Toby Rudolf And Blayke Brailey Join The Goat Jeremy Latimore

Toby Rudolph, Blake Braley, one of the game's true characters and one of the, you probably don't get enough recognition in the game and what you're doing for the Cronulla Sharksides, but welcome boys.

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One character and one actual good player.

Hey, you're a good player too, mate.

Oh, thanks Jeremy, I appreciate it.

Questionable?

Yeah.

Questionable.

Yeah, these days.

No, great player, mate. 71 games.

71, 72?

I've done my research, yeah.

Brales, you're 98, 99?

99.

Yeah, 100 next week.

Where's your next game at?

Home against Dragons, actually.

Oh, awesome.

Awesome, far out.

Hopefully Toby can be out there too, it'll be nice.

Yeah, beautiful.

So, coming off a pretty good win yesterday, Blake.

Melbourne the week before, a few work-ons after that game.

How was the feeling after that game?

And obviously, you know, coming back home yesterday, how did you find everything?

Yeah, that week was real tough.

That flight home was, you know, the longest I've ever had and we could tell everyone just

wanted to be out there and that whole week everyone was sort of itching to get out there

and a special occasion for Britt playing, he's won it at the game, he's been playing

great.

He's here for us and, you know, reward him with that two points and a good score on a

try on his 100th game, he's pretty good.

100%.

And hopefully the same for you in a few weeks, mate.

Yeah, I hope so, I hope so.

Bye this week.

Any plans, boys?

I'm going up to the Origin on Tuesday, Wednesday.

I haven't finalised anything else yet, doing a bit of work up there with TikTok, so that

should be a good fun and I think you're going up there too, aren't you?

I'm up there, yeah, yeah, for work, yeah.

For work?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not TikTok?

Hey, no TikTok.

What's that?

Is that social media?

No, bro.

No idea.

I'll let you know when I find out.

Yeah, no worries.

What are you doing?

No, I've actually got a Thursday plan to go to the wrestling with Cam.

Wrestling?

Wrestling with Cam.

Do a bit of wrestling there with Dale.

Oh, I thought you meant like WWE.

No, no, no.

Okay, right, right, right.

Cam McGuinness.

Yeah, Cam McGuinness.

And Dale Finucane.

Yeah.

You're choosing to go and wrestle.

I was thinking WWE, but we're actually talking Day Off Wrestling.

Can you give the watchers and listeners a bit of an insight to them two boys and their

training methods?

It's, it's...

It's like chaos.

It's honestly, you're in there for 30 seconds and Cam's already bleeding and you've got

blood on your jersey and it's like, where'd it come from?

And he's always in the corner.

He's, takes his tooth out and it's just like, I stay away from him.

I hate him.

Any, any, any good stories from them two boys that train?

I do, I do know one from like Macca's first couple of weeks.

Did he knock T. Wilton out of the training in a pose?

Did he?

I remember.

I think that was in his first couple of weeks of training.

Actually, I've got a good story from Melbourne.

Nico and Dale roomed together.

And...

Dale has this routine where he's anal about his routine, just constantly does everything

by the book.

And he has this one bed he's been in his whole career and Nico thought it'd be a good idea

to put his bag, get in the bed and sort of mix up a bit.

And Dale comes in and goes, mate, move your bed.

I'm older.

I've played more games.

This is the rules now.

Dug his heels in, didn't move and goes, all right, I'll wrestle for you.

And Dale Finnegan takes his earphones off, jersey off, jumper off, bag down, shirt off

and then wrestles for the bed, throws Nico onto the table just for the bed and just...

That sounds so horny.

Pens him over the table.

Mate, that does sound like a bit of a sex scene, actually.

Not bad.

You two boys, any...

Talking about pre-game rituals, any pre-game rituals here?

I couldn't imagine you, Toby, but I could imagine you, Blake.

Nah, I remember Toby had one where you had to be the last to put your jersey on.

Yeah, I've thought about that, yeah.

Yeah, I messed with his brain and just weighed him out, see if he would do it.

But nah, I don't have any.

I'd like to be a bit pretty relaxed, pretty cruisy.

Yeah, that's your personality, mate.

I used to have heaps.

I used to have a few.

I used to have to sing a certain song before a game.

I used to have to, yeah, last to put the jersey on.

Growing the hair out was one as well.

Never anything more than that, but it was still annoying because it's sort of all gone now,

but when I was a bit younger, it was definitely in the forefront of my mind.

But now I'm just an ultra-professional, obviously, and it's all good.

Seasoned campaigner.

We'll just touch it on that.

Obviously, seven.

Seven in nearly 100 games.

How long did it take you both sort of to feel like you're an NRL player?

And then you just touched on that, these weird intricacies you have when you're a bit younger,

but now you're outgrown.

What is your preparation like now?

Honestly, I've never had any prep ever.

It's honestly not changed once.

The only thing that has changed were the superstitions along the way.

When I sort of started feeling like I belonged, there wasn't really a game or a moment.

Just sort of maybe as the years went by.

Probably into my third year, I sort of felt like I was holding a regular starting spot

and felt like I was sort of in the mix and I could sort of mix it with everyone that

I was sort of playing against.

But in terms of prep, yeah, I've tried to find a prep routine, but I almost kind of

like not having one because then I can't be thrown off by anything.

So pretty easy to go on as well with that sort of stuff, yeah.

Yeah, I'm the exact same.

I don't really have a set prep or routine I sort of go through.

I just sort of go with the flow and listen to my music.

And yeah, I feel like if I had those sort of things, I'd freak out if I didn't get them done.

So I try not to, you know, bring them in.

And if they do start creeping, I try to knock them on the head straight away.

Did you have any?

Did you have any of them?

I was a little bit weird, yeah.

My pre-game prep was out there.

But, mate, we're here to talk about you.

It's not me today, all right?

So I'm going to say to you.

But quickly, just go to, you know, pre-game prep.

And, you know, it made me think of Fitzgibbon.

And obviously, you know, he's come to the club.

Top four finish last year.

Sitting fifth at the moment.

And how do you find him as a coach and leader?

And then I've heard about his pre-game prep of getting out and getting after it on game day with a bit of wrestling.

Can you give the viewers a bit of an insight into that?

Yeah, Fitz, he's nuts, eh?

He's actually crazy.

Like, love him to bits.

The care he has for his players is second to none.

Like, I've never experienced that anywhere else.

Like, he gets you on his side so easily, effortlessly.

And someone you just want to play for.

But then game day, I remember him talking to me and all the forwards.

And he spoke to them.

To a few of us, just saying how game day, he's into his jiu-jitsu.

He's a brown belt, I think.

Yeah, a brown belt.

And on game day, he does an hour and a half of five-minute rounds with no breaks in between.

So he can come to the game and talk to us about how and how, like, we've got to be tough.

We've got to be hard.

And the only way he feels he can do that is by being, I think, a crank neck and a sore wrist.

I feel like he's actually done something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he needs a new shoulder.

And he just refuses to get it.

Because then that'll be his jiu-jitsu career done.

So...

Good.

Yeah, he's nutcase.

He wears...

If we win, he'll keep the same shoes.

If we lose, he'll chuck them out.

He's just like...

You know, a lifetime deal with Adidas sort of tends to help.

Yeah.

He's just so intense.

It's scary.

Do you want to give your own sponsors a shout-out as we're here?

