about Brad?

491
00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,440
Speaker 2: But I like back then was all right.

492
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,000
Speaker 10: Or no, because you were I know what you mean

493
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,920
Speaker 10: by you were, but you weren't because you were one

494
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 10: of like the leaders in the side. But at the

495
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 10: same time, you were probably one of those blokes that

496
00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 10: did a lot of dirty stuff that players at that

497
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,880
Speaker 10: age didn't want to do, like Brad. Like, if one

498
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 10: thing sticks out for me for Brad, one is a

499
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 10: good defensive center, but one he's probably one of the

500
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,199
Speaker 10: best whole hitting centers I ever played with because a

501
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,439
Speaker 10: lot of centers at those ages, you know, you have

502
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 10: them about seventeen eighteen nineteen, and they just want early ball.

503
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 10: But Brad was always happy just to run a hard line.

504
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 10: And I remember defending him a lot on I think

505
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 10: you might be on the other edge with cade cast

506
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 10: and he was always running the hardest line, whether he

507
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,359
Speaker 10: you know, whether he was going to get it or not.

508
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 10: He was always very very hard to sort of read

509
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 10: what he was doing. But yeah, when you have a

510
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 10: hard running settle like that, Yeah, because I couldn't step.

511
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 1: I really regret turning Jack's mic up.

512
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 2: I didn't know.

513
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 4: We've just Letddy Ray Warren on the podcast just analyzing.

514
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Speaker 2: Thanks.

515
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 1: Do you have his stats for that year as well?

516
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 5: Then, Kyle Werzjack, I appreciate it better than want to

517
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 5: get it for these Sorry, So yeah, he probably needed

518
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:49,159
Speaker 5: the lift there.

519
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 1: H We went back out on the streets. All right.

520
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 4: What about the first time you get into that Manly

521
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 4: Seaguls first grade squad? Can you rattle off some of

522
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 4: the some of the leaders in that team, because that

523
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 4: was probably the end of like that of an error

524
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 4: end of an era of that dominant mainly era of

525
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 4: Pan Stewart, Brett Stewart.

526
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 5: So the three retired that year was Steve, Mattie, Jamie Lyon,

527
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 5: Brett Stewart.

528
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 1: So you played that one year with them.

529
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 5: So my debut was outside Jamie Lyon, which was, oh wow,

530
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 5: like my favorite play ground up And I couldn't.

531
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Speaker 2: Have you heard about my cabin's run story?

532
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 1: No, no, well actually i've heard it, you tell.

533
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 5: Like, because I only would trained three or four times

534
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 5: the first g I was just in and out. They

535
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 5: only used me for numbers really, and they weren't going

536
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 5: so great and that they had a couple of injuries.

537
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 5: Don't walk and break his hand and stuff like that.

538
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 5: So Trent Barrett just thought he just thrown me a

539
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 5: bone and he's like, let's give the kids shot. And

540
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 5: I had no idea that was coming. Like I was

541
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 5: playing twenties. I was playing good under twenties, but no

542
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 5: way I thought first game was coming. And then he

543
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 5: just brings me in the room. First thing I did

544
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 5: was sit down in Brett Stewart's seat, and Lucky Jake

545
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 5: Bolways was there because he's.

546
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,040
Speaker 2: Like, get out, get get out like it because I.

547
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 5: Otherwise you just get screamed at and yeah. Trembarra's like, hey, mate,

548
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 5: been training good, been playing good. You're going to debut

549
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 5: this weekend.

550
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, he goes.

551
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 5: We fly to Perth in two days and you're gonna

552
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 5: come up against madoo men.

553
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 1: And by.

554
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 5: I laughed, thought he's joking. He's like, I'm serious. We'll

555
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 5: talk more about the game plan and stuff layed in

556
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 5: the week right around and since then I couldn't sleep.

557
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 2: I just was so nervous. I was just thinking about

558
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 2: Man over and over in my head and Captain's running.

559
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 2: So Jami Lyne was.

560
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 5: You know, I was a wing kid with the center

561
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 5: and I just couldn't catch a ball. Like I dropped

562
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 5: eleven balls. There's even one time Jamie Line threw it

563
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 5: straight to my chest and I dropped it.

564
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 2: And everyone's gone, what have we done? And then James like, no, no, no, that's.

565
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 5: My fault, like all good, all me boys, And then

566
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 5: train one of the players like Lucky with a Perth

567
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 5: because otherwise I'd fly someone else open to change his spot.

568
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 3: Just say, guys, it's fine. I was dropped my first eleven.

569
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 5: But even like after the session, like I was panicking

570
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 5: and Jamie Long was, but he was so good for me,

571
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 5: like this because he makes a bit of a laugh

572
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 5: and just like I remember going, oh, so, what do

573
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 5: you rate that session out of ten? I was like, oh,

574
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 5: probably too. He goes where'd you get the two from?

