Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I do remember scoring heaps of tries until like under 12 and then puberty just got left behind. School days were so good. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't ready to leave to immature. Yeah.
Chapter 2: What are Peter Gubb's early rugby experiences?
I should probably still be there.
Yeah.
and i i called up my brother and i said you reckon i've still got queensland cup in me and then um he's usually not complimentary and he goes yes you're a beast they're like you got to do this fletch and hindy and i said no i don't want to do it because you think oh what if it's a failure and then i thought to myself yeah i'm gonna do it i go straight in and do that and i looked around the room after the first inappropriate question
And I was like, fuck it. I got to turn the filter off. Say yes when you get those opportunities because I reckon the good stuff seems to be beyond that. It's like when I turned up here today with you because I've been listening to you for five years, I knew that we'll be mates straight away.
What a lad. Well, ever since the Hall of Fame episode with Charlie Gubb, I've been hounded by people around the world to get today's guest on. He's a Queensland Rugby League legend, having played for the Seagulls, the Jets and the Clydesdales over the past 12 years, racking up 123 appearances and scoring 37 tries.
But it's probably fair to say it isn't his footy career that everyone loves him for. It's the fact he's one of the all-time great lads, one of the funniest and most genuine people on the planet. It is, of course, the great Peter Gubb. Welcome, mate.
Good to be here. It's funny, listening to your podcast the last five years, and now I've got to say something. Like when you say, welcome, Peter, now it's my turn. But, um... Just to correct the stats, I think they started recording them in 2014, so they missed. I think you can add 50 games in. Oh, no. Yeah, and maybe five more years. 23 tries to that. Yeah, 170, 169, and 60.
And who's counting? I am.
I'm a stats man.
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Chapter 3: How did Peter Gubb pursue his NRL dream?
Did you see any deficiencies? No, not in your highlights.
You weren't looking closely. Maybe there's another video. Nah, I actually made that over a few seasons. It frigging took so long. Oh, did you make that yourself?
Chapter 4: What unique training methods does Peter Gubb recommend for longevity?
Yeah. Oh, nice. Because the hope was to obviously play NRL or whatever else. And when you actually make a highlights video of yourself, it creates heaps of interest. I reckon people have that theory the grass is greener, they always want someone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, and it got close. Like you always get like interests. Oh yeah. So-and-so, you know, like whatever club.
And then you like read on Fox Sports or a newspaper. Oh yeah. They signed like Braden Viliame and you're like, oh yeah. Like they're probably talking to five people at the same time. Yeah. But, um, Yeah, nah, pretty happy in the end and still here doing it.
Yeah, I always remember your brother's story of making his highlights package and sending it off to all the clubs. Did you do that as a young kid as well?
No, I didn't because I wasn't on that level. Like, I was... Like, my peak at school was the third 15. Like, and that was as an eighth former. As a seventh former, I was in the under 65s and I was just a small cog in the machine. But, like, um...
Yeah, I think I was a late developer and I also had people in my ear, like the triple jump coach at school and first of thing coach, Mr. Wells, like father of Andrew. Yeah. Oh, he's like a first five in Wellington. But he always used to say, oh yeah, you're going to be a late developer. And he might've been talking crap, but.
maybe he could see it i like not that i went on to play origin or anything or an all black but um i think i was a late developer when was your peak you reckon my peak i honestly reckon i'm 37 now i reckon like i know naturally you have like a drop off in speed and stuff like that but um i reckon it could even be now even though there will be deficiencies but um Yeah, I don't know.
But I reckon for big seasons, like you create a bit of a wave when you come in and you play a different style, maybe like around like 2012 to 2015. Yeah. And then like you get a few more people like name dropping you on the field. Like obviously they do a bit of video and everyone just gets into you when you're one dimensional like I was.
Yeah.
