All right.

Okay. This is Goroka, my hometown.

Sorry. We'll just do one more.
That was good.
All right. Look at me.
This is Goroka my hometown. Goroka is known for ... It's the only town in Papua New
Guinea that everyone loves rugby league, everybody plays rugby league, everybody
supports rugby league, of all ages they come here. So we're at Danny Leahy Oval
where, it has a history of the Kangaroos playing here, the Lions, the French
Roosters.
When Mal Meninga came here, everyone was crazy. Maybe he was bigger than the
goalposts I wouldn't know. I was a little kid when he came here. So this is where
it all started for me. This is where my rugby league career started, had my first
tackle here, my first try, scored my first try here. Yeah, everything happened here
at Danny Leahy Oval at Lopi Field.
And how crazy do people get about rugby league, especially when a big team's here?
Oh, you see this area? People sit and literally stand next to the fence. They're
all packed together. When there's a big rugby league game, even when there's a
Digicel Cup game or back in the day, it was the Inter-city Cup. It was the
Cambridge Cup Inter-city Cup where Goroka Lahanis were the favorites three, four
times champion. I used to watch from afar with my dad. Do you want me to point that
out or not?
That's all right.
That's all right.
Tell us about you and your family used to come here and how hard it was to get
ticket sometimes.
Oh yeah. So on big games, especially when the Kangaroos come, there was a big, like
people just crowded and the line's so long that we couldn't get through. I came ...
My first experience with my mom and my brother and my sister, we tried to push
through we couldn't make it in closer to the ticketing area. So my mom just gave up
and took us back home. We missed out the Kangaroos game, that's how crazy Goroka
people are. Even people from Chimbu come here to watch the game from the Highlands
down in Lae. They came here during that time, yeah.
And just tell us because we need this explained for the things we filmed yesterday,
tell us Goroka's your home and even though you live in Moresby, a lot of your
family's still here and who that includes.
Okay. Yeah. So I was born here in Goroka, I grew up in Goroka but I live in Moresby
now, but here in Goroka my parents are here. My dad never used to play he used to
play in NSI, but most of my family are here, some of them come and play rugby here.
It's always good to come back home because I know I'm back home to family, see my
family and all that.
And they still have ... Most of my family still follow rugby league and when they
see me back here they see rugby league too and they get so excited asking me about
what's happening with rugby league with NRL and all that stuff. Now with the World
Cup coming, they're also anxious to find out what I'm doing, what's happening with
the World Cup and all that, yeah.
Good.