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Welcome back to another episode of the Alpha Blokes podcast. We are here to give the everyday battler a voice and delete head noise one laugh at a time. If you're having a beer, make it a better beer. Jogging a can, winning a tin, the athlete's choice. Now, it's origin time. Couple of days, we're going to kick some blue ass.
So we thought, why don't we get a mate of ours in, a mate that we've been hanging around with a bit recently. Met him through the knuckler. And this man has played a fair bit of footy in his day, Jared Wallace. Thanks for coming, mate.
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Chapter 2: How did Jarrod Wallace get into rugby league?
So my first year of contract with footy, I was on $30,000. So that was my full-time contract. Like I trained all day, every day. And, you know, that to me then I was like I would have played for free. Like it was gun.
Yeah, you were just pumped to be there.
Yeah, pumped to be there, got pumped to train. So we just trained like hard. But the younger guys we would train from pretty much November 1st and then the older guys would probably come back five, six weeks later. So we kind of already started training and stuff like that, but our bodies weren't ready for that yet. They were getting it used to. You're probably getting the fitness up.
So we kind of went through that, and then my coach at the time was Anthony Griffin. Got to after Christmas, and he's like, look, I'm going to keep you on full time, which was cool. My contract went up to $52,500 at that stage, which was cool. And then literally I debuted, I can't remember what round it was. It might have been like 16 or something like that. It was Origin Time Game 2.
We played the Roosters in Sydney. Back then we lost like six players. We lost Koza, Thaddei. I think Benny Teo was still there. I think he may have played with us. I think he did drop a Petro.
uh hodges like so we lost heaps so there's a lot of guys there's myself um brendan gibb i think another gladstone boy um brendan gibb debuted and lock and marana yeah um down in sydney and we were massive underdogs because obviously the roosters did you know they had a lot of kiwi boys like jared hargraves and mossy masoi and all that sort of stuff so we were heavy underdogs pouring rain um
And we actually got the win, which was cool.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, it was nice, man. But I got the talk on the Thursday from Griffin. He pulled me in the office and he's like, oh, look, you're going to be 18th man this week. And I was like, fuck, yeah, that's gone. He's like, yeah, Lockie Miranda and Brendan Gibb are actually going to debut. And I was like, fuck, I thought I was better than Gibb.
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Chapter 3: What were the key moments in Jarrod's career?
It was the most consecutive game sitting on the bench without actually getting on the field. I think I was sitting there for three or four and then I got on that next week luckily. Jamie Brewer had it at one stage and then I didn't take it off him luckily and then Latsy ended up taking it off him, which is good. And it was hard for me because, like, I was number 14.
I was being told from Anthony Griffin that I was going to play 10 weeks, you know, 20 minutes in, you're going to be on, you're going to be going.
Yeah, it's not like you're 18th man or something, so you're not expecting to play. You're sitting there ready the whole game.
Yeah, ready to rumble, man. So, like, I was getting ready to play in that, and then he's like, 20 minutes, be ready. So I'm, like, up, running around, sitting on the bike, you know, hitting each other, like ā
Chapter 4: What was it like playing for Queensland?
getting ready and then i just wouldn't get on so like it really like it broke a bit of my confidence because i'm like fuck why am i not getting on like if i'm not gonna is it because like i'm not good enough if he's like if he's not picking me or yeah but i'm like if why are you picking me at all if i'm not gonna get on and that's where i end up going to him um
I walked into his office and I was like, what's going on? He's like, oh, no, it's good. It's all fine, mate. I just haven't had the chance. I said, well, you either play me or you don't. I don't want to sit there for a while. I would rather play for Norse and actually get game time than sit here and do nothing and just be a number. Go and put someone that's going to play.
and contribute to the team. And then so we went through that year. So we ended up getting my shoulder done that year. We had about six of us all get our shoulders done together, David Staggs, myself, Matt Gillette, Jack Reed and all that. So we had a pretty cool group of boys. We had a pretty big off-season together, but it was just all the shoulders.
