Rugby League Week

Well, so what happened is the IRL took it over.

So it was Open Rugby and then it was, I think it was Rugby League Week, Golden Boot.

So it was as part of a magazine promotion.

You know, that's how the Immortals concept came about.

to sell port

really

yeah it was it was for rugby league week back in it was 1980 1981 yeah and they went and they said well we'll name these guys immortals and there were four guys that were named and then that's then been taken over by the the australian rugby league commission and the national rugby league and now now it's a uh and incredible privilege to be determined as an immortal of the game.

But initially, it started to sell port.

Well, so what happened is the IRL took it over.

So it was Open Rugby and then it was, I think it was Rugby League Week, Golden Boot.

So it was as part of a magazine promotion.

You know, that's how the Immortals concept came about.

to sell port

really

yeah it was it was for rugby league week back in it was 1980 1981 yeah and they went and they said well we'll name these guys immortals and there were four guys that were named and then that's then been taken over by the the australian rugby league commission and the national rugby league and now now to uh and incredible privilege to be determined as an immortal of the game.

But initially, it started to sell port.

He was a genius in the old studios when it was cart decks and all that sort of thing, much different to what we've got now.

But I did work experience in 1984 when I was in year 10 at TUE, 2GB and Rugby League Week.

Ian Heads, who was one of the all-time great journalists and authors, he hired me at Rugby League Week to go in on a Friday and identify slides as they were taken the week before by the Rugby League Week photographers and I had to file them away.

So it was a three or four-hour job every Friday in a park street.

And then I started to get work experience at TUE particularly and started there just as soon as my HSC finished basically in 1986.

Gibbsy.

Is that true? It's all true.

In fact, it became a massive story in Rugby League Week, which was the number one go-to mag at the time, about the mystery biter because Gibbsy had dozens and dozens of stitches in his nose and around his face.

Okay.

And that was in Rugby League Week, I think it was.

Yeah.

And...

I was

going to say, my good friend Phil Wilkinson, who used to work at Rugby League Week and Wigan Observer, his wife Claire, she doesn't know a single Wigan player, but she can't bear to watch.

So if she has to go to a game, she'll get so nervous at the result that she'll have to leave a seat and go and stand behind the...

But if one of the players walks past you in the supermarket, she doesn't know who he is.

How are we? Good.

Now, the Rugby League week, Rugby League week, Rugby League World Cup.

I used to work at Rugby League week.

Did you used to check the ratings, J-Moz, to see what you got back in the day? No, you always used to give me a five.

No, I gave, I don't know if you remember this guy, Dan Staines from the Tigers.

I gave him about a four or five once and he hit me up once when I bumped into him.

So no more ratings for Rugby League Week.

Anyway, Rugby League World Cup.