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Sean 'Dangerous' Mullany · Talking Shed

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Yo, welcome back to the Talking Shit podcast.
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You're here with Josiah Machu bringing you the latest in
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sports, pop culture and lots of big questions.
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On today's episode, we have a special guest in the shit today.
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Hey. Yeah, bro, got the bro.
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Sean Mullaney, Lenora's finest. What up?
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We're talking about finest. I have a dangerous, dangerous,
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dangerous. Yeah, bro, for the man he's,
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he's just moved out to Gold Coast from Mackay.
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He's playing for the Gold Coast Titans and Tweed Tweed Seagulls.
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Yeah, he's got on here. He's got some good stories, so
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it should be a good one. Should be right.
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Give us a quick general update, man, and then we could kick it
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off with Shawnee. Bro my general update is just on
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my knees because I've just started to play rugby league
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again EH2 getting the seagulls of comeback.
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I don't know why but bro I my knees are actually feeling so
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3830 years old and. Past this past.
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It bro. So yeah, got got.
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We got on my second game today and yeah, we got a good team so
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we should be all good. How do you reckon you guys were
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this year? I reckon we'll go good.
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We got a good team, yeah. Like Ezen won the whole.
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Comp I don't know you never know Billy might drop down the whole
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it's a Queensland Cup that team in next one that we're investing
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Samsung Lumo, but. Oh my general update.
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Same thing man Somehow we both got roped in at the same time.
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So I'm down at Mulund by Mustangs in the Northern Rivers
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comp. So we'll see how that goes for
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the rest of the year. Gun team down there too few boys
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down there as well from Bailey. So you know, hopefully we get we
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get the dub today. Obviously we're kicking off our
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our game this weekend on a on a Sunday, so 2:30 we'll see how
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the. Games are so trashy.
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Oh, it's just the worst thing ever, bro.
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Especially when you got work on Monday.
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You don't know because you don't have work on YouTube.
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Recovery Monday. Recovery Monday.
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But it's crazy. It's like you feel like
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hungover, almost like we wake up and it's just body sore brain
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fog and you have to go to work. It's like, that's how.
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Yeah, honestly, I don't know how to describe it, but the closest
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thing that comes to my mind is like, you feel like death on a
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on a Monday. Yeah, you know, by 100%.
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And it takes you Saturday as well.
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Yeah. You're already thinking about
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Sunday, so yeah. And you can't do anything Friday
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as well, really, because you're not going to be like going out
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doing anything crazy because you're thinking about like for
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get hungover or. Anything weekend gone.
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Well, like we said, man, we've got a special guest in the house
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in the shed today. Big dog Sean Mullaney.
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Yeah, Pucky, pucky, pucky man. Yeah.
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So Sean, just I guess a quick intro on how we met.
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We moved over to Mackay. What 2021?
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21 yeah. COVID, yeah.
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COVID, yeah and almost didn't. Yeah.
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Almost didn't, yeah, because we were missing each other.
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We'd never met each other before, but the bro, the coach
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or someone told us like, no, Sean's going over and you can go
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over together and that kind of thing.
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And COVID was shutting down pretty much every flight that
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was going to Aussie. And then I was thinking, oh,
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bro, maybe we just can it. I was missing you.
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Just dude. He's like, Gee, I'm just going
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to stay until. The season starts, I'm pretty
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sure. I'm pretty sure.
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I said I wasn't coming. And then you're like, no, I'm
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going to the fuck. We better get together.
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Yeah, better get together. Yeah, so we ended up turning up
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to the airport. We had like a big farewell
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party. HP boys.
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Yeah, bro. I remember I was I walked out so
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I didn't cry in front of all my family and stuff.
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And we I was sitting on the other side and Sean come walks
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in. He must be Sean stuff like try
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not to cry into my family. And then we looked over.
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Is that HP boys? But that was crazy.
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But yeah, we moved over crazy time.
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Hey. Crazy time, crazy time and.
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I remember. Then we moved them, flew into
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Makai. You knew what Makai was like
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when you first got there. Hey.
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Yeah, so I've, I've had family there so done a few visits, but
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but being in the city was was cracked.
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Yeah, it wasn't much of it. Because I had, I was, I'd pretty
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much only been to Gold Coast there and Aussie before.
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And so when I was landing, I was kind of thinking, oh, it's not
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gonna be exactly like Gold Coast, but it'll be pretty much
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the same. Like it's gonna be on the beach,
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like it's gonna be like heaps of bars and that kind of thing.
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It's gonna be on. But when I landed I was like, is
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this the connecting town? Tallest building, 4 stories.
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Yeah. And then and then, yeah, we
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pretty much got, we went through a rough when we first got there,
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it was like 3 or 4 weeks of like no accommodation, didn't have
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anywhere to stay really. Yeah.
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So what did you guys end? Up doing hotel, stayed with the
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coach for a bit. True.
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Well, Sean's dead. Try to get us drunk before
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training. And then, yeah, we're from
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there. It's pretty much had the season
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and I need. I was in there for one year.
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Yeah, Sean stayed there. Probably gonna buy a house and
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move back. Yeah, I'll see what happens.
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Hope for me, Hope for me. They like it up there.
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Yeah. Is it good up there?
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Yeah, but I like it. It's once you get used to a
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small town living, it's pretty hard to leave a yeah, even much
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I think would have some things that you miss about it.
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Like, yeah, 100% you don't miss the limited options and yeah,
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you know, swimming with Crocs or you can't swim.
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Yeah, but there's definitely a nice hometown like community
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feel to it. Yeah, but you're not just doing
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the same shit anyway. Like, yeah, to be honest, like
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you, what we do here, you go golf, go to beach, go get on the
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beers with boys, go, same thing, play footy.
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You can do everything there. It's just not as like Bougie.
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Yeah, yeah. And food, really, that's
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probably the biggest one's food. Food.
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Yeah, that's probably a big one. Yeah, right.
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Yeah, it's like, what, grazing goat?
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What other cafes? All right, Oregon Burger Edge is
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probably like, yeah, that's the top.
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Yeah, that's where the coach took us.
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The top. Yeah, he's like, bro, that's the
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best. Place it was just the normal
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burger. What, like an off brand of
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grilled? Yeah, pretty much.
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It pretty much is. But so where are you originally
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from, Becca? I originally from West Auckland,
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so I grew up in Massey, but I've done my school in Avondale.
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Glen Eden played for Glenora growing up, so yeah, yeah, I
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spent my time traveling around, so way out, like Green Bay,
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Para, yeah, Massey, Avondale, kind of all around West
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Auckland, but die hard West. Yeah, that's mad.
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That's mad. And like what, what really
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pulled you over to Australia in the end?
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Like, were you here before the COVID years as well or no that
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was the first time you've you've moved over?
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Yeah, so I come over when I was I was 16 or 17 after played
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nationals comp for school, got picked up with Avondale and then
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played under seventeens Akarana nationals comp.
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And that's when they kind of said, oh, we want you to come
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over last year, 20s as last year, the Holden Cup, like have
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a crack, see if you can make it. Like the last, the last year
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that that. Yeah.
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So that was 2017. Well, that.
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Was lucky you got to do that. Yeah, so I went over when I was
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17, but I still remember first night in Townsville, similar to
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Macaya, a very similar thing. And you come from Auckland?
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Yeah, flying. Everything is just brown.
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I remember just sitting in the hotel saying to my mum, what the
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fuck are you doing here? But there's no way I've just
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left my misses. I've done all this to come here
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and then, you know, moving over the homestay at 17 is crazy it.
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Is, yeah. They've already had a family,
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like I've got some good stories too, so.
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You're only running if you can bomb the toilet or not or.
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Yeah, I'll, I'll get my best. I'll get my best.
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So I moved in with the welfare manager, who's legend like,
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yeah, Kevin Marty has probably had a massive influence on my
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career. Of the Cowboys.
