S1: Well, good day and welcome to this episode of Mark
S1: My Words. On today's podcast, we're kicking things off with
S1: a cracking story time segment. We'll be spinning some of
S1: the wildest and funniest yarns from on and off the field.
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S1: in and let's get into it boys. Story time today
S1: I thought about this one, guys. Uh, New South Wales
S1: are heading to Suncorp. Yep. I think things are a
S1: lot different than the way they used to be, but
S1: this is story time. Throughout your career, boys, which away
S1: dressing rooms were notoriously the worst to visit. And what
S1: lengths did the home club go to in order to
S1: disrupt your preparation. This is a good one. I've heard
S1: some great yarns about this, mate.
S2: The first one that comes to mind for me was
S2: the Newcastle Knights. Same milligram holes in the roof hose,
S2: everything in the shed. So you'd walk in and they.
S2: You'd walk in the shed and there was a room.
S2: And then there was a strapping room, and then the
S2: showers and everything was sort of over here. Yeah. And,
S2: and you'd go and get strapped and then you'd have
S2: to tippy toe back to.
S1: Your.
S2: Like, where you had your gear. And then like it
S2: was all wet on the bench and it was just shit.
S1: Well.
S3: When they first, uh, 88 was the first time we
S3: went there to, um, Newcastle and by 89 we, we
S3: took thongs with us. Really. So we knew that we
S3: knew they were going to wet wet the ceiling. Like
S3: water was dripping from the ceiling as you were getting
S3: your massage. Yeah. Like and then Canberra was another one. Notorious.
S3: They turned the hot water off. Would they? Oh, in
S3: middle of winter.
S2: Well I think they used to turn the heaters on
S2: when I was playing down there because then you'd middle
S2: of winter you'd be in the sheds shades getting.
S1: Nice.
S2: And warm.
S1: Yeah. Oh. Far out.
S3: Nothing beats but I on the kangaroo tour.
S2: Yeah.
S3: I missed the first game because I tonsillitis against Wakefield.
S3: Oh our second game was okay. Keep going. Our second
S3: game was in Cumbria. Yeah. So we went up there
S3: to play Cumbria and I walked in and the first
S3: thing we all saw was on top of a toilet seat.
S3: The biggest Edgar Britt you've ever seen in your life.
S3: You did. Sitting there.
S1: You.
S3: Go. What the fuck is that? It had a heartbeat.
S3: I said shit on the fucking toilet.
S2: A pair of.
S3: Boots. A wristband?
S1: Yeah. Get him on the table for a massage.
S3: Oh, we. After first being like.
S1: They did not. MM.
S3: Okay.
S1: So ridiculous.
S3: So picture it. Right. We were in England and I
S3: know this because he played, there would have been most
S3: of the, most of the, uh, the dressing rooms under
S3: the grandstand, which is kind of. Which slopes?
S1: Yeah, you'd have to walk the.
S3: Most times all the blokes over six foot would have
S3: to stand over here. Yeah. Because if we stood over
S3: there we got a duck and it's really small. It's
S3: really compact. Tiny, tiny, tiny like places like, you know,
S3: Huddersfield and Wakefield.
S2: And you said Wakefield. That's what I thought you were
S2: going to start talking.
S3: Well I was there but I was, I had tonsillitis.
S2: Wakefield's horrendous.
S3: Um but they were all like it. And we went
S3: to Cumbria like of all places that's you know the
S3: Lakes district. Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. Right near Scotland. Yeah, yeah.
S3: And we walked in and everyone dropped their bag and
S3: the first person went, what the fuck?
S1: No. Could you smell it though, when you walked in?
S3: Not really, because it's too cold. That's so. Well, you
S3: just see it. Just a big Edgar on top of this.
S3: Like the seat was down.
S2: Was it steaming?
S1: It would have been. It would have been. It was that.
S3: Yeah. Like you know, you know when you're sweating on the. Yeah.
S3: It's freezing and all the steams.
S1: Yeah.
S3: It's like this fucking thing was going.
S1: It's like a scrum.
S3: Almost had a mouth going.
S1: So what did you do?
S3: I've got someone.
S1: Like. Yeah, great. Got rid of.
S3: It. Got rid of.
