May 23, 2024 • 15 mins
By day, she is known to her students at Scone Grammar School as their PE teacher.
But once the school bell rings, Yasmin Clydsdale becomes one of the best female rugby league players in Australia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
iHeart Upper Hunter. I'm Darren KATRUPI on this episode of
iHeart Upper Hunter, a sports star who redefines the term multitasker.
By day. She's known to her students at Scoam Grammar
School as their pe teacher that once the school bell rings.
Yasmind Clydesdale becomes one of the best female rugby league
(00:21):
players in Australia. Asmund has won three n rel W
Premierships and played for the New South Walest Blues for
the past three years. In fact, her brutal defensive efforts
in Game one this year at Suncorp Stadium earned her
the Player of the Match award, and she also won
a Rugby League World Cup as part of the dominant
Jillaruse team that took the UK in late twenty twenty two.
(00:44):
Not bad for someone who's actually a latecomer to the
sport of rugby league.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, I grew up in Newcastle and I remember watching
my brother play every Saturday before I go and play netball.
Growing up in even in Newcak there was no like,
there was no availability for rugby league as a female
and you couldn't play it. So yeah, it wasn't until
I was in my early twenties and I moved to
Camera with my now husband. He was playing for the
(01:09):
Raiders at the time. And I've grown up in a rugby.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
League family and I really just wanted to make friends
down in Camera. So a really funny story.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, I just was playing touch football at time, so
I had like the basic skills, just hadn't done the
contact side. So yeah, I just wanted to make friends
down there, and just yeah, I took off from there.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
To be honest, do.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You remember the first time you were tackling?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, I don't remember. I think I've just gets so aggressive.
I just want to get up and play the balls,
so I don't really focus on the tackling, but I do.
I do love the contact side.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Of the sport. And is that your I suppose focused
when your defensing game one of Origin this year was spectacular.
But is that where you put most of your energy
or is it a bit of half and half.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, definitely big focus on defense. I think growing up
my dad I always said like defense wins games, and
I think that's really like in rain in my brain,
you have to defend well to be able to win,
so and the attack would just come once you get
that flow. But yeah, I really do take defense pretty
seriously and I really try and pride myself for my defense.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
When did you go, hey, I could probably do this,
you know, a bit a bit higher level in irlw
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I probably didn't realize I could do it. I just
I kept like I got kept getting selected again. I'm
super competitive, so any time that I take the field,
I'm going to put my best foot forward and try
my hardest. So yeah, I just I actually was playing
rugby seven's and then moved back to just going and
the local team for me was the Central Crost Roosters.
(02:49):
So I called up and asked if I was able
to come train with them, and they said they'd already
started training so they couldn't guarantee me any game time.
And I said, do you know what, I just want
to play like, I just want to be a part
of a team. And that was the closest team at
that Harvey Norman level, So I was at I said
to Adam like, do you think that's okay? Like do
you think like or do I'm too old because I
was probably like twenty five then, and he goes, no,
(03:13):
you need to try have it go like, you've you
only just played local league down in Canberra, so you
may as well try. And after the first game they
actually had an injury to a winger and I didn't
know what position I was because coming from rugby sevens
you play everywhere on the field. So the coach came
to me, it was actually John Strange, who's the current
ANLW Rooster's coach, said can you play wing?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I said, Oh'm like whatever you want me to play.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I just want to wherever the team needs, I will
just play and if you give me that opportunity, I'll
try my hardest. So yeah, and then that year I
actually ended up getting picked from you South I was
on the wing as well, so it was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, her sporting career has celebrated huge highs. The journey
hasn't been without some sacrifice. How many cars have you
worn out fer leaders you have done between Stone to
Central Coast and then because you played for the Roosters
in Sydney as well, and then still.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, it was it's in a massive sort of that's
probably been the hardest part of my journey and wanting
to continue to keep going is like should I relocate.
Should I like, is it too far to be driving?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Is it silly?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But no, I love living sort of in Scone and
love having my support network here, and it's my time
away from football.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's how I kind of look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
So yeah, but I have worn out one car at least,
so yeah, it is a lot of travel.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But again I think I.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Have good support networks, honest relationships with my coaches where
if I am feeling too fatigued or tired, like I
can be honest with them and say that. But when
I first started as well, we only had four teams
in the neral W so the season wasn't as long.
