Robin & Kip With Corey OatesCory Oats has joined me in the studio and we've learned about this origin stars, career, life and kids. So people are calling through Leia of Manly, what's your question for Corey?
Lea, why are you laughing, Robert?
Because I know what you're going to ask, and I think it's a fair question, but I think it's a hard one to answer.
Look, I've been following a Broncos since they started in eighty eight.
I'm a mad Broncos fan.
You know, we all lose.
I'm always there, love the Broncos.
But I just want to know Corey from your perspective as an insider, you know what's going on.
At the moment. Fair, Yeah, plus three in a row.
Yeah it's hard, you know, because yeah, it's really hard one because we're we're always in the game, but it's just it's not the way we're playing, you know, the style that we want to play, and it's like frustration kicks in, I guess, and when you're out there, it's so frustrating because you just don't know, you know, what's what's going on and why we're not playing the way I guess we should be. But I feel like it's just a lot of the injuries and a lot of the stuff has probably started to affect players, and I guess the way everyone's starting to think, you know, with losing a few games.
To turn that round, you just have to.
Get out of it. You just have to just flushed out. And we have to probably just go back to winning a game that is just a hard slog and not try and play a real flashy style. I don't know how you get out of it all the time. But you know, we can play both sides of football. We can play the really tough one, and I think I think we've sort of probably maybe gone away from that a little bit. It's honestly hard to pinpoint what's actually going on because there's so many glimpses where we're so good and then and then we dropped the ball and it's just pressure back on us. So it's really hard on that.
Okay, I'm not sure that answer your question, letter, but there you go. Let's go to Sarah of Matt Cravat. What's your question for CoreOS?
Good morning, Good morning. I'm sure all of us women want to know so we can have our own significant others. But what is your training before the game? Staying shapers. That all just special cuddles before the game. That yeah, anything like what do you do before the game? What do you say in shape? Just just to help the Brisbane women to help their scent others.
He's gone a little red, Sarah. It's super cute, right, Okay, come on.
I don't know how to answer that.
So do you stay before a game?
Official State of origin list is out?
Not answer the question we're getting to get out of.
You just sleep yourself. I just I like my own time.
And a.
Second, really, i'm alone time robin before a game.
That's honestly probably probably two hours before the game, wake up and get dressed.
Okay, what about after the game? And what if you've won?
You can't sleep? If I was eight and if I would have went out, but that was a long time ago and it's a lot different now.
So what do you do post win?
After the game?
You just I have a few beers while I'm getting sort of ready, but only one or two maybe three, and then yeah I had home stay up till Bobby one two o'clock.
Asking the old person young person question, you'd be tapping tagging on.
The shoulder, going yeah, she's just had two kids at the game.
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We have written Bronco Correos in the studio with us and some very very special guests.
So if last week was all about the Cheesy Toast, on Friday, I had a bit of a brainstorm and thought we need to bring Sizzler back.
So of course we've got a new intro. Is there a Sizzler back ones?
That's cheesyback.
There.
So we have got the two guys that are Fritzenberger who have brought us the Cheesy Toast and the Cheesy Toast tour last week we have owner Andrew and head chef Sebastian.
Hi guys, morning morning.
Now.
I had the great brain wave that maybe we should try other Sizzler creations and across the weekend. Sebastian, you've been made making potato skins. Is there a special sizzlingness to them?
I don't know because that I've never been to Sizzler. There is We went through like eleven different kind of potatoes to find the right one, I believe.
Yeah.
Now, and you're a bit of an institution in Brisbane.
About your fair few, So how did you know what potato to.
As said we got eleven different potatoes we had about we keep cooking them, giving them to customers, got their opinion which was the best.
And this is where we've landed.
Okay, So what are these potatoes?
So?
Okay? And is this and is there a specific spice.
That has to go with them or because you've got a whole thing of condiments in front of us.
Yes, so we've got what we call the fritz and salt they made in the house. So we've got vegiemates, smoky salt, fresh chili, roasted chicken dinner.
Okay, So is there a particular.
Sizzling smoaky salts really moaky salt?
