Matthew Ridge

Yeah, there was.

So there might have been a break.

But anyway, so I had this camera crew follow me.

I turn up to training with all these boys, you know, and they're fucking big.

And, like, they were just hard.

You know, rugby league players are hard compared to union players.

Just rough-edged.

So it was – and then I was 78 kilos, wringing wet pretty much.

So this skinny little guy with an afro.

gaps in my teeth you know with fucking surefire cocky as fuck you know like mate I'm gonna nail this did you bring have that bravado with you when you went across oh yeah I was like fuck I'm gonna nail this piece of piss that's what I thought you know

Oh, fuck, I've got this.

No problem.

No, never played, never played.

But, you know, like I was obviously watching it.

I was a big fan of rugby league, but I didn't realise how fast it was.

You know, like it was just so fucking quick, you know, because rugby like in those days –

Even to this day, you know, like when you're a fullback now, like a fullback can dance around for 20 minutes and not touch a ball, you know, like you just, and that's what it was like for me, you know, like they'd kick the ball down, you'd catch it, you'd run up to the line and then you'd just grubber kick a ball through 40 metres, it'd go at him and run, go...

And you'd run back into position, I'd go, fuck, how easy is this game?

You know, like it was, it was, it was, it was, my position was pretty basic.

But in league, my position was fucking far from basic.