State of Origin series

And, and, and a great story there, guys, is, you know, the grand final breakfast.

I remember we went to the grand final breakfast and, uh, you know, we'd played with a lot of Parramatta guys that season in, in the rep football State of Origin for Australia.

And I remember Andrew Johns getting on the team bus and grabbing the microphone and saying, "Hey, guys, we've got these guys beat." He said, "We're already in their heads.

None of the guys would speak to us at breakfast." Nathan Hindmarsh and, you know, a few of the guys who we played rep football with turned their backs and said they weren't, you know, basically available to speak to us.

He's played so many big games.

He's played a heap of State of Origin football.

He's played Test football, played grand finals.

You could just see that he, he made it personal.

I'd build the team around the halfback and, mate, there's only one who you'd wanna build a team or a club around, and that's Alfie Langer.

Alfie Langer.

Um, in, [tsking] what year was it? I'm gonna say 1989, the first of your four State of Origins.

You walk into a side with Louis Miles, et cetera, and Alfie Langer.

What was that like as an experience?

And Dylan Lucas, before he got injured with that ankle injury, was...

He played State of Origin and was one of the night's best.

So there's plenty of players.

40-man squad is a pretty big squad, and you normally get those players who didn't play finals or whatnot get picked early on, and then it whittles down.

He was being a bit of a pest and he was standing behind people while they were doing other interviews.

So obviously a very experienced player, Kurt Capewell, both at NRL and State of Origin level.

So his leadership will be enormous tomorrow, as it always is.

But in these big games, as someone who's won an NRL premiership before, he knows what it takes in those clutch moments to go, right, lads, time to grow another league.

They are Jew.

Now, Chappie, the other day you popped out to Warriors HQ and caught up with a couple of the wars.

And you talked to a bloke who's only been here for, well, not quite a year yet, and another bloke who's very much a dyed-in-the-wool warrior and a State of Origin rep as well.

Yeah, also chatted with Chanel Harris-Tavita and Timoti Martin.

You've had Olympic Games.

You've had Cricket World Cup finals, AFL Grand Finals, State of Origin, Bradman, Ablett.

Modra.

You've had the Pope here.

It's sort of almost one-on-loss before the game's even kicked off.

And Origen's like that.

You can't play the game in your head too many times before you step on the field, you know? So,

you know, a

And Dylan Lucas, before he got injured with that ankle injury, was...

He played State of Origin and was one of the night's best.

So there's plenty of players.

40-man squad is a pretty big squad, and you normally get those players who didn't play finals or whatnot get picked early on, and then it whittles down.

And Dylan Lucas, before he got injured with that ankle injury, was...

He played State of Origin and was one of the night's best.

So there's plenty of players.

40-man squad is a pretty big squad, and you normally get those players who didn't play finals or whatnot get picked early on, and then it whittles down.