Mark Watson

But who do you bring in?

the back as well you know like you add all these guys who are injured you're not on past glories you're like a man you're not a fan mate you're starting to talk about Sir Alex this time these guys are still in the squad and will come back trust me you said the coach is no good yeah he is no good they'll win it despite him like they did last year Mark I want to

He makes good points.

Yeah, it's the same walking around my son's school, even on the North Shore, where you'd think, you know, rugby league hasn't got that much of a stronghold.

It's all football jerseys and Warriors jerseys.

That's all it is.

You'd get beaten up if you were a football top when I was a kid in Christchurch.

Absolutely.

You got called a soccer poof at school.

I must remember that.

100%.

But rugby league jerseys were always popular.

Yeah, it wasn't the, yeah, the ugly ones.

The ones with the strange coloured patches everywhere.

You never wore an actual team's top.

Whitney Houston, yeah.

Massively.

And she had an opportunity to be head coach earlier this year.

And turned it down because she worked under Wayne Smith at the last Rugby World Cup and saw how he did things and wasn't quite ready to make that step up.

Under Alan Bunting, I think he's more of a culture guy.