Mark Harrison - CEO of the Australian Prostate Centre on The Legends Game (12.05.26
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What exciting announcement is made about the Legends Game?
We have got a very busy news morning this morning. We will throw the lines back open to talk about the Michael Voss resignation. But there was a big announcement yesterday. The Legends game's back. The 4-20 Legends game is back. It was reintroduced in 2025. It was an unbelievable success. And it's all for the Australian Prostate Centre and the CEO joins us. Mark, welcome. Thanks, Gary. What can you tell us?
August 27 is the kickoff date again? Yep, super excited. We're back Thursday, August the 27th at the Marvel Stadium, building on this success of last year and still paying homage to the late, great EJ Senior.
Is there any way of measuring the impact of this messaging that came via this game last year?
Yeah, I think the game was amazing. It had like 72 million social views. 72 million? Yeah, across the whole social platforms. So raising that awareness, getting that message out about the importance for men to get tested, this platform is fantastic for us.
That is like 72 million across the platforms.
Yeah, I think we were all blown away by the success of the game. And certainly you talk about the medical community across the country, the elevated awareness and conversations around men getting tested was fantastic.
And that is the message. We're talking about Jonathan Brown tonight on our documentary about the fact that he just went and had a test for no other reason than his wife was at him and at him and at him.
When is the Legends Game scheduled to take place?
to have the scan for his head. He'd had a few head knocks in footy. So Tim and I talk about this all the time, the fact that you just need to get proactive about going and getting tested. So what's the best way to go about it?
The best way, particularly as a bloke, is to think of getting your car serviced. Talk to your doctor when you're 40. Family history of breast or prostate cancer. Get tested with a simple blood test at 40. Otherwise at 50, think of it as a regular maintenance.
Right.
How did the Legends Game impact awareness for prostate cancer?
So it is 40.
I thought that we were looking at younger men now than the 40 years of age. Correct. So if there's a really strong family history, we are seeing men below 40s, but 40 is the target zone at the moment. So men that have a family history of breast or prostate, they're at higher risk of potentially getting the disease. So we want to talk to those men and get them early. Absolutely.
And, Mark, there would be some people, which they shouldn't be, and we're not embarrassed about this. When you talk prostate tests, it's always about the old finger and up the bum. Correct. But that's not necessarily – Tim, that's – I'm sorry.
I'll have to be pretty – There was another way of putting it.
I'll have to be pretty upfront about this.
Yeah, and it's – It's true, Gary. I mean, that's one of our biggest stigma to getting men tested. And you guys do a great job of trying to destigmatize those things. But it is a simple blood test. Blood test, yeah. Think of it as getting your cholesterol, your diabetes, your heart checked, tick the box for your prostate. We know with this disease, if we get it early, great outcomes. If we get it late, a whole different story. So this is really important to get that message out.
So who do you bag for, Mark?
I'm a kangaroo supporter, Gary.
So which of the past greats from the kangaroos would you like to see line up in the big legends, the 4 and 20 legends going for prostate cancer on the 27th of August?
Well, I think of recent times, we saw obviously Boomer play again last year. I'd love to see him just because he's the perennial, but also people like Ben Cunnington of more recent times. I'd love to see out there.
And what about, does Woodlaw remind you in any way of Shimmer, the way that Shimmer went about his football?
He does in many ways. Seeing Shimmer head down into the ball and seeing him and Keith Gregg going down both sides of the wings at Arden Street was a great memory. They're great memories, aren't they? Wonderful. I actually thought, Gary, that Tim was a bit equivocal about whether he was coaching next year.
On this day that Michael Voss has resigned, I think the Wisp has got an announcement, have you?
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