575
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 5: But like it just made it so much like oh,

576
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 5: and then everyone started laughing. But he was so laid

577
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 5: back and he's obviously done it, you know, a million times,

578
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 5: and he's such a good player. I remember just just

579
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 5: be going before we run on. He just came up

580
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 5: to me. He's like, listen, mat, It's just another game footy,

581
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 5: and I was just like it is and then went

582
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 5: out and I played pretty good. We won the game

583
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 5: by field goal cheers drop goal, which was under like.

584
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, the game.

585
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 5: It was wet, it was pouring down and I've just

586
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 5: dropped eleven balls. I remember sleeping that night mean Turbo

587
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 5: Shen room and it's three in the morning.

588
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 2: I'm starting at Turbot like this.

589
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 5: He's like days and I just couldn't sleep. I was

590
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 5: just watching him sleep. I was like, please go to sleep,

591
00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,239
Speaker 5: go to sleep, and I just couldn't do it.

592
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 3: Every time you were up, you're staring at him. Yah

593
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 3: we got one.

594
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, it was just it was a good experience,

595
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 5: but I just I would never want to go through

596
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 5: that feeling.

597
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: It was hard to handle.

598
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, ah and scary.

599
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,199
Speaker 5: Like I remember running on the field point raing and

600
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 5: just him just looking at me, and I was just

601
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 5: like trying to evade eye contact me this like this.

602
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 5: I was just like this is nuts. Like I was

603
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 5: ninety kilos. I was, you know, nineteen years old, ninety kilos.

604
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 5: Like the jersey was overflowing on you, like they couldn't

605
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 5: even find a jery.

606
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we can find the footage, hilarious.

607
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know it turned out all right, and

608
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 5: then started to make a bit of a career, which

609
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 5: is good.

610
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 6: Just on Jamie Lyon, but what an a really soon

611
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 6: a more natural footballer. When he came through the grade,

612
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 6: someone tipped me and they said, mate, this young guy

613
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 6: playing in the under twenty ones.

614
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 3: It wasn't that stage.

615
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 6: Have a look at him. He's going to be a freak.

616
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 6: When he ran on the field, I went, it couldn't

617
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 6: be that womble because you know he looks. And then

618
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 6: he played paramount and made his mark and then went

619
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 6: away and went to Helen's fell out of love with

620
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 6: the game. Where do we were then with some so

621
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 6: we had about eight months out of the game. And

622
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 6: James Graham tells the story he arrived at Saint Helen's

623
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 6: right and they've all gone, oh my god, what have

624
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 6: we signed here? And they do fitness and literally his

625
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 6: last by about fifty meters and they're going, oh is

626
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 6: this a joke? And then he will go down, he said,

627
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 6: as soon as the ball hid his hands, he said,

628
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 6: just everything changed, and he'll go down as one of

629
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 6: their greatest ever signings with Malmanninger and those legends.

630
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a play.

631
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 5: Are a good guy to have it because even in

632
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 5: the gym, like he would just do like a bit

633
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 5: of a bit of bench, a bit of this, bit

634
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 5: of that, and like you would have really said, it's much.

635
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: It's fun to go on the field and he's like

636
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: the best player there.

637
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: It's funny some of the like it's funny how in

638
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: rugby league some of the best players ever when when

639
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: people come to watch them in the gym or like

640
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: your partner with him in the gym, they're the weakest

641
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: thing there. Like the Cherry Evans same.

642
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 5: Jake Trevoy, strongest man ever to wrestle with but could

643
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 5: not do can't lift.

644
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 3: Wait, yeah, same muscles are in his head.

645
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 4: But cam Smith was the same bench like seventy kilos

646
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 4: and just just do technique. And it's so funny. They

647
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 4: get out on the field and they're just a level

648
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: above everyone else. Like even Jake's a normal, like a

649
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 4: complete anomaly, because like not strong in the gym, but

650
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 4: as soon as he gets his hands.

651
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: On you, he's like a python.

652
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 5: Weird a wrestle session once you got to pick a

653
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 5: partner and Jake the dog just goes straight for me,

654
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 5: coming o no, and he goes You had wrestle for

655
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 5: five minutes. First ten seconds on this my arms around

656
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 5: my head and he just squeezed me. And anytime I

657
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 5: try to move, he just get tighter and tired. I

658
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 5: thought I was gonna die. I thought I was going

659
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 5: to pass out. And I was like that for five minutes,

660
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 5: just like it's just stuck.

661
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just.

662
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: The most strength of ever Feild or anyone I have

663
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 2: in prison.

664
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 4: Within tell us about some of those other leaders and

665
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 4: that's god, you said, Steve Maddan like that, but like

666
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 4: I was.

667
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: Saying, like those guys are just so intimidating like not

668
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 5: obviously nice guys like Bread Shore I would say, you know,

669
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 5: close friend now, like he's really good to talk to

670
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 5: and he's been good for my career. Be like day one,

671
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 5: going there, like the Pooh in my Pants was its insane.

672
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 5: It's like going to high school year seven, but ten

673
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 5: times worse because these people you like idolized going up

674
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 5: and you're just like seeing him in person was even

675
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 5: a shock, and they give.