But after a few years off, I come back and think, oh yeah, maybe I need a very, some of the stuff that I do, like give the defense a different look so they can't. start throwing a cutout ball. That's a new one, eh? But only right to left, though.
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Chapter 5: What are Peter Gubb's thoughts on superstitions in sports?
So I just had half a scoop, one sixth of his serving and I was buzzing. Yeah. And he goes like, I went okay. Yeah. Like, and he goes, oh, fuck, you can have that whenever you want. And I was like, so I searched and it said I had 200 milligrams. I thought that's too much for me. And I have it like three times a week, caffeine before trainings and games.
I reckon if I go over 200, I go a bit insular and I just start thinking. But like, and if I have 60 milligrams, I reckon perfect for me. Yeah. But it's just... Fucking can't help but give yourself a double scoop. You know, it's like that law of diminishing returns. It's not actually better having more. So how many did you have before this? I think I had like the 115 milligram serving.
That's like nothing for some people. Yeah. But when you have it two or three days a week, it hurts. Yeah.
So your optimal is usually 60 and you've gone for that extra scoop.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just got carried away. But historically, that's what I've done. That's how you've lived your life. Yeah. Fuck. Life's good. Yeah. Another memory I have of you is on the boat. The old man obviously had the boat. What was it? Sweet Georgia. Sweet Georgia. Yeah. Did you spend a lot of time on there serving the wontons and those sort of things?
Because I reckon we started working on the boat from maybe like –
We'd always put all the bears on the boat. Dad would get like 120 dozen on the back of his yurt, wrapped up in Glabrap. He'll be driving slow as round the bays in Wellington past the Papa Oriental. Like one time he had like a spill on like the Johnsonville motorway, like frigging 120 dozen going off the side. Had to take them to the tip, but heaps were unbroken.
And the guys at the tip just loved my dad. They're like, oh, I think it was an insurance job.
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Chapter 6: How does Peter Gubb manage confidence and opportunities?
Like, just... Cause just my dad, he used to grind pretty hard over the Christmas time when everyone's having functions. But, um, and then you look back on it and you think, fuck, like what shapes you into the person you are? Like just, I reckon we definitely had like one of the easiest upbringings, but like it was hard in a different way, but like definitely wouldn't change it.
Yeah. And at this stage, did you want to be a groundsman? Was that always your dream to be like the ultimate groundsman?
I did like always went to the park with James Proctor. He was a gun goal kicker. Oh, yeah. Like brother of Billy and Matt. Yeah. Like he was probably the best goal kicker because he played maybe with you at Tasman. Yeah, he did. And, like, I'd stand behind the post, like, I'd kick a few myself and just always appreciated a good ground. But in Wellington, not many.
But I worked on the grounds at the Women's League Club for, like, five or eight years. That was pretty good. Like, marking lines, like, before TV games because they do, like, one or two TV games a week in Queensland Cup. Oh, yeah. But, yeah. Yeah. And actually now I do Jim's mowing. Like I've been doing that for five years. So just lawns.
I love it. Yeah. Have you always loved the lawn or when, when did this come or was it just, I reckon probably going to the park was like, and you just appreciate it.
And then like working on the grounds at the league's club, it'll be like humming in February. And then everyone starts going from the backfield to the main field for games, like four games every fortnight. And it just chews it up. And you're just like.
groundsman no wonder they get depression aye but um they reckon the big thing is like heaps of sports fields over here they put rye grass down and it grows over the winter and it makes it like really green but it's like it's more cosmetic real slippery so I reckon at Suncorp if you're playing there tonight they might have planted their rye grass and
Maybe just recently or maybe as soon as they get a three-week break. Oh, okay. It'll just be like real spindly stuff. I better shut up. Keep it rolling.
That's interesting though. So that ryegrass makes it slippery.
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Chapter 7: What is the optimal caffeine intake for performance?