S1: The blue shirt.
S3: We all sit around and come back to it.
S1: Well, I did a stand up, did a stand up set.
S1: But you know what?
S3: But every, every home, every away game when I first
S3: started was a real shit dressing room because, um, the
S3: crowd knew you were in there and so the crowd
S3: could get to you by, by volume, by voice. So
S3: you had like picket, uh, concrete windows that you could
S3: hear the people outside walking past and they could hear
S3: you talking. They'd all go, ah, ah, like they'd walk
S3: up to the window and just.
S1: I remember someone saying, it might have even been Matty
S1: Johns was saying when they would go to like, art. Yeah.
S1: And people would be spitting on him through the window.
S3: Oh, mate. Like, yeah, like that was funny because I
S3: played one year there.
S1: It might have been like art.
S3: But you could actually stand there on the urinal and
S3: see the the game.
S1: Yeah.
S3: Right. Like you could watch it. Yeah. It's um. Oh
S3: the hostile mate. Like the way games were were hostile. Campbelltown,
S3: the all around the park, you know, they were just
S3: I remember being at Dragons and I had the skull
S3: calling me, calling me. Yeah, she is Marcia Goya.
S4: Look at that, boys.
S3: Because we go out the back of Kroger to warm up.
S3: And he was just he'd be there into us.
S2: Well, he was barred from the inside the grounds a
S2: lot of the time.
S3: He was because he was he was on a box
S3: on a crate.
S2: Be up on the thing looking over the the fence.
S1: He did he, I think he got barred for like
S1: 2 or 3 years or something, I think.
S2: And I think he's still around.
S3: I hope he is because I, I found out like late,
S3: not lately, but after we played there I went, who
S3: is that bloke? He's he's scary looking with his big
S3: thick glasses. Yeah. And I used to live at Whalan
S3: and he lives at. He live at Emerton. Oh really?
S3: Which is in the same suburb, Mount Druitt. We're in
S3: Mount Druitt, boys. So he's a Mad Dragons fan.
S2: Oh, I didn't know.
S3: So we're going to try and find the skull. This
S3: is our our mission. If anyone watching this podcast or
S3: listening to this podcast knows where the skull is.
S2: The skull used to like me because of my.
S3: You play the.
S2: Dragons? No, but my God.
S1: Yeah, I know. Oh, he was called something else. I
S1: was going to bring it up, but I know exactly
S1: what you're talking about.
S2: Can I say on the on the dressing rooms, Wakefield. Yeah.
S2: That's just the ground. I remember tiny, like the dressing
S2: room would have been as big as this.
S3: Yeah I know.
S2: Right. That's it. And blokes would have to sort of ah,
S2: you go and get changed and then I'll come in
S2: later and you go out and like that was just
S2: awkward and shit and it'd be fucking freezing and you'd
S2: just be going, what am I doing?
S3: I know. What about what about in England? This happened
S3: to you when you played? Maybe it was. Maybe it
S3: was before your time. But after a game over in England,
S3: I remember my first stint was there at Sheffield in 88.
S3: I went in and after training and there's the big
S3: bath running and everyone jumps in the bath together. Oh really?
S3: Where's the fucking showers? Everyone's there. Muddle over him in
S3: the past?
S2: Yeah. No.
S3: So sit in the bath.
S1: With the whole.
S3: Team. The whole.
S1: Team. We all love a bath.
S4: They love a bath. Get the bath.
S3: Get up! Rolled around corner.
S2: The other. The other one that I had. Right. This
S2: is going back now. And I just remembered it. I
S2: played in the Australian Schoolboys team in 1998 and we
S2: played at Eden Park.
S3: Oh yeah.
S2: New Zealand schoolboys. Have you ever played? I don't know,
S2: but all I can remember the window similar to sort
S2: of like the windows were for the dressing room, were
S2: up high, and that was sort of where the fans
S2: could walk behind the grandstand. Every one of the Kiwi
S2: fans kicked the window in, landed on Mark Gasnier's head
S2: smashed and head and what? Yeah. Fucking kicked it in
S2: and it landed. We I think it was after the
S2: game and we'd just beaten him and someone kicked the
S2: fucking window in and it landed on us.
