WEBVTT - Mark My Words: Storytime & Mailbag Madness 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.680 Well, good day and welcome to this episode of Mark 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.160 My Words. On today's podcast, we're kicking things off with 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.160 a cracking story time segment. We'll be spinning some of 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.280 the wildest and funniest yarns from on and off the field. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.319 After that, we're turning the mic over to you as 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.880 we deep dive into the mailbag. Tackle your biggest footy questions. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.240 As always, make sure you follow the continuous call team 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.760 wherever you watch or listen to your podcasts. You can 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.000 also find us on YouTube and on Instagram. Just search 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.800 the continuous call team and grab a cold one. Settle 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.320 in and let's get into it boys. Story time today 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.560 I thought about this one, guys. Uh, New South Wales 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.199 are heading to Suncorp. Yep. I think things are a 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.120 lot different than the way they used to be, but 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.560 this is story time. Throughout your career, boys, which away 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.120 dressing rooms were notoriously the worst to visit. And what 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.680 lengths did the home club go to in order to 0:00:59.810 --> 0:01:03.290 disrupt your preparation. This is a good one. I've heard 0:01:03.290 --> 0:01:04.850 some great yarns about this, mate. 0:01:04.890 --> 0:01:06.850 The first one that comes to mind for me was 0:01:06.850 --> 0:01:10.770 the Newcastle Knights. Same milligram holes in the roof hose, 0:01:10.770 --> 0:01:13.089 everything in the shed. So you'd walk in and they. 0:01:13.330 --> 0:01:15.289 You'd walk in the shed and there was a room. 0:01:15.330 --> 0:01:17.330 And then there was a strapping room, and then the 0:01:17.330 --> 0:01:20.209 showers and everything was sort of over here. Yeah. And, 0:01:20.209 --> 0:01:22.610 and you'd go and get strapped and then you'd have 0:01:22.610 --> 0:01:23.770 to tippy toe back to. 0:01:23.770 --> 0:01:24.050 Your. 0:01:24.450 --> 0:01:26.850 Like, where you had your gear. And then like it 0:01:26.850 --> 0:01:29.610 was all wet on the bench and it was just shit. 0:01:29.650 --> 0:01:30.010 Well. 0:01:30.490 --> 0:01:32.649 When they first, uh, 88 was the first time we 0:01:32.650 --> 0:01:37.649 went there to, um, Newcastle and by 89 we, we 0:01:37.690 --> 0:01:40.170 took thongs with us. Really. So we knew that we 0:01:40.170 --> 0:01:42.250 knew they were going to wet wet the ceiling. Like 0:01:42.250 --> 0:01:44.290 water was dripping from the ceiling as you were getting 0:01:44.290 --> 0:01:47.810 your massage. Yeah. Like and then Canberra was another one. Notorious. 0:01:47.810 --> 0:01:50.210 They turned the hot water off. Would they? Oh, in 0:01:50.250 --> 0:01:50.970 middle of winter. 0:01:51.010 --> 0:01:53.370 Well I think they used to turn the heaters on 0:01:53.370 --> 0:01:56.809 when I was playing down there because then you'd middle 0:01:56.810 --> 0:01:58.820 of winter you'd be in the sheds shades getting. 0:01:58.860 --> 0:01:59.260 Nice. 0:01:59.260 --> 0:01:59.740 And warm. 0:02:00.380 --> 0:02:04.580 Yeah. Oh. Far out. 0:02:04.700 --> 0:02:07.220 Nothing beats but I on the kangaroo tour. 0:02:07.580 --> 0:02:08.139 Yeah. 0:02:08.180 --> 0:02:11.500 I missed the first game because I tonsillitis against Wakefield. 0:02:11.820 --> 0:02:14.580 Oh our second game was okay. Keep going. Our second 0:02:14.580 --> 0:02:17.100 game was in Cumbria. Yeah. So we went up there 0:02:17.100 --> 0:02:19.980 to play Cumbria and I walked in and the first 0:02:19.980 --> 0:02:24.020 thing we all saw was on top of a toilet seat. 0:02:24.460 --> 0:02:27.380 The biggest Edgar Britt you've ever seen in your life. 0:02:27.419 --> 0:02:28.620 You did. Sitting there. 0:02:28.940 --> 0:02:29.300 You. 0:02:29.620 --> 0:02:32.940 Go. What the fuck is that? It had a heartbeat. 0:02:34.180 --> 0:02:36.460 I said shit on the fucking toilet. 0:02:37.100 --> 0:02:37.420 A pair of. 0:02:37.419 --> 0:02:41.660 Boots. A wristband? 0:02:42.220 --> 0:02:44.860 Yeah. Get him on the table for a massage. 0:02:45.940 --> 0:02:48.380 Oh, we. After first being like. 0:02:48.419 --> 0:02:49.700 They did not. MM. 0:02:49.780 --> 0:02:50.060 Okay. 0:02:50.100 --> 0:02:50.860 So ridiculous. 0:02:50.900 --> 0:02:52.780 So picture it. Right. We were in England and I 0:02:52.780 --> 0:02:54.619 know this because he played, there would have been most 0:02:54.620 --> 0:02:57.260 of the, most of the, uh, the dressing rooms under 0:02:57.300 --> 0:02:59.300 the grandstand, which is kind of. Which slopes? 0:02:59.340 --> 0:03:00.620 Yeah, you'd have to walk the. 0:03:00.660 --> 0:03:03.020 Most times all the blokes over six foot would have 0:03:03.020 --> 0:03:05.380 to stand over here. Yeah. Because if we stood over 0:03:05.380 --> 0:03:08.980 there we got a duck and it's really small. It's 0:03:08.980 --> 0:03:12.620 really compact. Tiny, tiny, tiny like places like, you know, 0:03:12.660 --> 0:03:14.380 Huddersfield and Wakefield. 0:03:14.419 --> 0:03:16.220 And you said Wakefield. That's what I thought you were 0:03:16.220 --> 0:03:16.900 going to start talking. 0:03:16.940 --> 0:03:19.620 Well I was there but I was, I had tonsillitis. 0:03:19.660 --> 0:03:20.780 Wakefield's horrendous. 0:03:21.020 --> 0:03:22.700 Um but they were all like it. And we went 0:03:22.700 --> 0:03:25.580 to Cumbria like of all places that's you know the 0:03:25.620 --> 0:03:29.420 Lakes district. Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. Right near Scotland. Yeah, yeah. 0:03:29.700 --> 0:03:32.020 And we walked in and everyone dropped their bag and 0:03:32.020 --> 0:03:33.580 the first person went, what the fuck? 0:03:33.620 --> 0:03:35.300 No. Could you smell it though, when you walked in? 0:03:35.340 --> 0:03:37.220 Not really, because it's too cold. That's so. Well, you 0:03:37.220 --> 0:03:39.100 just see it. Just a big Edgar on top of this. 0:03:39.140 --> 0:03:40.860 Like the seat was down. 0:03:41.180 --> 0:03:42.260 Was it steaming? 