Brad Walker
Player Profile
Name: Braddon Walker Esquire.
Position: No 10
Weight: 90kg – all muscle
Height: 182cm – that’s 6 ft 1’ imperial
Nickname: Walker
Bangalow Debut: 2003
Bangalow Caps: 26
Sporting heros: My rugby students. They keep me young and make me laugh. They are a little brash sometimes, but it’s nice to give something back yeah? I love being a mentor.
The best advice I’ve ever received: Lead from the front. People will follow. A sporting god/guru once came to me in a vision because he saw me play and realised that I play the game several phases in front of the rest of the team. Its like Mary had a little lamb right, and his fleece was white as snow, and every where that Mary went, the sheep was sure to go right, because I am like, Mary, and the rest of the team are like little white sheep (with red and blue stripes) and they will go where ever I go, but like, three phases later.
I love Rugby because: I love myself, and by that I mean that if you can understand where I am coming from, ie that I am rugby, then I love rugby because I am rugby. Think about it, if you can’t love what you are man, then your basically incapable of loving anything right, and if you can’t love anything then the world is really fucked up. I’m very pro-active in spreading the word of peace and love to my fellow man, and I just can’t do that unless I love myself enough to love others. Rugby helps me to love myself.
My worst habit is: Pulling other players chicks. Not that I set out to do it, but like, chicks just dig me. I think that my brothers could learn from me because they just don’t understand that women are from venus right, and men are from mars, we are different. Personally I believe that I fit into neither category which is why people from both sexes are drawn to me. I have charisma. I like to think I am from Uranus. I can hear you laughing now about the Uranus comment, but that’s exactly what I am talking about, because to me Uranus is Uranus, Not your annus. Its like when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me. But guys have to be a little more sensitive if they don’t want their chicks to be attracted to the Bradster, because I am not about to change my whole sense of being just to stroke the egos of my brothers yeah!
I would describe my physical appearance as: Athletic yet spiritual.
My pre-game routine/rituals include: Planning the whole game out before we take the field. When I run on, I already know what is going to happen in the game. Every point, every tackle has already been played out in my mind right, the game is actually already over when I run out, which is why I have been so successful as a player for so long. People often say to me during a game “ Brad, can you see the gap” but its like, yeah, I saw it three phases ago. People don’t understand that, but its like I really played that move three phases ago and in three phases time you will be where I am at now. I don’t know if you get it, but it doesn’t really matter, as long as your fleece is white as snow (with red and blue stripes) and you go where Mary goes yeah!
When I was a kid I wanted to be a: football genius. Sometimes people achieve there dreams yeah, if you know what I am talking bout.
The most famous person I’ve ever met: Apart from myself…….ummmmm!
If I didn’t play for Bangalow I would probably: Be drinking piss with my peers i.e. Ella, Wilkinson, Larkham, Spencer and that young bloke – Carter. We love to share a drink and talk about how the game has evolved over the last 30 years.