Corey Oates Shares What Really Happened After the NRL Grand Final

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now with the podcast, then what a time it is
to be a Queenslander. I mean, we had the Lions
last weekend, did the good, did the deed and did
it well? I don't know, I didn't say that right one,
thank you Robin one, no one solidly. Then then the

(00:43):
Broncos women had to win and then of course the
big Broncos game on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
So did anyone find out if you put a dollar
on at the start of the season for those three
teams to win their Grand Finals, how much would you make?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, the two so the two boys to win was
on sixty one, and I reckon the girls would They
wouldn't have been favorites, so it would have over fifteen
hundred dollars to.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
So if you put a dollar on, you yeah, you
get fifteen hundred bucks back.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
And we didn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
All the Broncos were way outside the start of the year.
No one thought after last last season, no one thought they.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Were going to be And I said, I am so
confident with Madge as a coach, they are a different team,
and they were.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
It showed they were just excellent.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Recee Walsh I think had the game of his life.
It's very rare for a player with that much hype
to live up to it, and he did, he really did.
And some Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
But okay, so you were there because of course you
were being on it and we've spoken about that. If
you want to hear it, go to our podcast. But
coming home, when did the players come back?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
So they flew on that art They had about five
chartered planes. I think the Bronx and both teams threw
on the same one. They got back about I think midday.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Still timing.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Do they do the night in home because the stadiums
out in Homebush and for those that are in Sydney,
it's a long way from the middle of the city.
Do they do the night there?

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Oh? Yeah, No, so that they were staying at Brighton but.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Family, where's that? That's net?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, but they were staying out there to be away
from the city, I guess, okay, And then I think
the after game function was at the Star.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Back into the city, So that's hours of bus traveling.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
When like when you win, you ain't going right, you
just I don't think the boys left the stadium till
three o'clock, two o'clock in the morning. Yeah, I don't
think they got back to the hotel till about seven.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
So that.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Wow, So they're all in the sheds just like you
just you just you just celebrate what.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
You've done, and then their families there.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
The family wouldn't say that long, but they'd be there
for an hour or two. But yeah, it's you celebrate
and enjoy and just reminisce on what you just did.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah. So here we are Tuesday morning with there be
players that have been that haven't been home yet.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
You reckon some No, they would probably be reckon three
or they probably would have aimed to get a shower
and get dressed.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
And then go back right looking for trying to find out.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, it's probably where players get the disgusting name because
they're probably still in their jerseys.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
This explains a lot about the fact that you were
at the airport and you were chatting to some of
the fellas that with this is this in Sydney.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes, this is in Brisbane. Because I didn't tell them.
It was so hard to see him and talk, so
I just let him enjoy and I'm like, I'll see
him back in Brisbane.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Who's on this?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
You got so taking? I wait for our bags and
the boys came down.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm like, I'll go to try and see a few
of the boys. I haven't seen him out and I
got Reno, Corey Pace jumped in and then I spoke
to Benny Harnet at the end, what is it better?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Then?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's better than coffee with oats? Now this is this
is Ben gar garyguation.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
That's ahead Ben better way.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Ben Hunt's voice has just gone over. Did he get
an elbow or something?

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, well back now, but he only had that back
and cushion.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
So that was his redemption right Because June fifteen when
the Grand Final, you guys did not have a great time.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
No, it wasn't a good good ending of the game
for us, a lot of us. You know, I used
to blame myself, but Ben Hunts when they got the
massive blame, and yeah, what he went through, I wouldn't
be able to explain it because it was just so bad.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
It was, it was so hard. He left because of.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
It, and he dropped he dropped a kickoff with minutes
like a minute to goo.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
No, no, it was in the extra time. So I
went the last try one with about a second ago.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
He got the first kickoff. Did you notice that in
the in the Grand Final they they.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Kicked and then the second one hed it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, So it really was.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
The moment for him to kind of come full circle
ten years later and win.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
It was yeah, And it's odd name be for a
long time, and it's one thing I know him, his family,
they've always wanted for him to be able to come
back and try and try and make right of what happened.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
So yeah, it was great. I think there was that
many people that that felt great, obviously just winning for
the Bronx, but for Ben as well, just to be
able to turn it out and have that redemption game.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Even when he came back, you know, I retired because
I just couldn't go any any longer. My body was tired,
my brain, you know, my mental state. I was I
was gone. I was done, and I wish I was
able to do what he'd done. But when he came back,
I said, you could have came back a bit earlier.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Because I just helped you out.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
I just knew that he was going to do what
he could.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
And he did. We mentioned Reno being thirty five and ends,
you know, playing to injury but not retiring. What about
Ben Hunt is? This is will he retire?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
You think the Old Dazer his nicknames Dozer, he just
go and go and go. Yeah, they both got one
more year left. They're both but they're both beaten. They're
both beaten up. They're both sore and old.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
But and may not yet be sober.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, they're going to

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Play play all right,