But it was the year that Wayne came back, so it was all real daunting. So Wayne doesn't come in before Christmas, right? Yeah, right. At all, nothing. Well, he does, but like you don't see him.
So like you'd be training and getting your ass absolutely handed out to you on the field and you'll just see this like shadow of a stick figure because it's as big as he is, like a fucking broomstick standing up on the hill with like a head on top of it and he'd just be looking down watching. That's what Wayne does, bro.
And then after Christmas, like day one, he'd walk in, he'd shake your hand and it was sweet. And so, like, I was already daunted enough. Like, I hadn't really played that much. Like, is he going to keep us? He was sacking guys, all that sort of stuff. So I was like, is he going to keep me? And then I didn't come back round one. We signed this guy called James Kabay from the New Zealand Warriors.
He came over and he was a big Kiwi follower. And he went pretty hard, but ā He had a screw loose in his head, bro, like proper screw loose. I could see why they kind of wanted him. And he actually did his ACL at training leading into that week of round two. Yeah, right. Which was good. So I remember I got called into the ā I found out I was playing in our team meeting. So we're sitting there.
There was me, Cody, Nick Arima. He hadn't debuted yet. He was only like a kid. And Wayne looks at me and goes, well, I'm going to pick you this week, but you've got one game to prove yourself for. You can find yourself another club.
Holy fuck. That was like ā That's big. Never spoke to Wayne before.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Jarrod Wallace share about his training routines?
Like he'd be still playing there and he'd be like dangerous. But like he was dangerous and he didn't like training. Yeah, just had the natural ability. Natural ability, yeah. Yeah. Like you see so much in like Luttrell and that of like T.I. But, you know, if they had the mindsets of that real professional, like different of like Smitty, Cooper Cronk.
Cooper Cronk used to bring his own cereal to Origin. True. Yeah, like that was the mindset that guy had.
was that dialed into it routine and stuff yeah bro because like you like you have a routine you go into origin camp you got breakfast lunch and dinner and like i'm talking chef like you want omelette you want this on wednesday night we go in it's a seafood buffet and i'm talking unlimited bug crab you know everything we go out for dinners it'd be you know everything was unreal bro but he was so locked into his routine he'd have his own cereal for breakfast
He'd have his fucking mince and cheese for lunch or whatever it is, you know, and a steak for dinner. That's how locked in he was. Jesus. I suppose. A bit like you, Poo-Way. Yeah, exactly. Much the same, much the same. Exactly, yeah.
I'm dialed in today.
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Chapter 6: How did Jarrod Wallace transition to a career in boxing?
Yeah, man. I suppose, mate, like at the tail end of your career, you had a stint in Super League, didn't you? Yeah. Went over there? Yeah. Yeah, run us through how that's sort of come about.
So I was finishing off, like I was getting to that back end of the ā stage at Dolphins and they wanted to re-sign me for a year. But Christian Walsh would come up to me and he's like, oh, if you could get anything bigger like overseas, because he said like overseas, it's built for you and you'll probably last another three or four years over there.
Yeah.
It wasn't that I was slowing down or anything. It was just the fact like I just wasn't mentally fully there anymore. Like I didn't want to train as ā I didn't want to train as hard anymore. Like I didn't want that for ā So I really did ā I wanted to retire the year before, but my missus was like, no, you'll regret it. Like, you don't want to.
So I was going to do it, and then midway through the year, I had a real kind of tough year in that back end of my last year. Like, my missus got cancer. We found out she was pregnant with twins. We lost the twins because the cancer sucked the life out of them and stuff.
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Chapter 7: What challenges did Jarrod face after retiring from rugby league?
So I went for a real hard little patch. I ended up playing a game after I found out on the Friday ā Got through that game. Wayne gave me two weeks off, went through that, and then trained for a week, come back against the Bronx. Yeah, scored a try and that, like, did all right, but I was just so unfit. So Wayne was just like, nah, like, I just need you to train a bit more, get some fitness.