676
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: You a hard time, you know when you're the young guys.

677
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 5: Was for me it was pretty hard because I was

678
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 5: only in and out, like I wasn't full time my

679
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 5: first year, and they were coming to retirement and stuff

680
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 5: like that. But like Steve Matta, I don't think he

681
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 5: congratulated me after the date Boots and he said I

682
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 5: played good and I did. I didn't say anything I

683
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 5: should get sad like that. I was just so nervous

684
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 5: that whole era, even like we had Nate Miles and

685
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 5: stuff like that, those guys there who's been really good

686
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 5: to me as well. But yeah, just the team we

687
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 5: had was insane.

688
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: Was Maddy balance still it n.

689
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: But Maddie Balen came back.

690
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 5: He was a coach, you know, to them than twenty

691
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 5: to twenty two, he left and he's been really unreal.

692
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 6: But that next year when you start to feel settled

693
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 6: in the squad and you start to feel part of

694
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 6: the boys, isn't that the best part of your career

695
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 6: when you're the young guy and you know like you

696
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 6: got all the old Blayce looking after you. After the game,

697
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 6: you gather pub with them, you see you're just yeah,

698
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 6: you're just wide eyed.

699
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 5: I feel like I made it when George feel us

700
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 5: from one number, like we're gonna hang out with them

701
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 5: if you're lucky.

702
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 3: But dating girlfriend.

703
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's because like these days is different. I reckon.

704
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 5: Young guys are coming up in packs now, Like now

705
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 5: you have five or six young guys. When I came in,

706
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,239
Speaker 5: I was the only one. Billy Bainbridge who came in,

707
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,479
Speaker 5: he was later, but he only played four or five games.

708
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 5: But the next year they had three guys, and the

709
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 5: next year they had five guys. So I feel like

710
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 5: it's easier from now because they got the guys that the.

711
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: Rookie, the rookie, they got the rookie contract. Now where

712
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: they can they have six rookies, they can bring young

713
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: guys up.

714
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 5: Which is unreal because it makes them feel more comfortable

715
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 5: and outgoing and train better. But when I went in there,

716
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 5: I just the next closest guy to my age was

717
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 5: Turbo and he was already a superstar, so just didn't.

718
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,479
Speaker 2: Want to hang out with me. Kid. He just brushing

719
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 2: that redhead.

720
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 5: But yeah, it was that was the most nerve wracking

721
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 5: part because I would just drive in my try pulled

722
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 5: up and.

723
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 2: Like, who is this scrawny Yeah?

724
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 4: That first year is from that first year when you're

725
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 4: not quite confident.

726
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 2: Enough to just go up and you find it.

727
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: You were, oh mate, I was.

728
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 4: Well, we're lucky that the rookie My first year was

729
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 4: the first year rookie deals were coming.

730
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're our rookie room.

731
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 4: We had Billy Walters who was twenty five at the time.

732
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 4: Billy is quite old, Ryan Pappenhausen, Tino far Our, Harry

733
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 4: Grant and myself, so we had a good.

734
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 3: Cround these kids and like the.

735
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: And we all went on to have stellar career.

736
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we were lucky. Yeah, But Melbourne was lucky

737
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 4: in a sense where it was probably less because like

738
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 4: the older guys.

739
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: Than it was. Billy Slayer, the Cameron Smith will Chamber.

740
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 4: Which is still pretty oh, which is which was hectic,

741
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 4: but they were quite. I think they were quite Like

742
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 4: they knew Melbourne was a tough town to be in

743
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,959
Speaker 4: and no one's from there, so it was very There

744
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 4: wasn't much like sort of I suppose that sort of

745
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 4: harsh like you know, welcome stuff. There was a couple

746
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 4: of stitch ups that they did. There was one time

747
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 4: Chambers come up to me and said, Bellyate wants to

748
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 4: show you some clips in his office, wants.

749
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: To talk out.

750
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 4: I walked into belly ACH's office day two of being there,

751
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 4: and Ballet goes, what the fuck you?

752
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: And I went Chambers.

753
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 2: Said you got some clips to me?

754
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 4: And he goes and I just sat there like so scared,

755
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh sweet, just walked out when

756
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 4: I went down, and everyone's laughing at it.

757
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 5: I wish I was part of that era because like,

758
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 5: do you hear like Brett Stewan all that talk about

759
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 5: what they used to do with Dezzy like leave a

760
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 5: duck in his office over the weekend like stuff like that,

761
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 5: Like they used to play with theirs so much, like

762
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 5: wrap his whole car in foil and stuff like that,

763
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 5: like hide his keys and stuff like that. But like

764
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 5: I said, when we got there, we were just too scared.

765
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 4: My one of my favorite ones was joshadow Car and

766
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 4: Brandon Smith when we went up to COVID in twenty twenty.

767
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 4: Belly had this like this big travel bag and Brandon

768
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 4: went up and got as many rocks as they could

769
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 4: and just put him in his bags. And we're at

770
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 4: a resort, right, so like to get to your room,

771
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 4: it's like eight hundred meters and Belly, they just followed

772
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 4: him the whole time. And as he was lugging the

773
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 4: bag would have been sixty year I see the rocks

774
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 4: those huge.