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Of the Cowboys, yeah. So he was there since 95 where
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he's housed some legends in that house.
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Yeah. So I've gone in there.
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That That was sweet. They've done it before.
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Yeah. My best story is probably a year
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into my 2 year stay. The the mum.
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So Julie, Kevin's wife, her mum ended up coming in and she had
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real severe dementia. So every morning had to
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reintroduce myself. That crazy.
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Yeah. So like Kevin, he's a, he's a
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funny bastard to head. Like he'd stitched me up and
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just give me a new name every day.
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Or like my best story, man, this is one of the funniest.
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So I've got up at night and I'm like, you know how you are.
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We need to go for a pissing out. And because there's probably 5
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or 6 people in the house, the toilet next to my, my room was,
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was blocked. So I was like, knock it out all
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sweet. I'll go to the next one bro.
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I'll go down, open the door bro. I'll just hear her scream.
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Oh, my God, She's sitting on the toilet and bro, because someone
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with dementia does this shit all the time.
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Yeah. I run back to my room and then I
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hear Kevin, shut the fuck up. No one's here.
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And I'm just sitting a bit of my eyes closed.
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And then, oh, I had to wake up the next morning, be like, fuck,
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sorry, there was someone that was me, bro, because she's, she
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wouldn't Remember Me from the night before.
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She goes, bro, there's an intruder in the house.
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There's an intruder in the house.
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Kevin's going. There's no fucking hell, that's
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that's the story that really sticks out for me.
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Bro. That's correct.
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Moving into like a new place and you have those moments like
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that's what makes it harder. Yeah, very like and again, like
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seeing it very such a cruel disease, man, I don't wish that
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through anyone, but they did make some lot of it.
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Like, I guess that's all you can do at that point.
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But yeah, man, I was, I was pretty blessed to move in with a
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family like that for two years. It made it made it really easy
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to transition. Just just to throw it back,
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because I remember you saying back in the day, in your Glenora
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days, you guys had like a stat team, eh?
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Who was like The Who was like the gun gun boys when you were
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growing up were playing games. Who was like, well, that's going
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to be the next Greg English. Who do you reckon you ought to
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choose? One dude, it's too.
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Many a I was thinking about on the way here, you know, you talk
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about guys that never made it. Yeah.
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One that always comes to me was you might know Mike Williams.
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Oh, yeah, bro. One of the most aggressive,
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aggressive runners I've ever seen.
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Yeah, like wants to hurt you and he's running the ball.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I come up to a good,
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good grade. Like we always had a rival with
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Richmond, which is like, you know, Chanel Harris, Tavita,
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Dylan Tavita, who's a gun to Hazel Cassini, who's a gun as
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well, Swana Hufanga. He's another one that never made
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it if you know him. He was in the Warriors though as
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well. Yeah, bro, mad bloke, you know,
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he's such a good lad and just very, like you said, you don't
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know what people were going through at the time.
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Like you can go through a rough patch or, you know, lose a
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family member, you don't have that support system and that's
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it. Like you fall off the map so.
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But but also it's like when you said you when you moved to
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Townsville bro, to play good footy while you're moved out of
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your comfort zone, that kind of thing.
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That is not to be said as well. That's hard.
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I'm struggling with it now, bro. Yeah, but even moving down here,
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I almost feel like a shadow of the player I've been in
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Macquarie just kind of learning the ropes, yeah.
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Even being an allocation player coming back, you're not with the
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team the whole week, so that's tough, but.
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You don't get time to build combinations and stuff like that
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when you're like they're saying it's.
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So hard, bro, like, and you don't want to be a ratchet guy
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and come back and you take someone's spot who's been there
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the whole time, but now by coming through Caleb Clark.
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Was playing Richmond. Did he play Richmond?
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So this he must have been OP. I think he's just coming for.
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The. Grandfather segues to another
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story that's you might have heard, I don't know.
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So this is under 16 GF at Mount Smart and Richmond rolled up in
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the east Fight Club bus 88. No way.
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Yeah. So they rolled up in that little
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bit connections. I don't know.
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I don't know, Megan. What?
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You so stacks are oh, it's in there.
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None of the total as well. He was in that in that grade,
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Yeah, in that Richmond thing. No, no, he played for other who
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at the time he was. But yeah, so we played that game
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and I don't even know what happened.
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It happened so quick, but I think we were losing by like 6
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points and then I'll turn around and I think one of our trainers
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must have pushed a kid over or something.
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Very dark. The whole crowd has come onto
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the field, like massive brawl. Meanwhile there's like
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headhunters connections, I don't know where.
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Yeah, yeah. The whole ADH bus came or
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whatever. My pops up in the corner filming
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on the handicap. I'm probably like the one of two
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white boys in the whole crowd. Very the whole crowd.
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Come on, the ref stops everything.
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Doesn't know what to do and I don't even know what happened,
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but we all got escorted by police up into our locker.
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We had to get a police escort out of the ground.
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Did the game finish the? Game was over.
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No one won the grand final, just police choppers overhead.
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What? Right?
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This is crazy. I said there were police on
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site. From the get go they were.
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They were. I think they were close.
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I don't know what. Happened.
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They must have. Followed the part yeah.
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I don't know what happened, but game called off police choppers
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overhead, police escort out of the ground to the car park.
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Yeah, crazy. I've never heard of anything
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like that. I don't know.
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Well, we've been losing, so I'll take it as I'll take it as a
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draw. But yeah, that was one of the
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crazier moments from that, I guess, Glenora Richmond rivalry
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that we had so. I feel like I've never ever
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heard of that story. I only heard of it because this
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dude told me that. That sounds crazy I feel.
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Like they'd never aired on news or anything.
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No, I spoke, but like, bro, I don't know, a trainer kind of
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punching all the young fell out of it again.
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I didn't see it. I don't want to speculate that.
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Allegedly crazy. Yeah, Allegedly, Allegedly,
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allegedly, allegedly. Bro, just going back on before
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you said you're an allocation player.
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Yeah, right now, like just for the average listener or sports
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fan who doesn't really know what that means, like can you explain
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that a little bit? I will explain actually because
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it gets really annoying when someone goes oh what do you do?
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And you go play for the Titans. Oh, why don't you play for
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Titans then? Why do you play for Tweed?
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Yeah, so I guess I'll explain it for the average footy fan that
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doesn't know. So if you're not in the 17 of a
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36 man squad that week, you're going back and you're playing
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for your allocated team. So each club might have two or
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three feet of clubs that pull into the NRL club.
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So for us at the Titans it's Ipswich and Tweed.
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So if you're not playing in that 17 that week, you're getting
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dropped back to that team and I apply a trade and do we need to
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get into the NRL side? So it can be really hard because
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you're there for maybe captains, right?
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So one training session a week and it's really hard to get any
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fluidity or combos with the lads that are full time in those
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clubs. So I've been on both sides of
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it. I've seen guys that come back
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and kind of, you know, drag their feet, hang their lip like
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you would have seen it as well. But yeah, but Kai, it was, it
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was really hard on the Cowboys boys because they had to fly in.
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They're like they're flying for captain's run, staying next to
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the airport, come and try having one training with us, try and
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get some kind of combination. And then we'd be flying out the
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next day. And yeah, so it's, it's tough.
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Anybody who's played footy knows how like important the cultures
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and team bond like, and it's so hard to get that unless you're
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on like an away trip where they get to stay down with you.
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But yeah, Barrett's hard and like, I think some points they
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were driving. And that's crazy.
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Which is like a four hour drive bro.
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Yeah, I think I remember that. Yeah, so I guess people talk
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about the lifestyle of footy players and how good it is, but
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it'd be tough when you look at their rosters and you know how
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much it changes. It's not like a nine to five
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where you, you know, you've got this much time allocated to
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yourself. You just don't don't have that.
