Moana Hope
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But I loved footy, right?
I really loved it.
And then when I started playing, it was before round one, we were warming up on a basketball court like two weeks before, and I landed on my knee and I tore my PCL.
I was made to play, right?
Couldn't run, couldn't jump, couldn't sprint.
But I was made to play because it was important.
And that's fine.
For me, it was about the league.
I'll play.
I'll do it.
I didn't want to miss it anyway.
I don't regret that.
What I hated, what I didn't like about it was like –
how horrible the media were and how horrible people were at me from that point forward.
Because I remember after that round, the back page of the paper was hopeless.
And then I was getting death threats and I was getting abused.
I'd walk to a shopping centre with my sister Vinnie.
People would scream at me.
I couldn't go anywhere without people having a go at me or telling me to get back in the kitchen.
You just need something that a man has in you to wake you up.