Okay?
So Sam, can you prepare a potato skin for Corey? However you think that will be? Now, these are really large potato skins. They do look pretty much exactly.
Cory.
You actually probably will, won't you.
I'm just gutted that I don't get the tests.
Come on, okay, so Cory Oats is just putting one in his mouth, go for it. Let me hear the crunch. No you can get you're so polite. No, no, no, move into the microphone, my friend.
What do you think do they taste like Sizzler. You wouldn't know you're at the dessert.
Ice cream.
So what's your vernict?
My friend?
They're good. Yeah, Look we've got a whole plate of them. And Corey, you reckon, you're going to devour all of them?
Rights?
What is?
And you're not supposed to eat potatoes.
Kins on your day, not for breakfast.
But so are you guys going to do any of this? In Fritzenberger?
Yeah, we're going to start selling tomorrow, aren't we. Yes, his news is said. But I think it's got to be done. It's got to be done.
Because across the weekend you did cheesy toast because of the big cheesy toast to a You were giving cheesy toast away?
Did people come into the restaurant to eat it?
Huge?
Said?
Was working all weekend?
I had the weekend off.
Tell us about making them?
Really, there were that many people that wanted the cheesey toast.
It wasn't happy when you made me throw them on the ground.
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Robin and kimp on Kiss ninety seven three, Brisbane Bronco. Coreots joins this questionably for another round of this.
And kIPS ask me anything you can't handle the truth.
Oh for nine at nine seven three nine seven three, you can text us. We'll give us a call on thirteen one oh six five.
Let me kick it off them by saying, what was the last question tig and your partner asked you?
Do you remember? Was it something this morning?
I don't know what did it have been about the kid? It's a lot of things, to be honest. Have I done this? Have I done that?
With all of the above?
No? If it is no, I'm in trouble. But it's usually yes. But the old chance she knows it's going to be no. Like so yeah, she has your hopeless and you go, yeah, I know that's the answer. I'm always correct with that answer. I know that.
So okay, let's see Polly of Woolen Gabba. What would you like to ask Cory?
Hey, Cory, I just wanted to know when was the last time you cried?
Oh?
With question.
I'm a softy, to be honest, I really am. I'm a massive softy. I could cry watching movies like that Marley and Me. Maybe to me all the time. The puppy dog, I'm a dog lover. Yeah, if anyone's dog. If I see a sad dog real, Like, I'm a softy for dogs. I love dogs.
So what about your own kids when it was the last time you carried with them?
Maybe when huckshit in there with the golfstick. I always get. I just always a sort of happy whenever they do something really cute and likes always love giving you cuddles and saying you know my daddy and that, like it gives me a sort of emotional on that. But yeah, it'd be close enough to it, like, yeah, when was the.
Last time you cried over a football match loss?
Well, the Grand Final last year definitely, It's happened twice now and I cried both times, the changing out of the field because it's just so fresh and seeing some of the young boys last year, Ezra. You know, I had such a good year and played such a good game, you know, and then obviously lose. He sort of got me crying when I went and gave him a cuddle.
So you're crying for them, not just for you for me.
But it's just I've been through it, you know, so I felt the pain before and it's so fresh for them, Like it was really emotional for me. But when I went and seen him after the game and gave m cuddle. It sort of hit me a bit more just because I was exactly in the same boat at the same starting in twenty fifteen.
So did does Kevy cry?
Yeah? Yeah, he cried after. I'm pretty sure he cried after. I don't think there was too many that wouldn't have. It was just such a good year and where the club had come from, I guess over the last yeah, man, all years, so three years, which is probably the hardest part.
So what happens when you leave the field like everyone's so upset, you've got the runners up, which just feels so awful to have to stand up there and get that metal when it's all just feeling like crab Do you go into the sheds and do what?
Oh? It's just silence for a long time, to be honest, it really is. It's just silence for ages.
Yeah, it's feed you today.
After after a normal game, it's you can you get dinner? There's food there, But if we're home, we'll go upstairs. I think there's some court mads food for dinner for us and drinks and that, and but then the bus will take us back and whatnot. Some games you recovery like spars than that. But grand fine, it was. It's just silence for a long time.