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So and then you have boys that will travel with an NRL squad,
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come straight back and then they're playing Cup as well.
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So it's there's definitely a lot that goes into it behind the
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scenes that a lot of fans don't don't see.
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I reckon with that situation, if you're a middle forward or
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something and your job is just to be tackle and run hard kind
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of thing, it's a little bit easier.
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But when you're like someone in the spine like Hooker 13, I mean
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half full back in there, it's pretty hard.
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Yeah, it's hard, bro. It is hard, especially to get a
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connection with the outside guys.
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But yeah, if you are a middle year, you should be pretty up
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and down, like make your tackles, make your runs.
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But it's still hard to pay for a team that you know, you might
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not have that the connection with or understand the coach and
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things like that. So definitely a hard, hard thing
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to for me to adjust to this year.
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And it's it's been good reflecting and seeing the guys
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that have done it before me and understanding now how hard it is
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to do so. Yeah, and Next up, just bro,
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probably one of the biggest achievements of your life at the
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moment when you made your Gold Coast Titans debut in our debut
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I'm. Man fucking.
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Punchy. Yeah, Ches voice.
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Appreciate that. Bro like when I when I found out
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about that I was I was so crazy. I was thinking cuz just cuz I
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know how hard you work as well. What was your kind of first
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thoughts? Did you when you first moved
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down to Gold Coast, did you think it was possible?
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Because if you had to compare it to when we moved to Mackay, we
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weren't really thinking we were going to play NRA anytime soon.
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But obviously you'd be talking to Titans and stuff coming down
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here. Did you think it was actually
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going to be a possibility this year?
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Yeah, I did, which is probably the reason I come here.
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Yeah, I did have a few offers, similar deals, other clubs, but
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just the depth I think at Titans was what attracted me to come
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here. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, we've got Sam Beryl's there and Chris Randall who are
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great players and that, but I just know like injuries happen
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in footy and I know that I didn't have that third string.
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So I've kind of come down with the hope, like I just work hard,
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do my thing and hopefully an opportunity will come.
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Brand it did. It happened way earlier than I
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thought. Again, a lot for the average
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listener. I'm on a train trial contract,
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so I'm not actually available to play until after round 11 and
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less injury happens. Yeah.
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So the only reason I could play that one game is because
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Sandrails was injured. So I got in there true through
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that but. Is it just one injury?
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Or does it has to be? So if I'm a hooker, yeah, it has
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to happen to a hooker, right? Like a winger can't get injured
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and then I can come in and fill in, right?
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So because it happened to a hooker and we only had one more
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who could start, Yeah, they applied for me to come on the
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bench. Right, which is until round 11
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and then it's. And then it's free game.
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Yeah, free game, but bro, it was tough because our last last
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round of last year done by MCL, which is if anyone's done at MCL
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usually like rehab, yeah. Probably just done his what a
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year ago? Yeah, yeah.
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Or rehab. I can go 4 to 12 weeks depending
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on the grading bar where I done mine, like which is distal far
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away from blood flow, like full rupture.
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So yeah, I had to get Rico on it.
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Yeah. So full surgery.
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All right, That's I'm still like struggling with that now.
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But so for preseason I was out until I wasn't doing any footy
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stuff until maybe just before Christie Barrett.
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So. So you signed during the season?
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Yeah. And then last game, Daniel even
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signed. Actually I didn't sign because,
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you know, I'm late to everything.
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So the contract was on the table for a while.
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Yeah. And I just hadn't signed it.
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Yeah, just saying that what was going to unfold any other clubs
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and that I was playing pretty good footy last year.
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Then Daniel, you saw the quickly.
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Signed, yeah. Well, actually, bro, I called
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the recruitment manager. I was like, bro, I don't want to
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put you in the shit. Like I'll be honest, I'm just on
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my knee. And he was pretty good that it
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went back like, you know, crossed TS out of the eyes.
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You must. Have been shitting it.
19:13
Oh, I was all right, bro. I'll get I'll get to it later.
19:15
Why? But he, he kind of said, no, no,
19:18
we're still sweet to have you go get the surgery and we'll work
19:21
on it from there. So I went and got got surgery
19:26
couldn't work. I was working the mines at the
19:29
at the time. Oh yeah, so very like.
19:31
Bro actually touched on that for a bit because you guys, some of
19:34
the boys in Makai are putting in the mahia those.
19:36
Yeah, I'll be honest, most of them are working under me
19:38
because because I got them the job.
19:40
So. So Bailey Gill, Mitch Fogarty,
19:43
you just don't work. Hard get back to work if you're
19:46
listening to this. No, but working up in the mines
19:50
that's we're actually in the terminal, so not where they do
19:53
all the, you know, getting the coal out of the ground where
19:55
where they're giving it to the ships.
19:57
But our main money for getting to go home every night.
20:00
But we were in there from 5:30 to 4:00, maybe 6 depending.
20:05
Yeah, sometimes night shift, like go from a game straight
20:07
there, 12 hour shifts. And then training on top of
20:09
there, training on top of that. Yeah bro.
20:11
So like for me, my standard training day would look like out
20:15
of the house 430 get home at 8:00.
20:19
So you know the stress that puts on me, but like my part.
20:21
You're part well, you're not doing any washing.
20:23
Then Nah, that's tough. I'm not doing that never.
20:27
But yeah, so the back end, I think I was in macaw probably
20:30
two months not working, grinding mad and hard.
20:34
I've probably spent $1000 on pass but yeah, that was tough
20:41
for her coming. So coming off no training
20:43
straight into NRL pre season, yeah, done that.
20:47
So I wasn't back in the footy until just before Chrissy, Yeah.
20:51
And I ended up getting rushed back just because of injuries
20:55
and you need people on the paddock.
20:57
But also you would have been like, I kind of wanna.
20:59
Yeah, you're keen to keen to show out and show what I can do.
21:01
Yeah. First, we can fully rupture my
21:04
court, so out for eight weeks. But what's that feeling?
21:08
Cuz I've done it before as well. When you first come back from
21:10
injury and you get injured straight away and you're like, I
21:12
don't wanna tell these dudes I'm injured to keep bro.
21:15
But I just, I remember you said, too, you said when you get to
21:18
25, that's when things start going.
21:22
The hangovers go longer. Your knees are sorer.
21:25
But yeah, so I've done that. And I was just like, fuck, I
21:28
can't catch a break here. Yeah.
21:30
And it's been one of those years for me very long.
21:31
It's been tough but I've come back from the quad, played like
21:36
2 games a cup and then bro got the call up to NRL so wow after.
21:40
Two games, yeah. Severely underdone, but like,
21:42
bro, that's my dream. Like so yeah, even just to have
21:44
one game. Yeah, bro, happy as with that
21:47
and like to go go back on the why.
21:49
I wasn't too stressed about that contract, bro.
21:52
I was. I was really just giving up last
21:54
year, like oh, shut up. Well, we've probably spoken
21:57
about it as well, like, right. How long do you keep going?
22:00
Yeah, especially with like the head.
22:02
Yeah. And all the things that are
22:03
coming out of your head. I'm pretty aware of that now.
22:05
Yeah. And I want to be able to live in
22:06
life post footy that as and they representative of me like being
22:13
so active and healthy and I want kids one day and be able to
22:16
spend time with them. Gonna be Antonio Brown out?
22:20
There, bro. Out the gate, yeah.
22:23
That's a that's a, that's a very good point.
22:25
And like when, when to call it. But but even for boys that are
22:28
like playing a grade and that kind of thing as well because of
22:31
the, you have those same risk of like really doing your knee bad
22:35
and you're limping around with your kids all day.
22:37
But when do you actually call call it?
22:40
Because bro, at 30 I'm thinking now I'm dancing with the devil a
22:43
little bit. Right.
