Phil 'Gus' Gould

I bet.

Oh, absolutely.

I've known Rabs.

40 years.

I've known him way back in my playing days.

We became mates through horse racing more than football.

He just happened to be a football commentator and I was playing football, but we knew each other from horse racing.

We both had a passion for that.

But yeah, I mean, you know, Fatty, Sterlo and Rabs have all retired.

My time will come very, very shortly.

And they were great days, particularly with Rabs.

And I say to people, how often can you say in your life you worked with the absolute best of all time?

Ray was like that.

Fatty and Sterlo were the original.

They were the best.

extraordinary the work that they did you look through the 90s and that with the footy show and the iconic show that it became and they did wonderful things for Rugby League Channel 9 has sold Rugby League to be a game sometimes better than it is they do a phenomenal job there and all the back people I mean you might have met them or not but all our production crews and all our young people that have been there for a long time and do such amazing work all the pre-tape and all the getting a broadcast to air they're phenomenal people they really are

How, how, you know, do you really realize you're going through the best time of your life?

You might know it for a lot of years.

You know, we just did it because it was fun and it was work.

And for us as retired players, it kept us in the game.