Johnny...

No, Johnny B.

No, I'm Budgie Smuggler.

Actually, I was thinking that in your pre-game prep.

You're wearing them same swimmers every game.

No, I don't wear Budgies in the game.

Oh, really?

I get, like, chafed too much.

My quads are too big.

Yeah, fair, fair.

Yeah.

Brails?

No, I just wear Nike boots, so...

Not much of a plug there, but it'd be nice to get a few more things.

Anyone watching, please reach out to the boys.

Quickly, just touch on family.

Jaden, your brother, he's out injured at the moment.

And then your younger brother, he's in the...

Is he now under 20s at Sharks?

Yeah, he's in the 20s system now.

It's sort of a weird period for me now.

I've played with my older brother and then seeing the transition of Taj coming through,

it's pretty exciting.

Hopefully, he can get to the NRL.

To be able to start playing with my older and younger brother would be pretty special.

Mate, for your parents, obviously, you know, to get one child to play,

to have, you know, two, then hopefully three would be quite cool.

With Jaden being the older brother, you know, do you lean on him for, you know, advice

and similar...

Oh, not similar, same position.

Yeah.

You know, and he's obviously a very mature guy and he's...

Well, the two boys I know, you and Jaden, are fantastic boys.

You know, does that come from the old man?

He's involved at Cronulla as well?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's pretty much a whole family affair at the moment.

And my little brother, Taj, actually helps with the media out at Sharks there.

So, he takes photos, he does a bit of content for him there.

And, yeah, like you said, Jaden's been in the system and the program for a long time now.

And, yeah, I always lean on him.

He's always the first one to message me when he thinks I played well or things I can change.

And he's been around the game longer than myself.

So, I'm always constantly learning from him.

And I'm pretty lucky to have an older brother who's been through the system and played,

you know, over 100 games for the NRL.

100%.

Now you can pass that wisdom on to your younger brother.

Is he full-time next year?

Yeah, I think he's got a pre-season next year.

I'm not too sure how it's going to work.

If he gets too good, do I get pushed out?

Like, what's the go here?

So, it's sort of what you did to Jaden, right?

Do I go to Newcastle?

Does Jaden move on?

I don't know what the cycle is.

Mate, that'd be ruthless.

Jaden, are you going to go to Newcastle as well?

I don't know what, oh, yeah, I don't really know what the cycle is.

But, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how he progresses.

Are you going to try and fold him?

Who?

Taj.

Yeah.

I can't, yeah, I can't let him.

Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, like, obviously it wouldn't be too often

that a hooker runs into a hooker in a game or in training,

but if he does, are you going to, like, actually lift him

and sort of bury Jaden?

Nah, look, nah, I won't want to put him on show

or, you know, his confidence is pretty quiet.

What if he does it to you?

Well, then that's a different story.

Okay, okay, okay.

I was going to ask you about family, but let's quickly throw it to you, mate.

You've got your own podcast now, stuck in the middle.

Yeah.

We had to educate Blake what it was called.

We did, yeah.

Great.

I've got a great teammate over here.

Obviously, supporting all my goals, desires, ambitions and all that.

But, yeah, stuck in the middle.

I'm pretty sure it's sitting at, like, number one

in the Australian podcast right now,

but if we can get a few more listeners to it

and just get it even above that, it'd be great.

Look down the barrel and say that.

Stuck in the middle.

Give it a listen.

Spotify, YouTube, I think Apple as well.

I'm not too sure.

I'll learn better next time and come up with a better answer.

Mate, and you were telling us before we started

how much preparation you do for your podcast

and you get guests on it.

Do you want to let everyone know how much that is?

Yeah, look, I mean,

we have done some every now and again.

Like, it's just Liam and I got together a couple of times

and we had, like, I think Jake and Tom Tewari

which I wanted to ask some stitch-up questions

which I'm sure you have coming as well.

But, like, we sort of thought

sitting there with a clipboard was ridiculous.

We just sort of, I don't know.

We do a bit of research,

but mostly I guess we get on with our friends anyway,

so we sort of know what's going on.

But, yeah, research is minimal, to say the least.

Your co-host, he was on this exact podcast not long ago

and there was a story about a bag of shit.

Do you want to respond to that

and throw him under the bus in any way you want?

He was terrible to live with

in terms of, like,

we were sort of living the dream at the start.

We lived in Rammock at the start

when we first lived together.

And then, out of nowhere,

we move into Maroubra

and he brings his girlfriend into the mix

without really sort of consulting me about it.

And, like, we were just,

we were so happy before.

We were so happy

and then he just had to ruin the relationship.

And I think, I don't know,

is there any sort of more mistrust in bringing...

a third sort of party into the equation, so...

I remember we used to go over to your house

and I felt awkward having this girlfriend there.

You know what I mean?

It was just...

It was weird.

I know.

It was weird.

It was a boy's pattern then.

Changed.

Yeah.

Also, I wanted to say as well,

Liam was on about, I want to say,

500 grand at the time we were living together.

Yeah, I was on about 50.

And he paid...

Oh, no.

I'm not paying more than 100 bucks for rent.

No way.

I'm not paying more than 100 bucks for rent than you are.

So, I was paying 300 bucks for a little shoebox

and he was paying 350 for, like, an en suite.

So, tight ass.

There you go.

Yeah, yeah.

Nice.

That was your right of reply.

I like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaking of roommates,

you just moved to the Shire.

How long have you been at the Sharks now?

Jesus.

Since 2019 was my first year there.

Yeah.

And it's taken that long to move to the Shire.

Yeah, I love the area.

I love where I'm from so much.

But the drive was just getting a bit tedious

and the roommate I had previously,

which is my older brother,

who you know a little bit,

yeah, it sort of wasn't a really good living situation

at the end there.

He constantly was having parties and vendors and...

See, that's not in your personality.

No, it's not really me.

So, when you have to train and actually work for a living,

it's a bit challenging to deal with that.

So, I moved to Cronulla by myself in a really nice pad

and, yeah, I've been there for two weeks now.

I haven't heard from you once since I've been there.

So, yeah.

I called you three times last week.

You were meant to actually come to have a beer with me

on Saturday and you brushed me

because you're that professional.

Next question.

Yeah.

Next question.

If you walk into the locker room tomorrow

and there's a, you know, roommate wanted

and, you know, see Toby's number down at the bottom,

would you never?

Not a chance.

No way.

Yes, you would.

You'd love to live with me.

No.

You're lying.

You're lying to the camera.

I don't like it.

No, we're two, way too different people.

I think...

Well, you'd bring your girlfriend anyway

so it wouldn't be allowed.

That's true.

The time we spent at the Snow,

when was it, the buy-around?

Yeah.

A few years ago was probably enough.

We were there for, what, two, three days?

Yeah.

And what I experienced in that room was enough to say,

yeah, that's not for me.

Were we in there drinking bickies and tea

and going to sleep?

Yeah.

We were.

Are you roommates when you go away for footy?

No.

No fatigue.

I'm Teague or Nico.

I'm Connor Tracy.

Yeah, you'll see Teague.

Yeah.

But we always end up in the same room.

Yeah, we're always in like four or five of us

in the same room.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Nice.

That's cute.

Do you want to throw Nico or Teague under the bus

or Connor Tracy?

I could imagine Connor would be great to be as a roommate.

Nico, a bit selfish?