22:45
I think, I think about that now like there's a few times that at
22:50
the Cutters who they do have health insurance, but I'll play
22:54
the game in Rocky and knocked out my 2 front teeth and the
22:58
other four were loose and that they were loose.
23:02
Bro and those are my good ones as well.
23:04
And bro, to do that at Rocky at night, I've gone to the
23:07
hospital, they go fuck. Sorry, bro, we don't got a, we
23:10
don't got an emergency dentist. We're just gonna give you this
23:12
piece of tinfoil and you're gonna have to use your tongue to
23:14
press it up until Monday. So that put a piece of like
23:18
tinfoil on those. Holes like from where?
23:21
They they were hanging bro. They were like two or three mil
23:23
my teeth and I had to like use my tongue to push my teeth into
23:28
the gums for like 48 hours before I could see a dentist.
23:32
What crazy? Boy, that's insane.
23:34
Yeah, so and when I should? Have flown you out.
23:38
It was the timing, It was the. Time.
23:39
It would have been the nerve damage too.
23:41
You would. Have been fired I think so when
23:43
I got back we were talking about like getting your teeth done and
23:47
that's expensive as fuck. The veneers, yeah.
23:50
And I said I. See from down bar.
23:53
We're A2 in one Turkey trip get my hairline sorted, but but I
23:58
ended up talking to the CEO at cutters and I was like right,
24:01
you you just got me A and they're like oh, we don't really
24:04
know I said fuck he's better got me so I seen the bill it's like
24:08
very for my 1 crown. It was like 10 grand.
24:10
Yeah, yeah. So oh, straight up go for one.
24:12
Yeah. And the rest of them are
24:13
covered, so I'll probably get them done later, but.
24:16
Like so like it is still a business and like they're
24:19
thinking what's the cost and benefit for everything?
24:22
It's not just like now. Are you saying that the
24:24
insurance wouldn't cover that? No, it wouldn't cover my teeth
24:28
for that price, but because I claimed it as I've done it on
24:31
the job you did though, because semi professional work cover
24:34
ended up coming and doing it. But the segue and the matches
24:37
point some of that shit you do in a grade.
24:40
Yeah, bro, yes, you're on your yeah you are.
24:42
But and not only can you not play a footy to make matches,
24:45
you can't work. So it's not $1000 a week swing,
24:49
it's 2000 because you're not getting money and then you're
24:52
still paying your bills. So that's the only thing as you
24:55
get older, you've got to weigh up.
24:56
Yeah, I understand. And I think back to where my dad
24:59
played bro, he played until he was 40 and that was just the
25:03
normal and now dad's generation which they just kept playing.
25:07
And why did they keep playing? Cuz my dad was getting injured
25:09
at all. He didn't even make on and I was
25:11
talking. I was talking to someone about
25:12
it the other day. Like, bro, in 1910, you know
25:16
you're playing Carlisle Park, New Zealand.
25:17
Yeah, you do your ACL then what? Yeah.
25:21
Do they even know what ACL is back then?
25:23
Bro I know those. Are just your needs.
25:25
Were SUS as well. Very.
25:27
Very like times have changed, though.
25:29
It's crazy. Yeah.
25:30
You just, you got to imagine what some of them players done
25:32
back in the day, like, yeah, because ACL is not new.
25:35
No, the surgery might be, but those injuries aren't new.
25:37
So. Yeah.
25:38
Yeah, that's a good point, bro. What?
25:40
So what age were you when you made your debut?
25:42
25 SI turned 26 this year and it's 25 S so.
25:47
Segue into that is is for the next question is kind of like,
25:51
yeah, what point do you think, you know, you you kind of not
25:54
give up on the dream, but it's like as you start to doubt
25:57
yourself, you know, and be like, oh, you know, is this really for
25:59
me? Yeah, So I'm going back to.
26:01
I had a coffee date with my missus while, you know, I was
26:04
sitting at home. Like that was my big thing.
26:05
Yeah, when I was injured, going out for a coffee, Like that's
26:07
the best part of the day. Yeah.
26:08
And she kind of said to me, like, fuck, what do you got to
26:10
lose at the end of the day? You can come back and get in the
26:14
minds and I was like, yeah, fuck, that's so true.
26:16
Just go give it a crack. It's a couple years of your
26:18
life. Yeah, it's anything you're
26:20
learning anyway. So I think that a time you're
26:23
ready to give up just when you're ready, when I come down
26:26
here, first two months of living in Burley with a father called
26:29
Brock Gray. I don't know if you've seen him,
26:30
Is that Titans, right? He debuted when he was 28.
26:33
Round one this year. Straight, He must be one of the
26:35
latest. Yeah, one of the latest I
26:36
reckon. Yeah, it must be.
26:37
Yeah, but. Yeah.
26:38
And then another one of the latest was Andrew Davey, who
26:41
played at the Cutters. Oh yeah, until he's, I think he
26:44
debuted when he was 29. Yeah, he was gun on fantasy.
26:47
I picked the Yeah Yeah gun. Was he man?
26:50
Manly? Yeah.
26:50
Manly, yeah. He started off with Mackay
26:52
though. Oh, so he's at the Titans now?
26:53
No. No, no, sorry.
26:54
He was. I think he played at Para last,
26:57
but he debuted when he was 29, which is crazy.
27:00
But Barry, there's so many good players jumping around at the
27:02
moment and I think it's changing because of COVID.
27:06
There's a two or three-year gap where players are
27:08
underdeveloped. That's a good point.
27:10
That's a good point. And it's the same with
27:11
basketball and NBA and that kind of thing and everywhere and
27:14
sports is there was such a big gap where people we weren't
27:18
training or playing as much and so like we kind of got stuffed
27:22
over. Yeah, 100%.
27:24
Yeah, Rob, I would have. Debuted at 28.
27:26
Yeah. Well, you think about like how
27:29
guys get into the NRL, man, a lot of it's like just luck.
27:32
Like I don't want to, I don't want to undermine hard work and
27:35
things like that, sacrifices, but right, even for me, like,
27:38
yeah, if there was doesn't get injured, I don't play.
27:40
Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, and so much of it's luck
27:43
even that like you fall into systems where you get to develop
27:45
better than other players. Yeah.
27:49
There's a book called Outliers. I don't know if you've read it.
27:51
No. And they talk about, and it
27:52
would be the same for us back home and open Division.
27:55
Like if you're born in January versus someone who's born in
27:58
November, yeah, under fifteens, that is a massive development
28:02
curve. It is.
28:02
A 14 year old compared to a 15 year old as master.
28:04
Especially when you're a 14 year old European playing against a
28:08
16 year old some more like that's massive.
28:11
And then as soon as they get picked up, they're already
28:15
getting better development. Yeah, exactly.
28:17
And playing your team, yeah, you're behind the apple.
28:19
So people don't factor in luck as much as it should be.
28:22
Because it sounds like it sounds cool, like Corny did, but it's a
28:25
little bit lucky. Yeah, we try to romanticize
28:28
athletes and their stories, but fuck, man, there's so many guys
28:31
that have caught just the bad into the stick that never made
28:34
it, and then guys are just gonna dream, run and going to kill it.
28:37
So if you score three tries at a Nationals game and that's back
28:41
in NZ, you're probably getting a three-year contract.
28:43
I've seen it. I've seen it happen, bro.
28:44
I've seen one person run one good line.
28:47
Bang sign, sign. Yeah, that happens that quick.
28:49
Yeah. So, yeah, never wanna undermine
28:52
hard work because it definitely has a place, Yeah.
28:56
But yeah, luck is a massive factor and that's why I say it
29:00
is a privilege to be an Arrow player.
29:02
I see because there are such good players running around in
29:05
cup and even local league, yeah, that could be in that position
29:09
if they were afforded the same opportunities as some of the
29:12
other players that made. It quick quick shout out for who
29:14
do you reckon as someone that either didn't get to debut in
29:18
like Queensland Cup or is currently there right now in
29:21
your guy's opinion? Yeah, I'll hear yours first.
