Matthew Ridge
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I rang him and he said, mate, I'll be over soon.
And so he flew over and I went and had a meeting with him.
And I didn't really tell anybody.
I think I told a guy called Grant McCarra, who was my coach at my rugby club.
And nobody had, there were no managers or anything like that because no one was professional, right?
There was no one.
There was absolutely no one.
So Grant, I rang Grant because he was an accountant.
So I thought, fuck, okay, well, you might have some, you know.
But bless Grant, he's made a shitload, but he had no idea back then.
And I can remember sitting in front of Lowy and he was like, right, mate.
He just came out and he said, so what do you think you're worth?
And I went...
I don't know.
That's what I said.
I said, I don't know.
And he went, okay, all right, well, this is what I think he was.
He got, we were at, it was at the.
At the Po?
At the Poinamo, over the shore.