“Dad, I don’t think it is a very good job”. He paused and with a smile I still miss every day, he responded, “if it was a good job Cam, they would not be asking you”.

The Barassi ‘spray’ was legendary. In an era when all coaches had this arsenal in their coaching kit bag, Barass was trigger happy.

I wasn’t ready, but one of the most important lessons I would learn, a repeating pattern over the next forty years – you are never ready.