775
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: That was so big, and he was lugging it for ages.

776
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 4: And his room was on the second floor, so we

777
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 4: had to get it up the stairs and everybody just

778
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 4: ended up.

779
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: Following him and watching him. He goes the fuck you

780
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: guys following me for finally went into his room and

781
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: he had like twenty rocks in there. It was that funny.

782
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 3: Well I've got one for you.

783
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 6: When I first went to the Knights, we're standing at

784
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 6: we just got to this pub after training train it

785
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 6: out late Maccrorie Way outside of newcast not putting the

786
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 6: pub was like Pippies and we go there just for

787
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 6: two beers, and all the older players were there, and

788
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 6: I remember just looking at the players going, oh my god,

789
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 6: how good it is this. Anyway, that day I bought

790
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 6: a car for like five grand and I drove it

791
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 6: down and anyway I parked it.

792
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 3: We go in there, we're having a few beers. I

793
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 3: walk out and I go, oh, I know where the keys?

794
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 6: And I realized I've got the keys in the car.

795
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 6: So I walked back in. In those days the cars

796
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 6: you could lock the keys.

797
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: In the cars.

798
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 3: Back these day they're very different.

799
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 6: I walk back in and a couple of the older

800
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 6: players there and one of the coaches, David Waite, who's

801
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 6: quite a cerbic personality, and hey, boys, I've lot the

802
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 6: keys in the car.

803
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: And David works, what what sort of car is it?

804
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 3: And I just bought it that day, so I didn't

805
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 3: know it. Oh a sedan And he goes, oh, what

806
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 3: an idiot a sedan. Anyway, the one bloke who was

807
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 3: there is fell I called Neil Ordebt, and he used

808
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 3: to work for the nrm A. He goes, don't worry, mate,

809
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 3: I'll go out and we'll look after it. So instead

810
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 3: of him.

811
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 6: Just come out, they all walk out right, and I'm going, oh,

812
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 6: you said which car? Is?

813
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: It?

814
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 3: Said that one there? Neil Adeck goes, oh, it's one

815
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 3: of those sort of newish ones. It's hard to clip

816
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 3: ma open. Two have to do. We want to take

817
00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 3: the door off.

818
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 6: So they go and they get some and he's screwing stuff.

819
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 6: And as he's taking the door off, he looks in

820
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 6: and goes, I can't see the keys there.

821
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 3: And I look next to me and there's two silver cars.

822
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 3: I've picked the wrong one.

823
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 6: They've taken the door off some bloke's car and miler.

824
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 3: I don't worry about it, just leave.

825
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: It worked away.

826
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 3: Some poor bloke come out of the podcast.

827
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 2: Now his door.

828
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: Was just how confused would you be?

829
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 2: And nothing sold out of.

830
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: It's like the Incredible Hulk.

831
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 6: It's a long time so maybe he's dead watching this podcast.

832
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: He hit it Matthew John for a new car door.

833
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 4: Now, Brad, this is exciting. Dad's come up with a

834
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 4: new segment for this year. Do you want to tell

835
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 4: him a little bit about what it is?

836
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: Called tough talk.

837
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 6: That's the stuff where we put away all the friendships,

838
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 6: all the loyalty, all the apprehension, and we just and

839
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 6: you know it's it's designed perfect for you because I

840
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 6: know you know one thing about parks you say that

841
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 6: a couple of things they say about you, primarily.

842
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 3: His blood just likes to tell it like it is.

843
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: So here we got straight up and down.

844
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 3: Now you got it. You've got to answer these some way.

845
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 3: Shop at manly you've had, you had Trent Barrett had

846
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 3: like Anthony Seabold. Right, they're all They're all terrific coaches.

847
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 6: They all get a medal, one gets a gold, one

848
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 6: gets a silver, and one gets a bronde.

849
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 3: Firstly, who gets the gold?

850
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 2: I've got to give it to Dees. But yeah, look that.

851
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: Des gets the gold.

852
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 2: I would have rang these coaches of performance.

853
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 5: Okay, who gets who gets the silver? Look, I think

854
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 5: it's easy to give seeds them.

855
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, that says a lot about Okay.

856
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next question.

857
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 2: Who are going to go?

858
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 5: I was going to go seize the bronze because he's

859
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 5: only had okay for the one year, and I was

860
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 5: custed for most of it.

861
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: Anyway, two years and my starts, I can't.

862
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, okay, So it seems the worst case than that,

863
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 6: and he's got an extension. Now mc innis is an assistant.

864
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 3: Is he a good coach?

865
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: Yes, very good.

866
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 3: Do you think he's a good commentator?

867
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes I do.

868
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 3: Do you think he's a better coach will commentator?

869
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 6: I think he's a better coach. Okay, what does he

870
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 6: have to do? Do you think to improve his commentary?

