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Katie Woolf spoke with Former Wallaby Tim Horan · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf covering the issues that are
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  Speaker 1: important to you on Nex one O four point nine.
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  Speaker 2: As plenty of you know, I love my sports and
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  Speaker 2: I certainly like it when we've got sporting stars.
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  Speaker 3: Here in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: And my next guest is a former Australian rugby union footballer.
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  Speaker 2: He played for the Queensland Reds in the Super Twelve
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  Speaker 2: and represented Australia. He was one of the best centers
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  Speaker 2: in the world throughout the nineteen nineties and he's joining
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  Speaker 2: us in the studio right now.
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  Speaker 3: Tim Horan, how are.
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  Speaker 1: You, Katie?
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  Speaker 4: Very well, thank you, thanks for having me here in Darwin,
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  Speaker 4: and good to be back. He was here about thirty
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  Speaker 4: months ago, about two years ago, so great to come
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  Speaker 4: back up.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got a role with Santos, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have.
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  Speaker 4: I've been an ambassador for Santos for about nearly ten
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  Speaker 4: years now. So I go to you know, all around Australia.
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  Speaker 4: Got to Narrabry in New South Wales and Ganadara and
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  Speaker 4: Roma and Queensland and Gladson just to and I just
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  Speaker 4: go to the rural communities and go to kids schools
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  Speaker 4: and help them do some coaching clinics with them, but
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  Speaker 4: also just talk to them about healthy eating, healthy lifestyle,
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  Speaker 4: being part of a sporting team or environment and what
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  Speaker 4: I learned playing for the Wallabies Australian rugby union team
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  Speaker 4: for twelve years, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's values and structures and disciplines and things
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been it's been enjoyable and been up here
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  Speaker 4: for last day or two and it's been a bit
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  Speaker 4: of fun.
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  Speaker 3: So you've been to the territory once before? Did you
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  Speaker 3: say many?
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  Speaker 4: A couple of I remember coming up would have been
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  Speaker 4: probably eighteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: We came up and played the Hottest sevens, yeah seven
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  Speaker 1: side to it.
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  Speaker 4: Which was there, going part it twice it was too
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  Speaker 4: hot and didn't want to come back up, but it
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  Speaker 4: great fun. Really enjoyed it and even doing a coaching
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  Speaker 4: clink last night with a lot of the youngsters from
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  Speaker 4: you know, all around sort of different rugby union teams.
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  Speaker 4: We all came together and there's so much support for
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  Speaker 4: the game here which is fantastic and we you know,
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  Speaker 4: as former Wallaby players and I now commentate on TV
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  Speaker 4: for the rugby and we need to try and find
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  Speaker 4: that next Curtly Bill great indigenous boy went to Saint
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  Speaker 4: Joseph's College in Sydney and there's plenty of talent here.
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  Speaker 4: We're just believe we've just got to be able to
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  Speaker 4: try and nurture the talent and bring them through then
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  Speaker 4: also take them back to whether it's the East Coast
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  Speaker 4: of Australia, put them be in program so it gives
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  Speaker 4: them that platform.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so how did the training clinic go yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: And what else have you got on with the school kids?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 4: So I went to Harlemburry yesterday the school we went
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  Speaker 4: to and spoke to the kids there out of the
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  Speaker 4: different programs, the Stars program and the and what what
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  Speaker 4: that was great for it was be able to sort
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  Speaker 4: of talk to the kids about the opportunity that they
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  Speaker 4: have at the school and to be able to grow that.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that, you know, you're so much talent
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  Speaker 4: up here at the school. So doing that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I went and spoke to the Santos team this morning.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just more of going to different schools and
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  Speaker 4: going to Casualina High this afternoon. So just about to
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  Speaker 4: go and talk to the kids about leadership. What I
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  Speaker 4: found in leadership and I was probably just trying to
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  Speaker 4: spread that word of who the Wallabies are, rebunion team,
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  Speaker 4: what rugby is about, and team sport, and I just.
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  Speaker 2: Reckon it's so important too for you know, for kids
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  Speaker 2: that are that way inclined when it comes to sport,
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  Speaker 2: sort of teaching them what sport, what opportunities arise from
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  Speaker 2: sport in different ways, you know, whether you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: it sort of being on a grassroots.
