WEBVTT - #48 | Jamie Humphreys 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.040 Hey, what's up guys. Welcome back to the podcast. 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.960 This week, we've got a very exciting guest, Jamie Humphrey's 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.960 former teammate of myself and friend of the podcast. We 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.000 actually recorded this a couple of weeks ago, prior to 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.280 him getting injured. We decided to hold it off for a 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.000 couple of weeks just to sort of let him get 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.400 through his stuff, and now it's released today. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:22.439 Really good chat. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.760 Just talk to him about transition to South Sydney and 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.400 what's it like being a boom youngster sort of coming 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.720 into first grade and doing such a good job under 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.080 Wayne Bennett and the South Sydney Rabbit Oz, as well 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.120 as a little bit of time on his stuff at Manly. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.760 Hope you enjoy it and have a good week. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.320 He picked it up himself and put the hat on. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.400 I wasn't even going to give it to him, we. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.000 Were I'm stolen it. It's mine now. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:47.319 Yeah, you love it? You love a hat? 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:47.960 You know what? 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:48.680 Weird? 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.159 How's your chewing going in that mine? Sorry, you've been 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.480 the loudest tour said yeah, uh mate. First of all, 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.040 I'm going to give him a big injury. My humps 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.760 one of the my humps, my hust black eyed peace. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.360 Jamie Humphries today one of the greats, one of the 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.279 great blokes and playing outstanding for souse at the moment. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.440 We played together with the Blacktown Workers, the mighty Blacktown Workers, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.319 shout out. Yeah, the hard knocks School of hard Knocks. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.240 We're a lot of you know, I. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.280 Don't want to say he was, you know, he took 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:23.240 a lot of stuff from me. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.840 But you were a mentor. You said that before he arrived. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.520 Yeah, mental, Yeah, I was kind of his mentor, Jamie. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.080 You'd probably agree with that absolutely, especially out there at 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.920 Blacktown Coops. Definitely took me under his wing and show 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.160 me the ropes. And yeah, very grateful. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.280 To be in the gym, would you say in the 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.040 gym as well? 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.920 Yeah for sure. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.399 Yeah, we're on the m four knock shops around the area. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:48.600 Had it all. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.960 What's let me tell you something like two years ago 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.840 when we played together. Look, you always had an outstanding rig. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.360 The boys would always be so jealous of Jamis. Looking 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:04.720 your mirror, yeah, but did set you would have you? 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.120 How many keys have you put on since then? Because 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:11.000 you're you're looking freaking ridiculous At the moment, the physique. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.560 Look, I don't know exactly, but I've definitely put on 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.160 a little bit of weight, been on the bug for 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:17.600 a while. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.359 So career team, yeah, because you always were into the 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:21.480 buys and tries. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.560 I remember when you were the first one. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.280 Jamie used to be the first one in the gym 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.720 and then he do Bears Andrew Berridge, our strengthen conditioner 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:30.360 at the time. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:31.400 Do Bezs's program. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:32.720 Shout out the Bears. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.400 And everybody be in the spa or the sauna and 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.320 Chami W'd still be in there just ripping into the 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.240 bicyc Yeah. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.959 Well, no, it's a good point. You raised, like with Bears, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.120 training with him a lot, kind of growing up. He's 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.200 been with me kind of coaching me throughout all the 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.040 junior grades. It was pretty funny how like we actually 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.160 kind of progressed similarly, like we were Sea Ball together 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.160 and then went up to Flag and then my first 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.160 pre season was his first pre season NRAL as well. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.800 So yeah, it took a lot from Bears And probably 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.080 the biggest thing was the work ethic he's doing. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.000 He's like strength and conditioning for like Formula one now. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.840 he's doing He's training a lot of them, and I 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.880 said to it because I messaged him the other day 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.800 and I was like, do they need a lot of strength? 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.840 And he was like, he said, mate, it's so. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.440 Like their legs need to be so strong because when 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.359 the G four, Yeah, they needed like it's like doing 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:22.880 leg press. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.760 They lose about tan HuLos in a race eight to 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.040 tulos just sweat. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:27.800 Well. