Yvonne Sampson

and just sort of get them more exposure.

I think that's what I didn't have was like, you know, I had Dell, thank God.

And shout out to Dell.

But for sure, I feel like,

because of my i was just lucky with timing i think also fans were at a point where they didn't push back so hard on on hearing a female on the broadcast um so i don't think i'm any different or special or anything that hadn't already come before it was just a timing thing really because we'd had women around the game um you know margie mcdonald is still reporting in the game she's she's been there since you know forever and and you know debbie spillane and

Yeah, there were so many women.

Rebecca Wilson.

They were all around.

It worked for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it felt, I'd never really thought about it.

I think cause I'm an only child and I grew up riding horses.

And so you just compete against, you know, everyone equally.

So, and cause dad always treated me like an equal, you know, like I had to go fix the fences and.

do whatever he needed to do so I was never really treated differently from anyone else and so it was weird when I'd start my professional career and that's how you know we really don't want a female sports reporter or we really don't this is I have had an executive say we love what you do but a female's voice shouldn't be the first one we hear on rugby league oh shit

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you think, oh, that's weird.

I don't lead with my gender, do you know?

So hopefully I'm a good host and I can contribute to the broadcast in some way.