Sam Burgess

That's what they needed.

But they didn't have that kind of like, you know, they needed, in that moment, they needed like a Sam Burgess or someone just to spark them.

Because that

was

And in the halves, I mean, Cam Munster and Tom Dearden, it is for mine.

And Sammy Walker was brilliant last night.

But I think for...

This is the only thing that I was trying to work out, and you'll be able to help me here, is if I'm going to pick Tedesco at fullback, I'll pick Walker in the halves, but if I'm going to pick Walsh at fullback, I'll be picking Dearden in the halves.

tell you what, Ippie's going today, mate.

Blue skies in Ippie today.

Yeah, yeah, I actually had a quick word to Sammy Walker last night, he's keen to jump on the 20th team.

Perfect.

And then over the coming years, they recruit a couple other good players.

They get Sam Burgess.

Sam Burgess.

Craig Wing comes back, returns to the club.

Yep.

Oh, was there an injury? I don't know.

I don't remember.

Sam Burgess broke his jaw.

They're the guys that I look up to.

So I thought an appointment for these 26-year-olds that are signing with Perth, maybe a Sam Burgess coming through.

I

think Sam was certainly mentioned in conversations.

We might need three to get somewhere near him.

So myself, Nick Riewoldt, Joel Selwood, Isaac Smith, Kate McCarthy, Jonathan Thurston, Sam Burgess, Dustin Martin, and your good self,

We're up against it.

We are.

Did you play that?

Yeah, I think you had like seven Burgesses playing.

Jimmy Graham.

Jimmy Graham.

Yeah

... you had Sam Burgess, you had James Roby, you had Shaun O'Loughlin, you had Widdop, you had Whitehead, you had Bateman.

Uh-

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