0:03:42.580 --> 0:03:44.340 It would have been. It would have been. It was that. 0:03:44.980 --> 0:03:47.580 Yeah. Like you know, you know when you're sweating on the. Yeah. 0:03:47.620 --> 0:03:48.660 It's freezing and all the steams. 0:03:49.020 --> 0:03:49.300 Yeah. 0:03:49.340 --> 0:03:51.340 It's like this fucking thing was going. 0:03:51.380 --> 0:03:52.180 It's like a scrum. 0:03:52.700 --> 0:03:53.700 Almost had a mouth going. 0:03:55.580 --> 0:03:56.950 So what did you do? 0:03:57.550 --> 0:03:58.190 I've got someone. 0:03:58.350 --> 0:03:59.910 Like. Yeah, great. Got rid of. 0:03:59.910 --> 0:04:00.590 It. Got rid of. 0:04:01.590 --> 0:04:02.070 The blue shirt. 0:04:02.430 --> 0:04:04.150 We all sit around and come back to it. 0:04:06.270 --> 0:04:09.510 Well, I did a stand up, did a stand up set. 0:04:09.710 --> 0:04:10.310 But you know what? 0:04:10.630 --> 0:04:13.230 But every, every home, every away game when I first 0:04:13.230 --> 0:04:17.990 started was a real shit dressing room because, um, the 0:04:17.990 --> 0:04:20.710 crowd knew you were in there and so the crowd 0:04:20.710 --> 0:04:23.990 could get to you by, by volume, by voice. So 0:04:23.990 --> 0:04:27.470 you had like picket, uh, concrete windows that you could 0:04:27.510 --> 0:04:29.990 hear the people outside walking past and they could hear 0:04:29.990 --> 0:04:33.310 you talking. They'd all go, ah, ah, like they'd walk 0:04:33.310 --> 0:04:34.589 up to the window and just. 0:04:34.990 --> 0:04:37.350 I remember someone saying, it might have even been Matty 0:04:37.350 --> 0:04:39.789 Johns was saying when they would go to like, art. Yeah. 0:04:39.830 --> 0:04:41.549 And people would be spitting on him through the window. 0:04:41.589 --> 0:04:44.750 Oh, mate. Like, yeah, like that was funny because I 0:04:44.750 --> 0:04:45.430 played one year there. 0:04:45.470 --> 0:04:46.310 It might have been like art. 0:04:46.550 --> 0:04:49.270 But you could actually stand there on the urinal and 0:04:49.270 --> 0:04:50.510 see the the game. 0:04:50.550 --> 0:04:50.910 Yeah. 0:04:50.950 --> 0:04:53.470 Right. Like you could watch it. Yeah. It's um. Oh 0:04:53.470 --> 0:04:58.159 the hostile mate. Like the way games were were hostile. Campbelltown, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.120 the all around the park, you know, they were just 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.000 I remember being at Dragons and I had the skull 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.920 calling me, calling me. Yeah, she is Marcia Goya. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.400 Look at that, boys. 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.120 Because we go out the back of Kroger to warm up. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.920 And he was just he'd be there into us. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.200 Well, he was barred from the inside the grounds a 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:22.640 lot of the time. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.279 He was because he was he was on a box 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:24.640 on a crate. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.240 Be up on the thing looking over the the fence. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.800 He did he, I think he got barred for like 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.320 2 or 3 years or something, I think. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.640 And I think he's still around. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.320 I hope he is because I, I found out like late, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.200 not lately, but after we played there I went, who 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.400 is that bloke? He's he's scary looking with his big 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.039 thick glasses. Yeah. And I used to live at Whalan 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.240 and he lives at. He live at Emerton. Oh really? 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.120 Which is in the same suburb, Mount Druitt. We're in 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.360 Mount Druitt, boys. So he's a Mad Dragons fan. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:49.919 Oh, I didn't know. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.479 So we're going to try and find the skull. This 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.370 is our our mission. If anyone watching this podcast or 0:05:54.370 --> 0:05:56.770 listening to this podcast knows where the skull is. 0:05:56.810 --> 0:05:59.130 The skull used to like me because of my. 0:05:59.370 --> 0:05:59.890 You play the. 0:05:59.890 --> 0:06:00.890 Dragons? No, but my God. 0:06:01.130 --> 0:06:04.970 Yeah, I know. Oh, he was called something else. I 0:06:04.970 --> 0:06:06.610 was going to bring it up, but I know exactly 0:06:06.610 --> 0:06:07.450 what you're talking about. 0:06:07.450 --> 0:06:10.650 Can I say on the on the dressing rooms, Wakefield. Yeah. 0:06:10.690 --> 0:06:13.810 That's just the ground. I remember tiny, like the dressing 0:06:13.810 --> 0:06:15.210 room would have been as big as this. 0:06:15.250 --> 0:06:15.969 Yeah I know. 0:06:16.089 --> 0:06:18.890 Right. That's it. And blokes would have to sort of ah, 0:06:18.890 --> 0:06:20.650 you go and get changed and then I'll come in 0:06:20.650 --> 0:06:22.930 later and you go out and like that was just 0:06:22.930 --> 0:06:26.810 awkward and shit and it'd be fucking freezing and you'd 0:06:26.810 --> 0:06:28.930 just be going, what am I doing? 0:06:28.970 --> 0:06:31.170 I know. What about what about in England? This happened 0:06:31.170 --> 0:06:33.130 to you when you played? Maybe it was. Maybe it 0:06:33.130 --> 0:06:35.969 was before your time. But after a game over in England, 0:06:36.570 --> 0:06:40.409 I remember my first stint was there at Sheffield in 88. 0:06:41.010 --> 0:06:44.330 I went in and after training and there's the big 0:06:44.330 --> 0:06:48.250 bath running and everyone jumps in the bath together. Oh really? 0:06:48.290 --> 0:06:53.060 Where's the fucking showers? Everyone's there. Muddle over him in 0:06:53.100 --> 0:06:53.620 the past? 0:06:53.660 --> 0:06:54.300 Yeah. No. 0:06:54.339 --> 0:06:55.580 So sit in the bath. 0:06:55.980 --> 0:06:56.460 With the whole. 0:06:56.460 --> 0:06:56.980 Team. The whole. 0:06:56.980 --> 0:06:57.940 Team. We all love a bath. 0:06:58.020 --> 0:06:59.700 They love a bath. Get the bath. 0:06:59.940 --> 0:07:01.380 Get up! Rolled around corner. 