News One on One with: Danyle Pearce

[OneonOneSA]

https://www.oneononesportssa.com.au/one-on-one-with-danyle-pearce/

Still remember the day he tore up the Eagles in '07.

 

[Ishikawa]

Cheers, enjoyed that.

Found this part pretty enlightening, good thing for the rookies these days are over! Even accounting for inflation, there'd be local footballers out there sitting more pretty than that these days.

JH: You played in the International Rules Series later that year. What do you remember about it?

DP: I remember being broke, that’s what I remember.

The story behind that was I was still on a rookie’s contract – my first contract was $24,600.

I’m literally on zero money going over to Europe, and earlier Port played Geelong in London in an exhibition game.

I can’t recall how long we were away for, going from London then to Ireland.

I had $800 spending money, and converting that to Euros, that was nothing.

I think I had to ask one of the officials at Port at the time for a small loan, saying I was going to Ireland, I was paying rent at the place I was living at.

There were established players and blokes on heavier pay check and they were going out and doing things in Ireland.

I think they put us up in a five-star castle somewhere in the Ireland landscape.

They had horse-riding, equestrian and all this other stuff and I’m looking at the prices, and said “yeah, nah, I’ll stay up in my room thanks.”

Being around all those players, such as Michael Voss, Dustin Fletcher, Barry Hall, Ryan O’Keefe, Kade Simpson, David Mundy, Aaron Davey, Chance Bateman and all these players you want to play like.

That whole experience was incredible and is something I’d never, ever forget.

Playing in front of about 90,000 in the second test, it was incredible, I remember so much from that trip.