S4: Wow.
S2: It was like a fucking full window. Yeah, yeah. Kicked
S2: it in and cutting and cutting. Cutting what? Jesus. I
S2: think he had to have some stitches. Didn't. Wasn't bad cuts. Yeah, yeah.
S2: But like superficial. But nothing. Stitches wound in the head. Well,
S2: before you'd even run out. No. After the game. After
S2: the game. After we beat him. Yeah. Eden Park. I'll
S2: never forget it. Yeah. I just England, England was just.
S2: When you look back on it now, you look back
S2: on fondness because it's such a great part of your life.
S2: But the dressing rooms are small. Oh, mate. Well, the
S2: team I played for, Wigan, we had the you had
S2: the big one. You had beautiful facilities. We had the grounds. Yeah.
S2: Did you used to do anything to other teams coming
S2: in though? Like, would you play with them a bit?
S2: I wouldn't even think of doing anything like that to
S2: the other teams sheds. No, that's a good ploy. But
S2: I'll tell you the one I love, though I'm disappointed
S2: in myself. I know, I know, like I should have
S2: done like you. I should have like a couple of.
S2: People doing the doing Edgar on the on the toilet
S2: in there. Like the best one to go actually look
S2: like someone did that. I know, I know, but you
S2: cannot or you can't like I can I, I can't
S2: believe that they've gone. Oh yeah. Yeah. But just because
S2: they probably did their last training run, they weren't, away.
S2: You know what? Let's give him a little. Hey, lads,
S2: let's give him a little welcome party, huh? You can
S2: imagine the whole team just laughing their head off at
S2: the dude that's doing it as well. Because we laughed
S2: in the end. We went all the way back in
S2: the bus. We were going. How good was that? Like that? Yeah.
S2: How many of the boys on tour left on other
S2: things now as well? I saw this over in England.
S2: This was a great idea. Um, I love also guys,
S2: Brookvale Oval. He's still got to run through that tunnel with.
S2: And you got a little cage into the cage. The the.
S2: Oh yeah. The cage in the cage. But even their
S2: sheds are shit. Yeah, they're still shit. Yeah they are.
S2: They were shit like when I played, when I played
S2: like they were just that long corridor. That's what yours was. Yeah.
S2: With all benches and showers were opposite. Yeah, that was it.
S2: Because the first thing you do when you go to
S2: an away game is check the showers to see if
S2: they got you after the game. You need a hot shower. Yeah,
S2: that just gets all the shit away from you. And
S2: and yeah, yeah, some have just got crap ones. Yeah.
S2: I think Melbourne's Olympic Park would.
S5: Be terrible as well. On a cold.
S2: Wet. Yeah, I can't remember.
S5: That would be terrible. Great story time, boys. We're going
S5: to take a break and come back with your listener questions.
S5: Don't you go anywhere. Righty o. Welcome back to Mark
S5: my words. First question here from Dom Boyce. If you're
S5: in charge of the rule book for a day, which
S5: current rugby league rule would you completely scrap or change?
S2: Oh, Jesus. Um, it's got to be the obvious one,
S2: doesn't it? It's the six to go. I'll just refine it.
S2: I just I just think at the moment actually no,
S2: because of late they've they've ruled it back in. So
S2: I've haven't really got much to complain about.
S5: I think the I think they've got the balance right
S5: at the moment.
S2: I think so too. I think the.
S6: Seven tackle sets.
S5: So.
S6: Yeah. Okay. So the seven tackle sets were brought in
S6: because everyone was kicking the ball dead to nullify fullbacks
S6: carrying the ball. They have changed. They've they've adjusted the
S6: rules this year with the seven tackle sets going back. Uh,
S6: they've changed that a little bit. But I still think
S6: that if you kick a ball in the end goal,
S6: you shouldn't get penalized with a seven tackle set. You know,
S6: if you're trying to put a nice grubber in or
S6: anything like that, I don't think, and I don't think
S6: you should get penalized with seven tackles. I just think
S6: it should be if you're in your own half and
S6: you kick the ball dead. Yep. It's a seven tackle set.
S6: But if you're if you're attacking and you're kicking there, yeah,
S6: you're attacking kicks. There shouldn't be a penalty.
