Matty Johns

I missed Block just by a little bit.

We played a trial game in 93 in New Zealand, and Block had just retired.

I remember looking across the halfway and going, Jesus, that's Benny, that's Cyril.

Yeah.

In recording this block, Origin was displayed last night.

Everything's been said about that.

We don't need to go over it again.

But I want to talk about, we want to have a yarn about your Origin experience block.

And, mate, they were the days where everybody knew, everyone who was sitting watching, everyone who was playing, knew in the first set of six it was on.

Exactly.

Wow.

Evolution of the game, mate.

But that game you're talking about, the SCG, it's like early in the game, the ball was just irrelevant.

Like it was just tearing to each other.

On that blocker, we've been talking about origin.

We're talking about physicality and everything.

We're going to talk about it later, but let's do it now because people love this shit.

Some of the mate sticks you had on the field, like there's an iconic one we used to play in South, which is always just a war.

Always.

And you and Bundy just squared up for the game and just headbutting each other like a couple of rams.