871
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: Got to be the same voice level the whole time.

872
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 2: He needs to change it up.

873
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 6: He's monetating sage advice quite long, quite long windowed. Well yeah, yeah, okay,

874
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 6: I love you, Mick.

875
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 9: Sure.

876
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 6: Is there a player at Manly who's always getting the praise,

877
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 6: always getting picked first in rep teams? Yes, always getting injured,

878
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 6: So you'd say he's dramatically overpaid?

879
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 2: Is there? I can't think anyone, man, I can help.

880
00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 3: You on Tom Tom, Tommy Tallow, Yeah, Tom Tom Travois

881
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 3: moved to the Senates And is he over paid?

882
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 5: No?

883
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 2: Fullback, that's yeah. He belongs to you.

884
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 3: What we had him on the podcast.

885
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: You ask him that question.

886
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 3: We talked about you just heavy handed.

887
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had the cut heaps of it out.

888
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

889
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: He was bagging me, always giving me. He was he

890
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: was into you.

891
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 6: Really, that doesn't some of the things he said just

892
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 6: aren't acceptable to cut it out even in medieval times.

893
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 4: Really, it's funny, like we would you know, he gave

894
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 4: you one rap he said the best person have a

895
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 4: be with That's what Dad asked him.

896
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: And he said, Brad Parker.

897
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 4: So much fun And we said, yeah, how goods Brad

898
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 4: like lots of fun And then out of nowhere, no context,

899
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 4: he just looked down the battle of the camera and

900
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 4: he goes, oh.

901
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: Brad was actually a really good player, and everyone was like,

902
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: we didn't.

903
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 2: He just goes, Brad doesn't get the respect he deserves.

904
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 2: Just trying to get on a good platform and help

905
00:37:59,520 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 2: me out of it.

906
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 6: When he went on a now a rant which we

907
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 6: had to cut out, I'm not going to say what

908
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 6: he said, but anyway, okay, a bet of a fun

909
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 6: one which teammate in terms of wives and partners is

910
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 6: batting over us, meaning you look and mate, how how did.

911
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 3: He get her whole team?

912
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: So many good thoughts at men?

913
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, like all the boys are pretty rough looking.

914
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 5: The spine probably cheers Turbo, Luke Brooks.

915
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 3: Jake probably Jake Croaks as well, Lucky Craiger. Okay, to

916
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 3: be fair, now who's betting batting unders?

917
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 2: I leave that one.

918
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: Okay, Now.

919
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: Cooper and DC his wedding.

920
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: Can we tell some the jokes that he said or

921
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 2: I said?

922
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 6: He did a series of jokes which he thought were hilarious.

923
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 6: My first question before we talk about some of the jokes.

924
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 3: Did he go too far?

925
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 5: There was one joke and I'm not going to say

926
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 5: it because of zoo rogue, but it was funny for

927
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 5: the football boys.

928
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 2: And that was it.

929
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 5: So we had a table at the end and we

930
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 5: were hacking ourselves. The rest of the room dead silent.

931
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 3: That's interesting, Yeah.

932
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 4: Just hint at it, so no one else knows well

933
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 4: to say that these sort of jokes from they when

934
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 4: when some people laugh and others, they're the best jokes

935
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 4: because you know there's.

936
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 3: More than a little truth in that's right. Okay, what

937
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 3: was it, Coops?

938
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know which one it was.

939
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: Just if you can't stay around the plays and the coaches.

940
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I probably can't say. We

941
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: won't say that, yeah, probably can't.

942
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, but which I didn't like. He came at me twice, yeah,

943
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 5: which wasn't fair. Give you look, come at me once

944
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 5: you have a laugh, bagged out the studios around.

945
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: I was wearing all black to a wedding, which was

946
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 2: probably not the smartest scene. He was funny because.

947
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: Brad was the only one in all black tie shirt.

948
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 2: Mind you, some other people look like they were dressed

949
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 2: up to go to wolf Bar.

950
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: It was ridiculous.

951
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 2: We had a wedding or we going to wolf Bar exactly.

952
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: And Brad thought he looked really good. And I was

953
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: hyping him up before I got up. I said, you

954
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: look good, you look good, you look good. And I

955
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: got straight up there at the start.

956
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 2: You give me so much credit.

957
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 4: And I got up there and I said, I just

958
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 4: want to I just want to thank everybody who's come

959
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 4: here today on.

960
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 3: The back of a really big effort.

961
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: Turbo flew back.

962
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 4: From Europe that morning and he got there, so chat

963
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 4: out the Turbo Benny Hunt. He's going into prison tomorrow,

964
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 4: which is pre season.

965
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: Under Michael Maguire.

966
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 3: I know that one because I gave it to you

967
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 3: gave me that one.

968
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 2: How't give you credit.

969
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: It was the only one he gave.

970
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 4: And then then then I said, and just condolences to

971
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 4: Brad Parker, who's.

972
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: Just come straight from a funeral. And but the thing.

973
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 5: Was he said that I was wearing all black or wedding,

974
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 5: and I looked at my partner, I was like, why

975
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 5: didn't you say that?