And then what you get in the showers, you get dressed and you go home.
Yeah, and it's just people just sort of find it hard to believe it's just happened. It really lasts for so long.
Okay, Well, on that note, let's move on Reese of Springwood.
What would you like to ask Corey?
Hi?
How are you.
Bright?
Spark?
I am? I have a question. What was your last with your wife about? Because I'm about to kill my partner done?
So what's he done? Fair question?
He will not go to the dentist. He needs to go to the dentist because something one of these twoths are killing him. And he's like, no, no, i'd be right. I haven't been four years, you said to me last night. I think I need to go. I'm in a bit of pain.
Oh my goodness.
That happens a lot women.
Always right, Yes, I'll book you an appointment.
That's exactly right. Or it's probably when I get home and the dishwasher is clean and I don't open it, I don't go near it. I just walk in, go straight outside. Team comes home probably from working all day doing everything for us, probably picked the kids up, got did on my home and I've just been outside the dogs.
Tell me how a Courry Oats and Teagan fight goes.
It's more like just telling me how I didn't do anything from when I got home, and how she comes home and just doesn't stop until she goes to bed pretty much, and I'm just sitting there nodding to all of it.
Does it change your behavior? Do you fight back.
Because it works? If? Well, no, because if I know I'm wrong, which is ninety percent of the time, I'm like, there's a point, really, I'm sorry, So I just didn't look okay.
Are you the kind of guy that lets her simmer down and then tries to go and find her and give her a caddle or when.
She's cranky, I'll give her a cattle.
I bet she loves that.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it works, and what happens if it doesn't, it means she's really cranky.
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Robin and Kip on Kiss ninety seven three, joined in studio by Brisbane bronco Corey Oats.
Now the origin team the Queenstown Origin team are in camp in the w hotel. That sounds like an oxymoron, like, how can you be in camp in a five star hotel?
Now, well, they're only usually there for the first two nights while they do like the media stuff, all the stuff on the fan day, I'm pretty sure, and then they'll go to Goldie.
Well where did they go on the oh and do they work out and do tough stuff on it?
Yes, So CenTra Cove have like a whole training field there, gym and everything set up ready to go for the Origin.
And what is and what does it look like like those days so that you're up at six breakfast.
The days that they train, they'll be up at Yeah, it'll be like a normal train day, so six, try and stick to your routine is as much as possible, which will be your training probably eight o'clock. But before that'd be meetings, breakfast, get ready, strapping, warm up and whatnot, and then they'll train for maybe an hour or hour and a half and then they'll have a break and then have gym or have lunch and then Jim.
And his food really set.
Yeah, so there's always it's pretty good food, Like it's a like a buffet style when you're back at the sort of team room. So yeah, it's pretty good. It's honestly, it's a really enjoyable week.
Who eats the most when you were playing because you were up against some pretty impressive guys Cam Smith.
And yeah, well probably not those guys. They didn't eat too much. The old fellas there wasn't much of them. But all your big men eat a fair bit of food. I remember Dylan Nappa, he could eat which is a.
Big amount of food, mean to you, like how much I.
Eat a fair bit. But those blokes like just be like.
A piled high yeah.
Like a like a semicircle of car just just whatever's there, like it's really there's chockers and then I'll go back and do the just another big plate. So it's not a breakfast but lunch.
It's not like calorie controlled.
I would imagine every player is like on their own regime.
No, if you don't perform, I guess then you're going to start looking at things and wondering why. But if you perform and play well every week and you know your reasonably healthy, that it's you know, what you eat is in a massive issue. As long as you're not cramping I guess in games so like you know you need salt or I don't know if you remember, but there was those games where the boys are cramping a lot, and yeah, a lot. Like then you can start looking at what he eats and stuff like that because that can affect you.
Did they get to the bottom of it?
Salt?
Isn't it need?
Obviously you can eat food. They can obviously help with that, so yeah, I'm sure they would have had to get him on some sort of dietary requirement.
And do you room bunk with people?
No?
