Richard Fidler
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It sounds like your grandparents were really good at kind of communicating with kids in a kind of a loving and moral sort of way.
Was your dad affectionate with you and your siblings?
Right.
That's got to be just understood.
It's just implicit.
Was that seen as unmanly, do you think?
To do that sort of a thing?
So maybe it's more like the local culture in Australia that was more like that.
Because we don't do that very often in Australia.
Sometimes happens, but you don't traditionally say, I love you as someone's walking out the door.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What did he want for you?
He wanted for me and my brothers to all be professional rugby league players.
Why rugby league players?
What did he think that would do for you?
I'm assuming he was a fan of the sport, but what did he think that would do for you?
Who coached you when you first started?
Tell me about this coach you had because it sounds like she was a major influence on you as a kid.
Yeah, we had a woman coach by the name of Robyn Connor.