S2: Okay, I've got one too. I think that I think
S2: with the obstruction when it's when we see obstruction, we
S2: kind of as players we know it when they go,
S2: oh he should have went to. But when when it's
S2: if I'm making my if if I'm going through as
S2: a decoy runner and it's right near the goalpost and
S2: the try scored in the corner, and I had nothing
S2: to do with it. And they still come back and
S2: go by the letter of the law. I've stopped you
S2: from getting there. Come on. Common sense is going to
S2: prevail on the obstruction. Cause like, it's just gotta, it's
S2: just gotta.
S5: What about no consequences for the drop outs, boys?
S6: I hate.
S2: It. Yeah. That's that's a that's a bugbear. That's a bugbear.
S2: It's it's kind of just like a it makes you look.
S2: It makes our game looks sloppy. Yeah. You know, like
S2: they kick it as far as they want into the
S2: grandstand and nothing and no, no.
S6: No, I just I play the ball.
S5: Yeah. But Peggy, I'm with you. The seven tackle set,
S5: when you're attacking you get done for. But yet they
S5: can get tackled in their end goal. So they're actually
S5: like it's a defensive play for them. But they're getting
S5: no consequences when they're trying to do an attacking kick.
S5: I don't I don't see that one uh there as
S5: well guys. Righty oh this is a good one as
S5: well from Vinny who's currently the most underrated player in
S5: the game right now.
S6: Oh bloody hell.
S2: Well I kind of I equate uh underrated with improved
S2: as well. Uh, because I think that those, I think
S2: the white from roosters is one of them. Oh yeah.
S2: He's he's improved plus underrated. Yeah. And I think Nick
S2: arena from the Dolphins is so improved.
S6: Well I was about to say boss doc but he's
S6: playing for New South Wales now. Yeah but boss Doc's
S6: Sam Walker. Sammy Walker yeah. But he's on the on the. Yeah.
S6: Pinnacle now isn't he. He's at the pinnacle.
S5: What do you guys think of Jesse Calhoun from the sharks? Right?
S5: I think he's an enormous player.
S6: I'll tell you a story about Jesse Calhoun. His dad's
S6: a primary school principal that I had a little bit
S6: to do with a few years ago. Down our way down. But, um,
S6: I was coaching Fitz's son, Eamon, who's a great young
S6: footy player. I think he's at the Bulldogs now. Eamon.
S6: And um, I was talking to Fitzy after a trial
S6: and I said to him it was it was preseason
S6: probably two years ago I reckon. And um I said
S6: to him oh you know has anyone stood out for you.
S6: He goes, mate, you should see this kid, Jesse Calhoun.
S2: Okay.
S6: He goes and he goes and he goes, you should
S6: keep an eye on him. I'm like, oh, wow. I said, oh,
S6: who's he? Like? He goes, oh, like Dale Finucane style.
S6: Very true. And then.
S2: He is.
S6: Unfortunately for him, I think he's got his injury after injury.
S2: He did.
S6: Yeah. For two years and I never got to see him.
S6: And then now finally he's just coming back into the
S6: scene and I'm like oh, this is what he was
S6: talking about.
S2: Great player.
S6: Yeah.
S5: He runs a great line doesn't he? Yeah. Scores.
S2: Yeah. He's just wholehearted. You love a player who gives
S2: everything he's got.
S5: Uh. So who's yours? Who? Who was your one?
S6: Oh, look, I'm happy to agree with all yours.
S5: No, you've got one. You said, oh, you did two.
S6: Yeah. And I understand the white was. Yeah. He's great mate.
S6: Through the middle. He's that hard to handle now.
S5: I think Coachella this year as well for manly.
S2: Yeah. Yeah. He's got next level. He's definitely got next level.
S6: I need to look through the team.
S5: Sheets.
S6: Anyway.
S2: Yeah.
S5: Anyway, guys, let's move on.
S2: Maybe we should send the sister the night before our
S2: podcast so we can get the best.
S6: Yeah, yeah.
S5: Yeah. I like to keep things simple.
S2: Yeah, yeah.
S5: Just just telling you what time.
S2: We're.