Not anymore?
No, well not as far as I can remember. At the W Hotel you do for the first few nights and then when you're at Sanctuary code they want to make it as much as possible, like you know you're at home and comfortable. You know you're still there to play and prepare for the biggest game of the year in any sport when you go to Sydney or Melbourne two when you get there, I'm pretty sure if I remember correct, your own room too, So.
How would the bunking details worked out at the W? Like if you have to stay in a room with someone, how do you do that they.
Either do them in order, like yeah, I guess one to eighteen or twenty two, whatever's there, or it can be alphabetic or by a last name.
I think, oh, so you don't get to pick.
So there's no odd man out that no one wants to leave last year.
It's never exnor he's a last like I've been living sleeping, didn't care.
You always sleep with Alfie.
Oh probably like when they were playing at the moment the Bronx, poor old luky Anny of Physias had him for about eleven years or ten years.
He mustn't mind too much.
He's got some funny stories because I was obviously has a good time when he goes, oh yeah he done. Yeah, he's trying to scare him. It's so funny.
Kiss Here is ninety seven three, the Robin and podcast. Kiss Here's ninety seven three. It's Robin Kim Brisbane Broncos. Corey Os is in here.
With us, okay if you've just joined us.
He is watching the fifth episode of season three.
No, no, there's butt on TV on the screen.
Regiden, which of course is a big sex scene between Penelope and Colin. That's your first taste of bridgeston and what taste it was.
What did you think the build ups intense at the end of the sea is incredible.
Did you ever think.
Of telling tig and your lovely partner that she had eyes that were blue pools?
Your eyes shine and you look at me two blue pools and then like just telling about there's so many other things that he's thought about that he wants to see, like it's you know, obviously it's gonna happen, but.
You're embarrassed, coriotes.
It's not a bit red.
I com play footy in front of a stadium full of people, Regency England.
The more I watched, the more the most red.
So yeah, not inspired by that.
Not frustrate me that show. The build up is incredible.
Yeah, yep, you're not a build up kind of guy. The now I's taking every more course it has taken.
You never get your.
Way around one of these.
Makes it look very simple. It's nice, just slides off by the looks of it. Bras are hard enough at these days.
See that's why Regency England didn't survive it, Like you couldn't even rember.
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Robin and kimp on k ninety seven three, joined in studio by Brisbane bronco Corey Oates.
Now, when the Origin team is named, I mean I remember with my kids in sporting teams and stuff, like they make the regionals or the state team or whatever.
She did come out and their.
Name would be on a piece of paper. Now obviously that's not what happens with the Origin.
What does happen?
So Billie will ring you the Sunday? Yeah, so Sunday night the boys will find out. So he'll ring every player.
Oh really, So he starts with the good news and then he goes to the people who didn't make I don't I'm.
Not sure what order he does it, but he usually would do it within probably a couple of hour window. I guess does that mean.
Right that you're sitting there from like three o'clock in the afternoon freaking out that you haven't had a phone call.
Yeah, well, if you're in the team, I guess yeah, if you were the first team, you know you're probably sitting there nervous.
How does that work?
From someone not a sporting person asking there are how many hundreds of players in the NRL? He's not calling every single player? How's that the pool, the small short list, how does that work?
Well, the first game, he would just call the players that have made it.
So literally, the people who thought they might have made it and don't get a phone call, then they know they haven't.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how Yeah. I wouldn't think that'd be any different if you're in the team for the first camp, I'm pretty sure he'd just call the twenty two. Yeah.
Was there ever a time that you didn't get a call and you.
Thought, well, no, I've never ever thought i'd ever get a call, to be honest, you know, if your name's throwing around, you're not expecting it, but you're probably thinking about it that night. But if it never came, I was never over disappointed. You know. It sort of would come as a shock to me most of the time.
That you were picked.
Yeah. Well, the team that I got picked him on a day bird was arguably one of the best teams ever. Yeah, ever, so I was very shocked.
What do you remember what you were doing? Do you remember what your reaction was.
