Nicho Hynes' Future, Sharks Relocation & Immortal Debate | Ask Kenty
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What are the origins of the Immortals debate in rugby league?
Puru will be on minimum wage. Nico's on top dollar.
That same thought has gone through a few people at Cronulla at the moment. G'day and welcome to Kenti Blitz Ask Kenti Sunday Edition. Kenti, welcome back on a Sunday morning.
Yeah, got out of bed whilst we're here.
We're here, we just made it. Hope you're enjoying your Sunday mornings and your Saturday nights. For those who are just coming home and listening to this on the way home, well done. We wish we were you. All right, let's start off with Brunsboy asks, Kenny, you said Billy Slater is the best fullback you've ever seen. Did you ever get to see Chang alive?
How do rugby union's send-off rules differ from rugby league's?
His best season was 1962 when he was still at Wollongong. That's true. How old do you think I am?
What is the strategy behind short line kicking in rugby?
Chang, I wasn't born in 62. My dad was 13.
What factors contribute to David Fifita's contention for Origin selection?
LAUGHTER
What are the current limits on play-the-ball in rugby league?
Oh, jeez.
What stories are shared about Ron Massey and Jack Gibson?
Okay. Look, no. No, I never saw.
Why did the City vs Country game lose its significance?
Look, Changa retired in what, 76 or 77? I think 77 was his last year.
What does the future hold for Nicho Hynes at Cronulla?
Look, I can't remember watching Chang play other than a few. I was born in 70, okay? So what does that make me, six, seven years old? I can't remember him playing. I've seen a little bit of vision of him play. I'll tell you one thing about Changa, though. When I was a young reporter and I'd go to – back when the game was much friendlier and we'd have the Dallium nights and it'd be a big get-together. It'd be like an end-of-year party for everyone. The Dalliums used to be. Yeah, right. They were unreal. Even better was the Rothman's Medal. Rothman's Medal. Everyone used to get a carton of Rothman cigarettes.
Yeah.
Whether he smoked or not. And a lot of scores got settled and it was Wild West days. Blues? Oh, massive. Really? Oh, massive blues. Yeah, always. Always a blue. Chook Raper was in half of them. But I used to talk to a lot of the old guys there and I used to say to all of them, because I grew up of the understanding Johnny Raper was the greatest that ever played. And I asked them, who's the best you've ever seen? and got a variety of answers but the name i heard more often than anyone else was uh changa langlands really i wish i wish i'd seen him at his best and been able to see him uh regularly week to week because what made him so good kenty you know well From my understanding, look, he had it all. To be fair, he had speed.
He had a very good sidestep. He used to practice his sidestep jogging the train and by stepping around the telegraph poles. And unbelievably tough. but just had good game instincts, could come up with a moment when you needed the moment. And I spoke to him and Bozo were very good friends. I was quite good friends with Bozo. Chang was the grumpiest bloke in the world. I'll tell you a story actually. When I was writing Johnny Lewis's book, I said, Johnny, I need, Johnny's just hopeless, right? So I said, Johnny, I need to talk to you. I've got to be able to talk to you so I can get some information for this book. And Johnny didn't want to really interrupt the way he was living his life. So he said, Johnny, he said, look, Paul, every morning, seven o'clock, I'll go and have a coffee with Chang.
And he said, we meet at the coffee shop. It's at the top of the hill on Erko. First coffee shop you come to from the top of the hill down Erko Road. I said, right. He said, I'll meet you there tomorrow at seven. I said, right. So I got there. Anyway, so I started turning up there every morning. Changa, mate, hated a cup of coffee that wasn't scalding hot. So one day he sat there and he went, ah, coffee's cold. And dead set had the shits for the rest of the morning. Anyway, that night, Johnny rings me up. Mate, we're meeting at the next coffee shop down there. And Buchanga doesn't want to go back there anymore. I said, sweet. So that's where we started to meet. So then we sat there one night. Ah, coffee's cold.
Over time, we worked all the way down that road. And we went for every coffee shop all the way down. And when we got to the last one, I thought, this is going to be interesting because there's no more left. Anyway, inevitably, coffee's gone. That's just bullshit. Anyway, Paul, mate, we're going back up the top again.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the origins of the Immortals debate in rugby league?
0:00–0:33
2
How do rugby union's send-off rules differ from rugby league's?
0:33–0:42
3
What is the strategy behind short line kicking in rugby?
0:42–0:48
4
What factors contribute to David Fifita's contention for Origin selection?
0:48–0:51
5
What are the current limits on play-the-ball in rugby league?
0:51–0:52
6
What stories are shared about Ron Massey and Jack Gibson?
0:52–0:56
7
Why did the City vs Country game lose its significance?
0:56–1:03
8
What does the future hold for Nicho Hynes at Cronulla?
1:03–37:43
Speakers
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