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  Speaker 3: Level where you meeting.
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  Speaker 2: New people, learning what it's like to be part of
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  Speaker 2: a team, or then you know, for those who actually
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  Speaker 2: go away and get to represent the territory or get
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  Speaker 2: to represent different you know, different teams, how exciting it
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  Speaker 2: is and how you get to meet new people and
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  Speaker 2: have different opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I spoke, you know, as I said,
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  Speaker 4: the Stars Foundation and the Clontar Foundation yesterday at the
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  Speaker 4: school was and all the Indigenous kids that were there,
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  Speaker 4: fantastic kids got you know, their eyes are just wide
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  Speaker 4: open about the opportunities that they have. And I'm saying
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  Speaker 4: to them, I don't be shy. I go and go
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  Speaker 4: and play teen sports, going you know and being from
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  Speaker 4: put your hand up to speak in front of people
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  Speaker 4: so they get more confidence in their life.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's the same in team sport.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a team sport, you have to turn up
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  Speaker 4: the training otherwise you're letting other people down. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I played for the Wallabies for about twelve years, traveled
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  Speaker 4: the world, you know, went to Buckingham Palace, met the Queen,
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  Speaker 4: all those things, men Nelson Mandela in South Africa, all
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  Speaker 4: those leaders that you come across in time. You had
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  Speaker 4: the great opportunity to have a chat to Princess Diana
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  Speaker 4: many years ago when she sort of presented our jerseys
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  Speaker 4: prior to a Test in Wales.
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  Speaker 2: So I've ever imagined, like when you're a young kid,
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  Speaker 2: could you have ever imagined that you'd get to have
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  Speaker 2: those kind of opportunities through playing sport?
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  Speaker 1: Not? Not really, No, I mean I grew up in
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  Speaker 1: a place called Timba, so familiar with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I grew up in timber and going to school there,
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  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden then you move to the
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  Speaker 4: Big Smoke in Brisbane and virtually a year out of
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  Speaker 4: school on playing, you know, as a nineteen year old
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  Speaker 4: playing against a side called the All Blacks and they're
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  Speaker 4: doing this harker in front of you and you're don't
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  Speaker 4: really know what's going on. All of a sudden, you're
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  Speaker 4: traveling the world representing your country. Not just I find
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  Speaker 4: it was great, but you were representing not just the
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  Speaker 4: people and friends and family or past players you've played with,
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  Speaker 4: but you're representing people who would one love to play
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  Speaker 4: in an Australian team, but two don't get the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: and they maybe on a tractor in Longridge or they
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  Speaker 4: maybe somewhere in Roma or and you know, listen to
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  Speaker 4: the radio or watch the TV when the Wallabies play.
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  Speaker 4: So that's that's the great feeling we get at it
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  Speaker 4: when we used to play the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what's really fantas tastic, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: the years progress here in the territory is whether you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about rugby union, whether you're talking about league or AFL,
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  Speaker 2: that there's those pathways that are being built now for
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  Speaker 2: kids that do have the talent to be able to
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  Speaker 2: sort of travel away if they need to, or stay
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  Speaker 2: here and try to pursue those sports.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think Ozzie RULs has been great, but that the footage,
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  Speaker 4: those footy codes have done a great jobs. There's so
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  Speaker 4: much talent here and rugby union. You know, we need
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  Speaker 4: to do better. We need to find those you know,
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  Speaker 4: Curtly Bill played HEAPO test matches for the Wallabies, and
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  Speaker 4: I think there's not many. There's probably only been I
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  Speaker 4: think ten or twelve indigenous players that have played for
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  Speaker 4: the Wallaby So we need to find more and find
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  Speaker 4: them around that Orden territory, bring them and put them
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  Speaker 4: in decent programs and give them those opportunities because as
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  Speaker 4: I said, there's a lot of talent. So and then
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  Speaker 4: they get the chance to travel the world. You look
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  Speaker 4: at you know, the Olympics. Hopefully the Olympics are going
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  Speaker 4: to be on later this year. And the Australian women's
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  Speaker 4: sevens team won the gold medal at the last Olympics,
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  Speaker 4: so that the massive expansion of girls playing rugby huge
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  Speaker 4: in other sports in AFL as well, and I was
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  Speaker 4: kicking things, but rugby union women's sevens. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a third or fourth fastest growing sport in the world
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  Speaker 4: now there's so many kids playing it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful see the girls out there. You know, when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, I was only allowed to play touch football.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't I.
