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In this podcast
2:00 - Welcome Mark O'Neill
2:58 - How he got the nickname "Buckets"
3:59 - Reflection on life and footy
4:55 - The O'Neill family background
6:00 - The beauty of the orange Balmain Tigers jersey
6:36 - What his parents did for work
8:43 - Footy and transferable skills
10:06 - When he started playing rugby league
12:24 - Developing through the grades and how he got picked up by the Tigers
14:05 - All three grades training together on a Tuesday night
15:00 - Where he picked up his defensive skills
16:13 - Alan Jones
20:15 - Mixing with Tigers Legends and the standards they set
21:50 - The love of the Kangaroo Tour
24:49 - Warming the bench for first grade
26:16 - Playing in the first junior Kangaroos team in 1994
27:53 - Choosing between ARL and Super League
29:40 - Learning from the Great Ellery Hanley
31:41 - What he felt like playing during the Super League war
33:33 - When he started to embrace leadership in his career
36:10 - Leadership on the field and in the office
37:30 - Keys to good leadership
38:40 - Education and learning
40:55 - Leaders amongst the 2005 premiership winning Tigers
42:46 - How he found out about the merger between Wests and Balmain
44:58 - Early days of the merger
46:05 - Laurie Nichols
46:57 - Dealing with his wife having breast cancer
50:30 - Fatherhood
53:31 - Benji Marshall
55:13 - How they developed into a premiership winning team
58:00 - How he stayed motivated during 11 years without playing finals
58:45 - Why preparation is key
1:02:09 - The tole from the incident with Danny Williams
1:04:44 - How he lost the Tigers captaincy during 2005
1:06:40 - Leading without the captaincy
1:07:24 - When he decided that 2005 was going to be his last year
1:08:40 - Ben Galea and the goal to make the top four
1:09:59 - The bet that won Ben Galea a bucks party
1:13:11 - How he felt going into his first ever finals series in 2005
1:14:42 - Is there a role for the captain when the opposition scores
1:16:52 - The miracle of Pat Richards
1:18:36 - The Cinderella finish to his career
1:23:00 - What made the Tigers 2005 premiership team so different
1:25:25 - Insights into his role as Parramatta Eels General Manager of Football
1:34:55 - Player back in the day he would of loved to have played with
1:36:29 - Player of today he would loved to have played with
1:38:20 - 5 people he would invite to a private dinner party
MARK O'NEILL
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Mark O'Neill is a former professional rugby league player who played 223 first grade games in the NRL for the Balmain Tigers
and Wests Tigers where he won a premiership with the Tigers in 2005. He also played in England for 2 seasons for 28 first grade games for the Leeds Rhinos and Hull KR. Post footy, Mark is the General Manager of Football at the Parramatta Eels after several years working for the NRL.
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