But as the years are going, the competitions expanding, so
the demands are getting a bit higher, which is why
(05:00):
this year I decided to take term two and term
three off full time work and just work casually as
a teacher, and I think that's going to really help
me throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm surprised that one of our local cl I deals
here in the come forward and said, hey, yes, would
you like a car sponsorship?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Actually I'm sponsored by Huna City Motor Group, so wow, Yeah,
I'm super privileged to be one of their ambassadors and
they're really great towards me, and yeah, yeah, like super
grateful because it does help with my author travel that
I do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So thank you A City Motor group.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Doesn't matter that you've worn out one of their cars.
Congratulations on your ongoing form in the state of origin.
Did you expect to be name player of the match?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, honestly no, I feel like it New South Wales level.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Everyone just does their job and I felt like on
that night that's all that I did was just do
my job for the team.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now you had your husband there. Adam was happy to
be there.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, he was happy.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He definitely loves the celebration after I win. I think
he parties a lot harder than what I do. It's
like he's won a game. But no, I'm really grateful
that he made the trip up to Queensland to.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Support me and he missed a game for Stone.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He actually said it was a massive sacrifice for him
to get all the way up to Brisbane and missed
that match against Aberdeen, but then still made it back
for scoring cups.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So yes. So moving forward, like there was a massive
crowd and they're saying even bigger Newcastle in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I really hope.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So I would love to beat the record in Brisbane
and have it set in Newcastle. I think beating Queensland
and anything, even if it is stats, is something that
we want to achieve. So yeah, I really hope that
Overcastrians and Upper Hunter can get down there to support.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
The girls or to come on. I heard Upper Hunter
including how Yesmond Clydestyle is aim for an nrl W
Premiership three pet with the Newcastle Knights and also pondering
life after footing. I heart Apper Hunter, I heart aper Hunter.
(07:14):
Well scone. Jasmine Clydesdale has many strings to her bow,
one of Australia's best women's rugby league stars, a school
teacher and wife to the local men's first grade captain
coach Adam clydestowe Yasmin's sporting CV sets a high bar
for all of those around her. There's quite a few
premierships on there too, the one with the Sydney Roosters,
(07:35):
then the switch to the Knights when they joined the
nrl W competition. The Knights are going for their third
title in a row this year, so does Jasmine reckon
they can crack a three p changing coach. Does that
made much of a difference.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, we start training in two weeks for the Night,
so he's started on like a really good sorry, like
really strong front. Like we've had a couple of meetings
with the leadership group to organize training make sure we're
getting enough out of our training. So I feel like
that's a really strong start. And we have a values'
Day this Saturday, so I feel like that's going to
be really good for us to all get together before
(08:11):
preseason and we all know what the expectations are so
that no one starts on the wrong page.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But now I'm super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've only had good things about Bja, so I'm super
excited for like the change up. But I will miss
front as well. He was a great coach and the
way that he coached was very different to how everyone
else I've had as a coach does it. But I yeah,
he had really good relationships with his players and I'm
going to probably miss that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And can you go back to back to back?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
We're the novcastings with the Newcastle Knights and I feel
like that's definitely a massive goal this year for us
is to go that three pete and yeah, it's just
it's the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I think you have lost some key players again, but
that happened previously with Milli and so forth. You still want,
didn't you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, that's it again.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I think it's about like the way that the team
joins altogether and how we just want to be there
for each other and compete together.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And I think that at the night.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So that's what we've really We've done well in the
past and hopefully we can keep hold of that in
the future.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Congratulations on your ongoing form in the state of origin.
Did you expect to be name player of the match?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, honestly no, I feel like it New South Wales level.
