Emma Lawrence

And because my brother played footy, so I grew up around football and my brother played for the West Tigers for 15 years.

So I was kind of always surrounded by it.

So I knew a lot of athletes, not that they were my best friends, but I was just in that environment.

But...

There have been a few moments.

There was one moment where my first year at Channel 9, when I was working on the grand final for 9, I was working alongside Fatty Voughton and I used to love watching the footy show every Thursday night and Cameron Smith, who's arguably the greatest player of all time.

And I remember being at Suncorp Stadium, looking around, thinking they were playing that Flametree song as well.

Like I can actually remember being in that moment and...

They had up on the screen all of the former premiers and going through the teams each year.

So I can feel like even now, I can feel like I'm in that moment.

And I remember thinking, wow, I'm so lucky.

I've made it.

I always wanted to do this and work alongside these legends of the game.

So yeah, not that I'm not grateful for it, but often just week to week, you kind of just go through the motions.

And I mean, we probably should

sit back a bit more and reflect and be grateful for the position that we're in.

But yeah, it certainly is a very cool job.

Yeah, I think for sure.

Yeah, when I was coming through, so when I was young, there weren't, I mean, now there are a lot of females working in rugby league.

But when I was younger, say when I was in high school or when I was starting out at uni, when you watch the TV or turn on the radio, there weren't a lot really.