I'm pretty sure I was at home just with the dogs with with Marlon. I think he remembers it. Yeah, I was I was just at home with the dogs, my kids, just and I told Marlin first, actually before I told anyone else, I told my dog. I remember that part.
What didn't you do?
Just go home?
Buddy? Made it? Mate?
You don't come up with Linda.
Like I just. I was never one of those people I ever expect to deserve anything. And I guess you know you work towards it.
But did you then ring your parents?
Yeah?
Takes make the jam.
Went?
I got sixteen. I don't think we're living together at that time. We might have been living together just half that actually, so.
So you ranked give me the order.
I think I told you. I think I went to take your dog take and then probably.
Parents gave the best reaction the dog.
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Robin and Kip on Kids ninety seven three, Brisbane, Bronco. Corey Oates is in here with us now.
Corey, you said something during the show when the music was playing, and I thought, oh, that's really interesting. Your little girl, Montana is how old five and she's had her first sleepover?
That's cool? How was it?
She's not a big sleep in her own bed. So we've been obviously starting to put in her own bed, like she doesn't leave in air bed, she sleeps on her own mattress, but in your room, in the room, like she she's scared at the night that night, and so we said, if you get a you know, if you have a sleepover, you you got to start sleeping your own room because you can't just leave them and come in out room. So we started doing that and she was doing it for a few nights. So, yeah, she got one of her friends over from school, and her friend's lovely. You know, she's actually a nice little girl. Like she tries to include Hucks with a lot of things, which was nice because just two girls playing with makeup and dolls and he just wanted to play. It was actually really nice, you know, she loved it. She was so excited the whole everyone at the school by the end of the week knew that Montanna was going to have a sleepover with a friend. I'm like, you can't be telling people that you haven't sleepovers, because then what if your other friends want to start coming over. It's not fair. And she goes, You're so excited.
So did it work? Did it keep her in her own bed?
Oh?
No, not for the night. She ended up on the floor in our room at about three o'clock. And what about the other she was asleep, she was she was fine. They went into the bed about eight o'clock.
How did you get them into bed on a sleep overnight at eight o'clock.
We're both They just said, I want to go to bed, I'm sweet. And then the friend gets in and she's gone five minutes. Montana, I don't want to go to sleep. I want to come to your ma. You can't.
This was the whole agreement.
Then I was like, tee, and you got to sort that out. I'm not I'm not sort that out.
So would you let Montana go to another person place?
Definitely? Oh? Really good luck to them because.
We were asking. We were asking in our team, and all the fathers of daughters went.
No, why, well that'd be great.
Like for me, like I never had problems with sleepovers, but I knew the parents so or there were friends of mine and so I knew the families.
It just didn't bother me.
But it's interesting because my kids are older now, but it was interesting to me that all these parents in our team were.
Going, no, I wouldn't let them. No, No, no, really, it's curious. It is to me.
I find it, Yeah, I find it interesting. I have never even thought about it really having a problem with it. Yeah, just I thought it was just normal.
You've got a five year old.
Yes.
So our rule moving forward when we get into it, is I'm more than happy for him to have friends come and stay at our house. I don't want him staying at someone else's house. And the reasoning behind that is when they're in our house, they're kind of under our control.
We know they're safe and they're fine. But I don't know.
There's something about even if you know the parents of the friend they're going to sleepover, you don't know those parents' friends.
You don't know the parents' neighbors or family.
So even I don't know, even if you trust those people, they're not it's going to happen.
Robin. Terrible things happen to kids all the time. I don't want to spell it out on.
The rail, but you really, you genuinely think that's what will happen if you happen.
It's not that I think it will happen, it's that as a parent, I have an obligation to stop it.
From happening. So that is one thing I can.
Take off the table that will make sure it doesn't happen in that.
So what age group does that go up until it? And I have no judgment either way. I'm just really curious at what age does that shift.
Once they are old enough to understand all of humanity and how it works in that once they're old.
Enough twenty five?
Well, I know you laugh, but it is until they're old enough to understand the ins and outs of people's behavior, which isn't always good.
But all parents can't think like that because then other kids can't ever go and stay at your place.