976
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 3: A lot of wedding, a lot of marriages don't last.

977
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 4: The good thing was like throughout the night, random people

978
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 4: would come up to bradness like He's.

979
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: Like, I'm so sorry, and some people are being serious.

980
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: That is the best?

981
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 3: Who was some of the other regularly going down and

982
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 3: he's at the wedding?

983
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: There was heaps, Nate Miles is there? Bj Lawrence was

984
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: there him, John Sutton was John was there, Benny Hunt,

985
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 2: Darius Boy was there too, Ben Barber, Ben Barber was there.

986
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 6: Him and Chess grew up together and together bet seems

987
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 6: had a good time.

988
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 2: Yeah he did. It was good.

989
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 5: Who else is there there?

990
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 3: God, I can't believe that was it.

991
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: I was there, Luckie Craig was there.

992
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 3: Now, Brad, you were medically retired?

993
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 2: Why did you put it in.

994
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 3: That?

995
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: Which?

996
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 2: What?

997
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 6: Who's the next player who manly should look to medically retire?

998
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:51,479
Speaker 2: Well?

999
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 5: I reckon like Chess doesn't have long and he wants

1000
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 5: a payout you know he's gonna, he's gonna he's going

1001
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 5: to look away to get in there.

1002
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, the third six and I don't think he has

1003
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 4: anything to medically retire with.

1004
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 2: Is he thirty seven this year?

1005
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: Thirty seven this year?

1006
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 2: Far?

1007
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in his body is an anomally.

1008
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 6: I'll give credit when credits you. He's insane, even even

1009
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 6: the bloke they've borders. He's basically hit the succession plan.

1010
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 6: It's up to his two hundredth center New South Wales

1011
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 6: Rugular League game.

1012
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 4: It's just like mate, he's been going for so I'd

1013
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 4: love to know the amount of players mainly have kind

1014
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 4: of promised. Look, we're not sure, dally, how long is

1015
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 4: he to go for because when he hits thirty, when

1016
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 4: he hit thirty two, they probably think and oh, he's

1017
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 4: probably only going Do you imagine.

1018
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: Men signed like when he signed that ten year contract

1019
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 2: or a half roll, What am I doing here? He's

1020
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 2: here for ten years? Yeah.

1021
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: At the time people.

1022
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 3: Said it was insane. Yeah, but it's proven.

1023
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 4: Oh they've made their money, Yeah, over achieved. Him and

1024
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 4: Jason Tamalolo both signed that same deal. They were both

1025
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 4: managed by the same people. Yeah, and you go they

1026
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 4: both probably made. There was that point when Tamlolo Everyone's going,

1027
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 4: why we just found a lock on a million, But

1028
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 4: there was that three or four year period where Tamalolo.

1029
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: Was worth more, worth more than a lock of the year.

1030
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 6: Well do you think about it this players who signed

1031
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 6: oftentimes five year deals, they said, that's insane. It's going

1032
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 6: to be a winner and the loser chairs are signed

1033
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 6: signed a ten year deal and I reckon both parties won.

1034
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, literally for sure, And that was that was expected.

1035
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: That was some hard questions that I do.

1036
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 2: That's good.

1037
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: I do like that to do easy talk now yeah, no, no,

1038
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: it's all pretty hard for me.

1039
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 4: Now we're going to go into a little bit of

1040
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 4: I think this is another segment you've done, Matthew.

1041
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: This is the best players that you've played with.

1042
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 6: Correct, We're going to talk about the best players that

1043
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 6: you've shared a field with, played with and against. It's

1044
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 6: a ten role competition. So I'm going to name two players.

1045
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 6: You pick which one and they just roll forward. Okay,

1046
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 6: best play or best play in your opinion you played with.

1047
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 6: You know it's going to be players with make me better,

1048
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 6: pay or whatever you want to do, whatever, whatever you

1049
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 6: want to. I'm going to give you two players that

1050
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 6: you shared a field with, and you say which one

1051
00:43:54,800 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 6: is who rather, Jake Wovich, Jason Talmalo Okay, j Travoyvich, Hamatu.

1052
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: I'm going to give Jake, but up there, j Travovich,

1053
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 3: Kayl and Piner. Have you played with those players, whether

1054
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 3: against shared a feed way to break rhythm?

1055
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 6: Okay, Jaja Voi, Kaylen Pomer Okay, Jake tra Vovich, Rhys Walsh,

1056
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 6: j Travovich, Latroll, Mitchell, J Boyd.

1057
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 3: I don't think Jake Travoyvich Cameron Smith talk too soon.

1058
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 2: I've got to give it a Cam Smith, and I

1059
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 2: think Jake would also agree with me.

1060
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 6: But Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston Smith, Cameron Smith, Tom Travoyvich,

1061
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 6: that's a toughie.

1062
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 5: I'm going to give it a Kemp Smith. But Tom

1063
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 5: Boy is the best player I've ever played with.