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  Speaker 4: Cringe sometimes when they get tackled, and I wouldn't better
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  Speaker 4: take that to the hit. It's great because mums and
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  Speaker 4: dads now get the option. There's so many sports that
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  Speaker 4: they can put their boil girl into. And even last
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  Speaker 4: night at training there was a heap of girls. There's
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  Speaker 4: probably a third that's all sound that was there with girls.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic and great to see. Yeah, yeah, hey, I know
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  Speaker 2: that you. You always enjoy getting to the territory. You're
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  Speaker 2: saying to me all fair that you are very keen
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  Speaker 2: next time you're here to try and catch a barra.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know we've got the one million.
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  Speaker 4: Dollar I saw the sign when I came in. So
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  Speaker 4: I love my barrow fishing. I go all the time,
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  Speaker 4: and I usually goatas at a weeper and bameager and
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  Speaker 4: those sort of places at the top of coinsland. But
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  Speaker 4: I've never fished up here and dar and so I
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  Speaker 4: should have stayed this weekend, but I probably wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: had a wife. After he came back on the Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: I've been here before days, but I'll have to organize
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  Speaker 4: it next. I want to catch a one meter bart.
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  Speaker 4: I've caught three around ninety two to ninety three centimators.
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  Speaker 1: So I need to catch that one meter bat.
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  Speaker 3: He's the place to do it.
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  Speaker 1: About the million dollars, I just want one.
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  Speaker 3: Meter bar one. You've got a busy year this year.
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  Speaker 2: You've just signed on as I understand what you've been
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  Speaker 2: doing work with Fox Sports and Channel nine now as
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  Speaker 2: well as that.
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  Speaker 4: So Fox Sports used to have the rights to the
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  Speaker 4: broadcast rugby Union and now Channel nine will broadcast rugby
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  Speaker 4: Union and also what's called STAN Sports. So a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people at home, have you Netflix and have you
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  Speaker 4: stand so Stan it's about ten dollars a month and
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  Speaker 4: now Stand Sports and extra ten dollars a month for
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  Speaker 4: people to one watch all these different rugby Union games
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  Speaker 4: and also have the opportunity to watch different other.
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  Speaker 1: Sports as well through Stan Sports.
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  Speaker 4: So so Channel line through probably a nine gem will
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  Speaker 4: show a rugby game three to Wear on a Saturday
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  Speaker 4: night of Super Rugby and all the other test matches.
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  Speaker 4: And the great thing about that is it's going to
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  Speaker 4: put more eyeballs on the game, more people watch Free
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  Speaker 4: to Wear, and hopefully more boys and girls you know,
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  Speaker 4: start picking up the rugby ball and playing, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what we're looking forward to. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: think the game of rugby's growing, but it's sort of
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  Speaker 4: there's a few people that may have fallen out of
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  Speaker 4: love with the game.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get them to fall back in love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Well, former Wallaby rugby union legend, I think you'd have
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  Speaker 2: to say. And Santos Ambassador Tim Horan. Lovely to have
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  Speaker 2: you in the studio next morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Katie. Great to be here.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a little present for as well, not that
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  Speaker 4: you can see. It's not great for radio, but he's
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  Speaker 4: a Wallaby jersey for. I know you do a lot
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  Speaker 4: of work with the Approstrate Cancer and you've got some
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  Speaker 4: actions coming up, so i'll sign this Australian Wallaby jersey
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  Speaker 4: for you can add it to your action.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a luncheon coming up for the It's a
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  Speaker 2: Blokes Thing Foundation, so that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I really appreciate having me.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and you are listening to Mix one oh
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  Speaker 2: four point nine's three sixty