GRAND FINALS GALORE

Q Tell us a bit about your time at Brothers. How did you end up coming to Cairns?

A I was only coming really for probably 12 months or two years. I first took the gig on and I ended up staying eight years. I think we played in six grand finals and won four. I just saw an ad in Rugby League Week and I sort of came up here for a weekend to have a look around and once I met Nugget (Bob Mulley) and John Bingham they were very professional. And what stuck in my mind was they wanted to win a premiership and that was important to me wherever I went, so on first meeting them, I knew this was the right club for me.

Q How do you pick a highlight out of all of those premierships?

A Look every one is different because you’ve got a different group of players. In 2000, there were a lot of older players that had been at the club for a while and locals, so that was important, and then people come and go and we had some new players come to the club like Paul Fowler and winning the comp then was special and he’s still here now as the president. They’re all important for different reasons. The other reason Cairns is close to my heart is all three of my children were born here, I met Michelle and that’s where that started with the family life anyway.

Q Have you got any funny stories you would be at liberty to repeat for us, something you contributed to the 90th anniversary book, Earning Our Stripes?

A No, not really. There was a lot of things we probably got away with back then that you look back on it now you’re not real proud of or it’s not acceptable now, so yeah.