S5: Up. I don't think you guys can manage anything else
S5: about spontaneous. Yes, it is from Hank. Guys, what do
S5: you consider the best single greatest state of origin moment
S5: of all time? Great question, Hank. I love it.
S2: I'm gonna go to. I'm gonna go one from New
S2: South Wales, which was, I think I called this game
S2: for triple M back in 2019. It was tedesco's. Uh,
S2: try at the at the end.
S6: I was on the sideline and I.
S2: I come I remember they remember they ran out from the.
S6: Yeah. From the where the walk is and that.
S2: And it was um, uh, it was, uh, NSA man
S2: from Metallica. I went.
S6: By captain and then, yeah.
S2: It was just. I got goosebumps thinking about it. Yeah. Mitch.
S2: Mitch Pearce, much maligned through the Passover.
S6: That's right. They shifted it.
S2: Virgo.
S5: Virgo.
S2: Back into Teddy. Right.
S5: Virgo. Through the worst pass back into Tedesco. But he
S5: seemed to hold it.
S2: And of course the other one is uh. That's what
S2: I try. That's a miracle from Queensland. That's that that
S2: that that was like 13 sets of hands.
S5: What a try.
S2: Them two I think are the best moments that I've seen.
S6: Yeah I loved milligrams fight. So did I. No one
S6: can go past m g I'm g.
S5: Question. Yes, I should have probably done my research before
S5: we did it. Your fight game was one of the
S5: first memories of Origin of Me was Michael O'Connor kicking the. Yeah.
S5: Was that the same game.
S6: Goal from the touchline?
S2: Yeah.
S5: Yeah.
S2: Same game with a leather ball in torrential rain. And
S2: I reckon the probability would have been around 15% 12, 12%.
S2: Um it was 12 all when he kicked that and
S2: he made it 14, 12 and I remember sitting in
S2: the dressing room after the game and I thought I
S2: played pretty well, and I'm there with my dad, and
S2: all these camera crew were coming towards me about, I reckon,
S2: 30 like reporters and camera crew, and they've come straight
S2: towards me. And I went, I said to my dad,
S2: I said, I think I've got man of the match.
S2: He goes, I don't think so. Yeah. Fucking boom. Bill woods,
S2: who was working here today, and he goes, how do
S2: you feel to be signed on six different occasions? I said.
S5: But what a game.
S6: What? They did it straight after the game. You got
S6: sided straight away and done hurriedly convened. Um like a meeting.
S2: The next day.
S5: Oh mate, they would have been onto him straight like,
S5: have you seen the carnage that.
S2: They wanted to put me in jail? Queenslanders, they said
S2: you should be in jail. That prick.
S5: Or I should get off. Absolutely.
S2: But I had a green light.
S5: The piggy. What a game that you're bringing up the
S5: fight and I'm bringing up the. The good thing that
S5: happened at the end, it's. It's my first ever memory.
S2: I used to hate playing in rain like. And the
S2: jerseys back then were down here.
S5: Yeah.
S2: Heavy. And so as soon as it rained, you feel
S2: like you had like someone piggybacking you and then the
S2: water on the ground. And yeah, but when I got
S2: the green light from the selectors, I didn't. It's amazing
S2: when you go into a game without any worries. Yeah.
S2: And that's how I ended that game in 91. I
S2: didn't have any worries about um fitness or, or going
S2: in a little bit over aggressive or overzealous because I
S2: knew I had the backing of the New South Wales
S2: selectors to do what I wanted to do. Yeah. And
S2: as soon as I done it, I got six week
S2: suspension and never played again.
S6: Oh bullshit. Oh my God.
S5: Never played again. No. Surprised you played NRL again after that.
S5: Oh yeah mate.
S2: I, um I settled down a lot after that.
S5: It was so good. Who ran it up at half time.
S5: Who was the, uh. I was.
S2: Steve Walters.
S5: Steve Walters. That's right.
S2: Yeah. Did a voluntary tackle. Yeah. Yeah.
S6: And then you went again. Rabbit, rabbit chop on the head.
S2: As you do.
S6: As you. Who was the referee. Manson. Yes. David Manson. Yeah,
S6: because he got up in between.
S2: He goes, Betty. Betty.
S6: Yeah.