29:23
I'm interested. Bro, I reckon Jack a Hernay,
29:27
yeah, he he might have played NRL but bro, I reckon he should
29:30
have played more. I remember when we played him in
29:32
the Cutters. This is a hot take.
29:33
If he didn't have a baldy, he debuts.
29:36
I'm serious. If he if he had like a nice like
29:39
0 fade in a good box. Here, I think he's older than he
29:42
is. Yeah, he's had that baldy for
29:43
years. Yeah, or even just the head
29:45
gear. A just.
29:46
The headgear. Just the headgear.
29:47
Just Chuck it on man. But I remember when we played
29:49
him in Makai and he carved us, I was thinking that was this dude
29:51
not playing in the NRL. True, he's like, it's a slick
29:53
baldy too. It's a.
29:54
Good Baldy. I'm on the way out.
29:58
If I can look like that, I'm happy.
29:59
But but like, he got caught in the wrong era, bro.
30:02
Like now, Yeah. Now they're taking on training
30:05
trolls that are older. Yeah.
30:07
Because they're ready to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:09
Instead of getting an 18 year old that might turn into
30:12
something. Yeah.
30:13
When instead of getting guy who's ready to go right now.
30:15
So again bro, he talked about luck.
30:18
Yeah, and how long do you have to carve and QQ cup to actually
30:21
get? Trey.
30:22
Fuller, Yeah, Trey Fuller. Like he just come in the right
30:25
time where small fullbacks are making a comeback.
30:28
Before that you had to be 6, four run like GI.
30:31
Like how many years of an NRL career did he miss out on?
30:33
Yeah, just because. Right.
30:35
He should have been picked up way early, yeah, 100% even like
30:38
Sam Costa from Bailey, yeah, but he should have been playing NRL
30:41
like we'd play NRL players when we were barely and bro, he's
30:46
carving them up like and. Then you have like, what is he?
30:49
Is he a tradie? What is he?
30:51
Yeah, I think he's like a builder.
30:52
Yeah, so he probably got good money, got kids now, bro.
30:55
He can't afford to go back to a trade shop.
30:56
It's too. Much of A risk, yeah.
30:59
Yeah, you talk about all those things that factor into being a
31:01
pro athlete. I've got no strings attached
31:03
right now, so it's okay for me. Yeah, yeah.
31:05
But man, there's so many guys that I know get offered those
31:09
opportunities. They just, they can't afford to
31:10
take them. They got a mortgage, kids, stuff
31:12
like that. So it's hard.
31:14
What? What would you guys reckon
31:15
Because I saw this TikTok or you guys any have any other people
31:18
you wanna shut up? Yeah, I do, actually.
31:20
Yeah. No, Probably the same mold as
31:24
Trey Fuller, as Ray Burns. Yeah, you would have played with
31:26
him. Mackay.
31:27
Gunman. Such for his size, man.
31:29
Pound for pound, so strong. Just that's what I was gonna
31:31
say. He's like, he might be small,
31:33
but Ray, he's actually like. Strong.
31:34
Yeah, super strong. Just if you watch any of his
31:37
tape, Ray, he's just a freak. Yeah, Smithy again.
31:40
Cutters. He's killing it this year.
31:43
He'll have an opportunity very soon, I'm I'm sure.
31:47
Yeah. But you can go around any Cup
31:48
team and name at least one or two, yeah, that could slot
31:50
straight in and do a job. So yeah.
31:52
I reckon actually from burning on that Maddie Connor bro, he'll
31:55
I. Reckon he's a good one.
31:56
Yeah, he's, that's a good one. Maddie Connor's on the on the
31:59
same bro. And I reckon yeah, yeah, he
32:01
deserves a, you know, at some point in his career.
32:03
A shot, yeah. Shot, bro.
32:04
Yeah, he's a yeah. He's a bit of a freak in the
32:06
middle. And I'm glad that's changing
32:08
too. I hope a lot of older guys get
32:09
to debut Yeah the next few years because.
32:11
Just play the best players but it doesn't always matter about
32:14
development. I don't care about 1819 year
32:16
olds to be honest. Honestly.
32:17
Saying I think recruitment managers have an ego problem,
32:20
they've got to be the next. That's a good.
32:22
Point. I've got to find them.
32:24
I've got. To find them, yeah.
32:27
They wanna be the one that's acknowledged for a day.
32:30
Yeah, he's still working. Now I'm just gonna say it.
32:34
So Peter O'Sullivan, you've probably heard of him.
32:36
Like the guru, Like. Yeah, right.
32:37
Say, I found Roger to leave us a chicken.
32:39
If you do, everyone's seen him. You just got him.
32:43
Yeah, Like, I've spoken to other people.
32:45
Very. He was the only one anyone was
32:47
looking at. You just got him?
32:48
Yeah, let's be real. I found I found Roger wasn't the
32:52
generation for. Stevie Wonder could have found
32:54
Roger. Yeah, on, on that, bro, You
32:59
know, because to your point about, you know, play people if
33:02
they're good enough to play, right?
33:03
Like not about it's not always about development.
33:05
Like I actually came across the clip recently and they'll talk
33:07
it was about the Rugby World Cup, the last one, and they're
33:10
talking about South Africa versus the ABS in the grand
33:13
fawn, right? Yeah, or the World Cup.
33:15
And they're debating whether or not to in the next World Cup to
33:19
play younger players so that they're developed.
33:21
New Zealand, New Zealand. So this is Sunny Bull actually
33:23
that that said this and he was saying he didn't like that.
33:26
He said just play the players that are ready now.
33:29
Yeah, and it made sense because then I did some research and I
33:31
looked at South Africas team and all of them, but two were over
33:35
the age of 28 straight up over the age of 28 in the starting
33:38
lineup. So that just makes, so that just
33:40
makes me think I'm just like, they're playing players that are
33:43
ready right now. And then the ABS, on the other
33:45
hand, they had everyone but six who were over the age of 28.
33:49
So there's still a contrast that, you know what I mean?
33:50
Like, so I am a fan of that point.
33:53
I'm just like, bro, play the players that are ready right
33:55
now. You know, the players are going
33:56
to develop anyway, you know, behind the scenes.
33:59
So, yeah, just to add to that, yeah.
34:01
Because you can just miss your chance if you're a year or two
34:04
years too late. Like even some of the boys in
34:06
the Super Rugby that are killing it, Yeah, like Sean Stevenson
34:09
example now killing it in Super Rugby.
34:12
But for some reason it keeps missing out on All Blacks
34:14
because they have like a thing where they have the Will Smith
34:18
or Will Jordan and all those gun dudes that have been there for a
34:20
bit and then these new young dudes, like where do you slot
34:23
there? Those dudes that are killing it
34:25
right now? And.
34:25
Yeah, it's too. It's hard, bro.
34:26
It's really hard to play around with it.
34:28
Yeah, but yeah, I actually had another question as well.
34:31
I saw this TikTok and it was like this dude that did training
34:35
and like nutrition for heaps of D1 college athletes and he was
34:38
saying yeah one eating, eating well and like doing all the one
34:44
percenters and stuff is really good.
34:46
But if you look at college athletes, the ones that do all
34:51
the one percenters right are usually D2 players.
34:54
Like the D1 players actually don't care about that stuff as
34:58
much. It's interesting.
34:59
I reckon it's just what do. What's your guys opinion on like
35:02
1 percenters? Like do you reckon it's it's
35:06
like essential or for some people, maybe it's essential,
35:09
some people it's not? Or do you think that it's it's
35:11
overhyped? Because personally, I reckon
35:14
that's a bit overhyped day. Are you saying that 1% is though
35:16
in this case would be things like, you know, nutrition?