He gets up, yeah, his alarm goes off at 6.30

even though I want to sleep in.

Yeah, yeah.

So there's that.

Teague's nose is enormous.

That's all I have to say about Teague.

No.

Could he have a smug in the rain and keep it dry?

100%, yeah, yeah.

But other than that, no, they're both pretty good.

Are they?

Yeah.

So Nico's got any weird pre-game rituals?

A thousand, but I can't even lie.

He's out of the room doing weird stuff beforehand.

Really?

Yeah, we have like a spine meeting before we go out

and he can't have it in a certain room

and it can't be a certain time.

Really?

Yeah, we put our hands in.

He won't put his hand in.

It's just like all these different things

he has to get ready for.

It just messes with his head.

Really?

Well, yeah, he rang me a couple of weeks ago

on game day and he goes,

I'm just going down to the...

to the field to have a kick through.

He does a kick through on game day,

which I was like, oh, that's a bit odd.

He's like, yeah, I do it every week.

He was taking Wee Man, his roommate,

like down with him.

He goes and must kick the ball back for him.

Wow.

How rock solid is that?

Yeah, Wee Man is the most rock solid man

I've ever met in my life, honestly.

Yeah, he's a good man, eh?

Yeah, proper.

He's a ledge.

Unreal.

Like, obviously, Nico,

there's been a fair bit of attention

brought to him in recent times

and, you know, he bounced back yesterday,

which we knew he would.

He's a resilient man

and a fantastic rugby league player.

He's got around him at training

and how's he handled everything,

you know, internally?

Really good.

Like, he has his own mindset coach

and he has his own avenues

to sort of process the way,

process the things he wants to process.

So, look, he's just the ultimate professional, Nico.

He knows what he's doing

and, you know, to get the performances

out of him that we did last year

and this year as well,

minus a couple of games,

you know, he's obviously, like I said,

he's an experienced campaigner,

knows what he's doing

and, obviously,

us running around him

definitely would have helped him out as well.

But, yeah, he's just very strong mentally

and, like I said,

the mindset coach helps as well.

For sure.

I think he's got a good sort of friendship

and group around him at the moment.

He said, we, man,

they've been close for a long time

and he's got his mum

living with him at the moment

and, yeah, they're definitely helping him out there

and I think he's off social media a little bit,

which is also helping his headspace

and, yeah, I thought on the weekend

they bounced back

and proved a lot of people wrong

and, yeah, hopefully he continues the form.

100%.

I don't think he needed to really prove himself.

I think we know the sort of player he is

but, you know,

as the rugby league media is like it,

you know, they're looking for a victim

or to get into someone

and, unfortunately,

they made a lot of noise around Nico,

which I think was totally unfair

but it was great to see boys bounce back yesterday.

Just going back to that game,

you yourself cut the tricis

to a couple of big followers in the middle

and I only saw the back end of the game

but big Tommy Hazleton

got a bit of a round of applause when he went off.

Yeah, I know.

I was actually,

I was talking with Toby on the way here.

I was on the field

and the crowd just erupted

and I didn't know what was going on.

I thought it was a streaker

or something going on

but it's just Tommy Hazleton

walking off the field

and getting the round of applause

which he probably deserves.

He's sort of turning into the cult hero at the moment.

Sort of took over Toby's spot there

who was the cult hero

but now he's tall.

He's 40, 20, we call him

and he's got the bald head.

It's unreal.

Very relatable for all us rugby league fans.

How are you going to deal with that?

Are you going to compete?

And then let's touch on a little bit,

you know, the alpha males around training

and, you know,

Yeah, no.

I love Tommy Hazleton too much

to compete with him in anything.

If he wants my spot,

he can have it.

I'm annoyed about the three tries yesterday.

We've been playing with this guy for four years now

and how many have you given me?

Not one.

Not a single one.

But you are the highest decoy

in the NRL for the past two years.

Highest decoys for the last two years.

I want to thank you for that.

Well, thank you.

Mate, your attack was nearly the best in the NRL

so you played a big role in it.

Yeah, exactly.

Who's going to get this?

Oh, no, he's not.

Oh, he never does.

Thanks, mate.

Appreciate it.

Good chat.

Mate, that's good.

I want to bring up a bit of a personal thing here, actually.

You know, I met you out last Christmas Eve

and I thought we had a good night out together.

Yeah.

Added you on Instagram about a week later.

Then, anyway, crickets for a few months.

Ran into you on Anzac Day.

Brought it up after a few skewness.

Out on the syrup on the weekend.

I get a follow on Saturday night.

Why did it take you six months to follow me back?

Mate.

Was there beef on the ice?

Yeah.

Was there beef on the ice?

Yeah.

Was there beef on the ice?

Yeah.

Was there beef on them two nights out or what's doing?

Honestly, like, literally, so you brought it up a couple of times,

like you said, right?

And I think it was just in one ear, out the other.

Like, oh, yeah, I'll follow you back, I'll follow you back.

And then, actually, you needed something from me.

So I looked up what's the thing.

Follow back.

Oh, yeah, he's been talking about this for a while now.

So I just, I don't know.

It's just me being selfish, I suppose.

Sorry.

Did it hurt?

Well, I was just like, am I upset this guy?

Why is he not following me back?

I was like, I know I get loose on the syrup, too.

No, no, no, you're fine.

It was my fault.

It wasn't you, it was me.

Is he like that?

Does he hold a grudge?

Or is he a bit funny around training?

Yeah, he does only talk to a select group.

Yeah, well, I'm sure he gets, you know, thousands of followers a day

and it's hard to always keep up with that, so.

Yeah, it's that, too.

With the campaigns he does and the photo shoots,

he's always in the spotlight.

So it's a bit, it's tough for him.

I'll give him a way out there.

I get it.

Do you see yourself as a bit of a sex symbol?

Yes.

No, with these teeth and these collars.

The great teeth.

Yeah, with the horse teeth.

As, yeah, well, better than no one, I guess.

Guilty.

But, no, I don't.

I see myself as, I don't know, class clown, Tobe Rudolph,

nothing, not too sexy.

That's good, though.

And, you know, with the way rugby league is in the media now,

you know, you've sort of seen the personalities phased out of the game,

so it's refreshing to have people like yourself and, you know,

you're putting yourself out there and having a laugh

and drinking beers with the crowd on the sideline.

And I think, you know, then when you do go out into the clubs

and that, you've got your arm around everyone

and people want to see that.

They don't want you, you know, not talking to people

and being arrogant, so don't change that.

No, I won't.

I'll never be arrogant like yourself.

I always want to sort of stay humble.

Actually, maybe at the start when he first came to Kanoa,

I was a bit arrogant.

I was?

Yeah, it was hard.

I remember when he first came, I was speaking to my brother

thinking, I'm never going to be friends with this bloke.

I don't want to know him.

I don't want to talk to him.

Because he came in, you know, he's got that bubbly personality

and as soon as he walked in, he was calling himself Clive Churchill.

Which put a few people offside, as it would.

How many games had he played at this point?

Not one, not one, not one.

Josh Morris made a point of that.

So, yeah, but I still remember the day when he walked in

and I thought, I'm never going to be friends with this bloke.

Really?

Yeah.

No, I heard that ages ago from him.

Yeah, many times, yeah.

Mate, for Blake Braley to feel like that.

To say that, the nicest guy in the world.