Everyone just does their job and I felt like on
that night that's all that I did was just do
my job for the team.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now you had your husband there, Adam. Was he happy
to be there?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah? He was happy.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He definitely loves the celebration after I win. I think
he parties a lot harder than what I do. It's
like he's won a game. But no, I'm really grateful
that he made the trip up to Queensland to.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Support me and he missed a game for Stone yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He actually said it was a massive sacrifice for him
to get all the way up to Brisbane and missed
that Matt against Aberdeen, but then still made it back
for scoring cups.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So yes, So moving forward like there was a massive
crowd and they're saying even bigger a Newcastle in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, I really hope.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So I would love to beat the record in Brisbane
and have it set in Newcastle. I think beating Queensland
and anything, even if it is stats, is something that
we want to achieve. So yeah, I really hope the
Novocastrians and Upper Hunter can get down there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
To support the girls.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Most people in Scoe know you're a school teacher. Yes,
how do you go with juggling these footy commitments and
school because I mean you represent in everything.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, no, it is hard. It's a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I feel like trying to get up for school every
day when you come back from a game. But I
just love teaching and love being a part of a
school community. So SCO and Grammar really supports me in
that journey and they've allowed me to I've actually taken
two terms off this year to go to casual so
that I can fulfill my football commitments, but also I
(11:08):
still want to be present in my student's life and
just be.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Able to be there for them. But yeah, in that
reduced capacity.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now, just as we're setting up for this interview, three
students has happened to walk across the oval. Can you
ever get away from it?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Not in Scone.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But again, I think I really love this small community
because they make everything that little bit more special. They
all know my achievements. They all give me feedback even
if it is negative, but majority of the time it
is positive. So yeah, and they just I feel like
I have that connection with.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Kids about football and I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And Scone is a bit of a footy town.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh it's a massive footy town.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
If you ask my husband, Yeah, he kind of he
hates it now because he's now my husband in Scone
and I used to be his wife.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It is really funny how much the Scone Thoroughbreds mean
to this community.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Absolutely, and for those who have been living under a
rock adem is the captain coach. I though has been
recently celebrated a milestone birthday, which for any elite athlete
can trigger thoughts of just how long one can keep
pushing the body at the highest level. So it does
retirement ever cross Yasmond's mind.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I don't really have a big plan.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I just kind of am taking it year by year
to see how my body goes. I know that as
I'm getting older, it is getting harder to get back
up in the mornings or bounce back after games, so
recovery is really massive. When it wasn't like five years ago,
I didn't even think about it, whereas now I really
like have to structure when I do weight, think about
when I'm going to run and able to get.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Back in the water to get some recovery.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So again, I'm just taking it year by year, but
probably a long term ago we'll be like to make
the next World Cup, which is three years away. But
again I'm not putting too much emphasis on it, and
I'm just seeing how my body goes.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Do you think the old fellow will still be playing
kept coaching for the Thoroughbreds by him?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He wants to try and give up every year, he
says to me, but every year he keeps showing back up.
And it is it because of this community and the
love that they have for the sport.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, I think it'd be a sad day to day
if he decides to walk away big and still coach
if he's not playing.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, but then again, I don't know. If you've met Adam,
he's very competitive as well. He'll be running on there.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I had notice action I think everybody had so. And
what about beyond footy, you know, family and all that
sort of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No, I definitely want a family in the future.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And Adam and I have had those conversations because I
am thirty now, so there conversations that we've had together
and he really backs me on playing football until until
I am ready to stop. But also like he doesn't
put any pressure on me to start a family. He
just wants me to be happy.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, well it's a joint.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Takes two to ten goals, as they say. So any
idea on how many little cloud sales will be running
on this very overall with years to go?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh god, I have no idea. Just we might just
start at one and then see how we go.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Do you see a future in coaching for yourself? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I've been asked this a lot Actually, I did help
out with the Tasha Gayale girls.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
This season with them, and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I am a very I'm probably a bit of a
hard coach, but then I do. I just have so
much care for them that I doesn't want them to
be so good. It has something that I've thought of,
but I guess I'll see how I go in the future,
and I'll keep putting my hands up to help out
and be there feet the younger generation coming through as well,
because I think seeing a familiar face when they come
(14:40):
into our wider squads as well as something that's really
important and making them feel like their value and I know.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
As a player that's what I wanted. So yeah, maybe
in the future.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
When it comes to coaching, do you see a day
in the future where there are women like yourself that
are coaching men's teams, whether you say the Scone Thoroughbreds
or in an royalty.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, definitely, It's definitely achievable, and I think if someone
has enough passion and enough drive and support, they could
definitely do that. Well.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That sounds as though Yasmin's many fans in Scone and
across the Upper Hunter will still have plenty of time
to catch her doing what she loves. Yasmin's a little
reluctant to acknowledge just how big of an influence she's
been in the game of women's rugby league, but she's
definitely inspiring a new generation of girls to lace up
the boots, grab a footy and just get out there
(15:31):
and play. That's all for iHeart Upper Hunter for now
proudly supported by the new South Vorest government. I'm Darren
KATRUBI Catch you next time. I Heart Upper Hunter.
iHeart Upper Hunter. I'm Darren KATRUPI on this episode of
iHeart Upper Hunter, a sports star who redefines the term multitasker.
