Chris Fagan

a reference all the time, you know, just to keep myself on track and not to feel sorry for myself and those sorts of things and just deal with life as it throws up its various challenges.

Should be textbooks in all secondary schools, I reckon, his books.

There's so much to learn about life from them.

I don't auction them off, Gerard.

What I do is I buy them and then I sell them back to the players.

So that just doubles the money.

So I don't know.

If I get 60 beanies, let's say it's $1,500 or something worth of beanies.

I tipped that in and then the players all buy a beanie off me so we end up sending a cheque for three or four grand to the three's big MD.

I've been doing that from the day I arrived here at Brisbane and the players are terrific with it.

Some of them put in a fair bit of money so it ends up a good healthy sum and

It's just my little way of trying to do something for him and to help the cause.

Public embarrassment, Gerard.

You can still Google that and find it on YouTube or somewhere, that event.

But it was fantastic to be invited.

I didn't expect I was going to tear the hamstring tendon off the bone.

I think all the tendons were off and I had to have an operation two days post the surgery.

the big freeze but as I said to Neil the positive was it gave the big freeze a little bit more publicity for a couple of more days because my hamstring became an issue of public interest.

Yeah, no, it didn't give me much.

I mean, to be fair, him and Billy Guest were a little bit worried about the legal implications of the fact that there wasn't a handrail on the steps from the water slide.