I did something wrong.

Really?

Yeah, well, it was, I think I got a few people on side.

I told this story yesterday, actually.

It was our Christmas party at Gail's house.

Did he invoice you to go?

No, he actually, no.

That was a good day.

It was a good day, but he actually asked us all for 20 bucks to buy cases.

So that did happen anyway.

So, but now we get there, we're all in the stores having a great time.

I think I was about four weeks post-surgery, post knee reconstruction.

I'm just peppering up to everyone like,

what did you guys do last year?

I won a grand final, you guys came third.

I won a comp, I won a Clive Churchill.

And one Josh Morris didn't take too kindly to this.

He started just going, have you won a state of origin series?

You played for your country?

Have you played for your state?

Have you played NRL?

You've done nothing.

I was like, nah, I won a Clive Churchill though.

He just hated it.

So yeah, there was a bit of drama there with me and him, but I won it.

I got a few people on side that day.

Yeah.

Do you catch up with Josh now?

Mate, I told him the story to his face yesterday.

Oh, it was to him you were talking about?

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So no, we're sweet now.

We're sweet now.

I love that.

Yeah.

So back to the change room.

You know, who's the alpha males?

Who's the personalities of the group?

I obviously know that you'd be the first nude in the shower.

Anyone else following you?

Yeah, Dale.

Yeah, Dale, yeah.

Matty Cavalli was, but he's gone now.

Jesse Ramian, which is a lot.

Yes, we know why.

Yeah.

Is there anyone else?

Peg sometimes.

Yeah.

Wade, Wade.

Yeah.

But I think that's about it.

I think that'd be about it.

Yeah.

Would be about it.

In terms of alpha,

I want to go see Fatalico.

Yeah.

Really?

When he walks.

Big dick energy, yeah.

When he walks past you,

you're like, oh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's the chief.

We call him the chief.

Yeah.

He's just.

That was his nickname in school.

Fun fact.

You wouldn't mess with him.

Nah.

But he's actually,

he's a really nice guy, isn't he?

Ledge.

Yeah.

Ledge.

He's one of those guys that like,

he doesn't say a whole lot,

but when he speaks,

you listen kind of thing.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, definitely.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't know if you've seen

the celebrations recently

when Man City won

the championship over there

and there's a guy

called Jack Grealish

getting around full kit.

No, I've seen this, yeah.

You know,

come the end of,

or early October this year,

he's been the premiership.

Who will that player

in your group be?

I think I know the answer to this.

Yeah.

What's the,

what did he do?

He was still wearing full kit.

Constantly.

Yeah, three, four, five days

and he's still in the same kit.

Yeah, okay.

Just everywhere he goes,

he's just life of the party,

pretty much.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't think we need to.

Say who it's going to be.

I think it's going to be

maybe for sure.

Cam McGuinness?

Maybe.

Could be.

Actually, I might throw a smokey

out there, Sione Katoa.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

He's the best.

He's hilarious.

Yeah, he's,

honestly,

he's the funniest man

in the Sharks,

if not the NRL.

Fair dinkum.

I'm not even JNR,

but yeah.

So good.

When I asked Toby the other day

about potential options

he tossed up,

you and him,

but he goes,

I reckon Sione might go

a bit quiet

with a microphone in front of him.

He also had a large night

last night,

so I don't know how it'd go today.

Really?

Yeah, he'd be dusty.

We should have brought him in

when he was still half full.

He might have got word

about it.

Yeah, that'd have been good.

But no, he's,

yeah, undercover,

he's hilarious.

He doesn't say much,

but when he does,

it's just comedy gold

every time.

Yeah, probably.

He's the best.

Yeah, nice.

Oh, we might have to

try and recruit him

in somewhere.

100%.

Get him on, he'll love it.

Just mic him up

so he doesn't know

all this stuff he would hate,

but he's hilarious.

Yeah, righto.

And what about,

so 10 games to go

for you boys.

You obviously got

the eyes on the top four.

Have you looked

at your run home?

What's the run home

look like?

Yeah, I sort of

had a look the other day.

I think we go to Perth

and New Zealand,

which is always

a good little fun trip away.

Definitely got some

tough games coming up

with Penrith there

and yeah,

I think the competition

is so tight this year.

If you drop a game,

you're out of the eight,

so everyone's on notice

and everyone's on watch

and we know

if we don't play well,

we're out the back door.

I haven't looked

at any games

I'm just trying

to get back to play.

I know we got

Dragons,

Titans,

and then I think

it's Perth,

is it after that?

No, I think it's

New Zealand.

Oh, New Zealand.

And then Perth's

later in the year.

Okay, right.

I do know, yeah,

Perth is South.

We got Panthers,

Roosters again maybe as well,

who can be anything.

Canberra,

never beaten Canberra.

I've never beaten Canberra,

yeah, it's one

tattoo bogey team

at the moment.

Down there or home?

Either.

At home.

Oh, really?

We haven't beaten them either.

Yeah, yeah.

Never beaten them.

Treddington,

that used to be the Dragons.

It's now the Sharks.

Indeed.

So, looking forward to it,

looking forward to actually

getting back playing some footy

and hopefully can play

the last 10 games in a row

without any hiccups.

How is the foot now?

You've missed how many games?

Well, round six

was my last game.

Yeah.

We had three buys

in that time,

which helps.

Yeah.

But still missed a fair few.

So, foot's feeling okay.

It's now just the lungs,

which are the main issue.

But it's coming along,

coming along.

I want to get folded

all this week.

The boys have a buy

and most,

most of them are away

doing fun stuff,

except you doing wrestle.

That's fun for them.

That's so fun.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, Kim and Dale are stoked.

But, yeah,

looking to sort of

get the lungs,

the fitness base back,

possibly play a bit

of reserve grade

and get some Ks in the legs

and then be right

for the sort of

back end of the year.

Yeah, nice.

And then we're just

talking away games.

You played how many seasons

in the Q Cup?

Just one.

How'd you,

what was your favourite

away trip in Queensland?

And, you know,

to now?

Yeah.

You always got

the job done.

Yeah.

You always got the jeans pack

when you're on a way trip?

Yeah, mate.

Honestly,

this is a true story.

I actually,

I always took my jeans,

but there's been about

four or five times

I've forgotten my boots.

Yeah.

You went to

our Tolles' boots

or somewhere.

Yeah, I went to

Tom Halston's once,

I went to Tolles' once.

Actually,

did you do your ankle

in someone else's boots?

No, I did my knee

in Tolles' boots.

But I still got my jeans

for afterwards,

so it's always good.

Q Cup,

best away trip.

There was too many,

like Cairns,

Hyde Airbus Cairns,

Cairns was a very good time,

it was one of the best

nights out ever.

Yeah, right.

Went to Mackay

and we had the best time

at the Lost Rabbit

or something.

It was in Amendico,

actually.

So like,

you know what,

it doesn't matter

where you go

with 780 Best Mates,

if you're with

780 Best Mates,

you're going to have

a good time

wherever you go.

So,

but in terms of

NRL away trips,

it's hardly going to

pass the Mad Cow,

as you would know

very well,

Jeremy Lattimore.

Townsville, yes.

Perth,

have you actually

ever been to Perth?

Twice.

You have?

Yeah, we went to the Nines.

Oh yeah,

we did too,

yeah.

The best night out ever.

Yeah, that was good.