S2: Say a word. Get him. He's got what? What? Benny!
S2: Set him down or he's going to set off and
S2: Benny goes m g. Settle down! Fucking hit him! Yeah.
S6: That was the one as well when that fight broke out.
S6: They didn't have anything to do with each other. But Benny,
S6: Elias and Walters ended up just punching.
S2: And Ricky Stuart punching into Gary Cohn, his team mate.
S6: It was two.
S2: Ian Robertson's going ballistic.
S6: Oh.
S2: Oh wow.
S6: I saw some highlights of Ian Robertson. He's he's hits
S6: back in the day.
S2: He was a machine.
S6: He's sickening the way that he he had some.
S2: Weird cement in there in the second row.
S6: That was a good one there. Thanks for that one, Hank. Uh,
S6: from John. Should the game bring back a five minute
S6: sin bin for minor professional fouls, or does the ten
S6: minute bin serve its purpose, boys?
S2: I love the five minute bin for the little things.
S2: I'd love to.
S6: I'd love to. Especially now. Okay, here's one for you.
S6: Start of the year, I said. We're $1 billion game.
S6: When we start bringing in rule changes, we need to
S6: put them in another grade, another level, so they get
S6: to see how they go.
S2: I remember you saying it.
S6: Why don't we? I don't understand why we don't do
S6: I like the idea of the five minute.
S2: But put it in.
S6: Put it in New South Wales Cup. Yeah. Put it
S6: in Queensland Cup. Yep. Watch it happen.
S2: For 12 months.
S6: And just go. Okay. Yeah. It works well for these infringements.
S6: Works great. You know only five minutes and then we
S6: can go yeah, let's put it in our game. I
S6: just see now, but I like it. I like it
S6: with m g. I think it's the speed of the game. Yeah.
S6: Five minutes. Now you can score two tries.
S2: Well well ten minutes you can. Well ten minutes seems
S2: too harsh for for a minor incident. Yeah. Ten minutes
S2: then it's. But then it's an interpretation. What's a minor incident. Yeah.
S2: Then then that's where you get the argue. You go
S2: well that's you know, but I definitely think for um
S2: professional fouls. Yeah. Five minutes.
S6: Yeah.
S2: For to start with. Yeah.
S6: And ten minutes would be for like hitting someone in
S6: the head. I don't know, I don't know. It would
S6: be something up for discussion. Like do you get rid
S6: of the ten minute because the game is so quick
S6: and just say, hey.
S2: Well there we.
S6: Go.
S2: See, Mark my words.
S6: Five minutes is a long time, isn't it?
S2: That's three sets. So you're defending three sets? Yeah, maybe.
S6: Yeah. Which.
S2: What about the trend lately of teams? Who gets, uh,
S2: someone who could soon be. They take two points. I
S2: don't understand that. When you've got. You're on the line.
S2: Happened twice on the weekend. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Someone
S2: gets in and straight away you get you're taking a
S2: shot at goal when you're right on the line.
S6: It's amazing.
S2: The modern.
S6: Day. It's amazing how many teams are down one as well.
S6: And then they score. I find that that.
S2: Was at Penrith. Happened with Penrith. Did they?
S6: Yeah. It's like they get a bit complacent having 13
S6: on the on the. That's the ultimate sin isn't it.
S6: To concede a try when you've got 13 there.
S2: Okay there we go. What's the the ultimate sin in
S2: rugby league. There's two of them kicking dead off the
S2: kick off putting the dead.
S6: Oh yeah.
S2: You just. Oh. Not finding touch.
S6: Oh.
S2: Oh. What about that.
S6: Oh and your kicker does that and you just you're going.
S2: It's alright do you fuckwit. That's the other one. No,
S2: you go off and give him a pat. Yeah. You're right.
S2: Kick your fucking ass off this game. My worst one.
S2: I've said this a hundred times and I'll say it
S2: a hundred more. Wingers go in for Carey. They drop
S2: the ball, the ball and then they'll run out of it.
S2: Going just one step. One step, one fucking. It's fucking
S2: all right for you. You're on the wing. You don't
S2: have to fucking tackle. I can tackle in there. Oh.
S2: These days. Okay. Yeah. Challenge it. No! Don't you fucking dare!