1064
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 6: Okay, Cameron Smith, Cameron Munster, camp Smith, Camp Smith, Nathan Cleary.

1065
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 2: I played more years with Nathan Cleary, So I'm going

1066
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 2: to say Nathan Cleary. Wow, Okay, because like I've only

1067
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 2: played against camp Smith. Yeah, a handful of time.

1068
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 6: I think history will judge you well well, so can

1069
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 6: I retrack that question, camp Smith, I think Jack, can

1070
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 6: we hit that out? No, I think History of Judge.

1071
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 6: I think that was very very good.

1072
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: Well, Nathan Clear is going to come you think, well,

1073
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:23,280
Speaker 1: I'm close to being.

1074
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 2: The how many? Yeah, like Jesus insane.

1075
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 6: When Cheers is going to play like with four science

1076
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 6: these days and he could play at least forty Yeah.

1077
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 5: Is he like I don't know what he's like personally?

1078
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 5: Is he professional? Because that's what Cheers is like. He's

1079
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 5: everything to its sea. Chess has got a really good balance.

1080
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 5: I reckon like family obviously know.

1081
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 2: What you like. It's family has beers when he needs

1082
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: to trains hard. So general, I reckon Brad.

1083
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 6: I think actually Nathan probably needs to pull back from

1084
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 6: what I heard on the extra side. I think at

1085
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 6: times when you see times have hamstring injuries, I think

1086
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 6: that's I think that's I think it's a byproduct of

1087
00:45:59,719 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 6: his work.

1088
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 3: Can think now he's goal kicking.

1089
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just sometimes we say like Turbot because like

1090
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 5: Turbot does so much work and then the hamstring when

1091
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 5: again it's like, why don't we just relax of you?

1092
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 2: That's just not in his nature what makes him. It

1093
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 2: just makes him water. How good he is.

1094
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I reckon that actually lean like, that's what I

1095
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 4: reckon helped. Chas is out there for a while doing

1096
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 4: general play game. But he's very cruisy with his like,

1097
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 4: so he just gets out there.

1098
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 2: Kind of.

1099
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 5: Doesn't make it tackle in training. Any chance he gets

1100
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 5: a big beer, he will take it. So that's why

1101
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 5: it's last You.

1102
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 6: Got to preserve your body, let's be fair. He tries

1103
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 6: not to make a tackle.

1104
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: In the game. Just Dad spoke about some of the

1105
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: people you shared.

1106
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 4: You spoke about Turbo, your best player, You've played with,

1107
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: some of those players that you come up against, like

1108
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 4: Latrelle Mitchell.

1109
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: I think you played quite a bit against Greg English

1110
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: as well.

1111
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 2: I believe I came up against Greg England in the

1112
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 2: centers was he right center? And that was scary.

1113
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 5: That was, besides my debut, the most nerve wracking I've

1114
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 5: been for a game. Because you know John cart right, Yeah,

1115
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 5: so me and Carti I was just like, mate, I

1116
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 5: needed a video on him, let's heaps video ra and.

1117
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 2: Basically he did, which showing me his highlights.

1118
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 5: Of him just running over people and stuff like that,

1119
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 5: and then and he just wasn't really giving me like

1120
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 5: it kind of helped because he, you know, taught me

1121
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 5: how he liked to palm and stuff like that and

1122
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 5: knock it down. And then there was one clip where

1123
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 5: he's legit run over five people and scored and then

1124
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 5: Cardi looks at me, He's like, you just got to

1125
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 5: do your best there. I was like, yeah, thanks mate, Yeah,

1126
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 5: but yeah, and that's yeah, that game.

1127
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 2: I actually got.

1128
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 5: It's hard to say I actually got me in the

1129
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 5: matchup game happier, but also got the biggest backhanded comment

1130
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 5: by Trumparent ever in an in review because he's like,

1131
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 5: we had a bad game the boys in play ground.

1132
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 5: I played decent seven out of ten. So what Bads

1133
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 5: was trying to get through it was the reason Parks

1134
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 5: is playing good is because he's consistent. That's where I

1135
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 5: took from it, right, But he's just said the worst

1136
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 5: way possible. He goes Parks seven out of ten performance

1137
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 5: on the weekend. But you know what, that's what he's

1138
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 5: got in him. That's all he's got, right, So he's

1139
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 5: but he's but then he started going row He's like

1140
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 5: seven out of ten player seven and ten strength seven

1141
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 5: to ten.

1142
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 2: Bloke.

1143
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 3: I was like, wow, who's laughing.

1144
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 8: Now.

1145
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 5: I was like, hang on, and the worst thing is

1146
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 5: like he's obviously looking at me, and I can I'm

1147
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 5: taking it as a good a good thing. And I've

1148
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 5: got chairs like abbig chorus ow and they're all just

1149
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 5: like cracking up, laughing, and I just put it in breaking.

1150
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 3: It was I can't believe he's moved from club to club.

1151
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 5: It was so funny because he's trying to give me

1152
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 5: a compliment and it was the worst way possible, But

1153
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 5: it's funny.

