Marc Ellis

So they brought me on.

I was so excited I whacked the opposition.

My opponent, when he went to play the ball, never punched anyone in my life.

I must have been highly agitated and G'd up.

um nonetheless i apologized to him after the game but uh you know it was it was incredible they were a hell of good guys and if you catch up with them now i mean what i loved about that league environment is you know there wasn't any pomp or pretense there was no uh nose in the air that what you saw was what you got yeah blue collar straight shooters nice guys

Yeah.

I took a couple.

Well, they didn't really have them until I turned up.

Not to the sort of discipline level that we had accomplished in Dunedin.

I remember one when we were over, we were playing the World Club Challenge over in England somewhere.

We played some team and

I got ridgy because he was a rugby player.

So, mate, you're a pimp.

So he was on the fire hose.

So anyone who spoke, he'd just open the fire hose at this hotel and just squirt the hell out of them.

We had Bobby Lanigan nude, who was our trainer, because he kept on talking too much.

There wasn't a cold wall to hold it on or else he'd have been shaking and quivering in blue.

But, yeah, the league boys were cool fun.

And they embraced me and were –

Good mates to this day.