0:07:01.460 --> 0:07:03.619 The other. The other one that I had. Right. This 0:07:03.620 --> 0:07:06.460 is going back now. And I just remembered it. I 0:07:06.460 --> 0:07:10.540 played in the Australian Schoolboys team in 1998 and we 0:07:10.540 --> 0:07:11.660 played at Eden Park. 0:07:11.700 --> 0:07:12.460 Oh yeah. 0:07:12.540 --> 0:07:15.340 New Zealand schoolboys. Have you ever played? I don't know, 0:07:15.380 --> 0:07:18.780 but all I can remember the window similar to sort 0:07:18.780 --> 0:07:22.500 of like the windows were for the dressing room, were 0:07:22.500 --> 0:07:24.540 up high, and that was sort of where the fans 0:07:24.540 --> 0:07:27.860 could walk behind the grandstand. Every one of the Kiwi 0:07:27.940 --> 0:07:32.740 fans kicked the window in, landed on Mark Gasnier's head 0:07:32.780 --> 0:07:36.900 smashed and head and what? Yeah. Fucking kicked it in 0:07:36.900 --> 0:07:39.500 and it landed. We I think it was after the 0:07:39.500 --> 0:07:42.620 game and we'd just beaten him and someone kicked the 0:07:42.620 --> 0:07:44.860 fucking window in and it landed on us. 0:07:44.900 --> 0:07:45.340 Wow. 0:07:45.780 --> 0:07:49.300 It was like a fucking full window. Yeah, yeah. Kicked 0:07:49.300 --> 0:07:52.380 it in and cutting and cutting. Cutting what? Jesus. I 0:07:52.380 --> 0:07:55.180 think he had to have some stitches. Didn't. Wasn't bad cuts. Yeah, yeah. 0:07:55.220 --> 0:07:58.660 But like superficial. But nothing. Stitches wound in the head. Well, 0:07:58.660 --> 0:08:00.620 before you'd even run out. No. After the game. After 0:08:00.620 --> 0:08:02.860 the game. After we beat him. Yeah. Eden Park. I'll 0:08:02.860 --> 0:08:06.060 never forget it. Yeah. I just England, England was just. 0:08:06.100 --> 0:08:07.820 When you look back on it now, you look back 0:08:07.820 --> 0:08:10.700 on fondness because it's such a great part of your life. 0:08:10.700 --> 0:08:12.900 But the dressing rooms are small. Oh, mate. Well, the 0:08:12.900 --> 0:08:14.740 team I played for, Wigan, we had the you had 0:08:14.740 --> 0:08:17.460 the big one. You had beautiful facilities. We had the grounds. Yeah. 0:08:17.500 --> 0:08:19.380 Did you used to do anything to other teams coming 0:08:19.380 --> 0:08:21.220 in though? Like, would you play with them a bit? 0:08:21.260 --> 0:08:23.420 I wouldn't even think of doing anything like that to 0:08:23.460 --> 0:08:25.900 the other teams sheds. No, that's a good ploy. But 0:08:25.940 --> 0:08:27.900 I'll tell you the one I love, though I'm disappointed 0:08:27.900 --> 0:08:30.900 in myself. I know, I know, like I should have 0:08:30.900 --> 0:08:32.580 done like you. I should have like a couple of. 0:08:34.900 --> 0:08:37.700 People doing the doing Edgar on the on the toilet 0:08:37.700 --> 0:08:40.380 in there. Like the best one to go actually look 0:08:40.380 --> 0:08:43.540 like someone did that. I know, I know, but you 0:08:43.540 --> 0:08:45.980 cannot or you can't like I can I, I can't 0:08:45.980 --> 0:08:48.180 believe that they've gone. Oh yeah. Yeah. But just because 0:08:48.179 --> 0:08:49.870 they probably did their last training run, they weren't, away. 0:08:49.910 --> 0:08:51.390 You know what? Let's give him a little. Hey, lads, 0:08:51.790 --> 0:08:54.589 let's give him a little welcome party, huh? You can 0:08:54.590 --> 0:08:56.429 imagine the whole team just laughing their head off at 0:08:56.429 --> 0:08:58.070 the dude that's doing it as well. Because we laughed 0:08:58.070 --> 0:08:59.710 in the end. We went all the way back in 0:08:59.710 --> 0:09:02.030 the bus. We were going. How good was that? Like that? Yeah. 0:09:02.070 --> 0:09:04.790 How many of the boys on tour left on other 0:09:04.790 --> 0:09:06.750 things now as well? I saw this over in England. 0:09:06.790 --> 0:09:09.910 This was a great idea. Um, I love also guys, 0:09:09.910 --> 0:09:13.070 Brookvale Oval. He's still got to run through that tunnel with. 0:09:13.190 --> 0:09:16.589 And you got a little cage into the cage. The the. 0:09:16.630 --> 0:09:18.910 Oh yeah. The cage in the cage. But even their 0:09:18.910 --> 0:09:22.430 sheds are shit. Yeah, they're still shit. Yeah they are. 0:09:22.630 --> 0:09:24.990 They were shit like when I played, when I played 0:09:25.030 --> 0:09:27.990 like they were just that long corridor. That's what yours was. Yeah. 0:09:28.030 --> 0:09:31.910 With all benches and showers were opposite. Yeah, that was it. 0:09:32.270 --> 0:09:33.590 Because the first thing you do when you go to 0:09:33.590 --> 0:09:36.070 an away game is check the showers to see if 0:09:36.070 --> 0:09:38.469 they got you after the game. You need a hot shower. Yeah, 0:09:38.510 --> 0:09:40.430 that just gets all the shit away from you. And 0:09:40.830 --> 0:09:44.150 and yeah, yeah, some have just got crap ones. Yeah. 0:09:44.190 --> 0:09:45.750 I think Melbourne's Olympic Park would. 0:09:45.750 --> 0:09:47.710 Be terrible as well. On a cold. 0:09:47.710 --> 0:09:49.240 Wet. Yeah, I can't remember. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.560 That would be terrible. Great story time, boys. We're going 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.080 to take a break and come back with your listener questions. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.760 Don't you go anywhere. Righty o. Welcome back to Mark 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.640 my words. First question here from Dom Boyce. If you're 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.240 in charge of the rule book for a day, which 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.120 current rugby league rule would you completely scrap or change? 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.400 Oh, Jesus. Um, it's got to be the obvious one, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.040 doesn't it? It's the six to go. I'll just refine it. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.120 I just I just think at the moment actually no, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.360 because of late they've they've ruled it back in. So 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.199 I've haven't really got much to complain about. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.800 I think the I think they've got the balance right 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:26.280 at the moment. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:27.800 I think so too. I think the. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.880 Seven tackle sets. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:29.160 So. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.880 Yeah. Okay. So the seven tackle sets were brought in 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.640 because everyone was kicking the ball dead to nullify fullbacks 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.800 carrying the ball. They have changed. They've they've adjusted the 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.160 rules this year with the seven tackle sets going back. Uh, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.439 they've changed that a little bit. But I still think 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.360 that if you kick a ball in the end goal, 0:10:47.450 --> 0:10:49.850 you shouldn't get penalized with a seven tackle set. You know, 0:10:49.890 --> 0:10:51.770 if you're trying to put a nice grubber in or 0:10:51.770 --> 0:10:53.809 anything like that, I don't think, and I don't think 0:10:53.809 --> 0:10:55.850 you should get penalized with seven tackles. I just think 0:10:55.850 --> 0:10:57.809 it should be if you're in your own half and 0:10:57.809 --> 0:11:00.530 you kick the ball dead. Yep. It's a seven tackle set. 0:11:00.570 --> 0:11:03.250 But if you're if you're attacking and you're kicking there, yeah, 0:11:03.290 --> 0:11:05.010 you're attacking kicks. There shouldn't be a penalty. 0:11:05.050 --> 0:11:06.970 Okay, I've got one too. I think that I think 0:11:06.970 --> 0:11:10.410 with the obstruction when it's when we see obstruction, we 0:11:10.450 --> 0:11:12.850 kind of as players we know it when they go, 0:11:12.890 --> 0:11:15.450 oh he should have went to. But when when it's 0:11:15.490 --> 0:11:18.170 if I'm making my if if I'm going through as 0:11:18.210 --> 0:11:21.050 a decoy runner and it's right near the goalpost and 0:11:21.050 --> 0:11:25.130 the try scored in the corner, and I had nothing 0:11:25.130 --> 0:11:26.450 to do with it. And they still come back and 0:11:26.450 --> 0:11:28.210 go by the letter of the law. I've stopped you 0:11:28.210 --> 0:11:30.130 from getting there. Come on. Common sense is going to 0:11:30.130 --> 0:11:32.770 prevail on the obstruction. Cause like, it's just gotta, it's 0:11:32.770 --> 0:11:33.329 just gotta. 0:11:33.370 --> 0:11:35.930 What about no consequences for the drop outs, boys? 0:11:36.490 --> 0:11:36.810 I hate. 0:11:36.809 --> 0:11:40.010 It. Yeah. That's that's a that's a bugbear. That's a bugbear. 0:11:40.050 --> 0:11:43.130 It's it's kind of just like a it makes you look. 0:11:43.130 --> 0:11:46.620 It makes our game looks sloppy. Yeah. You know, like 0:11:46.900 --> 0:11:48.339 they kick it as far as they want into the 0:11:48.340 --> 0:11:50.780 grandstand and nothing and no, no. 0:11:50.820 --> 0:11:51.980 No, I just I play the ball. 0:11:52.020 --> 0:11:54.620 Yeah. But Peggy, I'm with you. The seven tackle set, 0:11:54.620 --> 0:11:59.059 when you're attacking you get done for. But yet they 0:11:59.059 --> 0:12:01.300 can get tackled in their end goal. So they're actually 0:12:01.340 --> 0:12:03.420 like it's a defensive play for them. But they're getting 0:12:03.420 --> 0:12:05.700 no consequences when they're trying to do an attacking kick. 0:12:05.740 --> 0:12:08.260 I don't I don't see that one uh there as 0:12:08.260 --> 0:12:09.980 well guys. Righty oh this is a good one as 0:12:09.980 --> 0:12:13.340 well from Vinny who's currently the most underrated player in 0:12:13.340 --> 0:12:14.380 the game right now. 0:12:14.420 --> 0:12:15.699 Oh bloody hell. 0:12:15.900 --> 0:12:19.380 Well I kind of I equate uh underrated with improved 0:12:19.380 --> 0:12:22.140 as well. Uh, because I think that those, I think 0:12:22.340 --> 0:12:25.300 the white from roosters is one of them. Oh yeah. 0:12:25.380 --> 0:12:29.140 He's he's improved plus underrated. Yeah. And I think Nick 0:12:29.140 --> 0:12:32.380 arena from the Dolphins is so improved. 0:12:32.780 --> 0:12:34.500 Well I was about to say boss doc but he's 0:12:34.500 --> 0:12:37.260 playing for New South Wales now. Yeah but boss Doc's 0:12:37.380 --> 0:12:42.380 Sam Walker. Sammy Walker yeah. But he's on the on the. Yeah. 0:12:42.420 --> 0:12:44.100 Pinnacle now isn't he. He's at the pinnacle. 0:12:44.300 --> 0:12:46.980 What do you guys think of Jesse Calhoun from the sharks? Right? 0:12:47.020 --> 0:12:48.300 I think he's an enormous player. 0:12:48.340 --> 0:12:50.660 I'll tell you a story about Jesse Calhoun. His dad's 0:12:50.700 --> 0:12:52.900 a primary school principal that I had a little bit 0:12:52.900 --> 0:12:55.860 to do with a few years ago. Down our way down. But, um, 0:12:56.380 --> 0:13:00.420 I was coaching Fitz's son, Eamon, who's a great young 0:13:00.460 --> 0:13:02.700 footy player. I think he's at the Bulldogs now. Eamon. 0:13:02.860 --> 0:13:05.300 And um, I was talking to Fitzy after a trial 0:13:05.300 --> 0:13:07.420 and I said to him it was it was preseason 0:13:07.420 --> 0:13:11.020 probably two years ago I reckon. And um I said 0:13:11.020 --> 0:13:13.060 to him oh you know has anyone stood out for you. 0:13:13.100 --> 0:13:15.579 He goes, mate, you should see this kid, Jesse Calhoun. 0:13:15.620 --> 0:13:15.980 Okay. 0:13:15.980 --> 0:13:18.300 He goes and he goes and he goes, you should 0:13:18.300 --> 0:13:20.179 keep an eye on him. I'm like, oh, wow. I said, oh, 0:13:20.220 --> 0:13:22.700 who's he? Like? He goes, oh, like Dale Finucane style. 0:13:22.740 --> 0:13:24.060 Very true. And then. 0:13:24.100 --> 0:13:24.420 He is. 0:13:24.580 --> 0:13:27.260 Unfortunately for him, I think he's got his injury after injury. 0:13:27.300 --> 0:13:27.660 He did. 0:13:27.660 --> 0:13:29.500 Yeah. For two years and I never got to see him. 0:13:29.500 --> 0:13:31.700 And then now finally he's just coming back into the 0:13:31.700 --> 0:13:33.620 scene and I'm like oh, this is what he was 0:13:33.620 --> 0:13:34.060 talking about. 0:13:34.100 --> 0:13:34.579 Great player. 0:13:34.620 --> 0:13:34.940 Yeah. 0:13:35.179 --> 0:13:37.740 He runs a great line doesn't he? Yeah. Scores. 0:13:37.980 --> 0:13:40.580 Yeah. He's just wholehearted. You love a player who gives 0:13:40.580 --> 0:13:41.300 everything he's got. 0:13:41.340 --> 0:13:43.260 Uh. So who's yours? Who? Who was your one? 0:13:43.670 --> 0:13:45.790 Oh, look, I'm happy to agree with all yours. 0:13:45.830 --> 0:13:48.950 No, you've got one. You said, oh, you did two. 0:13:48.990 --> 0:13:52.270 Yeah. And I understand the white was. Yeah. He's great mate. 0:13:52.309 --> 0:13:54.309 Through the middle. He's that hard to handle now. 0:13:54.350 --> 0:13:56.310 I think Coachella this year as well for manly. 0:13:56.550 --> 0:13:59.750 Yeah. Yeah. He's got next level. He's definitely got next level. 0:13:59.790 --> 0:14:00.830 I need to look through the team. 0:14:00.830 --> 0:14:01.310 Sheets. 0:14:01.910 --> 0:14:02.390 Anyway. 0:14:02.429 --> 0:14:02.750 Yeah. 0:14:02.790 --> 0:14:03.990 Anyway, guys, let's move on. 0:14:04.030 --> 0:14:05.630 Maybe we should send the sister the night before our 0:14:05.630 --> 0:14:08.350 podcast so we can get the best. 0:14:08.429 --> 0:14:09.150 Yeah, yeah. 0:14:09.190 --> 0:14:10.430 Yeah. I like to keep things simple. 