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.040 Even the next stuff he was saying is really important 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.840 for them with like like you said, all the force 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:33.799 and everything that's right. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.760 Yeah, yeah, imagine to fit like like we talk about 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.160 jockeys all the time. Jockey's going to ride, you know, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.120 fifty two kilos and well, I mean to be no 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.320 different form formula, it'll be exactly the same, you know, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.680 just you know, having to keep yourself trim all the 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.560 time wouldn't be a problem for you. Coups. Of course, Jamie, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.000 we always kid, We always. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.160 Like you know, yeah, I mean I think so, I don't. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.400 I don't really remember, like looking back, but I always 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.640 played a lot of sport growing up. I was really 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.480 big into surf, li saving as a kid, and did 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.440 athletics and soccer at rugby. I did everything, so I 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.920 think kind of naturally I'd probably say from my mum, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.200 I was always a bit thicker set, especially my legs, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.640 so yeah, probably always had a little bit of size 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:19.000 growing up. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.280 I bet she'll be staked here. And if I said 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.240 I got I got thick legs for my mum, she 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:26.760 with spoon. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.120 He's the one who tells me that. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.280 For my sister, Cops at some top well doesn't Cop 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.640 And people say, oh my god, you just look exactly 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.640 like Andrew and in physique and everything. She just like, no, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.640 but we should let people know, Like Jamie, you are 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:46.520 about fourth generation footballer. Yeah, you know, your grandfather ran 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.000 the game, your Stephen was celed a number of clubs. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.039 So mate, you've been around it your whole life. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.240 Yeah, I have. Ever since I can remember. Really, I've 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:56.240 been around footy. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.240 Like my brother and I used to wallwork at the 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.800 Tigers when Dad was there, so that was in that 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.200 era of Benji and Robbie when they were they were 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.880 killing it there. So yeah, as early as I can remember, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.640 I've always been involved in footy and Pop and Dad 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.120 were always at all my games. And yeah, my grandma's 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.600 probably my biggest fan as well, so. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:13.320 They always are. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.760 Did you ballboy when they won the comp two thousand 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.160 and five. You would have been pretty young now. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.840 I was I think two years old, so yeah, that 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.680 would have been pretty tough. Yeah. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:26.200 No, it was from probably eight to twenty eleven. Oh yeah, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.440 that was a really good side. And Benji was at 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.960 the peak of his powers at the time. And I 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.360 remember just yeah, freaking out every time I seen him. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.760 So once a continuous call when it first started, like 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.200 me and Andrew on the cusp of first grade and 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.040 I'm doing a thing on the Newcastle Nights saying, oh, 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.960 you know, they're struggling at the moment there, you know, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.279 you know what, I don't know what the answer is. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.800 Needs to hear this person ring up and go oh hello, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.839 how are you going? They go, hello, how are you? 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.240 Oh yeah, I'm a big night supporter. I just you know, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.000 you were talking who should go in? Well there's two 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.920 brothers from Cessnok called Matthew Andrew John's I think that 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.240 should go in the first grade side. Oh well, ma'am, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.480 tell us more about it. I'm going I know that voice. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:04.480 It was my grandmother. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:06.679 Really, what giving you as a plug? 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:07.200 Yeah? 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.760 I didn't say that she was an alias and I 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.919 got I rang and said, were you just on the 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.400 continuous call? She goes, oh, you know, just giving you 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:16.080 a bit of support. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.200 That's that's low. 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.240 We were just saying out in the living room, Jamie, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.360 you moved to South Sydney and you started your congratulations 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.200 like run us through the first impressions of South. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:28.240 Yeah. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.479 So obviously I've been at Manly for a long time 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.720 and kind of probably never really expected to move, especially 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.719 kind of at this stage, but it was something that 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.920 came about kind of midway through last year. An opportunity 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.320 came up there and it was something that kind of 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.240 humbled me, like a club, like the house was showing 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:50.719 interest and there's something I'm kind of really happy I did. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.760 Took me out of my comfort zone. Obviously, living on 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.640 the beaches and playing at Mainly was felt very comfortable 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.400 and definitely wanted to challenge myself there a little bit. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.200 So yeah, first impressions of the club started there in 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:08.360 the preseason early November, and yeah, straight away just I 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.000 wanted to make an impression myself. Just kind of based 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.240 my preseason around hard work and I know kind of 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.080 that's that's what I based my game on ever since 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.720 I was a young kid growing up, So that's kind 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.720 of where I wanted to start my journey there and 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.760 I think luckily for me kind of taking it day 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.800 by day and having the coaching staff that they have 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.960 there now. I think they really respected that about me 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.680 coming in and doing that, and obviously it's kind of 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.520 got me to where I am now and just taking 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:36.120 it week by week. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.240 At the moment, Well, Jeremie, you hit the jackpot in 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.000 the fact that you've landed a club which is a 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.760 great club. I mean, Manly's a great club. South Sydney 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.360 has will so much history, great supporters. But you landed 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.400 at a club with a great Wayne Bennett as a 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.920 young player when you signed at Souse. Was he already 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.920 there to get Was he down to go the next 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:55.200 the following season? 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.640 It was kind of right at that time when that 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.160 was all happening, And to be honest, it was confirmed 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.320 right before I signed, and that was kind of the 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:03.880 thing that. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.000 Tipped me over the edge for sure. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.320 It was such an exciting prospect for me. Obviously, I'd 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.240 never met Wayne before that, and I didn't really have 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.880 too much to do with him before I signed there. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.760 He was still working at the Dolphins at the time, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.040 but it was definitely something that really excited. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.200 When was the first time you met him? When when 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.520 was you didn't meet him? Because he wasn't there, like 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.680 the first few weeks of preseason either, right, So he 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.120 didn't meet him until what three weeks into. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.480 Preseason it would have I think he started early December, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.120 so it would have been three or four weeks into 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.480 preseason at that point. I just remember him walking in 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.040 the building and everyone just went completely silent. You just 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.360 see him walking around, and I heard a few of 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.200 the boys saying he doesn't like shaking hands. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.880 So Jackson's the same thing. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.240 I wasn't sure what to do, and he come up 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.400 to me straight away, and like I made eye contacted him, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.680 and I was so nervous and he stuck his hand 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.760 out to shake my hand, and I was like, Okay, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.400 at least I didn't have that awkward. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.880 Counter it pulls it away, pulls it away last minute. Yeah, 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:57.240 I love. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.439 The boys used to say all the time that they 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.760 like try to get him. It's like one handshaker day 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.160 or something, right, Like, I. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:05.880 Think I've shaken his hand maybe once or twice since 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:06.760 I've met him. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.240 So it's so. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.440 It's just in general he actually said that, like like 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.760 when we first when he first started, he kind of 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.959 got everyone together and laid the platform of what he 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.439 wanted for the preseason, and one of the things he 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.520 said was, boys, don't shake my hand every day. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.400 It's going to have It's not one thing to say 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.960 before we go on about Wayne, I want to ask 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.640 you that because you're going at SOUS. You arrive at 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.680 SOUSE on your first day, which to explain to people 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.959 walking into a new dressing rooms like walking to a 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.600 new school. Yeah, but you've got Cody Walker, you're Jack White, 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.480 and you've got Latrell Mitchell, all those really Cam Murray 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.560 at the time, all these big personalities. How did you 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.800 feel and what was your plan for day one? 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.360 Or to be honest, I was extremely nervous, Like I was. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.000 I prepared myself as best I could in the off season. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.000 I always try and I trained pretty hard and prepare 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.000 myself as best I can. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.040 But I can't lie. I was extremely nervous. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.400 But to be honest, the first impression I had of 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.840 all those guys that you just mentioned was like they 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.920 were so welcoming and just really nice guys. It's the 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.600 same but mainly like those those big dogs. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.199 Yeah, really like they've. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.840 Got so much time for young guys coming through, which 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.440 I felt coming through the grays there, and it was 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:18.320 exactly the same as. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.360 Us now Jamie. The next big test, Like you walk 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.280 into the dressing room okay, and you're feeling your way. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:25.679 The next thing you want to do is you want it. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.080 You want to actually build a positive image of yourself. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.640 You want them to look at you and go, yep, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.080 he's worthy. Tell me about the first fitness session. What 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.520 was all the first test? What did you do, because 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:38.320 that's the next step. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.280 Look to be honest, it was a complete nightmare for 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.800 me actually, so I, like I said, I tried to 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.080 prepare myself as best I could, and in fact I 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.960 probably overdid it a little bit. So me coming into 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.080 that first day preseason, I actually had a bit of 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.920 a niggle in my achilles, which was obviously not what 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.480 you want kind of in the back of your head 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:57.160 going into it. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.560 But yeah, we had the fitness test and as I got. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:01.880 Out on the field he had the one point too, 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.520 and did my best in that got a really good score, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.599 but straight away I was feeling that achilles. Anyway, I 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.840 got through the session and just got absolutely flogged the 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.959 whole time, as you'd imagine kind of going in early preseason, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.040 and then I remember I got through it all, come 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.040 off the field, and this this feeling in my achilles 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.079 wouldn't go away and it actually ended up keeping me 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.319 out up until Christmas, as I did just saying it 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.120 keeps before. So yeah, I tried to hit the ground running, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.559 but probably overdid it a little bit. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.240 Who is when you talk about fitness, who's because every 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.880 club's got like a fitness freak and you at Mainly 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.840 you were winning a lot of the fitness theres Ribbon 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.960 Garrick's another one who was winning there at SEUs. Your 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.400 first impression like who was someone that you trained with 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:42.959 and you were like. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:43.760 This guy's a freak. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.240 Yeah, well I think me. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.760 I actually started a week later than most of the 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.160 boys because mainly went quite far last year in the 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.079 in the finals, so a lot of those boys weren't 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:55.600 actually doing the testing with me. I was kind of 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.080 doing it by myself and with a few of the 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.600 other young guys coming through. But since I joined back 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.679 in with the boys, Tyrone Monro was actually extremely fit, right, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.840 like really like clean runner, like just glides to be honest, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.880 like really really cool and he's definitely up there in 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:13.440 the fitness there. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.560 I saw him interview the other day. She's class act. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.640 Yeah, it seems like it's on three sixty or something. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.280 Yeah, he was really really good so that. But I mean, Jamie, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.320 you said you probably went too hard their first training session. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.400 But first impressions are so important because, as you know, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.640 a new bloke walks into the club, then you're ready 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.120 for one point two kilometer time trial, which is a nightmare, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.960 and all of a sudden, I can't train boys, you know, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.960 they're like, oh, here we go. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.200 Yeah, I was wigging out, Like I genuinely was like 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.800 I knew I was going to a new club and 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.720 I wanted to make that impression. Like you said, I 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.480 know how important first impressions are, so my head was 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.480 falling off. To be honest, I was like I could 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.000 feel it as soon as I started. I was like, no, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.920 I can't stop. I can't stop, And that probably made 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.480 it worse. But it's funny, like, as I said, my 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.559 head was falling off. But like the first day I 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.079 met Wayne and then was talking to him, I obviously 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.000 wasn't training at the time, and the first thing he 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.840 said to me was just don't worry about it, Like, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:05.560 take as long. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:05.920 As you need. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.320 It's going to take time, Like it's not something you 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.360 can just do and fix and get back out there. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.240 And obviously for me coming there, it was really important 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:14.760 for me to be out on the field. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:15.920 As much as I could, or that's what I thought. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.080 But after that one conversation with Wayne, he just put 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.480 all the pressure off and just straight away made me 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:22.200 feel so calm. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.040 Well, Jamie, with your first heading for your first full 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.280 year in first grade, that limited preseason or you know, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.600 from Christmas, I think I'll put you in good stead. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.040 I mean, you're obviously really fit. But I see Blakes 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.240 all the time. By the time they get mid season, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.080 they've completely burned themselves out. So I think Wayne would 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.160 have been aware of. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.040 That one percent. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.760 And like I said, he's just like I wasn't actually 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.360 progressing through much to the rehabit at the time. I 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.760 think again, it probably was guilty of trying to do 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.640 too much. And as soon as he said that to me, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.760 that's kind of when I turned the corner and I 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.200 actually kind of probably started progressing, which helped me get 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.960 back out on the field. Straight after Christmas and then 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.200 get those reps in a pre season which kind of 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.440 prepared me as best I could to hit the ground 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:05.920 in the trials. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.120 Did you do the Army camp? 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:08.120 Yeah, we did. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:08.520 We did. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.160 It was that was just before Christmas, and that's kind 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.640 of that was where I wanted to get to. I 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.880 wanted to be able to do that. And that's what 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.440 Wayne said to me as well. He's like, look, I 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.200 don't care like if you're not on the field, I 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.520 just want you to get ready for that, Like I 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.760 want you as you know, like getting around the boys 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.760 and doing stuff like that. That's where you build that 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.400 connection with the ways. And yeah, we did that just 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.760 before Christmas break time. It was it was different. It 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.920 was different to the one we did it at mainly 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.600 it was it was actually a rolling camp, so we yeah, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:45.760 we went down to them. I went down to Camera 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.360 where the Olympians train. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.200 Oh, the Institute a sport. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.840 Yeah, yeah, whether the rowers are preparing for the Olympics there. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.080 So we actually did a like three days training with them, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.280 which was pretty brutal and we got fogged. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:00.760 On top of that as well. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.600 Back to the future for Wayne, because the Raiders were 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.440 ahead of everybody else. Wayne went there a nine eighty 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.040 seven as co coach and I think they started then 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.200 at the Institute of Sport just opened up and that's 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.640 where the Raiders used to used to train. They had 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.120 about five six years jump on everyone else as far 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.200 as powerlifting and everything to play against them was it 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.720 was a nightmare. They could actually people like melmurn England, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.120 they could pull you apart. It was. It was terrifying. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.360 Did you do like, obviously that sounds a bit different 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.880 to the army style. Did they do like a man 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:31.600 of the camp for that? 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.320 Well, firstly, it was extremely different, like it was run 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 by army guys, which was like, you know what they're like, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.960 they're they're pretty So I was going to say discipline, 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:43.840 but I haven't. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.440 Fhres, what have we got here? 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.720 Shine your shoes they get India. 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.480 Oh no, they definitely do. But straight away, like we 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.320 come off the bus and everyone's like shitting themselves thinking, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.120 oh god, here we go. Here we go again, like 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.720 most of the boys have already been on a few 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.440 and straight away the guys were like, look, this isn't 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.400 what you're expecting. We're not going to carry Jerry kNs 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.040 and like do obstacle courses and that we're here to 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.280 train with Olympians and show you a different side of 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.000 professional sport, which was it was honestly really cool. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.400 It was very cool. Yeah, that's different. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.560 You're probably like a lot of people get The Army 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.640 camp puts you under such fatigue and that you understand 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.200 what teammates respond well to like adversity, but seems like 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.840 that individuals will probably take more out of it in 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.040 terms of how to train an elite level, right. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.560 Yeah, And I mean it definitely still had that kind 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.560 of physical challenge to it, Like we did a lot 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.040 of stuff in the gym and conditioning sessions, all that stuff, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.480 and we were training with these Olympians doing what they do. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.920 But the good part about it was we actually we 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.560