Matthew Ridge

Cause like something like Celebrity Treasure Island has no right to be as revelatory as it is.

You know, what started as a sort of goofy castaway show with Matthew Ridge, you know, walking past a pirate ship.

now plays host to these like really extraordinary conversations and relationships between people, which I just don't think we would see anywhere else.

And a lot of that is the casting, you know, they cast a really wide net across all sorts of different cultures and ages and professional backgrounds and increasingly like bringing in social media influences and people who might not come from traditional sort of showbiz backgrounds.

Absolutely, it's good.

When I think of the Rugby League World Cup, I always think of Matthew Ridge's dropkick off the left foot, which missed, and I think of Wally Lewis smoking darts at Eden Park during the game.

I mean, we lost when we had a wonderful, uh, rugby league team there in the mid-'80s.

Uh, I think the year before we beat the Aussie boys out here at Carlaw Park, or where we are right now.

So who are you going, who are we going next?

Darryl Halligan never played for the All Blacks.

Matthew Ridge never played a test for the All Blacks.

Jay Kaysen certainly didn't for the Kiwis.

People, someone's texted in and someone actually messaged me as well.

Do you ride around on it with no shirt like Matthew Ridge?

Sarah drew the line at that.

Okay.

So yeah, I think honestly this is the best chance for the Kiwis to lift that World Cup.

Uh, yeah, I've never been more excited than when, uh, up in the northern hemisphere, Matthew Ridge went to drop kick off his right, went to his left, and he missed, and it could have won us the World Cup.

Uh, so I think we've got a right royal chance.

Uh, I think this World Cup speaks volumes of the national Rugby League.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Fucking Matthew Ridge, a player from Manly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So

Um, I'm riding the, uh, Newcastle Knights.

I'm just looking at, uh, Andrew Johns and Matthew, uh, having a good, uh, spray at each other here on, on the TV before heading out with Wollerman's Travel.

So I'll be getting my gear on soon to get out there.

Yeah, yeah, look I, I'm with you on the daytime stuff.

... you back yourself to get out of yardage.

But, but taking the two points in league, I think ...

I mean, you, you, yourself and Matthew Ridge and then obviously El Masrray and stuff, um, took goal kicking to the ... you know, uh, revolutionized the game and, you know, made it of, you know, a- and changed the way people, goal kickers kicked in rugby league versus the old torpedo kick and the Mal Meninga-type players.

But I still reckon it's only been in the last five or six years even in State of Origin where they've actually taking the two points rather than just, you know, looking to kick and take an extra set of six.