0:14:10.590 --> 0:14:11.070 Yeah, yeah. 0:14:11.309 --> 0:14:12.510 Just just telling you what time. 0:14:12.670 --> 0:14:12.790 We're. 0:14:13.309 --> 0:14:15.150 Up. I don't think you guys can manage anything else 0:14:15.230 --> 0:14:18.150 about spontaneous. Yes, it is from Hank. Guys, what do 0:14:18.150 --> 0:14:22.390 you consider the best single greatest state of origin moment 0:14:22.390 --> 0:14:24.910 of all time? Great question, Hank. I love it. 0:14:25.230 --> 0:14:26.750 I'm gonna go to. I'm gonna go one from New 0:14:26.750 --> 0:14:29.470 South Wales, which was, I think I called this game 0:14:29.470 --> 0:14:33.670 for triple M back in 2019. It was tedesco's. Uh, 0:14:33.710 --> 0:14:35.190 try at the at the end. 0:14:35.230 --> 0:14:36.470 I was on the sideline and I. 0:14:36.630 --> 0:14:39.030 I come I remember they remember they ran out from the. 0:14:39.310 --> 0:14:41.310 Yeah. From the where the walk is and that. 0:14:41.350 --> 0:14:45.200 And it was um, uh, it was, uh, NSA man 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.040 from Metallica. I went. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.080 By captain and then, yeah. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.720 It was just. I got goosebumps thinking about it. Yeah. Mitch. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.200 Mitch Pearce, much maligned through the Passover. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:55.320 That's right. They shifted it. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:55.920 Virgo. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:56.600 Virgo. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:57.880 Back into Teddy. Right. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.480 Virgo. Through the worst pass back into Tedesco. But he 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:01.240 seemed to hold it. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.160 And of course the other one is uh. That's what 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.240 I try. That's a miracle from Queensland. That's that that 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.560 that that was like 13 sets of hands. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:09.520 What a try. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.720 Them two I think are the best moments that I've seen. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.240 Yeah I loved milligrams fight. So did I. No one 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.200 can go past m g I'm g. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.560 Question. Yes, I should have probably done my research before 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.800 we did it. Your fight game was one of the 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.600 first memories of Origin of Me was Michael O'Connor kicking the. Yeah. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.040 Was that the same game. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.000 Goal from the touchline? 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:28.360 Yeah. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:28.640 Yeah. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.600 Same game with a leather ball in torrential rain. And 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.920 I reckon the probability would have been around 15% 12, 12%. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:38.880 Um it was 12 all when he kicked that and 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.280 he made it 14, 12 and I remember sitting in 0:15:41.330 --> 0:15:43.730 the dressing room after the game and I thought I 0:15:43.730 --> 0:15:45.730 played pretty well, and I'm there with my dad, and 0:15:45.730 --> 0:15:49.210 all these camera crew were coming towards me about, I reckon, 0:15:49.250 --> 0:15:53.010 30 like reporters and camera crew, and they've come straight 0:15:53.010 --> 0:15:54.290 towards me. And I went, I said to my dad, 0:15:54.290 --> 0:15:55.650 I said, I think I've got man of the match. 0:15:56.210 --> 0:15:59.890 He goes, I don't think so. Yeah. Fucking boom. Bill woods, 0:15:59.890 --> 0:16:01.970 who was working here today, and he goes, how do 0:16:01.970 --> 0:16:05.730 you feel to be signed on six different occasions? I said. 0:16:08.570 --> 0:16:09.170 But what a game. 0:16:09.210 --> 0:16:11.250 What? They did it straight after the game. You got 0:16:11.250 --> 0:16:15.410 sided straight away and done hurriedly convened. Um like a meeting. 0:16:15.970 --> 0:16:16.530 The next day. 0:16:16.690 --> 0:16:18.730 Oh mate, they would have been onto him straight like, 0:16:18.930 --> 0:16:20.130 have you seen the carnage that. 0:16:20.490 --> 0:16:23.450 They wanted to put me in jail? Queenslanders, they said 0:16:23.450 --> 0:16:24.810 you should be in jail. That prick. 0:16:24.810 --> 0:16:27.370 Or I should get off. Absolutely. 0:16:27.930 --> 0:16:29.170 But I had a green light. 0:16:29.210 --> 0:16:31.530 The piggy. What a game that you're bringing up the 0:16:31.530 --> 0:16:33.770 fight and I'm bringing up the. The good thing that 0:16:33.770 --> 0:16:37.050 happened at the end, it's. It's my first ever memory. 0:16:37.810 --> 0:16:39.890 I used to hate playing in rain like. And the 0:16:39.930 --> 0:16:41.050 jerseys back then were down here. 0:16:41.090 --> 0:16:41.530 Yeah. 0:16:41.570 --> 0:16:43.090 Heavy. And so as soon as it rained, you feel 0:16:43.090 --> 0:16:45.810 like you had like someone piggybacking you and then the 0:16:45.810 --> 0:16:48.330 water on the ground. And yeah, but when I got 0:16:49.370 --> 0:16:53.010 the green light from the selectors, I didn't. It's amazing 0:16:53.010 --> 0:16:55.010 when you go into a game without any worries. Yeah. 0:16:55.050 --> 0:16:56.610 And that's how I ended that game in 91. I 0:16:56.610 --> 0:17:00.250 didn't have any worries about um fitness or, or going 0:17:00.250 --> 0:17:03.010 in a little bit over aggressive or overzealous because I 0:17:03.010 --> 0:17:04.370 knew I had the backing of the New South Wales 0:17:04.369 --> 0:17:06.209 selectors to do what I wanted to do. Yeah. And 0:17:06.210 --> 0:17:07.490 as soon as I done it, I got six week 0:17:07.490 --> 0:17:10.850 suspension and never played again. 0:17:10.890 --> 0:17:13.090 Oh bullshit. Oh my God. 0:17:13.810 --> 0:17:17.609 Never played again. No. Surprised you played NRL again after that. 0:17:17.650 --> 0:17:19.090 Oh yeah mate. 0:17:19.130 --> 0:17:21.129 I, um I settled down a lot after that. 0:17:21.530 --> 0:17:23.730 It was so good. Who ran it up at half time. 0:17:23.730 --> 0:17:25.130 Who was the, uh. I was. 0:17:25.170 --> 0:17:25.969 Steve Walters. 0:17:26.290 --> 0:17:27.330 Steve Walters. That's right. 