35:19
Yeah, like eating, not eating McDonald's, getting the right
35:22
amount of sleep, not drinking, that kind of thing.
35:26
What do you what do you guys reckon on that?
35:28
Odd. Probably our Shawnee cuz he's a
35:31
no you can't. I think we're, if we got this,
35:33
we got similar stories, I'm sure.
35:34
Yeah, I reckon, though from from my experience, all the best
35:38
rugby league players I've played with puss heads Yeah, but and
35:42
then they they go out, they go out hard out, they play, they
35:46
play, they eat bad. They like lots of them pussy or
35:50
like not not just puss heads, sorry, but like just more on the
35:55
other side than. Good.
35:56
Yeah, they probably like Brian Toolbar, the story.
36:00
You hear the stories about him and I've seen a post, I think 5.
36:04
Folks, and for breakfast. Did you see, though, that he was
36:06
given like, I think it was like 30 boxes of like the 20
36:09
something, I think, And he finished it in two months.
36:12
I was like, bro, you're you're, you're a freak.
36:15
Equals out to like 12 cans a day.
36:17
Yeah, like crazy. You're a freak.
36:18
And then like DK Mecca from who? Who's like the almost made the
36:23
Olympics for sprinting. Yeah, and he's the one of the
36:25
best wide receivers in the NFL and his diet is pretty much 2
36:28
bags of lollies and a coffee. Michael Phelps diet, Yeah,
36:32
10,000 calories. Obviously he's working it off,
36:34
but like he's eating pizzas and that every day just to burn it.
36:36
That's actually a good point. My take on it would be I don't
36:40
reckon diet actually matters that much.
36:41
I reckon as long as you train hard, it's sweet.
36:44
Yeah, all those dudes still train hard.
36:45
Yeah. And you watch them, when they
36:46
finish, they blow out. Yeah, Like, yeah, while you're
36:48
in that environment where you you can't out eat.
36:52
Yeah. How much you're training?
36:53
You're training. Yeah, Yeah.
36:54
Yeah. So, but yeah, for me, whereas
36:57
American sports a little bit different, I think they're a bit
36:59
ahead of us with the athletes. Just like in terms of natural
37:02
talent. Yeah, so for me, if I'm not
37:05
doing the one percentage, there's no way I'm in an NRL
37:07
system. Yeah like bro, I'm not an
37:09
athlete at all. Like if you're talking numbers,
37:11
I'm just not well, what's? Your combine, your combine.
37:15
It's like jumping off the table. Bro, this is actually, this is
37:18
another Sego but and this is someone who if I didn't meet
37:21
him, there's no way I would have even played cop or anything like
37:24
that. And I don't know if you remember
37:25
Spidercade, no from Auckland, they used to run around with the
37:28
Orange Wings like rugby league development.
37:31
You might know him, but if you go through some of the players
37:33
that have been through him by legends.
37:36
So he what's? What's his name?
37:38
Steve Roberts yeah, Cuz engineering.
37:40
Yeah, yeah, he was the. He was the dude that looked
37:42
after the moulding. Pacifica.
37:44
Yeah. Engineering students.
37:45
Yeah. And so you brought him all you
37:46
all was like what the. Heck yeah.
37:47
So his background is audited. College.
37:50
Played baseball growing up, went over to Saint Mary's,
37:53
California, D1, played there, done his thing.
37:56
And then he went on to the Phillies and a few other MLB
37:59
teams as a scout. Wow.
38:00
So he's been around anyway, came back, wanted to give back rugby
38:03
league, not a rugby league catch, but he's doesn't really
38:07
know much about rugby league, but he understands athletes.
38:10
Athletes. Yeah, So I remember my mum.
38:15
So actually this Rabbitohs fellow came up to me one day.
38:17
He said, mate, like you're a good player, I can see her, but
38:19
you're slow like you're never going to be right.
38:22
You're. Never going to be 1/2.
38:23
That and when you're that age, you're kind of like, no one
38:26
should like I don't care that I'm sweet, I'm good.
38:28
My mum says I'm playing good. Yeah, well, I see.
38:30
My truce. Yeah, you don't see my truce.
38:32
And then he said, bro, this will be the best thing you can do,
38:36
like 1400 for the summer. I just just do it.
38:39
I was like, Nah, Glenora's got their own priestess.
38:42
I'm going to do that anyway. My mum forced me to do it.
38:44
And yeah, but I was like 15 at the time and we're doing this
38:48
actual combo. So he starts with a proper
38:50
combine. You're doing vertical halt bench
38:53
press. That's pretty crazy.
38:56
The bench press that the thing was 80 kilos, so you have to get
38:58
as many as you can. I've done it with Josh Ferret.
39:01
Yeah, Killing it was F&K. You're killing it.
39:03
Shout out. Yeah, that 80K bench press drops
39:07
it off. Can't.
39:09
Get any? I get that jump off the grill I
39:11
think I missed the first pig and then down my 40 yard dash and I
39:16
come back. I was like, bro, slowest on
39:18
ground, slower than props. Yeah, bro.
39:20
And he just laughed at me. This dude, like didn't even know
39:23
me. He goes, bro, you're running
39:24
prop speeds like you're not going to do anything.
39:26
Yeah. And like, I was probably lucky I
39:28
had the attitude that like, fuck him.
39:30
I want to, I want to stay here, come and do it.
39:32
But yeah, yeah, man. He, he changed my outlook on
39:34
life, bro, like, just to be the best in every facet of life,
39:38
like education, best partner, son, everything like that.
39:42
Brother, next year I come back, I think I've benched 80 reps for
39:46
20 reps at 16. Or something.
39:48
Yeah, like he invited me to his barn.
39:51
He's like a barn, like at West Auckland where he's got his
39:53
lifting gear. I was going there three times a
39:54
week. But bro, that's the NRL pre
39:57
season back then for a 16 year old kid, we were training five
40:00
times a week for two hours during the summer and he had his
40:06
program set up. So he had every NRL club on his
40:10
list and if they were signed over here but not an Aussie,
40:13
they were training with him. Wow, that's good.
40:15
That's a good idea bro. Yeah, bro.
40:17
And he should still be doing it now.
40:18
I think he's got other stuff on his plate.
40:19
But. And at the end of our preseason,
40:22
we'd go play a Warriors development team.
40:24
True. And he'd pretty much say set it
40:26
up. These are all the kids you left
40:27
out. Yeah, I'm not even a coach.
40:29
And I'm gonna beat you with them.
40:30
Yeah. And he was like that.
40:32
And we'd we'd go and beat them every time.
40:33
Did you beat them every time? Wow.
40:35
That's pretty cool bro. Bro.
40:36
And he wasn't even really a coach.
40:38
Yeah, but he just understood players.
40:41
One of the first guys I've seen, it's something I want to take
40:43
back one day is, you know, putting it on Pacific Island.
40:48
There's a multi boys saying I understand where you're from,
40:50
your culture. Yeah, when you're taught not to
40:53
look me in the eyes when I'm talking to you, you look down.
40:56
You don't talk bad. Yeah.
40:57
No, you're in this world now. Yeah.
40:59
Yeah. Like, stand up.
41:00
Like, look at me in the eyes. Tell me what you feel like this.
41:04
You're in a white man's world now.
41:05
Yeah. And you need to bring what you
41:07
have from your family and your culture.
41:09
You just stand on it. Yeah.
41:11
Yeah. I love that, bro.
41:12
Like. Cuz you see it so much in teams
41:14
that like, just like the the young, like Pacific Island or
41:18
multi boys that come into a team and they might be like a real
41:21
good young talent, but like they're not, they're too shy to
41:24
call for the ball or. Like and they.
41:26
Totally on their shelf. Coaches, why aren't you talking?
41:28
Yeah, yeah. Why aren't you asking questions?
41:30
Why are you doing this, bro? Like you don't understand where
41:32
they come from. So yeah.
