Matthew Ridge

He was an amazing attacking player, but defensively he was, like, average, and that's being kind stays, you know.

You know, like, you don't want a premiership if you don't have a halfback that can attack and defend.

That's it in a nutshell.

If you've got a weakness in your line, you're fucked.

When your salary was linked.

Oh, mate, that was awful, right?

So, yeah, and they did that just to put pressure on me.

So what happened was I think Tainui were trying to buy it or somebody was trying to buy it, I can't remember.

And they came to me and they were like, hey, you've got to take a pay cut.

I was like, yep, cool, as long as everybody else takes a pay cut.

They were like.

well, but you're the highest paid.

I'm like, okay, that's fine.

But as long as everybody else takes a pay cut, I'll take a pay cut.

Okay.

And I think I was on 750 or something.

I was seeing money, but like, you know, fuck, so what?

You know, you paid it to me.

Well, you can't come down and go, no, we don't want to pay it to you anymore.

You know, fuck off.