By day. She's known to her students at Scoam Grammar
School as their pe teacher that once the school bell rings.
Yasmind Clydesdale becomes one of the best female rugby league
(00:21):
players in Australia. Asmund has won three n rel W
Premierships and played for the New South Walest Blues for
the past three years. In fact, her brutal defensive efforts
in Game one this year at Suncorp Stadium earned her
the Player of the Match award, and she also won
a Rugby League World Cup as part of the dominant
Jillaruse team that took the UK in late twenty twenty two.
(00:44):
Not bad for someone who's actually a latecomer to the
sport of rugby league.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, I grew up in Newcastle and I remember watching
my brother play every Saturday before I go and play netball.
Growing up in even in Newcak there was no like,
there was no availability for rugby league as a female
and you couldn't play it. So yeah, it wasn't until
I was in my early twenties and I moved to
Camera with my now husband. He was playing for the
(01:09):
Raiders at the time. And I've grown up in a rugby.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
League family and I really just wanted to make friends
down in Camera. So a really funny story.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, I just was playing touch football at time, so
I had like the basic skills, just hadn't done the
contact side. So yeah, I just wanted to make friends
down there, and just yeah, I took off from there.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
To be honest, do.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You remember the first time you were tackling?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, I don't remember. I think I've just gets so aggressive.
I just want to get up and play the balls,
so I don't really focus on the tackling, but I do.
I do love the contact side.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Of the sport. And is that your I suppose focused
when your defensing game one of Origin this year was spectacular.
But is that where you put most of your energy
or is it a bit of half and half.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, definitely big focus on defense. I think growing up
my dad I always said like defense wins games, and
I think that's really like in rain in my brain,
you have to defend well to be able to win,
so and the attack would just come once you get
that flow. But yeah, I really do take defense pretty
seriously and I really try and pride myself for my defense.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
When did you go, hey, I could probably do this,
you know, a bit a bit higher level in irlw
et cetera.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I probably didn't realize I could do it. I just
I kept like I got kept getting selected again. I'm
super competitive, so any time that I take the field,
I'm going to put my best foot forward and try
my hardest. So yeah, I just I actually was playing
rugby seven's and then moved back to just going and
the local team for me was the Central Crost Roosters.
(02:49):
So I called up and asked if I was able
to come train with them, and they said they'd already
started training so they couldn't guarantee me any game time.
And I said, do you know what, I just want
to play like, I just want to be a part
of a team. And that was the closest team at
that Harvey Norman level, So I was at I said
to Adam like, do you think that's okay? Like do
you think like or do I'm too old because I
was probably like twenty five then, and he goes, no,
(03:13):
you need to try have it go like, you've you
only just played local league down in Canberra, so you
may as well try. And after the first game they
actually had an injury to a winger and I didn't
know what position I was because coming from rugby sevens
you play everywhere on the field. So the coach came
to me, it was actually John Strange, who's the current
ANLW Rooster's coach, said can you play wing?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I said, Oh'm like whatever you want me to play.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I just want to wherever the team needs, I will
just play and if you give me that opportunity, I'll
try my hardest. So yeah, and then that year I
actually ended up getting picked from you South I was
on the wing as well, so it was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, her sporting career has celebrated huge highs. The journey
hasn't been without some sacrifice. How many cars have you
worn out fer leaders you have done between Stone to
Central Coast and then because you played for the Roosters
in Sydney as well, and then still.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, it was it's in a massive sort of that's
probably been the hardest part of my journey and wanting
to continue to keep going is like should I relocate.
Should I like, is it too far to be driving?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Is it silly?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But no, I love living sort of in Scone and
love having my support network here, and it's my time
away from football.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's how I kind of look at it.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
So yeah, but I have worn out one car at least,
so yeah, it is a lot of travel.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
But again I think I.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Have good support networks, honest relationships with my coaches where
if I am feeling too fatigued or tired, like I
can be honest with them and say that. But when
I first started as well, we only had four teams
in the neral W so the season wasn't as long.