I was like, that's sweet. And I just couldn't come back from it. Like, the guy ā it was ā
mentally i was done there so it was like if that maybe had to happen midway through your career or something yeah i would have been sweet yeah i would have had hunger left but it was like where you were in your career and then you add that on you were like i'm not coming back from that i was done with it and i just didn't have to fight in me to want to train like that anymore and stuff like i had my kids and um all that like i had other in my head i had other things that more prioritized doing training from 6am to 6 at night
And that's what you need to do as a footy player. Even when you're not training, you need to be ā you have food or you need to be watching video and stuff like that. So I just said ā I walked into Wayne at the start of the year and Sam Burgess actually tried to poach me from him and Wayne told him to fuck off. Because him and Wayne obviously have a great relationship and talk a lot.
And he rang my manager and then Sammy rang me and I said, look, I would love to come play with you. Like if I was anyone to go to a Super League club, it would be good because, like, he's very much like Wayne. So I said, I'll definitely, yep, I'm in. I'll come play. But I said, you've got to pass Wayne. I'm not asking him. You've got to ask him because I'm scared of him.
Yeah. Yeah.
And he's like, yeah, yeah, done. So he rang him and Wayne, the first five minutes, he's like, nah. He's like, nah, you can fuck off. I'm not ready to hear it. And he come up and spoke to me, he goes, do you want to go? I was like, no, no, no. He rang me and I said, like, I would go and play for him because he's like you. And like, I know where I am. He goes, no.
He said, well, I can't lose you yet. I said, that's fine. I said, I didn't want to go. So I'll keep playing. And then that's when all that other stuff happened. And then France came to me on the, France came to me, I got a phone call on a Saturday night. I was having a few wines down at home. Cooking dinner, my manager rings me and goes, will you go to France?
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Chapter 8: How does Jarrod Wallace view the importance of relationships in his post-football life?
I was like, yeah, 100%. They'll be mad. He goes, when did they want me? He goes, they want you to go Monday. I was like, what? I was like, you're bringing me now? I was like, I don't even have a passport. I've got to get a new passport. I lost it. He was like, yeah, they want you to go. I was like, have you spoke to Wayne? He's like, nah. And I was like, fuck, all right.
I said, he rang Wayne, and Wayne's like, look, if he wants to go, because he knew where I was at. I spoke to him every day in that bricky. He knew where I was at. He goes, if he wants to go, let him go. So I ended up signing and I ended up flying out on the Thursday.
Yeah, wow.
Next week, yeah, and went over and played for the Catalan Dragons over there. So it was such a sick experience. So we're like the warriors of Super League, really. So you're always flying to England and flying overseas and stuff. So when I first landed ā Flew Thursday, landed Thursday because it was a bit of a time difference.
I felt like they weren't going to play me on the Saturday because we played Saturday. And they're like, oh, you don't need to play if you don't want to. Like, you just got off a fucking 48-hour flight. He's like, no, I'm in. I want to play. Like, I'd be sick. He's like, well, we'll just play you for 20 minutes. And then Tarek Sims gets fucking sent for the game. I was counting on this lad.
Got sent for the game. Ended up playing 58 minutes, bro, with concrete legs. I felt so heavy and so shit. And we won, which was good, but, like, it was one of the tougher parts. Because I hadn't played for a couple of weeks at the Dolphins, then went on a flight, then went to France, hadn't really trained, then went and tried to play big minutes. But it's very much like Q Cup over there.
It starts real fast and goes hard, but then it really slows down, which is probably what saved me. And then the next three weeks after that, we were in England, sales garden. We went to. We were playing in, like, Leeds and, yeah, like all the six. We played the London Broncos. We stayed in London.
So, like, I went from kind of being in the NRL playing here to next minute I'm fucking flying around the world. Yeah, that would have been cool. Just seeing different shit. Yeah, it was cool. Like, you know, when you come here, say you fly away or you're at the Titans, you come up to Brisbane, you walk around Caxa Street and stuff like that.
Like, we're walking down the main street of London and stuff. Like, and these boys are, like, just used to that where I'm, like ā It's just fucking unreal. The food's different.
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