Gerard Whateley

I'm Gerard Waitley.

Here's a snapshot of Thursday, June 18.

Adam Simpson ran the culture check over big boy conversations at footy clubs.

And Simmo is buying in on the Adelaide Crows.

Yeah, and so this is the whiteboard that's gridded up for each quarter and that's come and held out so the players can, and it's literally green or red the way that it's done with the texters.

And you see it probably about half the huddles across a weekend, I reckon.

Plus, Shannon Gill told us why New South Wales played Victoria in State of Origin in 1990.

Absolutely.

And that's just a snapshot.

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Righto, know your history at this time every Thursday.

To know where you're going, you have to know where you've been.

And as we discover virtually every week, it's all happened before.

We take our cues here from Origin, being in town last night, the blue of New South Wales, the passing of Neil Danaher, John Longmire's stories about this particular night, and we take you back to 1990, a State of Origin clash, when New South Wales shocked Victoria.

It was painting the most optimistic picture of what was happening when Victoria and New South Wales met.

Hello to you, Shannon Gill.

And it prompted the memorable headline, shame Vicks.

So she had a big fallout.

So our first shout-out is to New South Welshmen who were at the SCG that night because the crowd certainly played its role.