But as the years are going, the competitions expanding, so
the demands are getting a bit higher, which is why
(05:00):
this year I decided to take term two and term
three off full time work and just work casually as
a teacher, and I think that's going to really help
me throughout the season.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm surprised that one of our local cl I deals
here in the come forward and said, hey, yes, would
you like a car sponsorship?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Actually I'm sponsored by Huna City Motor Group, so wow, Yeah,
I'm super privileged to be one of their ambassadors and
they're really great towards me, and yeah, yeah, like super
grateful because it does help with my author travel that
I do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So thank you A City Motor group.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Doesn't matter that you've worn out one of their cars.
Congratulations on your ongoing form in the state of origin.
Did you expect to be name player of the match?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, honestly no, I feel like it New South Wales level.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Everyone just does their job and I felt like on
that night that's all that I did was just do
my job for the team.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now you had your husband there. Adam was happy to
be there.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, he was happy.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He definitely loves the celebration after I win. I think
he parties a lot harder than what I do. It's
like he's won a game. But no, I'm really grateful
that he made the trip up to Queensland to.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Support me and he missed a game for Stone.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He actually said it was a massive sacrifice for him
to get all the way up to Brisbane and missed
that match against Aberdeen, but then still made it back
for scoring cups.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So yes. So moving forward, like there was a massive
crowd and they're saying even bigger Newcastle in a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I really hope.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So I would love to beat the record in Brisbane
and have it set in Newcastle. I think beating Queensland
and anything, even if it is stats, is something that
we want to achieve. So yeah, I really hope that
Overcastrians and Upper Hunter can get down there to support.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
The girls or to come on. I heard Upper Hunter
including how Yesmond Clydestyle is aim for an nrl W
Premiership three pet with the Newcastle Knights and also pondering
life after footing. I heart Apper Hunter, I heart aper Hunter.
(07:14):
Well scone. Jasmine Clydesdale has many strings to her bow,
one of Australia's best women's rugby league stars, a school
teacher and wife to the local men's first grade captain
coach Adam clydestowe Yasmin's sporting CV sets a high bar
for all of those around her. There's quite a few
premierships on there too, the one with the Sydney Roosters,
(07:35):
then the switch to the Knights when they joined the
nrl W competition. The Knights are going for their third
title in a row this year, so does Jasmine reckon
they can crack a three p changing coach. Does that
made much of a difference.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, we start training in two weeks for the Night,
so he's started on like a really good sorry, like
really strong front. Like we've had a couple of meetings
with the leadership group to organize training make sure we're
getting enough out of our training. So I feel like
that's a really strong start. And we have a values'
Day this Saturday, so I feel like that's going to
be really good for us to all get together before
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preseason and we all know what the expectations are so
that no one starts on the wrong page.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But now I'm super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've only had good things about Bja, so I'm super
excited for like the change up. But I will miss
front as well. He was a great coach and the
way that he coached was very different to how everyone
else I've had as a coach does it. But I yeah,
he had really good relationships with his players and I'm
going to probably miss that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And can you go back to back to back?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
We're the novcastings with the Newcastle Knights and I feel
like that's definitely a massive goal this year for us
is to go that three pete and yeah, it's just
it's the ultimate goal.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I think you have lost some key players again, but
that happened previously with Milli and so forth. You still want,
didn't you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, that's it again.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I think it's about like the way that the team
joins altogether and how we just want to be there
for each other and compete together.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And I think that at the night.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So that's what we've really We've done well in the
past and hopefully we can keep hold of that in
the future.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Congratulations on your ongoing form in the state of origin.
Did you expect to be name player of the match?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, honestly no, I feel like it New South Wales level.
