Andrew Mehrtens

Yeah, I agree.

I mean, that's how Andrew Mertens got his cap, wasn't it? All right, gentlemen.

Look-

I mean, your back three, our back three should be the most exciting attacking back three in the world.

Diego Dominguez, uh, Italy, and f-few caps for Argentina, is the last man over 1,000 caps.

Then you have Andrew Mehrtens, Michael Lynagh, Nicolás Sánchez from Argentina, Matt Burke, who was the kicker for Australia for most of, um-

Starkey

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I met the Waz and the Hot Pools when the Mad Butcher was with them.

Met Andrew Mertens twice.

Tane Randall.

Met Merv.

Yeah.

Um, Tony Brown, it was Tony Brown and Andrew Mertens, one of the boys got injured, and then I was the only other, only other cover, so I was on the bench then.

And, um, training was awesome that week, and we knew we were going up in the, against the French, and we wanted to start, start hard and fast and put a, a decent score on the table.

And just that first half, the boys were on fire.

Certainly sounds like there are some things that Duplessis needs to do to get into the reckoning.

Ian says, hey boys, great ABs team, so pleased for Josh Jacob, the next Andrew Mertens.

Anton and Blackadder, hungry dogs, what we need, otherwise get stuck in boys, says Ian.

Not sure I'd go that far with Josh Jacob.

And so piece by piece, with Smithy, I got opportunities to work with different individuals.

You know, you could capture an Andrew Mertens, who was a dominant player at the time, in a certain moment, a Tabai Mattson, you know, some of these players, and then all of a sudden they get a good result from an encounter with you and then they become an advocate.

But you're absolutely right.

It was certainly a one-by-one approach.