S2: Get on your wing! Challenges. That's true. As soon as
S2: you see a winger challenge, know it's all over. Know
S2: that challenge is. Don't be a bastard. Oh, that's the
S2: best one coming through. Come in for a hard carry
S2: and drop it. Yeah. And then challenge it and then
S2: say to everyone. Yeah. Only one. Yeah. You're on your
S2: fucking wing. I hate tackle, I hate it. I've got
S2: to make them all in here. I'm with you as well.
S2: Hate the pat on the back. Yeah. I prefer someone
S2: just to absolutely give it some. Yeah Yeah, that's the worst.
S2: Great question there. One from Sally here. Which current NRL
S2: club is sitting on the Premiership window that is rapidly
S2: slamming shut. Oh it's the sharks. It's got to be
S2: doesn't it. Oh well he's Penrith's. Oh did you hear about.
S2: Yeah I was, I was I was dumbfounded but I
S2: also agree with it because what do you think Liam Henry.
S2: They've got who've I got. Lindsay Smith. Okay. They've got.
S2: So these are the names of in 27 they've got Cleary,
S2: Joe Liotta, Martin blades. Taulagi, uh, Brian Tore Papalii, Mitch Kenny,
S2: Alan Modi and Billy Scott. John Finau, Tom ehl. So
S2: you've got to say the Cleary, Joe Martin and Kenny
S2: are priorities. Mhm. And unfortunately for some reason, like he's
S2: played he's played he's played 11 seasons. Moses saying to him, mate,
S2: thank you for your service. Go and get a bit
S2: of a payday to finish your career. That's what Matt
S2: Kim will be saying to him. And, and we've got
S2: Lindsay Smith. we've got Liam Henry. Did you say Liam? Liam.
S2: Henry's going to Perth. Oh, he's gone, is he? Right.
S2: So they're going to be a little bit light up front. Yeah.
S2: They'll find someone though, mate. Yeah I know. They always
S2: find something. But then the New South Wales premierships. But
S2: I tend to agree. I think I think what how
S2: can you say a club has won four out of
S2: six they've been in or the last six years that
S2: their window is closing. But I suppose in actual. When
S2: Ivan announced that he was leaving, that was when the
S2: window started to close. Yeah, that's a fair point too. Yeah.
S2: Do you guys.
S7: Think that, uh, Cleary will stay at Penrith? Who knows?
S2: Yeah, I honestly don't know.
S7: Don't worry about Leo. You've got guys that are coming
S7: off contract that are a lot like you know they've
S7: got that's probably.
S2: Why they're doing what they're doing because.
S7: They understand the situation.
S2: They're in.
S7: I just have a feeling Cleary is going to look
S7: for another challenge or something. I don't know. But just.
S2: Where.
S7: Where.
S2: I can't imagine, I can't imagine him playing.
S7: Now.
S2: They're talking about an $18 million salary cap now. So
S2: he's going to get they'll get paid well. He'll get
S2: two mil to mil to mil. He'll get two mil. Well,
S2: he's been offered two mil pounds to go to Warrington,
S2: has he. Yeah. What. Yeah. He's like he's just he
S2: he would he would he go. Well he'll play another
S2: three years if he if he's there. Yeah. That's what
S2: I mean. He's misses two. £2 million. That's what. That's
S2: 4 million. Yeah. That's what he's. That's probably what he's
S2: worth though to be honest. Well he's the best player
S2: in the world in the Super League. He is. Yeah
S2: yeah yeah. Warrington did that years ago with Joey. They did. Yeah.
S2: And he went over. At the time it was like
S2: uh for ten games, 120 grand or something like getting
S2: 12 grand a game. Yeah. And we all went, what?
S2: We're on two grand a game. Did you see.
S8: His first match over there as well?
S2: Oh, he was.
S8: Just like, just.
S2: On fire.
S8: Like nothing. I think he had.
S2: Him and him and his best was kind of just, um,
S2: so good to watch.
S8: That's another one as well. Is there for the, uh,
S8: 2005 origin when he got brought back, when.
S2: He came back.
S8: Like the club.
S2: Masterclass.
S8: It was.
S2: Just yeah.