But if someone wouldn't want their child coming to stand house, I wouldn't be offended. Okay, I would not at all, because my kids are worth more to me than any of my friendships, any of my family members. Their well being is worth more than how someone views me.
So but what age do you think that will happen? Then it'll be teens, fifteen, sixtyeighteen, sixteen.
Yeah, maybe when they can drive somewhere to stay, like sixteen seventeen.
Oh man, I'm going to talk to you in ten years and steal you. See if you can hold.
That thirteen one six five.
I'd love to hear either way, like judgment free, don't whatever you want to do works for your family. And I believe that in all situations, if you've got kids, do you let them have sleepovers?
Well, it's rules of sleepovers, I guess, and what age, what gender? Because I was with you, Corey, that's what I did, and I knew the families. And there was a couple of times where I'd be rung up at midnight or whatever and one of the kids was scared and I'd just go and get them.
So I might be we might be an anomaly.
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Corey.
I's in studio with this recently when we were talking about I don't even know what we were talking about.
We're talking about when you cry and whether you cry around seeing stuff with your kids, and you said, no, the only time you really cries when you watch the movie Marley and Me.
I'm a softy, to be honest, I really am. I'm a massive softy, So I could cry watching movies like that. Mala me maybe.
Gives me all the time the Puppy Dog.
I'm a dog lover, you.
Know how, Boss Dru said, I can't watch that film.
No, Well, if you love dogs as much as we do, obviously it's hard.
So I'm guessing this will probably be something we'll need to show you rather than listen to.
My wife sent me a video a real I watched it before I went to bed, and I bore my eyes.
What was it?
It was about like when you have a dog and then you have kids and you realize I haven't spent time with the dog, and it's like they don't they're not here long, and then it's about like spending time. Oh Jesus emotional read.
Home one of my dogs because it didn't cope with their kids.
That's sad. Okay, I can't do that. That's so sad. No, No, I just betrained my dog so much because they have to deal with kids. It's just one thing, like one of my dogs like grown up my kid once and I just say, he's never growed that kid ever again. But it's just because it's the last thing I ever want to worry about, is yeah, of cod because I for one of my kids getting hurt from my dog and I don't want to get given my dog away.
So what kind of dogs have you got?
And Kelpie Collie?
Yeah, Kelpy s they round up everything everything. He's a little little person that I can dominate.
Okay, so I'm not sure that this will get the desired effect, but here is a little bit of Marley and me.
Remember your green dog, Marley.
Green dog.
And then he died.
It gives me I remember the movie.
Okay, so you went to the visual because I was thinking that the audio wouldn't have there. You go, really, it's so funny, and yet we talk about your kids, and that doesn't that doesn't advise My.
Kids will get me if it was something, if it's like you know, they're being cute and not being in a psycha. But yeah, it's it's sad. It's the last thing I always like thinking about it.
See it stunts.
Maybe my dogs.
Because you grew up in a farm, like you would have seen life and death all the time, did you ever have to put one down or on.
Farms you had to always do it. The saddest one for me, I'll never forget it was when I accidentally ran out of my dad's dog.
So what kind of dog was it. He's off.
What happened?
It was hard by accident? You were you a young guy?
I was probably ten, grade ten, I can't remember.
But it was his dog, oh man, and the dog got under the wheel. Yeah, man, that happens.
I have a girlfriend who lived out on a property and she had colleagues and just one day, you know, it was so.
Excited, especially like you never see like your dad cry much. So it was it was his dog.
So how long to take it over?
Never?
Never?
Oh my goodness, net Look we made Coreo's cry. I feel terrible. Did he get another dog?
He always did, but it was just it was his dog that one. So yeah, it's a that was a hard on that.
And then telling him to man, he was there, Oh great.
His dog.
If dad used to get out of his car and his dog would jump out and go into the wheel and wait for him. But he jumped in the back of the heat and I just slid over and didn't realize drove the car off and because he didn't see dag get back in get back in the back.
So what kind of dog was put?
Collie? I'm pretty sure I think he had him for like sixteen years seven. He had him for a long time.
