THE full transcript of the on-air brawl between 2GB Continuous Call commentators Darryl Brohman and Bob Fulton.
Judy Boyd: Darryl, I just wanted to say I was quite offended by the article because I've been married to Les for 29 years and have never been embarrassed by him in my whole 29 years and I'm sure Australia, Manly, in his time with all of them, have never really been embarrassed by anything that happened. What happened, happened over 20 years ago. He paid his penalty both professionally and personally and what you thought of him, why he didn't look you in the eye, is he's not two-faced and maybe genuinely doesn't like you.
If this is the way you thought, why didn't you find him when you had the chance to up there, instead of putting it in the paper and putting myself and my family through that again?
Before making statements, maybe you should check with myself because myself, my children and my grandchild are very proud of him and of his achievements.
Darryl Brohman: It doesn't embarrass you that he elbowed someone in the head and gouged someone?
JB: Darryl, I know that he didn't mean to do it. I've lived with him and I know that what he did, he did probably on the spur of the moment.
DB: It doesn't embarrass you though? That he did it?
JB: No, because I know he didn't mean to do it. He didn't genuinely go out there and mean to hurt you. And I mean, do you think the young boy (Kane Cleal) whose jaw was broken the other day . . . I'm sure his family aren't really embarrassed because he wouldn't have meant to do it either.
DB: I'm sure it wasn't meant to be done by that player but let me say . . .
Bob Fulton: Well, what makes you think . . .
DB: Hang on, I'd like you to stay out of this, Bob.
BF: Well, I'm not going to.
DB: You think putting an elbow to the face of someone is an accident?
BF: No I don't, but he's paid the price, as Judy said, both from an embarrassment point of view and also from a legal sense because you're one of the few players that haven't let stay on the field what happens on the field.
DB: Correct.
BF: You were one of the first, actually.
DB: I probably was.
BF: There's a lot of old-fashioned people that wouldn't take too kindly to that.
DB: There probably is, Bob, but I still think it is my right.
BF: Can I tell you? It is your right, but it probably showed what sort of a person you really are.
DB: This is not your argument. I know you were probably coaching (Boyd) at the time.
BF: I did. I played with him, I went on Kangaroos tours with him.
DB: Well, you're entitled to stick up for him.
BF: Exactly. And that's exactly what I'm doing.
DB: And I'm going to say this to you. Do you think rugby league should be played by people who are prepared to elbow somebody?
BF: At that stage, that's the way the game was played.
DB: Oh rubbish. That is absolute crap.
BF: That's the way the game was played.
DB: That is absolute crap and you know it's crap.
BF: No I don't.
DB: And you're going to defend him.
BF: Oh sit down. Sit down.
DB: You're going to defend him. Are you telling me you're going to defend him?
BF: Yes, but not in relation to the actions, with what happened to you. Did you take legal action?
DB: Yes.
BF: Were you settled?
DB: Yes.
BF: And how much money did you get?
DB: I'm not telling you because it was settled outside of court.
BF: Yes exactly.
DB: So what's your point?
BF: The point is that you're the only person - I think there's one other person in the history of the game - that has taken legal action against another player for something that happened on the field.
DB: And it is my right to do so.
BF: It is your right, but it doesn't sort of exempt you from making a decision a lot of other players in that era would not have made.
DB: Fair enough, maybe they wouldn't have made it, but I made that decision to do it and I was backed up by some friends who agreed with me.
BF: And I know exactly why you did it. Exactly.
DB: Why?
BF: Do you need me to go into it?
DB: I want to know, you've never told me this. Tell me.
BF: Well, what have I called you on this program any number of times?
DB: Oh, fat flea, fat slob, which one?
BF: No, the one that really hurts you.
DB: Coward?
BF: Yep.
DB: And you believe that? You believe I'm a coward?
BF: Well, probably not, no.
DB: Well, which one is it, Bob?
BF: Well, OK. Well, you are.
DB: I'm a coward?
BF: Yeah. The way you played the game as far as I'm concerned. With the actions that you went on with Les Boyd, and that's why Darryl, let me tell you, that's why people haven't got respect for you, for that legal action that you took against Les.
DB: Yeah. Fair enough. So you reckon I'm a coward and Les isn't?
BF: I've played with him, I've played against him, right? At all levels and he's certainly not a coward. If you would've done it to him, just hypothetically if you would've done it to him, he wouldn't have done what you did.
DB: You know what? In your case, I think you are again way out of line here. At least I now know where you stand with regards to me, and Judy I'm sorry for doing this to you, you don't deserve all this stuff, but I'm going to say it. To me, rugby league is not about elbowing blokes in the eye, gouging them in the eye. You don't have to be tough to do that, you have to have something, in my opinion, that is wrong and the quicker we rub that out of the game the better. The game for mine is now a way better spectacle because of the actions they took against Les Boyd.
BF: The action taken by the league in relation to Les Boyd, fair enough, we're talking about the action taken by you against Les Boyd from a legal sense.
DB: And I was entitled to do that. Let me tell you, I had plenty of support for that as well, not from you obviously.
BF: I'm probably a bit old-fashioned. There you go.
DB: Well, maybe you are. But I decided to do it, and I did it, and it's finished.
BF: Well, it's not finished, because it's in the paper today, in chapter and verse .