And I was like, how many boo-boos do I have? And she was, like, counted them. And there was, like, 12 cuts on my face, like, maybe six bigger ones. What from? Fuck, I must have, like, because I think after I got that head clash in the 20th minute, I said that I was all right. Like, um... And I was. I just had the light ringing in the air. But I knew if I went off, I wouldn't be proud of myself.
I know sometimes you need people to protect you from yourself. But I was adamant that I was okay. And I actually was pretty present. I knew the time. I had a bit of a laugh with the trainers. But I think I did lose a bit of coordination. And for the next 60 minutes, I just destroyed my body. And I think when you, cause going into a game, I usually try and run at weak spots.
Like, but when you play PNG, like you don't really know where the weak spots are. And I ran early on and I was like, oh man, like did like a bump off. You get like a cut, make a few meters and you get your Riz, you know? Yeah. And then like after that head knock, I ran like hard as into the middle of the field and that, cause they're all real stocky. Yeah.
Like I got jammed like so bad and my sternum got destroyed. I bought back like a 10 year old injury and then like my neck went like, and it's just starting to like come good after 21 days, but don't have another game for eight days. But, um, I think, and I started going a little bit, um,
a little bit monkey brain, you know, like fight or flight, like you either do the smart thing and diving at a few, few legs, which are not good and just got smashed in the face a few times. Yeah. Got like a big ass graze on my forehead and then like the scab finally peeled off. Need to get on the BPC 157.
It would have peeled off in twice as quick. The joys. And you mentioned your kids. Yeah. How old are your kids?
Five and... Seven-year-old boy, five-year-old girl, two-year-old boy, and a gum wife called Kayla. Like, I don't shout her out enough because she just, like, she just, like... You know when you're like a kid and you want to be all black, I think her thing is like she wanted to be a mum. So she's living her NRL grand final. Yeah, that's cool. But like she's the backbone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It must be cool playing in front of your kids though, especially when they're that age and they know what's going on and dad's your hero.
The only thing is they have to drive like 90 minutes to get to the games now and they get a little bit over it. Yeah, yeah, fair enough. Because it's a long day for them. But my wife, Kayla, she's so supportive and she always wants to come out. But like occasionally like a game will be like a KO game and then they stream all of the games. You have to pay like 50 bucks a year or whatever.
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Chapter 8: How does Peter Gubb balance family life with sports?
Like...
Like, it's a business. The NRL do that well, eh? They embrace the good, the bad, the everything. They do. I love it, eh?
Like, it wasn't until maybe Thursday or something, I was like, oh, okay, I need to get off my phone. And I put my phone to the side and I watched, like, a whole –
nrl game it might have been sunday actually and i was like oh this is actually good oh it's the west tigers um versus eels monday game yeah yeah and it ended up because my wife's family they're hardcore west tigers like we went down to leichhardt last year my father-in-law got a west tigers back tattoo that's mad like Like we have some fun together.
And he, he supports, like he comes and watches a few games. Yeah. But that was a big win for the family. Have you got any tattoos? Oh, only that one. Just the wedding ring from 2022. Oh, nice touch. 20 mil by four mil. Yeah. The apprentice tattooist. She took three times to get the stencil right. Pretty basic. Carindale, the big shopping center. Yeah.
Costs 140 bucks, but at least I haven't lost it. And everyone's like, oh, why don't you have it all the way around? But apparently it rubs off. Oh, if it's in the sides. Like, yeah, just that skin to skin just rubs it off. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, statement.
Love it. Yeah. Well, do you know what we have gone to? The Instagram questions. Fuck. And do you know how many we've got for you?
I knew that there will be heaps because I shared it on my story. And I'm like not active on social media as a poster. So I imagine when I post, it drives out engagement because they're like, this guy hasn't been online since 2013.
Well, did it what? It definitely drove engagement. Oh, my gosh. So many questions. So I want to get through some of these because I think a lot of them are your mates as well. Yeah. Yeah, some good questions came in. Ask him the best Paul Gabian.
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