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All right.

Okay, this is Goroka, my hometown.

Sorry if we could just do one more.

That was good.

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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 goalpost. I wouldn't know, I was just a little kid when he came here. 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 the 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.