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Stirling Mortlock

Stirling Mortlock

Australian former rugby union player

Jul 9, 2026

4:54
I want to talk about
4:54
this, though.
4:55
Yeah, so the O3.
4:57
This is money.
4:57
So literally, you know... every tour you'd have a calcutta with in willoughby camp and and that you go crazy and especially when you're up in europe euro or pounds and you're putting lots of money down for this race that you've got no freaking idea about this time around it's o3 home world cup you know the pinnacle of pinnacle for us in your time zone and we're in in our time zone i think it was I think it was leading into the first quarter or maybe our last pool match, but it was getting to the business end of the World Cup.
5:30
So it was starting to get serious, right? And Morgz out of the whole squad.
5:36
Morgan Turunui.

12 MINS LATER

18:06
What's your undying memory from that? Is it George Gregan absolutely sledging the life out of the All Blacks late in that game or something else? Exactly right.
42:11
If you can't answer that, is there someone who's impressing you?
42:15
Oh, look, I've always liked the look of Joseph Soali'i.
42:20
And much like, I remember actually asking you, you know, is Link getting you to try to dominate at 13 because you were playing so many positions.
42:28
And I was like, mate, get in the gym, get bigger.
42:31
I always felt like you were built to play 13, but you had skills to be 15 and a winger.
42:37
Yeah.
42:39
Joseph, I reckon, if he had the chance, could be absolute crazy 13.

9 MINS LATER

51:16
You know what I mean? But I think the part that I'm saying is it's unfair because it was abolished and then players have made decisions and gone elsewhere thinking that they'd still be eligible, but now they might not be.

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