S8: Yeah. Even in Newcastle we used to go because I
S8: lived on the Central Coast. Uh, where you went and
S8: finished your career?
S2: Yeah. Yeah.
S8: And we used to, uh, we used to travel to
S8: Newcastle just to watch the Johns Brothers, of course. Marathon stadium.
S8: It was just.
S2: That team in mid 90s was like we went there
S2: as the Western Reds. And it was just I because
S2: I've been there in the late 80s and I hadn't
S2: been back there for a few years. And I went, wow,
S2: look at this place. It's just the marathon stadium packed
S2: to the rafters and, and a really good rugby league
S2: team in their hands.
S8: So much fun. Yeah. Uh, last one, guys from Luke.
S8: If you had to assemble a four by 100 meter
S8: relay team using the absolute fastest players in rugby league history,
S8: who makes your four man squad? What a great question.
S8: Let's build it together. Okay. I'm going to nominate one. Yep. Saab. Yep. Jason.
S8: He's got to be in it by 100.
S2: Okay. In history.
S8: In history.
S2: Martin Offiah.
S8: Yeah well he was going to be one of my
S8: next ones, I reckon. Go for it. Uh, Darren. Albert. Shane. Wherrett.
S2: What about Darren.
S8: Clarke? Where it was so quick you didn't didn't shine
S8: where it beat Martin Offiah.
S2: What about Ryan?
S8: Ryan? Oh, that was him. Sorry. Ryan beat him in
S8: that sprint. Brett.
S2: Dallas. Wow.
S8: Yeah, they're my 4 or 5.
S2: So you'd have a fire up where it.
S8: Saab.
S2: Saab. And he represents modern day yeah.
S8: Darren. Darren Clarke.
S2: Darren Clarke. Well yeah he probably played 2 or 3.
S8: I know but he wasn't was he 100 or. I
S8: thought he was longer than.
S2: 400 I think Tigers. Yeah. So.
S8: Darren Clarke.
S2: Yeah.
S8: Mate. I go past Saab. Did we say where it
S8: where it.
S2: Odin. Ryan and a fire.
S8: Fire. Yeah that's a fair.
S2: Because remember Paris Stadium that time they had a race. Yeah.
S2: And Ryan beat him. Beat him. Mhm, mhm. So there you.
S8: Go. Any other. Is there anyone else? I'm trying. Well,
S8: the only reason I say Darren Albert is remember when
S8: he chased down Matty Sears? Yeah. Well.
S2: But the fox on his day.
S8: Yeah. The fox.
S2: The fox when he was at his best. Just brutal.
S2: Like Look, I'm.
S8: Just trying to think, who are some of the other.
S8: I reckon I reckon we've pretty much nailed it.
S2: Mullins was always fast. Brett Dallas was fast.
S8: Yeah, Dallas was lightning, wasn't he?
S2: Dallas was like, uh. But I think when you're talking
S2: high speed and.
S8: Four by 100 meter relay. Yeah, I reckon we've nailed.
S8: That's a really good one. I don't think we've nailed it.
S2: How many in the game now would score from their
S2: own line for an intercept like run the whole length.
S2: Oh there's there's not that many but.
S8: Kaan Perera.
S2: Oh he's great.
S8: Hammer.
S2: Yeah.
S8: Oh the hammer. He's got a he's got to be
S8: in the four. Yeah. I reckon he's got the hammer over. Yeah.
S8: But I reckon they've got maybe.
S2: Well you can have an on day one you have
S2: a modern day one.
S8: Yeah.
S2: You got, you got hammer.
S8: Looks like he's in second gear and he's just he's
S8: amazing isn't he.
S2: But he lives.
S8: Call me. Well I think it's pretty good there, guys.
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S8: Thanks. I've got to do Saturday and Sunday this week
S8: as well. So thanks for that, piggy. We saw what
S8: happened to poor old James.
S10: James is still in the fetal position.
S8: In the fetal position? Yeah, yeah, he put him in
S8: his place, didn't he? You two were there.
S2: Oh, look at each other going.
S10: What? What?
S8: Hey, guys. Origin live from Suncorp Stadium. You guys are
S8: going to be doing a Mark My Words podcast straight
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