The Illawarra Mercury's Mitch Jennings talks with grand final man of the match Jarrod Boyle following the Butchers 2023 grand final win. Footage: BarTV Sports
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00:30 Well I'm here now with Jarrod Boyle, 4th Premiership, 3rd Club.
00:35 They all mean so much but this one had a feeling about it, the sense of timing.
00:40 There was a time we thought you guys might do all you could just to scrape into the finals.
00:45 To come here and just create this, pardon the pun, Boyle-over. What's the feeling like?
00:50 We never lost belief. We knew that once it clicked, which it did later in the year,
00:55 that we could carry on to the semis, like I said in previous interviews.
01:00 Most of those games we lost, we weren't beat. So once we figured that out, running into the finals,
01:05 I honestly wasn't too worried the last three weeks. I knew that our best was better than anyone else's.
01:10 So if we played our best, we were sweet. We certainly didn't in the first half, but I thought that second half
01:15 was one of the best halves of footy I've been involved with.
01:20 What was so intriguing about this game and everything else was how many big game players,
01:25 and you all knew each other so well, you played with each other, played against each other,
01:30 but with some inside knowledge, when you saw big Josh Dow coming out of the line at you and you went short side,
01:35 was there some inside knowledge? Did you see him coming and go, "I know where I'm going here"?
01:40 I knew he was going to rush it and put in some terrible kicks, or he whacked me.
01:45 He's an unbelievable player to play in the middle and do what he does for 80 minutes.
01:50 It's a credit to him, but I knew he was coming. I didn't want to rush the kick, and I knew we'd have numbers
01:55 on the short side from where he came from, and the boys did a great job finishing off.
02:00 It's a tough thing to compare premierships and to compare these things, but can I just ask you,
02:05 although it could be the last one, where does this one rank among the others?
02:10 Not to put him in a hierarchy, but it's got to be a special feeling to this one.
02:13 It's definitely special, having a couple of years out of the comp, not knowing if I'd ever come back to this comp,
02:20 the way things were, and then teaming up with Bram to come back and potentially finish off,
02:26 I'm not sure yet, with one of your best mates. Now to get the premiership, it's definitely up there.
02:33 You can't compare them. They're all different, they're all special for their own reason,
02:36 but this one will be at the top of my mind for a long time.
02:40 Is it the last one for Jarrod Boyle?
02:43 It's a pretty good feeling. I'll see how the body goes. The body was a bit sore this year,
02:48 but I love this feeling and I wouldn't mind another one to be honest.
02:53 We'll never get tired of watching you play, Jarrod Boyle, but go back out there to the Rhines and have a few beers
02:58 and enjoy this one, mate. You've earned it.
02:59 Thanks, guys. Thanks for having me. Thank you.
03:00 Thank you.
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