1154
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 4: His coach is always trying to be like, look, if

1155
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 4: you want to be if you want to be seven

1156
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 4: out of ten on the field, your life's got to

1157
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 4: be consistent.

1158
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: And he's rather than saying that, just say you're seven

1159
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: out of ten.

1160
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 2: Looks.

1161
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, he came out of me bloke. I was like, listen,

1162
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 5: call me football, play all you want, but a blake.

1163
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 5: We had a pride to me and a good blake.

1164
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 6: We had a reserve grade side, fairly young side. It

1165
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 6: was coach for Robert finch right and Finchy could be

1166
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 6: fairly get into a little bit and we're playing this

1167
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 6: side who was struggling, but we were terrible in the

1168
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 6: first half anyway, this bloke, I'm going to call him

1169
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 6: Terry Smith, right, it's not you, but Terry Smith, because

1170
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 6: will hurt his feelings. Anyway, he was sort of getting there.

1171
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 6: He was probably a four out of ten player, but

1172
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 6: he scored a tribefore half.

1173
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 3: Time and he's getting off and he was so chuffed.

1174
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:28,399
Speaker 3: I could see we're all pat.

1175
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 6: Y that saying good on Terry blah blah blah, and

1176
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 6: Fincher gets in the dressing room and he we're still behind.

1177
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 3: He goes, are you blokes serious? Do you know how

1178
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 3: pathetic this team are?

1179
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 2: I mean, even Terry Smith. I would have left the

1180
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,919
Speaker 2: club there in there, I walked up and got away.

1181
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 4: Imagine walking back out to the second half, just.

1182
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 2: Greggings. I go back to that.

1183
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 5: That was one of the hardest games the next day.

1184
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 5: I've never been so us all really, And that was

1185
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 5: at the end of his career, like when he was

1186
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 5: about to retire, Like I could not imagine going up

1187
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 5: against him in his prime, like he was insane, Like

1188
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 5: he's so big, so strong.

1189
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 4: Those early Melbourne days when he's just like when he

1190
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 4: run over Jamie Soward.

1191
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that highlight, it's just scary.

1192
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: How do you tackle it?

1193
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 5: Like honestly, you just have to throw everything at him

1194
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 5: and hopefully you just trip him over.

1195
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 4: Any other notable matchups that you come up with, like

1196
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 4: who was other than that?

1197
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: Who was the hardest center or come back you ever

1198
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 1: had to defend the.

1199
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 5: Trell Mitchell's obviously very hard, but like center wise, like

1200
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 5: I would give Jesse your aim in credit.

1201
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 2: O strong, fast, intimidating.

1202
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 5: Tony Staggs is another one, Yeah, because he's so low

1203
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 5: to the ground too, because Cartony he's got real good footwork,

1204
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 5: strong as he's even like when you got ahold of him,

1205
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 5: he's still moving forward and he's just one of those players.

1206
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 2: He's he's hard to get a handle of.

1207
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 5: But yeah, those two players definitely, like just in recent years,

1208
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 5: were hard to handle.

1209
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about.

1210
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 4: I remember when we played against a Magic round, we

1211
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 4: played against the Broncos, and we were trying to all

1212
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 4: week figure out it was just when Reese Walsh was

1213
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 4: starting a fire, Like do you.

1214
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: Remember that game?

1215
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 2: He's also hard to handle, and we.

1216
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: Were like, you know what, he's so quick, let's try

1217
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: to jam in. Yeah, but I didn't realize how strong

1218
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: he was.

1219
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: But also I put in jam is that good? His agility.

1220
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 2: Is that good? Yeah, Like, I was just like, I

1221
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 2: don't want to throw on two with him because he's

1222
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 2: so quick. He's just going to burn me.

1223
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 5: And I'm not known for the best of speed at

1224
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 5: times seven speed anyway, so I just try and jam

1225
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 5: him and he would just take one step and he's

1226
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 5: just going.

1227
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 2: Past me that way. He's so hard.

1228
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 5: To just get a read of, just because he's so

1229
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 5: quick and his footwork was amazing.

1230
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was outstanding. Matthew, any more questions for Brad?

1231
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 6: I think I think Brad's seven out of ten good

1232
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 6: and good start for the first seven out of ten players,

1233
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 6: seven out of ten, looks seven.

1234
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: Out of ten, Charisma seven out of ten podcasts. Yeah, no,

1235
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: thanks Brad, Thanks for coming.

1236
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 4: It was awesome mate, Thanks for thanks for having you,

1237
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 4: putting in the effort to come all the way to

1238
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 4: our I've actually been duck in you for a while,

1239
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 4: so I felt bad.

1240
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 2: I had to get on you eventually.

1241
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: So we wanted him last year and he said, wait

1242
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: till I retire and then I'll come on.

1243
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 2: I said, that's actually I was sorry that you guys

1244
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 2: going to ask you.

1245
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 6: We were asking every week after that. Congratulations on your career.

1246
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 6: Really proud of thank you, thanks boys, Love you mate,