It is a great night out.

Yeah,

so much fun.

Yeah,

I don't know what it is

about over there.

I went there

and it was like

40 degrees in February

but it's not like

40 degrees here

where you're dying.

It was actually

like bearable

and look at my

beautiful brown skin here.

I'm white as

so I hate the sun

but it was

completely fine

and you know,

focused in on my

football game

and then the night out

which I know

you'd be the same.

Yeah,

nailed it,

correct.

Were you there

for the Nines

or were you there

actually probably playing?

I've been out

the back door

for a while now.

I went there in 2012

for a Dragons trial.

We were talking

about Steve Price before.

Can we go into

a bit about Pricey

and you know,

he's influenced

at the club.

Obviously,

Fitzy's the main leader

and driver of everything

in the football club

but Pricey,

he was there

when they won the comp

in 2016,

won the comp

at 2010 at Dragons,

went over and had

a lot of success

in the Super League

as well.

You know,

what are your thoughts

on Pricey

and what he does

for the football club?

Yeah,

I love that man.

All our coaching staff

are unreal.

Usually there's

one Derek amongst them

but honestly,

all ours,

they're all the best blokes.

I'll sit down

and have a chat

to him about

anything in life,

not just football related,

about life,

about houses,

about drinking stories.

He's got a few

of those as well

but he's that man

that every now and again

when you sort of

like the Melbourne game,

he'll just sort of

bring a bit of light

to the room

and sort of

change the mood a bit

but also,

he's that one

that when you are

sort of fucking

around a bit,

he'll bring it in

and he'll sort of

be that one

that drives that focus

so he's just

an invaluable member

I think to our coaching

staff and our team.

That's what I think.

I'll probably

stall your thunder there.

Yeah,

no,

he's great.

He's got that perfect mix

of being your mate

and being a coach

and he knows

when to have fun

and when to be hard

and he always

He loves being hard.

Yeah,

he always brings

a bit of life

and joy around the club

and yeah,

he got Toby

with a good stitch up

the other day

which was good.

It was outstanding.

Yeah.

You want to tell the story?

You want to tell it?

I think you should

because you were there.

You were experiencing it.

Yeah,

yeah,

firsthand.

So,

I come into the sheds

after a meeting,

I think it was

and there was

two coppers

just standing

like in the sheds

and they look at me

and like,

I heard them say

Toby Rudolph

and I was like,

no,

no.

The whole room

went dead quiet.

Fully,

like everyone

was just so serious.

I'm going like,

there's no fucking way

that there are two cops

here coming to get me

and then I started thinking

like,

what have I done?

What have I done

that I don't know about?

Which is even worse,

like they've come here

to the Sharks

to come and get me

so I walk out

and they're like,

oh mate,

you had an incident

at the Maruba Seals

about a month ago

and in my head I'm going,

maybe these guys are strippers

like I don't know

what's going on here

so I asked him like,

are you boys strippers?

But my heart's pounding

at the time,

I'm sweating bullets

like I am now

and just nervous wreck

and I turn around

and Price is just there

giggling in the corner

and I just went,

you fucking,

yeah.

Everyone started laughing at me

and my heart was racing

for about another

probably hour after that

so it was a good stitch up.

It was actually,

oh I'm one now.

Yeah,

that is a great stitch up

and I can only imagine

the heart rate

what it was doing.

Made through the roof

and he said he wanted to,

like he told me

to get the cuffs out

and just cuff me straight away

which would have,

I would have had a heart attack.

Didn't anything happen

at the Seals a month ago?

I said I hadn't been there

in a year

so that was what sort of

threw me that,

yeah,

good man Pricey,

good man.

What's he run,

attack or D?

Defence.

Edge defence,

yeah.

Okay,

and then who runs your attack?

Josh Hannae

and DJ,

Danny Holdsworth.

Yeah,

so that's who you're

exclusively working with

with the spine?

Yeah,

yeah,

they both do a lot of work

with the spine

obviously being half himself,

DJ,

he knows the game pretty well

and yeah,

he's very detailed

with what he does,

definitely breaks down

a defence of opposition

really well

and gets us best prepared

each week

so it's working,

we got some great attack

and got some pretty good plays

coming.

Bloody oath.

What,

you know,

with the game

where it's at now,

you know,

there's constantly

different things changing

with the rules

and you know,

the contacts,

the new ones hitting the legs,

what do they call that?

A hip drop.

Hip drop,

that's it.

You know,

what do you think,

do you like the way

the game is now

and you know,

what changes would you like

to see moving forward

and if you know,

for the betterment

of our football game?

I think the way the game is now

it really suits the way

you play,

like you are owning

and dominating the ruck

and obviously that allows

Nico and Matty

to do their thing.

Yeah,

I'm actually really enjoying

that six again rule

to play a couple of years back.

It gives myself,

I'm not the biggest,

strongest or fastest player

out there but

I feel like I'm pretty fit

so the back end

when the bigger boys

get pretty tired

that's when I sort of

come into my game

and yeah,

obviously the crackdown

is pretty hard

with that hip drop.

It's hard to,

you know,

pull away out of those

tackles sometimes.

They happen pretty quickly

but yeah,

duty of care for the players

is always number one

and yeah,

I'm just glad to,

I come away each week

unscathed.

Yep.

First I just want to say

you are really

asking the tough questions

here.

I really like it.

Why?

No,

not tough questions,

just like this is a really

serious question

and I just want to

congratulate you

on the question.

Mate,

you know I love

having a joke and a laugh

but also,

I know he's got great

footy IQ,

you love playing rugby league.

Yeah,

yeah,

you're right.

So,

tell me what you want.

I like the six again rule.

Again,

agreed with that.

What I don't like

is how they're ruling

out common sense.

So like,

for instance,

there was a game

a while ago,

I think Mike Acevo

needs someone in the face

on the run

or someone needs

someone in the face.

Swali.

Swali,

Swali.

No,

no,

not in front of the ball.

Anyway,

it was like,

someone was running

through the ball,

he needs someone

in the head

and it was a penalty

for like careless contact

but like,

it's an accident.

Like,

there are some instances

in the game

where it's a pure accident

but they're ruling

against it as a penalty

and like,

some of the things

you can't control.

I saw a penalty

the other day

given for Mike Acevo.

He was holding

a bloke down

with his hands

like this

pushing him

into the ground.

It was a penalty

for being too rough.

Like,

another penalty

for I think

Victor Raleigh

hitting someone's ribs.

When I was in the 20s

and there was a rib expose,

our coach would say,

break his ribs,

break his fucking ribs

and now it's too rough.

Like,

I don't like that direction

the game's going in.

I like a fast game.

I like a game

where it's free flowing

and no penalties

but just the ones

where it's like too rough.

It's like,

we play a contact sport.

Like,

shut the fuck up.

Seriously.

Mate,

100%.

I do agree

with a few of the things

there that you touched on

and we do need to remember

it's a game

of sort of gladiators

and physical contact.

You can't take

that away from it

because that's why

it is so appealing

but also,

you know,

that quickness

that the rock

brings the attack

and,

you know,

fans love and watch

an exciting footy.

They don't want to see

sometimes maybe

a 10-4 scoreline

but you want to see

tries getting scored

and our talent on display.

Alright,

so that was,

love that.

Great input.

Thank you.

What is the best thing

about being a rugby league player?