0:17:27.369 --> 0:17:29.490 Yeah. Did a voluntary tackle. Yeah. Yeah. 0:17:30.290 --> 0:17:33.730 And then you went again. Rabbit, rabbit chop on the head. 0:17:34.369 --> 0:17:34.970 As you do. 0:17:35.490 --> 0:17:38.980 As you. Who was the referee. Manson. Yes. David Manson. Yeah, 0:17:39.020 --> 0:17:40.340 because he got up in between. 0:17:40.900 --> 0:17:42.060 He goes, Betty. Betty. 0:17:42.180 --> 0:17:42.500 Yeah. 0:17:42.660 --> 0:17:47.100 Say a word. Get him. He's got what? What? Benny! 0:17:47.500 --> 0:17:48.820 Set him down or he's going to set off and 0:17:48.820 --> 0:17:51.459 Benny goes m g. Settle down! Fucking hit him! Yeah. 0:17:52.180 --> 0:17:54.340 That was the one as well when that fight broke out. 0:17:54.980 --> 0:17:56.980 They didn't have anything to do with each other. But Benny, 0:17:56.980 --> 0:17:59.100 Elias and Walters ended up just punching. 0:17:59.140 --> 0:18:02.540 And Ricky Stuart punching into Gary Cohn, his team mate. 0:18:02.940 --> 0:18:03.900 It was two. 0:18:04.060 --> 0:18:05.540 Ian Robertson's going ballistic. 0:18:05.580 --> 0:18:05.939 Oh. 0:18:06.260 --> 0:18:06.620 Oh wow. 0:18:06.660 --> 0:18:10.619 I saw some highlights of Ian Robertson. He's he's hits 0:18:10.619 --> 0:18:11.340 back in the day. 0:18:11.580 --> 0:18:12.300 He was a machine. 0:18:12.340 --> 0:18:14.500 He's sickening the way that he he had some. 0:18:14.500 --> 0:18:16.379 Weird cement in there in the second row. 0:18:16.740 --> 0:18:18.859 That was a good one there. Thanks for that one, Hank. Uh, 0:18:18.859 --> 0:18:21.619 from John. Should the game bring back a five minute 0:18:21.619 --> 0:18:24.260 sin bin for minor professional fouls, or does the ten 0:18:24.260 --> 0:18:26.580 minute bin serve its purpose, boys? 0:18:26.859 --> 0:18:29.300 I love the five minute bin for the little things. 0:18:29.340 --> 0:18:29.860 I'd love to. 0:18:29.900 --> 0:18:31.899 I'd love to. Especially now. Okay, here's one for you. 0:18:32.100 --> 0:18:35.220 Start of the year, I said. We're $1 billion game. 0:18:35.220 --> 0:18:37.379 When we start bringing in rule changes, we need to 0:18:37.510 --> 0:18:40.669 put them in another grade, another level, so they get 0:18:40.830 --> 0:18:41.510 to see how they go. 0:18:41.550 --> 0:18:42.510 I remember you saying it. 0:18:43.109 --> 0:18:45.390 Why don't we? I don't understand why we don't do 0:18:45.430 --> 0:18:47.230 I like the idea of the five minute. 0:18:47.230 --> 0:18:48.070 But put it in. 0:18:48.350 --> 0:18:49.710 Put it in New South Wales Cup. Yeah. Put it 0:18:49.710 --> 0:18:51.150 in Queensland Cup. Yep. Watch it happen. 0:18:51.190 --> 0:18:51.990 For 12 months. 0:18:52.030 --> 0:18:55.710 And just go. Okay. Yeah. It works well for these infringements. 0:18:55.750 --> 0:18:58.429 Works great. You know only five minutes and then we 0:18:58.430 --> 0:19:00.070 can go yeah, let's put it in our game. I 0:19:00.070 --> 0:19:01.950 just see now, but I like it. I like it 0:19:02.030 --> 0:19:05.070 with m g. I think it's the speed of the game. Yeah. 0:19:05.230 --> 0:19:07.470 Five minutes. Now you can score two tries. 0:19:07.510 --> 0:19:10.030 Well well ten minutes you can. Well ten minutes seems 0:19:10.030 --> 0:19:12.830 too harsh for for a minor incident. Yeah. Ten minutes 0:19:13.109 --> 0:19:16.150 then it's. But then it's an interpretation. What's a minor incident. Yeah. 0:19:16.190 --> 0:19:17.830 Then then that's where you get the argue. You go 0:19:17.830 --> 0:19:21.430 well that's you know, but I definitely think for um 0:19:21.470 --> 0:19:24.070 professional fouls. Yeah. Five minutes. 0:19:24.390 --> 0:19:24.830 Yeah. 0:19:24.950 --> 0:19:26.070 For to start with. Yeah. 0:19:26.109 --> 0:19:28.030 And ten minutes would be for like hitting someone in 0:19:28.030 --> 0:19:30.030 the head. I don't know, I don't know. It would 0:19:30.070 --> 0:19:31.870 be something up for discussion. Like do you get rid 0:19:31.910 --> 0:19:33.910 of the ten minute because the game is so quick 0:19:33.950 --> 0:19:34.550 and just say, hey. 0:19:34.590 --> 0:19:35.070 Well there we. 0:19:35.070 --> 0:19:35.350 Go. 0:19:35.670 --> 0:19:36.960 See, Mark my words. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.000 Five minutes is a long time, isn't it? 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:43.840 That's three sets. So you're defending three sets? Yeah, maybe. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:44.960 Yeah. Which. 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.879 What about the trend lately of teams? Who gets, uh, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.359 someone who could soon be. They take two points. I 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.560 don't understand that. When you've got. You're on the line. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.480 Happened twice on the weekend. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Someone 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.639 gets in and straight away you get you're taking a 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.320 shot at goal when you're right on the line. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:00.240 It's amazing. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:00.800 The modern. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:02.720 Day. It's amazing how many teams are down one as well. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.080 And then they score. I find that that. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.760 Was at Penrith. Happened with Penrith. Did they? 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.560 Yeah. It's like they get a bit complacent having 13 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.080 on the on the. That's the ultimate sin isn't it. 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.440 To concede a try when you've got 13 there. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.719 Okay there we go. What's the the ultimate sin in 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.040 rugby league. There's two of them kicking dead off the 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:21.480 kick off putting the dead. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:21.920 Oh yeah. 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.640 You just. Oh. Not finding touch. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:24.040 Oh. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.360 Oh. What about that. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:31.399 Oh and your kicker does that and you just you're going. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.410 It's alright do you fuckwit. That's the other one. No, 0:20:35.410 --> 0:20:37.690 you go off and give him a pat. Yeah. You're right. 