Brad Thorn

It's about discipline, humility, faith and leadership and the relentless pursuit of becoming just a little bit better every single day.

This is Brad Thorn.

I wanted to confess something.

Actually, this is a huge honour for me, Brad.

And the guy, you know, he's just going, okay, mate.

I don't know.

And they say, yeah, who is it? Okay, who is it? And he says, Brad Thorn.

They had, yeah, they should, I guess they should have because I've made the teams and stuff.

...

Daniel Carter and Conrad Smith and Mils Muliaina and Brad Thorn.

They all captained together, you know.

Ritchie was the leader, and that's what Luke gives us.

Just hard.

Just like an easy hard.

Third, Brad Thorne.

Yeah, he was hard.

Different hard, durable.

Um, at the moment I think I'd go with Lord, and I think Dave Rennie said through the week that there are some things they want out of him, and it'll be interesting to see whether he thought he got those tonight.

But are you going, so you're going for the Brad Thorn and Whitelock as opposed to the Retallick and Whitelock?

Whitelock?Uh, yeah, but I think the thing about Brodie Retallick is that he treated his body [laughs] like a, like a, like a hard man.

Like, he went in, and he-

Tuns of Carroll back in the day.

Uh, Brad Thorn back in the day.

Couple of Brisbane Broncos.

Geez, I'll tell you what, you wanna talk about tough blokes.

Uh, tough forwards.

Tough blokes.

Tony Carroll and Brad Thorn are in the grand final for some of the toughest nuts that ever played the game.

Uh, it has happened previously, so it's because of the el- eligibility rules.

To me, I, I just don't understand why we can't just coexist and ...

Look, and it's a really interesting thing that Brad Thorn when, uh, you know, he came to rugby in New Zealand, and he, he talked about it one time, was that, uh, his league mates were saying, "Oh, you know, what's it like in New Zealand, you know, the league rugby thing?" And he said, "Well, most of the guys in the All Blacks have got a favorite league team." Yeah.

[laughs] "A lot of them follow the Warriors.

They've got a league team they follow." Yeah.

And

like, you know, we, we interview lots of different people.

One of the most fascinating ones and the one, the interview that I reckon people have got the most out of and feedback was we interviewed Brad Thorne.

And Brad Thorne, of course, played for the Broncos, All Blacks Australia, State of Origin.

He's the greatest winner ever.

think in the history of both codes you know everywhere we went that they just won the blokes a machine he just doesn't know failure and like he won comps at the broncos you know in origins then went to the all blacks one one comes went back to the broncos one comes went back to the all blacks when the european right everywhere he went they won but about A third of the way through the interview, he says, he said, I enjoy doing this stuff with you blokes because it's sort of easy, but he said, I suffer crippling anxiety.

Yeah.

I've had people reach out to me, just people I didn't know, saying they got so much out of that interview.

We begin the buildup to the Rugby League World Cup.

Plus, today, it's Bledisloe's Cup- Bledisloe Cup day, and we hear from both sides with Matt Gidley and Brad Thorn, and the full preview for the game, and of course, all the latest for the Australian tour of South Africa, Bathurst 1000, and the latest in the NRL market frenzy.

Boys, I prefer the game to be refereed the way it was, but you could make contact to the head, hip drop contest, bombs one-handed.

When you couldn't for a few games, then you could.

As the All Blacks look to attack the ball.

Steenkamp off to Habana.

Oh, Brad Thorn.

He lined him up big time.

I'll tell you what, you want to talk about hair standing up on your arms and the back of your neck.

We just had Brad Thorn on the line.

Blood is like a cup around the corner.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's easy to play games when nothing's on the line.

It's when the pressure's on, can you lean into it? And, you know, we'll talk to Brad Thorn about that, leaning into that pressure when you're an All Black and what that means.

But he had a fair bit to say about that.