It wasn't even that bad TBH. I seem to remember Thurston's last game being more effusive. Perhaps the reality of it couldn't live up to what I was imagining.
In all seriousness, Cam Smith is a freak.IMO he is comfortably the GOAT now. When you take into account what he does on both sides of the ball, goal-kicking, captaining, game-management, he's pretty much a whole team unto himself. And he's played 400 games, plus a a separate story of rep heroics. He's not the worst person in the world. Yes he's an artist at the wrestle. But rugby league has always been about wrestling. The Storm were just the first to realise it and professionalise it. He gets flack for talking to the refs in a calm and measured way instead of frothing in their faces like a triggered troglodyte. I don't get that.