Wade McKinnon

And keep these texts rolling in.

Wade McKinnon, who debuted at South Sydney.

Of course, a good career at the Warriors and the Dragons.

I'll try not to look at the text line.

[laughs]

So yeah, all the old, you know, the old, um, older people there and anyway, Wade McKinnon was obviously at the Warriors and he was our key for the young fellas to go in there.

Oh, yeah.

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Would have been my favourite.

And also I loved Wade McKinnon.

Wade McKinnon's my all-time favourite.

When he was fullback because he would hit his shoulder.

Like if somebody got tackled, they're looking at offload, Wade McKinnon would hit his shoulder at about a billion miles an hour through the gap.

And he might get it one time out of 12.

But when he got it, she was

It was a super Saturday, April 11th, all right, the Penrith Panthers in 2009 round five.

Lachlan Coote at fullback, of course, winning a premiership with the Cowboys in 2015.

Michael Gordon and Shane Elford were the wingers.

Shane Elford's now a trainer, I believe, at the Penrith Panthers.

Bloke in the bars.

Denon Kemp was on the wing.

The fullback, Wade McKinnon.

Denon Kemp, goal kicker in this game as well.

I roomed with Feeney a little bit over the years.

Wade McKinnon, um, you know, Wade and I used to hang out a little bit back in the day, so we'd, we'd, we'd kinda room together and, and, um, yeah, it was always fun, always fun trips.

I didn't, I didn't have too many bad stories to share.

Maybe people with some stinky shoes and things like that-

I mean, uh, he's, he's gonna be, you know, a fantastic addition to the team and I'm sure Stacey is, you know, stoked to have him on board and, um, much like the rest of us.

So especially behind the forward pack, if, if they've got, you know, the, the, the boys are getting some, some meters around the middle there, I can see him, you know, really causing some, some havoc and attack and yeah, I'm excited to see him in the black and white jersey.

jersey.Uh, in that World Cup year, 2008, the Kiwis were almost fortunate for you that, well, that the, uh, that Wade McKinnon went down and you played a full season at, at fullback 'cause there wasn't really anyone else, uh, playing regular fullback in the NRL that was a New Zealander.

And I know that that squad, you played every game at fullback.

What about wingers? Vadevai would have scored a hat-trick.

Would have Wade McKinnon.

Probably.

Or like Francis Mellon.

Yeah,

nice.

Wade McKinnon, I

don't know.