You'd probably say

the money,

wouldn't you?

You would.

Nah,

if I was Nick,

I would say that.

Yeah, nice.

Oh.

No, you know what,

I've worked a bunch of jobs

under the sun

and to call it a job

is doing it a disservice.

Like,

you go hang out

with your mates

that you spend

more time with

than your family.

You go away together.

You,

you know,

you,

it's,

there's barely a serious

moment in sight.

Obviously,

it's serious

when you're trying

to win games

and,

my phone's ringing.

That's Ram Freshenall,

I'm sorry.

Put this on the ground.

There are serious times

when you need to,

you know,

actually put your best foot forward

and try and,

you know,

everyone's there

to win a competition

but to call it a job

is,

like I said,

it's not a real job

and it's just,

it's honestly a pleasure

to play the game

and to be paid

to do what you love.

Yeah,

it's definitely,

you know,

being in the sheds

after a game

and everyone's happy,

everyone's laughing,

having a few beers

after you win.

Yeah,

just getting to,

when you start the season off

and you've got new players in

and,

you know,

you're a bit awkward

that the first few stages

then flash forward,

you know,

to halfway through the season

and your best mates

are talking about our life

and,

you know,

everything about them

and you're sharing

all these tough situations together.

It's,

yeah,

it's pretty special.

I really enjoy the away trips

when we go away

and your room

and you get to know about

someone else even more

and,

yeah,

you're pretty much,

it's honestly like your family.

You're with each other 24-7

and,

yeah,

the friendships

and the connections you build

is really strong.

Mate,

what's the worst thing

about being a professional

rugby league player?

I guess being in the public eye

to an extent,

like,

you know,

it's nice

being recognised

for achieving

what you've done

and for the hard work

you put in

but,

you know,

there's also a million eyes

on you at once

and sometimes,

you know,

you can't always behave

the way you want to behave

or if you do misbehave

it can be controversial.

but look,

the worst part

is far outweighed

by the goodness in the game

and,

yeah,

I wouldn't trade it

for the world.

Yep.

What about you,

Brails?

Yeah,

it's definitely been

in the public eye.

I even say probably tackling.

I know.

Some of the boys

go to tackling

and it's like,

come on,

give me a week off,

you know what I mean?

Even this week

you've got Frankie Pelé

and Pangula coming in

so like,

you know,

I'm 80 kilos

wringing wet

and,

yeah,

definitely after the games

I'm pretty sore

and,

yeah,

maybe if I could

put in a few more kilos

I'd probably change my answer.

Mate,

you play well above your weight

and I think often

I see players

who are way bigger

than you

going vertical

so I didn't think

that would be a concern

for you.

So you're 27,

how old are you,

Brails?

24.

24,

oh,

far out.

What,

have you started to think

post-rugby league

and are you doing anything

at the moment?

I know you're doing

your,

your potty,

anything else

outside of rugby league

which,

you know,

to,

you know,

when you get that period

when you do have to transition

putting things in place now.

Yeah,

now I've been,

I've got a few ideas

I want to sort of do

after footy.

When I first came in

to the NRL

I started my,

you know,

PE teaching course

at Wollongong Uni

but actually lasted

two weeks

and then pulled the pin

on that.

But yeah,

I've got a few

sort of ideas

I want to probably

stay in the game

a little bit.

Be a specialist coach

in dummy,

half or in the spine

or a bit of kicking

would be nice

or even,

you know,

a different avenue

with being a primary school

teacher or a firefighter

I want to,

you know,

help out the community

somehow and I don't

want to be stuck

in an office.

I don't think I could

see myself being,

you know,

stuck inside

and being on a laptop

for too long.

I'm a pretty active person

I want to be outdoors

so anything outside

I'm happy to do.

Yeah,

nice.

What about you?

Big tubs?

Yeah,

I attempted university

when I was younger

and it wasn't for me.

Can't study,

can't sit still,

can't do something

I don't want to do.

Really?

I don't know,

weirdo.

But in terms of,

I had some good

chat with you about it,

about what to do

and just sort of

building those connections

that you meet,

the amount of people

you meet in good places

in rugby league

is ridiculous

and I'm sort of

slowly learning

how to,

you know,

make use of that

and build some

relationships in the game.

In terms of an actual

avenue,

that hasn't really

presented itself yet.

I haven't really got a skill

to be a specialist coach

so that's sort of

out the window for me.

But look,

the one thing I want to do

when I'm done

is just travel.

I want to see the world.

I want to,

it's a big world out there

and I've lived in a very

small part of it

so far so

I think

through doing that

I think it'll sort of

open some doors

and

show me

the way I want to go

when footy's done

because

yeah,

I don't want these years

to be the best years

of my life.

That's one thing

that I've sort of

realised lately

and I'm worried about that.

I'm worried this will be

the best years of my life

and I don't want that

to be that way.

There's a lot of life

to live after footy

and

yeah,

I need to start

sort of thinking about that

and getting old

and I'm breaking down already

so I'm waiting to see

what happens.

Mate,

well I think

it comes back a bit

to your mentality

and having that sort of

mentality and attitude

because the reality is

you retire at 33,

you know,

you've got to work

for another 30 to 40 years

this,

when you look back

is only a small time

in your life

but it is some of the best

years of your life.

Like you said,

you're going to work

with 30 blokes

and you're lifting weights,

you're feeling good

about yourself,

you're going out,

people are cheering for you guys

aren't they?

But you know,

you're doing what you love as well

but

there is 30,

40 years

and the way you're already thinking

I think you're thinking

along the right lines.

You spoke about travel.

Did you two go to America

together last year?

We were there together.

We were there at the same time.

Austin.

How was that?

Mate.

It was great.

Yeah?

It was great.

He had a way better trip

than me for sure.

Yeah.

Fact?

Yeah.

Nick at Heinz,

don't get him on a plane,

don't get him out of Australia.

Why?

He's just,

I went to Bali,

I went to Bali with him.

I don't,

should I say it on camera?

He got Bali belly.

Yeah.

shat the bed.

Literally.

He literally,

literally shat the bed

and he's just,

yeah,

we were there for four days,

freaked out,

didn't enjoy it.

Obviously,

we all got sick

so that wasn't great

and since then,

yeah,

I don't think he'll be

leaving the country again.

America was the same.

Worse.

Didn't enjoy America.

No.

Really?

He only ate steak and mash

so you're travelling around

and you want to try different food,

you want to try different cultures

and he's just like,

where are chips?

Like,

where are they?

That's all he gives a fuck about.

He doesn't want to try something new

and this and that.

Oh,

let's get half the order

and half the order

and we'll swap.

No,

he'll get scared.

But at the same time,

he was travelling with Toby

for a majority

which is a headache in itself.

You know,

I'm a good traveller.

What do you mean?

You lost your passport,

you lost your wallet.

I didn't lose my passport.

Did you lose your wallet?

No,

I didn't have.

You left it in the car.

No.

Oh,

I lost the phone in the car.

Fine.

You got it back.

Yeah.

Yeah,

but that was like,

in Bali pools,

I'm surprised I didn't get like AIDS

or something.

I was put my head under

every single pool

and then I got in a flight.

So,

anyway.

Bali pools is where you get it.

Bali pools.

Yeah,

yeah,

yeah.

No,

it was,

yeah,

we did meet up in Austin

and had a great time.

Saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers live.

Yeah.

That was mad.

Yeah.

Rainy street,

6th Street,

Austin,

great city

and then you guys ended up

going to New York and Vegas

and having the best time ever.

Went to a college NFL game

which was sick.

I hated it.

Toby almost passed out.

Yeah,

the game from the heat

or the alcohol?

No,

no,

that was literally,

I just got a 30 hour flight

from,

no,

I got a 30 hour flight

from Bali

to LA

and then I had to drive

because I had an ear infection

and I had to drive 30 hours

from LA to Texas.

I had to drive across the country

with a friend of mine.

Then I got,

the first thing I do

is get to the game

and we walk up to the very top bleachers

and I'm just like

in a world of hurt

and then I just like,

start like feeling

like the weight of gravity

just pull me down

like,

call an ambulance,

call an ambulance

and,

we're in the nosebleeds

and he's lying down

in between the seats

with point water on his head.

Yeah.

All sorts.

Well,

you know,

it was a big few days.

If you're given an RPE

after the game,

he's given 10 out of 10 experience.

You're zero out of 10

but nine out of 10

on the head noise.

Yeah,

it was bad.

It was bad.

So,

are you looking for

any travel partners

for this off season?

I don't think there'll be

anyone queuing up or?

No,

everything else is great

other than those experiences.

There's about five of them.

There was a few,

yeah,

there was a fair few.

I've been there for two weeks too.

Yeah,

I know.

No,

I was only in the States.

We went to go there for ages

but I was in LA for two nights.

It was shit

and then

it was a two day drive

and then

Austin for four days

and then Mexico.

Yeah,

that was fun.

Yeah.

I love Mexico.

And you're in a relationship rails?

Yeah.

How long have you been

settled down for mate?

Actually,

not that long.

Is it official?

Yeah.

Okay,

sorry.

Yeah,

not that long.

It's still pretty fresh.

I'm enjoying it.

I was never great at being single.

I enjoy the company.

I'm glad you admit it now finally.

Yeah.

Yeah,

good.

Yeah,

I definitely,

I definitely enjoy

having my partner there

and it's been great.

Have you told your lover?

We can cut that.

I want you to just look

down the barrel of the camera

and tell your lover.

No,

no.

Do you want to give her a shout out?

No,

no.

And Toby,

do you want to give your girlfriends

a shout out?

Susan Rudolph,

I love you Susan.

You're the best lady

I've ever met

and the only woman in my life

and I love you for it.

Love you my man.

Are you looking for love?

Always.

Yeah.

Always looking for love.

Just haven't found it yet.

Okay.

One night,

I was going to say one night love

or longer term love

like Brails is looking for.

I mean,

you can always find,

I've heard plenty of stories

of one night love

turning into long term love.

Yeah.

You know,

they're not sort of mutually exclusive.

Yeah.

I'm looking for love actively

all the time.

It's just,

I just haven't really found that yet.

Maybe one day.

Mate,

where you live

and down on the Esplanade,

I'm sure you'll be doing

a fair bit of recruiting

down along the Esplanade there.

Yeah.

Well,

I mean,

I do have like this balcony

that overlooks the Esplanade

and I think in the summer

I'll just be a bit of a

bit of a party vibe,

a bit of a,

hey,

what are you guys doing?

Want to come up

to my amazing apartment?

Hey.

You sent me a photo of it yesterday.

I did,

yeah.

It's pretty good,

eh?

I did not hear a ten head noise

at home

and you're smiling

in the water in the background.

It looked fantastic.

It is,

it is.

It's a good place.

You should come around

sometime and call me.

Yeah,

well,

man,

if you reply to my messages

and actually funny you're saying

like about players

when they come to your club

and you know,

getting an arm

and it took you two years

to like this bloke

and then he's like,

I'm not arrogant.

I'm like,

he didn't follow me back

for six months.

Well,

I just,

I wasn't sure if you wanted

to be my friend

or my business associate.

I don't know what was going on.

You were the LCI

with this,

you were that.

No,

man,

I'm a friend of everyone.

Well,

if I like him.

Okay.

Paul Vaughan?

I like him,

huh?

Not Paul Vaughan.

No.

Okay.

Well,

dude.

What about you,

Brails?

I can imagine

you just liking anyone.

I don't think I can fight.

Never been in a fight in my life.

So,

actually one time,

a school game,

I did get in a fight.

Well,

I didn't,

but our team did

with Sif Italica's team.

We didn't know each other

and he right hand hooked

my brother

and he still got the photo

of his head

gashing out.

That was the closest

I got to a fight

and then since then,

no.

Were you playing with your brother?

Playing with my brother.

School team.

Oh,

how old was his age yet?

Was he 18 or 16,

something like that?

Yeah.

Okay,

there you go.

And then Sif,

130 kilos.

Yeah,

17 years old.

Yeah,

yeah.

No thanks.

Hey,

thrown in reverse.

Mate,

you got caught into the Origin squad

the other week.

How was that experience

and,

you know,

the footy you're playing,

you're obviously very close

to getting selected

for Origin 2.

Yeah,

how was it all?

Yeah,

it was great.

It was good to see,

you know,

behind the scenes

of how the week goes

and how the best players

in the competition

prepare and train

and,

yeah,

it was unreal

to sort of meet new people

and,

you know,

teammate,

when you're versus teams,

you're,

you don't really know each other,

you have that sort of rivalry

but then once you,

you know,

get into those camps

you realise they're actually

really nice guys,

you know,

great people

and,

you know,

the short time I was there

made some good connections,

good friendships

and,

yeah,

hopefully I can get in there soon.

Yep,

what was the,

what was the personalities

like in the group?

Was there a fair bit

going on there?

Yeah,

it was good.

It seems like there's a few

big personalities.

Yeah,

definitely,

you know,

you can hear Foxy,

you know,

laughing wherever you are

and you hear the boombox going

and,

yeah,

definitely a lot of big personalities there

and it was a great few days

I was in there.

What about,

good mates with your brother,

Tyson Frizzell,

did he make much sound in camp?

He's one of my good mates,

I love the man

but,

I couldn't,

he's a quiet guy.

Yeah,

there was a lot bigger personalities

there who sort of took the spotlight

and took the,

the microphone

and spoke constantly

but,

yeah,

he's a great guy,

I had a few conversations with him

and,

yeah,

I stuck with him

a couple of times there

so,

I didn't know too many people

so it was good to lean on him

and catch up with him.

Setbacks in rugby league,

like,

how do you deal with that?

You know,

people who are watching at home,

they don't know,

you know,

we touched on how good it is

to be a professional rugby league player

but at the same time,

you're dealing with injuries

and we're in the middle of winter now,

I can only imagine the bangs

you got on your body

but,

what are you doing,

you know,

away from training

to make sure that,

you know,

you're getting back to your best form

when you're not playing well

or you're looking after injuries?

Injuries for me,

so I,

when I first came to the club

I had a knee reconstruction

straight away so,

I didn't,

I'd been training with the boys

for the first six months

when I was there

and I'd made zero connections

and not one person there liked me,

which is well established.

So,

in those situations,

literally,

you sort of keep those close to you,

close to you,

like,

that was where my mum

and my brother really helped me out

along the way,

just getting,

you know,

my friends from Aruba

sort of hanging around them

and just keeping just

the good people in your life

close to you.