41:33
And that's changing, bro. There's so many good Polynesian
41:36
and moldy leaders coming out now, which I love.
41:38
Yeah, but that's something I want to take back.
41:41
But I'm older and kind of change that narrative for those boys
41:44
because I grew up around that my whole lot.
41:46
Yeah. I'll probably identify more on
41:48
that side than I do as a white boy, for real.
41:50
So yeah, yeah, bro, he changed my life.
41:54
So that fellow. So shout out to him.
41:56
But again, bro, going back to luck, if I never meet him, who
41:59
knows what I'm doing. So yeah, yeah.
42:01
Shut up. So 1% is out for Sean Mullaney.
42:04
Yeah. Oh yeah.
42:04
We'll go back to that. If you're, if you're Tino, yeah,
42:09
probably do whatever you want. Yeah, probably do whatever you
42:11
want. If you're paying us, are you
42:12
scoring a try off the kickoff in high school?
42:14
Then you'll probably see. You can do what you want.
42:16
But if you're getting gassed by props.
42:18
Yeah, maybe this. One, this one maybe.
42:21
No backers there. Yeah, no backers.
42:25
All right. Segment of the week, we are
42:27
doing our State of Origin players that we would like to I
42:31
guess go out on the pistol, is that what?
42:33
Yeah, yeah. So the best players past present
42:37
to go go have some beers with I I think there's a there's a few
42:40
goodies to choose from. Yeah, we'll just throw out a few
42:42
names that we would each like to go out and piss with.
42:46
And then obviously shortly, you had a good idea, bro, that we're
42:49
going to do as well. You want to talk about that real
42:50
quick? Yeah, just, yeah, just thinking
42:52
about it, some of the the heavy hitters and that that never got
42:55
to play or you know, you hear about the Jason Tamil laws that
42:58
would love to suit up in Queensland but haven't been able
43:01
to. I'll just put it to the boys,
43:02
you know who's one, one or two players you'd love to see in
43:04
that arena that aren't eligible. You're gonna get it off.
43:08
Yeah, for that arena, I'll probably it's a tough one
43:14
because I just go automatically to someone that can hit hard.
43:17
And Ruben Wookie, Ruben Wookie is a good one honestly, I
43:21
reckon. And Brandon Smith in his prime,
43:22
I reckon he would have been good, eh?
43:24
Yeah, 100% mean. Impact mean impact.
43:26
What about you? Who?
43:27
Who would be your one? I'm going Sunny Bill.
43:33
I've seen him. I've seen him in that NSW, I
43:36
think it's under 20s. Yeah, he was a he did play.
43:38
Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a photo of him in his younger day
43:40
as well. Come in his prime, bro.
43:42
That'd be that'd be mean to. One that would have been crazy,
43:45
actually. Yeah.
43:46
Damn, that might have been the best one.
43:49
You might have won. I'd say my one.
43:50
I would love to have seen probably RTS in the suddenly in
43:54
his prime bro. He was yeah next level as a
43:56
winger or full back I don't know, but probably as a winger
43:59
bro back in back in his Roosters days.
44:02
I would have loved to see him suit up for for Queensland bro.
44:05
Queensland, yeah, I like that. Yeah, both Queensland A Yeah.
44:08
I'm Queenslander, yeah, 3 or. Three or QLD.
44:10
I just he. Can't make his mind up year on
44:12
year bro. I just like when NSW keep
44:16
losing. I was like, come on boys, find,
44:18
do something. But then I moved to Queensland
44:20
and I was like, I should be a Queenslander but I just don't
44:23
feel. Can't keep going.
44:24
Wait, what's your old man? What's Queens?
44:26
Queensland. He thinks he's queen.
44:30
I try to tell boys all the time over here, they don't realize
44:33
how big it is. In New Zealand it's.
44:35
Very. Like.
44:36
Massive. They're living and dying for a
44:37
state they've never been. Yeah, yeah.
44:40
You haven't even left New Zealand.
44:42
I guarantee half the people that go for Queensland couldn't name
44:45
three cities and. No way.
44:48
It's crazy. Who would you, who else would
44:50
you guys select from that list of players that.
44:53
Sam Burgess. Yeah, that's a good.
44:56
Thing I reckon Sam Bridges would go nuts.
44:58
One that one that should have played and should still be
45:00
playing. Victor Radley, I don't know how
45:02
he like, I don't know how they let him deflect to England,
45:05
right. He would be so good.
45:07
In that, yeah, but even if he is deflecting to England, he can
45:09
still play right? Nah, I think because they're
45:11
tier one, Because England's tier one, right?
45:14
But all those Tier 2 teams can play, Yeah, so.
45:16
So GC office can't come back to New Zealand now because he's.
45:19
He can come back to New Zealand, but then he can't play for QLD.
45:23
Because he's in the Queensland squad.
45:24
A Yep. Yep, I don't think he's played
45:26
for New Zealand yet. He would.
45:28
No, he would. Traitor.
45:29
Yeah. The other one I actually want to
45:31
throw out is that someone who who actually did get selected
45:34
and then got told no sorry bro you don't qualify anymore.
45:37
Yeah. That's now you, that's now that
45:40
was insane. You know, like, yeah, I would
45:41
have loved to seen him. I just think he's got the the NO
45:43
for a day. He's got a. 100%.
45:45
The attitude that you want, yeah.
45:47
So I've got another one and I went over to, I went to the
45:49
Cowboys with him. So he's my boy.
45:51
But Mario Talangi Oh moved over to Queensland when he was 13
45:55
from Otara. Is that play on?
45:57
That's play on bro, That's play. On If Molotalo isn't allowed,
46:01
he's not allowed. It's a cut off 13.
46:02
I think it's 16. I think it's 16.
46:05
You have to be I. Think Otato, though that's
46:08
anywhere else that takes. No, no, because then Ronaldo.
46:12
Well, it might be thirteen, maybe, but.
46:13
He remember when he was. 16 yeah.
46:15
So Murray, was he come with just in time?
46:17
Just in time. Wow.
46:19
I've got a What do you guys reckon about the whole you know
46:22
how all the Aussies get so butthurt about people playing
46:26
some more and then trying to play Queensland or NSW as well?
46:30
Yeah, sure. If you if you play NSW,
46:32
Queensland, you have to be Australia.
46:33
It's because they're scared, yeah.
46:35
It's only because they're scared.
46:36
Yeah. As soon as Aussies start losing
46:38
consistently, it'll change. Yeah, it'll 100% change.
46:41
But. It needs to be though that
46:43
everyone goes because it's going to make the international game
46:45
so mean, like Tonga some more already.
46:48
So good New Zealand, good Aussie, good England, good part.
46:51
It's already getting so much more.
46:52
Easy. Well, when, when have we ever in
46:54
the past, you know, been like we're, we're hyped for, you
46:56
know, international footy when it comes to rugby league?
46:58
Not. Not as much as what it's like,
46:59
honestly, international. Rugby league has never been
47:02
that. Good.
47:03
No, no. Like that's a state of origin is
47:05
the pinnacle. That's that's crazy.
47:06
Exactly, that is crazy. That's crazy.
47:08
Yeah. So that, I mean, you know, that
47:10
defeats that, that whole, you know, thing.
47:12
We're we're, yeah, there needs to be a stronger international.
47:15
Yeah, yeah. Right.
47:16
And that's just gonna bring more money and stuff into rugby
47:18
league. You've seen it.
47:19
Yeah, so. Good picks, good picks.
47:22
Stop getting butt hurt man over the state of origin.
47:26
So yeah, we'll go into The Who would you wanna go for a beer
47:30
with out of the past present? My kind of just to give you guys
47:35
preface on what I was kind of picking on is cuz when I go for
47:39
beers with someone, there's always, and you need to be
47:42
specific I reckon because you know, you could go go for beers
47:45
of that dude that just wants to fight his mates after he gets
47:48
drunk or that dude that just disappears or that dude that
47:51
tries to hit or knee runs misses or those those types of answer.