0:20:37.850 --> 0:20:40.690 Kick your fucking ass off this game. My worst one. 0:20:40.690 --> 0:20:42.570 I've said this a hundred times and I'll say it 0:20:42.570 --> 0:20:45.730 a hundred more. Wingers go in for Carey. They drop 0:20:45.730 --> 0:20:47.850 the ball, the ball and then they'll run out of it. 0:20:47.850 --> 0:20:51.730 Going just one step. One step, one fucking. It's fucking 0:20:51.730 --> 0:20:53.490 all right for you. You're on the wing. You don't 0:20:53.490 --> 0:20:56.450 have to fucking tackle. I can tackle in there. Oh. 0:20:56.490 --> 0:21:02.770 These days. Okay. Yeah. Challenge it. No! Don't you fucking dare! 0:21:03.770 --> 0:21:10.129 Get on your wing! Challenges. That's true. As soon as 0:21:10.130 --> 0:21:12.729 you see a winger challenge, know it's all over. Know 0:21:12.770 --> 0:21:15.209 that challenge is. Don't be a bastard. Oh, that's the 0:21:15.210 --> 0:21:17.969 best one coming through. Come in for a hard carry 0:21:18.010 --> 0:21:20.490 and drop it. Yeah. And then challenge it and then 0:21:20.490 --> 0:21:23.369 say to everyone. Yeah. Only one. Yeah. You're on your 0:21:23.369 --> 0:21:26.609 fucking wing. I hate tackle, I hate it. I've got 0:21:26.609 --> 0:21:28.530 to make them all in here. I'm with you as well. 0:21:28.570 --> 0:21:31.330 Hate the pat on the back. Yeah. I prefer someone 0:21:31.330 --> 0:21:35.490 just to absolutely give it some. Yeah Yeah, that's the worst. 0:21:35.490 --> 0:21:38.410 Great question there. One from Sally here. Which current NRL 0:21:38.450 --> 0:21:41.369 club is sitting on the Premiership window that is rapidly 0:21:41.369 --> 0:21:44.609 slamming shut. Oh it's the sharks. It's got to be 0:21:44.650 --> 0:21:49.010 doesn't it. Oh well he's Penrith's. Oh did you hear about. 0:21:49.650 --> 0:21:53.490 Yeah I was, I was I was dumbfounded but I 0:21:53.530 --> 0:21:57.250 also agree with it because what do you think Liam Henry. 0:21:57.530 --> 0:22:00.090 They've got who've I got. Lindsay Smith. Okay. They've got. 0:22:00.410 --> 0:22:03.609 So these are the names of in 27 they've got Cleary, 0:22:03.770 --> 0:22:10.129 Joe Liotta, Martin blades. Taulagi, uh, Brian Tore Papalii, Mitch Kenny, 0:22:10.170 --> 0:22:14.810 Alan Modi and Billy Scott. John Finau, Tom ehl. So 0:22:14.810 --> 0:22:18.570 you've got to say the Cleary, Joe Martin and Kenny 0:22:18.609 --> 0:22:22.609 are priorities. Mhm. And unfortunately for some reason, like he's 0:22:22.609 --> 0:22:25.970 played he's played he's played 11 seasons. Moses saying to him, mate, 0:22:25.970 --> 0:22:27.690 thank you for your service. Go and get a bit 0:22:27.690 --> 0:22:30.010 of a payday to finish your career. That's what Matt 0:22:30.010 --> 0:22:31.930 Kim will be saying to him. And, and we've got 0:22:31.930 --> 0:22:36.379 Lindsay Smith. we've got Liam Henry. Did you say Liam? Liam. 0:22:36.380 --> 0:22:39.500 Henry's going to Perth. Oh, he's gone, is he? Right. 0:22:39.500 --> 0:22:41.900 So they're going to be a little bit light up front. Yeah. 0:22:41.940 --> 0:22:44.260 They'll find someone though, mate. Yeah I know. They always 0:22:44.260 --> 0:22:47.820 find something. But then the New South Wales premierships. But 0:22:47.820 --> 0:22:50.340 I tend to agree. I think I think what how 0:22:50.340 --> 0:22:51.980 can you say a club has won four out of 0:22:51.980 --> 0:22:55.220 six they've been in or the last six years that 0:22:55.220 --> 0:22:58.540 their window is closing. But I suppose in actual. When 0:22:58.780 --> 0:23:00.780 Ivan announced that he was leaving, that was when the 0:23:00.780 --> 0:23:03.660 window started to close. Yeah, that's a fair point too. Yeah. 0:23:03.700 --> 0:23:04.220 Do you guys. 0:23:04.220 --> 0:23:07.260 Think that, uh, Cleary will stay at Penrith? Who knows? 0:23:07.300 --> 0:23:08.700 Yeah, I honestly don't know. 0:23:09.060 --> 0:23:11.260 Don't worry about Leo. You've got guys that are coming 0:23:11.260 --> 0:23:13.139 off contract that are a lot like you know they've 0:23:13.140 --> 0:23:14.020 got that's probably. 0:23:14.020 --> 0:23:15.379 Why they're doing what they're doing because. 0:23:15.380 --> 0:23:16.780 They understand the situation. 0:23:16.780 --> 0:23:17.300 They're in. 0:23:18.220 --> 0:23:19.859 I just have a feeling Cleary is going to look 0:23:19.859 --> 0:23:21.900 for another challenge or something. I don't know. But just. 0:23:21.940 --> 0:23:22.540 Where. 0:23:23.060 --> 0:23:23.340 Where. 0:23:23.619 --> 0:23:25.500 I can't imagine, I can't imagine him playing. 0:23:25.700 --> 0:23:25.900 Now. 0:23:25.940 --> 0:23:28.820 They're talking about an $18 million salary cap now. So 0:23:28.820 --> 0:23:30.860 he's going to get they'll get paid well. He'll get 0:23:30.859 --> 0:23:32.830 two mil to mil to mil. He'll get two mil. Well, 0:23:32.869 --> 0:23:35.230 he's been offered two mil pounds to go to Warrington, 0:23:35.270 --> 0:23:40.189 has he. Yeah. What. Yeah. He's like he's just he 0:23:40.190 --> 0:23:42.710 he would he would he go. Well he'll play another 0:23:42.710 --> 0:23:44.949 three years if he if he's there. Yeah. That's what 0:23:44.950 --> 0:23:47.710 I mean. He's misses two. £2 million. That's what. That's 0:23:47.750 --> 0:23:52.190 4 million. Yeah. That's what he's. That's probably what he's 0:23:52.190 --> 0:23:54.149 worth though to be honest. Well he's the best player 0:23:54.150 --> 0:23:55.790 in the world in the Super League. He is. Yeah 0:23:55.790 --> 0:23:58.990 yeah yeah. Warrington did that years ago with Joey. They did. Yeah. 0:23:59.030 --> 0:24:00.990 And he went over. At the time it was like 0:24:01.030 --> 0:24:03.990 uh for ten games, 120 grand or something like getting 0:24:04.030 --> 0:24:05.990 12 grand a game. Yeah. And we all went, what? 0:24:06.590 --> 0:24:08.470 We're on two grand a game. Did you see. 0:24:08.470 --> 0:24:09.790 His first match over there as well? 0:24:09.830 --> 0:24:10.310 Oh, he was. 0:24:10.310 --> 0:24:11.510 Just like, just. 0:24:12.070 --> 0:24:12.670 On fire. 0:24:12.950 --> 0:24:14.510 Like nothing. I think he had. 0:24:15.230 --> 0:24:18.270 Him and him and his best was kind of just, um, 0:24:18.910 --> 0:24:19.750 so good to watch. 0:24:19.750 --> 0:24:21.510 That's another one as well. Is there for the, uh, 0:24:21.510 --> 0:24:24.830 2005 origin when he got brought back, when. 0:24:24.830 --> 0:24:25.230 He came back. 0:24:25.790 --> 0:24:26.510 Like the club. 0:24:26.550 --> 0:24:27.109 Masterclass. 0:24:27.150 --> 0:24:27.430 It was. 0:24:27.430 --> 0:24:28.150 Just yeah. 0:24:28.550 --> 0:24:30.480 Yeah. Even in Newcastle we used to go because I 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.240 lived on the Central Coast. Uh, where you went and 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:34.000 finished your career? 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:34.520 Yeah. Yeah. 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:37.040 And we used to, uh, we used to travel to 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:40.200 Newcastle just to watch the Johns Brothers, of course. Marathon stadium. 