Mitch Cleary

A lot of that backline hinges on him.

Here I was thinking, Jim, you were about to say, can you believe it's already round 13, but you're looking at it the other way.

I can't remember a year that's had this much jammed into the first half.

And we're going to have two clubs for the run home talking about which coaches are going to appoint.

Plus you're throwing Tassie as well.

Brad Scott and Michael Voss both sacked essentially before the midway point of the season.

So, yeah, plenty to talk about.

But you're talking about...

State of origin at the start of the year, all the build-up into pre-season and the start of the year.

Next year, I expect that will be pushed back a week or two, given that new cricket match, or the 150th year cricket match, Australia-England.

So, Jim, we might be at this time next year talking about five months to the season left to go.

It was windy.

I wasn't there.

We sent the cameras out.

Oh, a bit of drama?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A bit of theatre?

Yeah.

You got blown off the ground.

Yeah.