47:55
This is what I was I was putting into my thinking of who I was
47:58
picking because automatically I thought Willie Mason would
48:02
probably be a good one. But I guarantee Willie Mason as
48:05
one of those dudes when he makes a joke she always hits you.
48:09
You know a few of. Those people.
48:15
Right, the one that I would love to actually straight up off the
48:18
ball. Alfie Langer.
48:19
Alfie Lang is next level, bro. Like you see him even last year,
48:22
bro, he's like 60 something now. Energy.
48:24
Yeah, and he's the one on the tables, bro, getting everyone
48:26
hyped up like he's the one. I'm, I'm 100% wanting to go out
48:29
and and, you know, have a beer with a.
48:31
Yeah, my, my, my, my pick. I'm not picking William Mason,
48:34
just get that. He might be.
48:35
He might be. Honourable mentioned Honourable
48:38
Mentioned honourable. Mentioned.
48:39
I'm going, I'm going. Jonathan Thurston.
48:40
Hey, just the laugh and the jokes.
48:42
I reckon that he would just have me at fits all night.
48:44
Yeah. I get that you'd be laughing.
48:47
Yeah, yeah, he'd be laughing all night.
48:48
All night. Good place.
48:50
What about you? I'm gonna go.
48:51
I'm gonna go across the border, which I don't think, I don't
48:53
know why would, but Joey Johns. Oh.
48:55
Yeah, yeah. Like he's an immortal on and off
48:58
the field by the stories. By the stories, maybe greater
49:01
off the field. Yeah, maybe greater.
49:03
No, definitely. Right.
49:05
He's another one you talk about like, does alcohol matter?
49:09
Yeah, like and and it's just great.
49:11
Yeah, like yeah, stories about him, like bro polishing off 2
49:14
hot bottles and then he's training the next morning like
49:16
it's crazy. But they're back to yeah, he's
49:19
still training hard. Hard, yeah, but yeah, he's a
49:21
pretty safe pick. But he is safe to lead the pack
49:24
of the he's also. Yeah, he's, what do you call it,
49:29
the creator of the group chat. He's an admin.
49:31
He's admin. Yeah, yeah.
49:33
I think another one for me bro would be Josh Adekari.
49:36
In those days bro, he's similar. JT like to laugh.
49:39
Yeah. Just that laugh, that humor,
49:41
sense of humor, the jokes you would have, bro.
49:43
I'll go Josh Adekaye as my next pick.
49:45
Yeah. My next one was just for a
49:48
little bit of young, you know, because I need we need people to
49:52
get us actually into the bars and be a VIP and that kind of
49:55
thing. So I'm going Caleb Pongaret just
49:57
to yeah, just for some clout. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
50:01
Because bro, you can't just have all these rock up with all all
50:04
these old dudes and next minute. Oh, sorry mate, we're full.
50:07
We're at capacity that's. Fair.
50:10
Damn, I like that. You're you're not going to get
50:13
lit him with your fix. Sorry, too much sausage.
50:20
Damn, I'm not checking. Reese Walsh.
50:22
Then I'll combat that. I'm not checking.
50:24
Reese Walsh, Yeah. Yeah, I'm going.
50:27
Reese Walsh, Reese Ralsh, Joey Jones.
50:29
That's a mischief. Yeah.
50:30
And then I'll Chuck in my third straight away.
50:32
Yeah. You need someone for kick ONS.
50:35
Cam Smiths gonna be sitting. On that because the stories
50:39
there. He's been listening to the
50:40
country all night. You get home ready to kick on.
50:42
He's still going. Yeah.
50:43
Cam Smith #3. Apparently there was like a
50:46
rumor or whatever, allegedly that he was.
50:49
Everyone would go out and he'd just stay in the tea room
50:51
drinking and everyone would come back and then still there.
50:54
He's still there. Hey, so he'd just kick off, but
50:56
he wouldn't do all the. Yeah, yeah, the outside stuff,
50:59
yeah. That's a good, that's a good
51:01
captain mate, for the. Light out, Captain.
51:03
He's gonna keep you, keep you well balanced.
51:05
So you've got OK, so that's password.
51:06
OK, we've. Got one?
51:08
That's your last perk. We've got one more package.
51:09
I reckon I'm gonna go. Not a lift spanner, but I don't
51:14
I don't know if this fella, I'm pretty sure he did play, but
51:17
Brad Thorne. Oh, did he play a good one?
51:20
Yeah, he did. Bro, just because the amount of
51:22
networks and connections he would have yeah, bro, he he's
51:25
been on both sides of the ball game too, you know, like.
51:27
Also the enforcer, though, yeah, if if anyone gets slippy, yeah,
51:31
yeah, yeah. He's the OG Sally Bill.
51:33
Yeah. Sally Bill before Sally Bill,
51:35
Yeah. He might be slipped on like as
51:37
bro. Extremely slipped on.
51:38
He's one of the greatest athletes of all time.
51:39
I reckon in the same bro. Rugby World Cup, Yeah.
51:41
Did he win 1 cup? Rugby World Cup.
51:43
Yeah, I think he did. I think he won 2011 maybe?
51:47
Go back-to-back. I thought he went back-to-back.
51:49
I think he might have. I don't know.
51:50
I don't know. Look at that.
51:51
Look. Yeah, Fact Check.
51:52
Fact Check. Yeah, but he's won it all, bro.
51:54
He's won it all. Super Rugby.
51:56
Right. He's been over to Europe, he's
51:58
won rugby. I think he's coach Super Rugby
52:00
title. Yeah.
52:01
Or. Procedures.
52:03
Oh, the Reds and like the COVID year, though, does it count?
52:06
I don't know, right? I don't know.
52:08
I don't know, because that was split eye that yeah, it was like
52:11
Aussie, Aussie and then New Zealand.
52:13
So yeah, yeah. But yeah, he would be, he would
52:14
be my third pick, bro. Just someone that is, yeah, very
52:17
well known in the scene. And it's just like you said, in
52:19
an enforcer. Yeah, my next one, going across
52:22
the dishes. This is actually a controversial
52:23
one with recent history, but Angus Croydon.
52:27
I'll go Angus Croydon. OK, AK.
52:29
All right, though. Yeah, yeah.
52:31
You know, looks so cool, dude. Yeah, just the hopefully not
52:36
leave it there, but yeah. Not for fashion.
52:40
For fashion. Yeah, he's got.
52:42
I just want to throw it out there.
52:43
Angus Crawdon best fashion in the NRLI.
52:46
Reckon the league's ahead of people.
52:49
He's pretty much the shade guilt.
52:51
Gilbrish Alexander. Yeah, yeah.
52:53
I think there's some big good picks, boys, but anything else
52:57
was that. No, that was good, bro.
52:58
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
52:59
I think anyone in that like that arena would be good to dream.
53:03
Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.
53:04
Very hard to narrow it. Down and then those are all have
53:06
stories. That's a good story.
53:07
It's just the aggressive voice that you want to stay away with.
53:10
Oh yeah. You're is Spencer trying to
53:12
fight you? Oh no, is he?
53:14
It might just be the ones like there might be a hole in your
53:16
wall with. Yeah, it depends if you're close
53:19
or not all the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:22
Damn, we did. We did live out some honorable
53:23
mentions though. Like bro Jerome, Louis would be
53:25
good out there, bro. Just again, you know.
53:27
Yeah, there'll be fewer. He had some good jams.
53:29
Jerome Louis. Yeah, he'd.
53:30
Be on the off will be another one.
53:32
Yeah, there's honourable mentions.
53:34
Yeah, I had to throw a few Polyboys in there, but I just
53:36
had to. Mix it up.
53:41
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