Everyone just does their job and I felt like on
that night that's all that I did was just do
my job for the team.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now you had your husband there, Adam. Was he happy
to be there?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah? He was happy.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He definitely loves the celebration after I win. I think
he parties a lot harder than what I do. It's
like he's won a game. But no, I'm really grateful
that he made the trip up to Queensland to.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Support me and he missed a game for Stone yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He actually said it was a massive sacrifice for him
to get all the way up to Brisbane and missed
that Matt against Aberdeen, but then still made it back
for scoring cups.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So yes, So moving forward like there was a massive
crowd and they're saying even bigger a Newcastle in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, I really hope.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So I would love to beat the record in Brisbane
and have it set in Newcastle. I think beating Queensland
and anything, even if it is stats, is something that
we want to achieve. So yeah, I really hope the
Novocastrians and Upper Hunter can get down there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
To support the girls.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Most people in Scoe know you're a school teacher. Yes,
how do you go with juggling these footy commitments and
school because I mean you represent in everything.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, no, it is hard. It's a lot of energy.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I feel like trying to get up for school every
day when you come back from a game. But I
just love teaching and love being a part of a
school community. So SCO and Grammar really supports me in
that journey and they've allowed me to I've actually taken
two terms off this year to go to casual so
that I can fulfill my football commitments, but also I
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still want to be present in my student's life and
just be.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Able to be there for them. But yeah, in that
reduced capacity.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now, just as we're setting up for this interview, three
students has happened to walk across the oval. Can you
ever get away from it?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Not in Scone.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But again, I think I really love this small community
because they make everything that little bit more special. They
all know my achievements. They all give me feedback even
if it is negative, but majority of the time it
is positive. So yeah, and they just I feel like
I have that connection with.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Kids about football and I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And Scone is a bit of a footy town.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh it's a massive footy town.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
If you ask my husband, Yeah, he kind of he
hates it now because he's now my husband in Scone
and I used to be his wife.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
It is really funny how much the Scone Thoroughbreds mean
to this community.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Absolutely, and for those who have been living under a
rock adem is the captain coach. I though has been
recently celebrated a milestone birthday, which for any elite athlete
can trigger thoughts of just how long one can keep
pushing the body at the highest level. So it does
retirement ever cross Yasmond's mind.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I don't really have a big plan.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I just kind of am taking it year by year
to see how my body goes. I know that as
I'm getting older, it is getting harder to get back
up in the mornings or bounce back after games, so
recovery is really massive. When it wasn't like five years ago,
I didn't even think about it, whereas now I really
like have to structure when I do weight, think about
when I'm going to run and able to get.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Back in the water to get some recovery.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So again, I'm just taking it year by year, but
probably a long term ago we'll be like to make
the next World Cup, which is three years away. But
again I'm not putting too much emphasis on it, and
I'm just seeing how my body goes.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Do you think the old fellow will still be playing
kept coaching for the Thoroughbreds by him?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He wants to try and give up every year, he
says to me, but every year he keeps showing back up.
And it is it because of this community and the
love that they have for the sport.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, I think it'd be a sad day to day
if he decides to walk away big and still coach
if he's not playing.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, but then again, I don't know. If you've met Adam,
he's very competitive as well. He'll be running on there.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I had notice action I think everybody had so. And
what about beyond footy, you know, family and all that
sort of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No, I definitely want a family in the future.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And Adam and I have had those conversations because I
am thirty now, so there conversations that we've had together
and he really backs me on playing football until until
I am ready to stop. But also like he doesn't
put any pressure on me to start a family. He
just wants me to be happy.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, well it's a joint.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Takes two to ten goals, as they say. So any
idea on how many little cloud sales will be running
on this very overall with years to go?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Oh god, I have no idea. Just we might just
start at one and then see how we go.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Do you see a future in coaching for yourself? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I've been asked this a lot Actually, I did help
out with the Tasha Gayale girls.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
This season with them, and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I am a very I'm probably a bit of a
hard coach, but then I do. I just have so
much care for them that I doesn't want them to
be so good. It has something that I've thought of,
but I guess I'll see how I go in the future,
and I'll keep putting my hands up to help out
and be there feet the younger generation coming through as well,
because I think seeing a familiar face when they come
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into our wider squads as well as something that's really
important and making them feel like their value and I know.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
As a player that's what I wanted. So yeah, maybe
in the future.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
When it comes to coaching, do you see a day
in the future where there are women like yourself that
are coaching men's teams, whether you say the Scone Thoroughbreds
or in an royalty.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, definitely, It's definitely achievable, and I think if someone
has enough passion and enough drive and support, they could
definitely do that. Well.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That sounds as though Yasmin's many fans in Scone and
across the Upper Hunter will still have plenty of time
to catch her doing what she loves. Yasmin's a little
reluctant to acknowledge just how big of an influence she's
been in the game of women's rugby league, but she's
definitely inspiring a new generation of girls to lace up
the boots, grab a footy and just get out there
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and play. That's all for iHeart Upper Hunter for now
proudly supported by the new South Vorest government. I'm Darren
KATRUBI Catch you next time. I Heart Upper Hunter.
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