In terms of,

like,

you know,

poor form

and things like that,

I think,

I think for me

it's just going back

to the basics.

You just gotta,

you can't think too far ahead.

You gotta go,

you know,

break it down with the coaches.

Where am I going wrong?

What am I doing differently?

Maybe change it up at training.

All these sort of things

and,

yeah,

probably the hardest part

of that being injured is,

you know,

no piss,

no fun,

which is a bit of a shame,

but,

you know.

Which has been you this whole time,

mate,

so that's true.

Which has been me this whole time,

yeah,

been a good boy,

so it's,

yeah,

being a good boy is no fun,

but it's gotta be done sometimes,

so,

Blake,

take it away.

Yeah,

no,

for me,

I just sort of keep footy,

you know,

at the gates

when you leave the ground,

you sort of leave it there

and,

yeah,

I don't like to sort of

sit on things for too long

and I know the game

can sometimes be complicated

too much

and,

like Toby said,

going back to the basics

and just doing the little things right

and,

yeah,

I seem to lean on them

and,

yeah,

I definitely leave footy

at the gates.

I don't like to sit on things

and,

I don't like to watch,

you know,

too much video

if I haven't played too well

or I just strip it back

and keep it pretty simple.

Yeah.

What about,

you know,

that Melbourne Storm game last week

and I know

games I played like that

which sucked.

I wouldn't get much sleep

the night after

even though I didn't have

much of an effect on the result

if we won or lost,

but for yourself

and you,

Toby,

you know,

say you got a 7.30 game

home

by 10.30,

11,

are you then looking at the ceiling

all night?

Like,

do you sleep after a game

and do you process everything?

Well,

I think you would sleep

after a game

because you'd be out

doing extracurricular activities,

but anyway.

Guilty.

Nah,

after a,

oh,

you know what,

I think my sort of rule of thumb,

I never really sleep

after games anyway,

too much adrenaline

pumping through the body

that sort of stuff.

Don't look,

don't smile.

Not a beach road?

Nah,

never heard of it,

what's that?

Nah,

but I just sort of,

my general rule of thumb is

that night,

feel terrible,

like,

you know,

let it all out,

but after,

24 hours is up,

I think that's sort of

what Fitzy brought it actually,

you just let it park at the door,

the only thing you can do there

is try and get better

for the following week,

there's no point dwelling on it

for however long

you try to dwell on it for,

it's just going to make you worse

and it's just going to put you

in a negative mindset

and the biggest thing

that I think Fitzy's actually

brought to this club

is just trying to stay positive.

A positive work environment

is,

you know,

a happy one

and a happy one

is generally a successful one,

so,

there you go.

That's a lot,

that was pretty good.

Lyrical genius.

Brails?

Well,

it's hard to beat that,

but I think

I've definitely,

after a loss,

I'll be sitting

at the ceiling

and staring at the walls

and thinking

what I could have done different,

but I think

the way the coaches

sort of keep it positive

even though,

you know,

you didn't play too well

and,

you know,

if they double down

and knock you around even more,

it's not great

and you sort of kick stains

for another two,

three days,

so,

I think the way they

keep it positive

and just keep it honest

and,

you know,

we don't sit on losses

for too long,

you watch your video,

you get that done

and then,

you know,

you close that book

and you move on to next week

and,

for me,

that helps.

I like to move on pretty quickly

not to dwell on it

and,

I think we got pretty good at that.

You know,

any good stories on the boys

or any good nicknames

that you want to share

with the watchers

and the listeners?

Oh,

Teague Wilt,

massive tight ass actually.

Yeah.

There was one time in 2019,

I played my first game

for the Jets

and I actually made friends

for the first time

since being at the Sharks

to be at nine months.

We were out in the piss

and we stopped past,

we were in a taxi,

stopped past

Macca's on the way home.

This was really fresh,

wasn't it?

Yeah,

this was early on.

I've gotten over it,

obviously,

as you can tell.

So,

we stopped past Macca's on the way

in a taxi

so the time's ticking over.

It's like a $70 Macca's feed

at the time.

I'm working at 45

to support myself

to try and earn a bit of extra cash.

Paid for that

and then we get to the Teague's house

which was a run down

meth lab pretty much

at the time

in Sutherland.

Get in there

and as soon as we get to the house

he just goes,

oh,

that's what it is mate.

Bang,

gets out of the cab

and I ended up paying for that as well.

So,

he still hasn't forgiven,

sorry,

I still haven't forgiven him

because he hasn't said sorry yet.

So,

Teague Wilton,

tight ass.

There you go.

Anyone else?

No,

I think what needs to be brought

is probably Dale Finucane,

the ultimate plugger.

Yeah.

Every post he does,

every photo he posts

is embesting a brand.

He's posting something,

he's making these weird videos,

he's doing something that,

you know,

just to get free things

and you see him walk through

the doors every day

and he's got his clothes on

and everything's given to him

for free.

So,

I don't know,

he might be another tight ass there

because he doesn't spend money on clothes.

Oh,

he is a tight ass for sure.

brings his own lunch.

Really?

Which is a plug,

you food,

I think it is,

or he gets his meals

and I don't know where he spends his money

because he gets a free car,

he gets his meals,

he gets his food,

he gets his clothes.

He's an ultimate plugger.

Teague,

is he re-signed yet

for next year?

So,

he's still off contract.

So,

maybe when that new contract comes through,

will you go asking him back

for half of that?

Yeah,

I wouldn't mind,

yeah.

Maybe like a,

I mean,

a KFC feed

and an Uber to somewhere exotic

would be nice.

Exotic,

define.

Yeah.

No.

Well,

James Graham,

I used to call him gravity

because he'd bring the mood down

and take everyone's energy.

Yeah,

that's a doozy.

Have you got anyone in the group like that?

Easy,

yeah.

Kim McGuinness.

Kim McGuinness,

oh really?

I love that guy.

Yeah,

sometimes like,

I'm next to him in the sheds,

if I walk through the door,

he just looks at me and goes,

like,

I've got these new pair of shoes,

these Birkenstocks.

They're like these clog,

looking German shoes.

They're new,

they're fashion.

He doesn't understand.

He's getting old.

You know,

he doesn't understand fashion.

He's rolling in with a wife,

beater,

singlet.

He's wearing all sorts of things.

He's actually offering me money

not to wear them.

So,

he's just constantly just picking at me

through little things like that.

Yeah,

no,

Kim can't find a way to,

if he can find a thing to complain about,

put it that way.

I love him as well.

I love him to bits.

He's one of my favourites at the Sharks,

but,

yeah,

he'll just,

he'll find a way,

like,

someone walks in and he's like,

fuck wearing that for?

Yeah.

Really?

So,

he's not doing gratitude in the morning?

He's waking up,

he goes,

fucking Braille's gonna have them

fucking Birkenstocks on again.

Yeah,

constantly.

Well,

he gets up at 4.30 every morning as well

on his days off,

so that can't be good for you.

I don't know.

What's he doing at 4.30 when he wakes up?

Mate,

he gets up.

He's burying bodies.

100%,

yeah,

I agree.

He's a serial killer.

Well,

boys,

thanks for coming along for the chat.

I've really enjoyed it.

And,

yeah,

we won't cut all that stuff you spoke out about.

I appreciate it.

Thanks for having us,

Latty.

Thank you.

Thanks,

boys.

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