So look at that. It really takes you back there, doesn't it. Well, okay, we need to stop that. This is mean.
We're going to have a group cut.
Yeah, I want to.
It was funny actually because you're such a tough guy. And our boss Drew said, oh, I could never. I can never watch marlea mate, It's too upsetting. And then he said, I wonder what happens if Corey hears.
It Man's best Friends Dogs and it does.
Still impact you. Okay, well, how about them? Broncos seven three.
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I'm very curious about when you have been named as a player in Origin, because of course it's next Wednesday right now. For the players, is it starting to build their nerves that they would have spent a bit of couple of times, you know, a couple of days in camp, they would have been working with each other, they would have been getting to know the guys.
When do you start to get nervous?
Well, when is your debut you're nervous for the whole week. Like obviously when cam Smith told me off that time, so that made the.
Nerves a bit more he couldn't try it.
Yeah, but yeah, for me, I remember the day of so, you know, you usually have a sleep, you know, before any game I played, I usually would have like a forty minute nap or an hour nap, not too big, but just to refresh and pass the day pretty much. But I remember the day before my first Origin game, well, the day of, Sorry, I could not sleep. My heart was pumping one hundred miles an hour, and yeah, I was just just so pumped, but I was so nervous at the same time. You know, it's because it's just the biggest game, you know, in the NRL, and I just couldn't believe it. I was actually going to be able to run out and play.
Do you remember what you were nervous about?
Though?
So like at this point in your career, because by the time you're named in an Origin team, you are a successful player in a successful club in the NRL, Like you've made it, you are top tier, so like you're used to playing in a full stadium, Like, do you remember what it was about?
That game that made you.
Go, I think it was a team that I was in because extra, you know, it was, it was incredible. I was still just a It's the proudest moment in my life seeing Billy Tea. Well, Billy was out, so that's the only reason I got picked. So Darius was a fullback and I was the winger. You know, said that where it would have been so Tea. Yeah, So yeah, it was just there was more, you know, I couldn't believe it was actually running out with that team and being a part of that team. It was you know, people grew up watching, you know, because I was only twenty one at the time, you know, so they'd all been playing for about ten years at the time already, so you know I was watching them in school and then you know, being in that team and being able to play with them was probably half the nervous part of it, like just I didn't want to let them down. To hate letting people down. That's that's my biggest It's I don't ever like, you know, failing myself, but it's just more I'll always do as much as I can to never let anyone down that you know, I'm in a team with or working with. It's just my biggest It's my biggest thing that I'd never want to do. So that was my nerves probably, And I was so excited to be plant Origin because I remember, you know, watching as a kid, you know, on the couch and you screen at the TV and like, you know, it's so then I was going to be a part of that. And yeah, just so so nervous of running out and you know, not doing my job, and I could not sleep at all.
Did you have things like anything lucky, like lucky undies.
Like he sucks weird one. I used to wear the same Mondays, but then that just got to be gross. I used to wash them obviously, but they started ripping. So trying had obviously change that lucky thing that I was trying to keep going. But I tried to change a lot of my routine and weird superstition stuff because it just it'd get too ridiculous sometimes if you have to wear the same Mondays. If you have to, yeah, it freaks certain things.
I just that's Kip.
Kip gets so thinky about if he doesn't wear his Origin onesie into the show, they lose like it's like.
So I learned to relax a bit more with that. Like I wouldn't stop doing a lot of things. It was just I would know what I needed to do, but I just I'd try and do it as good as possible. You know, if I couldn't do it, I just changed the littlest thing, like if it was too short, like if we got there a little bit later to games, then I just make things quicker. The only thing I'd do is put my left shoe on first. Why I've always done it, and someone actually bought it to my attention my game. They said, you know you actually put your left sho on every game because they sat next to me. They said, do you even notice you put your left shoe on like all the time? And then and then that became right, and now I have to do that every time. I know, if ever watched, I actually almost put my right shoe on sometimes, and.
Then you think of thank goodness, Curry doesn't get nervous joining us because he is now a part of our team. So guaranteed, as time goes on, we'll learn heaps more about this legend.
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