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:41.000 It was just. 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:45.120 That team in mid 90s was like we went there 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.520 as the Western Reds. And it was just I because 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:48.920 I've been there in the late 80s and I hadn't 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:51.160 been back there for a few years. And I went, wow, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.960 look at this place. It's just the marathon stadium packed 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.360 to the rafters and, and a really good rugby league 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:56.960 team in their hands. 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.640 So much fun. Yeah. Uh, last one, guys from Luke. 0:24:59.640 --> 0:25:02.360 If you had to assemble a four by 100 meter 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:06.320 relay team using the absolute fastest players in rugby league history, 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.719 who makes your four man squad? What a great question. 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:16.240 Let's build it together. Okay. I'm going to nominate one. Yep. Saab. Yep. Jason. 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:18.040 He's got to be in it by 100. 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:18.920 Okay. In history. 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:19.600 In history. 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:20.440 Martin Offiah. 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:21.760 Yeah well he was going to be one of my 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:27.639 next ones, I reckon. Go for it. Uh, Darren. Albert. Shane. Wherrett. 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:28.240 What about Darren. 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:31.690 Clarke? Where it was so quick you didn't didn't shine 0:25:31.690 --> 0:25:32.810 where it beat Martin Offiah. 0:25:32.810 --> 0:25:33.810 What about Ryan? 0:25:34.130 --> 0:25:36.449 Ryan? Oh, that was him. Sorry. Ryan beat him in 0:25:36.490 --> 0:25:37.170 that sprint. Brett. 0:25:37.170 --> 0:25:38.210 Dallas. Wow. 0:25:39.210 --> 0:25:40.770 Yeah, they're my 4 or 5. 0:25:41.130 --> 0:25:45.889 So you'd have a fire up where it. 0:25:46.170 --> 0:25:46.810 Saab. 0:25:46.850 --> 0:25:49.970 Saab. And he represents modern day yeah. 0:25:50.010 --> 0:25:51.169 Darren. Darren Clarke. 0:25:51.210 --> 0:25:53.370 Darren Clarke. Well yeah he probably played 2 or 3. 0:25:53.410 --> 0:25:55.090 I know but he wasn't was he 100 or. I 0:25:55.090 --> 0:25:56.010 thought he was longer than. 0:25:56.369 --> 0:25:59.010 400 I think Tigers. Yeah. So. 0:25:59.050 --> 0:25:59.689 Darren Clarke. 0:25:59.730 --> 0:26:00.210 Yeah. 0:26:00.570 --> 0:26:05.050 Mate. I go past Saab. Did we say where it 0:26:05.090 --> 0:26:05.730 where it. 0:26:05.850 --> 0:26:07.369 Odin. Ryan and a fire. 0:26:07.570 --> 0:26:08.650 Fire. Yeah that's a fair. 0:26:08.690 --> 0:26:11.129 Because remember Paris Stadium that time they had a race. Yeah. 0:26:11.210 --> 0:26:15.129 And Ryan beat him. Beat him. Mhm, mhm. So there you. 0:26:15.130 --> 0:26:17.290 Go. Any other. Is there anyone else? I'm trying. Well, 0:26:17.290 --> 0:26:19.290 the only reason I say Darren Albert is remember when 0:26:19.290 --> 0:26:21.530 he chased down Matty Sears? Yeah. Well. 0:26:22.090 --> 0:26:23.210 But the fox on his day. 0:26:23.290 --> 0:26:23.889 Yeah. The fox. 0:26:24.170 --> 0:26:26.890 The fox when he was at his best. Just brutal. 0:26:27.090 --> 0:26:27.970 Like Look, I'm. 0:26:27.970 --> 0:26:30.050 Just trying to think, who are some of the other. 0:26:30.090 --> 0:26:32.490 I reckon I reckon we've pretty much nailed it. 0:26:33.050 --> 0:26:35.530 Mullins was always fast. Brett Dallas was fast. 0:26:35.570 --> 0:26:37.290 Yeah, Dallas was lightning, wasn't he? 0:26:37.330 --> 0:26:39.929 Dallas was like, uh. But I think when you're talking 0:26:39.930 --> 0:26:40.930 high speed and. 0:26:40.970 --> 0:26:43.370 Four by 100 meter relay. Yeah, I reckon we've nailed. 0:26:43.410 --> 0:26:45.689 That's a really good one. I don't think we've nailed it. 0:26:45.730 --> 0:26:48.290 How many in the game now would score from their 0:26:48.290 --> 0:26:50.410 own line for an intercept like run the whole length. 0:26:50.450 --> 0:26:52.010 Oh there's there's not that many but. 0:26:52.050 --> 0:26:52.810 Kaan Perera. 0:26:53.210 --> 0:26:53.930 Oh he's great. 0:26:53.970 --> 0:26:54.410 Hammer. 0:26:54.450 --> 0:26:54.930 Yeah. 0:26:55.130 --> 0:26:57.409 Oh the hammer. He's got a he's got to be 0:26:57.410 --> 0:27:01.010 in the four. Yeah. I reckon he's got the hammer over. Yeah. 0:27:01.010 --> 0:27:02.170 But I reckon they've got maybe. 0:27:02.210 --> 0:27:03.449 Well you can have an on day one you have 0:27:03.450 --> 0:27:04.250 a modern day one. 0:27:04.290 --> 0:27:04.690 Yeah. 0:27:04.730 --> 0:27:05.770 You got, you got hammer. 0:27:05.770 --> 0:27:08.929 Looks like he's in second gear and he's just he's 0:27:08.930 --> 0:27:09.970 amazing isn't he. 0:27:10.010 --> 0:27:10.609 But he lives. 0:27:10.609 --> 0:27:12.649 Call me. Well I think it's pretty good there, guys. 0:27:12.650 --> 0:27:15.850 Rightio thanks for listening to this episode of Mark my words. 0:27:15.850 --> 0:27:18.450 For all your NRL news, follow the Continuous Call team 0:27:18.450 --> 0:27:21.010 wherever you watch or listen to your podcasts. It's your 0:27:21.010 --> 0:27:23.090 one stop shop for all the latest rugby league. Share 0:27:23.090 --> 0:27:25.330 with your mates and leave a review. You can also 0:27:25.330 --> 0:27:27.859 find us on YouTube and on Instagram. 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We saw what 0:27:56.700 --> 0:27:58.180 happened to poor old James. 0:27:58.820 --> 0:28:00.700 James is still in the fetal position. 0:28:00.700 --> 0:28:03.020 In the fetal position? Yeah, yeah, he put him in 0:28:03.020 --> 0:28:04.980 his place, didn't he? You two were there. 0:28:05.020 --> 0:28:06.420 Oh, look at each other going. 0:28:06.460 --> 0:28:07.780 What? What? 0:28:08.380 --> 0:28:11.419 Hey, guys. Origin live from Suncorp Stadium. You guys are 0:28:11.420 --> 0:28:13.419 going to be doing a Mark My Words podcast straight 0:28:13.420 --> 0:28:17.060 after that for a reaction to the game. But until then, 0:28:17.060 --> 0:28:19.500 we'll see you on Wednesday for State of Origin. New 0:28:19.500 --> 0:28:22.619 South Wales up against Queensland Live from Suncorp Stadium.