'Extinguished my dream': Big Marn rips Les Boyd's Hall of Fame honour 05:20

The other controversy involves Les Boyd, who's been elevated to the NRL Hall of Fame, and that will be made official at a function in the next couple of weeks. Darryl is right to feel aggrieved by the whole thing, and I know he's quite upset about the whole thing, and Darryl will have his say very shortly when I welcome him to the continuous call team. Some of the other players who have been elevated include Lionel Morgan, Benny Elias, Steve Renoff,

Cameron Smith, Jonathan Thurston, Billy Slater, Benji Marshall, Cooper Cronk, Greg Inglis and Sam Burgess. So we'll have a chat about all of those players this afternoon. Val Holmes, he signed with the St. George Illawarra Dragons and Kyle Flanagan has copped a four-week suspension for biting Stephen Crichton.

That suspension handed down by the NRL judiciary. Let's welcome the continuous call team. And, Darrell, as I say, good afternoon to you. I checked in with you during the week and you were understandably quite emotional about the whole thing. So let's give you your say about the elevation of Les Boyd and then we'll get back to doing what we always do and that's having a bit of fun. Afternoon, Big D. Afternoon, Levi. G'day, Gal and Boyd. Yeah, look, I am disappointed in it. I'm very disappointed in it because I don't think he deserves to be there, firstly.

I want to say, look, as much as you probably don't believe it, I don't like the limelight. Not in this situation anyway. And I hate picking up a paper and, you know, me being involved in, you know, tit-for-tat battle with Les Boyd. At the end of the day, it's not his fault he got selected. I'm a bit dirty on the people who selected him. That's who I'm a bit filthy about. There's 15 apparently in the group who selected Les Boyd. I mean...

I don't know who they are and I don't know who voted for him. But it's funny, I have been told by a few people privately who were on the committee, they didn't vote for him. So someone must have voted for him. But, you know, I said to you before, Livia, the thing that, and there's a few things that irked me, don't worry about that. But one of them, I am disappointed for the other people who have been voted into this election.

It's a monumentous thing for them. I mean, to be in the Hall of Fame of Rugby League is a big, big thing. And congratulations to all them. But I can't congratulate Les Boyd. Les Boyd broke my jaw. He had, I don't know, and you know what? I can't remember whether he got nine months or 12 months for me. I thought it was nine, but everyone keeps telling me he got 12 months. And then I think two or three games back, he eye gouged Billy Johnston and got 15 months. Does he deserve to be in the Hall of Fame for that? No.

You tell me. You tell me. Does he deserve to be in the Hall of Fame for that? Look, there's other things that I want to say too. And I think there's, you know, other people who deserve to be there before him. And, well, I've got a couple of them sitting here today, whether they should be in there or not. That's other people to make that decision. But, you know, for Les Boyd to come out, I think it was yesterday, and say I should be thanking him for putting me in the spotlight. Well, Les...

Let me thank you now. Thanks for breaking my jaw. Thanks for letting me have six weeks wired up, my teeth wired up with metal, and I couldn't eat a thing for six weeks. Thanks for letting me have sustenance and water for six weeks. Thanks for finishing my season with Penrith. It was the end of the year for me. I couldn't do anything else. But above all, Les, I'd like to thank you for just extinguishing my dream of playing for Australia on that night. I believe...

Well, who knows? I believe I probably, well, I could have got there that night. They picked an Australian side that night. And that's what hurts the most for me, Levy. I never played for Australia. And I'm not denying it's probably more my fault than anyone else's. I was probably lazy. And if I was fitter, I probably would have

But I had an opportunity that night, and for him to come out and say I should be thanking him for him breaking my jaw, I think is a little bit comical. So, you know, mate, there's a million things I want to say. I can't say them, and I won't say them. But, you know, mate, as I said, I don't care if I never see him again or hear from him again. He probably feels the same way, so...

At the end of the day, I am upset with it, and I'm not going to deny that I'm upset with it. I got told the other night by Peter Persoltis, text me. He said, I hope you're feeling all right. And I thought, I was out to dinner. I was feeling great. I was just about to have a beer. I said, why would I not be feeling any good? And he said, Les Boyd's been elevated to the Hall of Fame. Yeah. And that upsets me because in my, and I'll say it again, I think I know, I'm 68, I think I know what's right and what's wrong.

And this is wrong. This is wrong. And I don't care what anyone says. You know, they say, oh, you should move on and get over it. That's the way the footy was in those days. Well, mate, if the footy was like that in those days, why did he get nine months and 15 months suspension if that's the way it was? Yeah. He's obviously done something wrong and he has done something wrong.

and he needs to face it. And I don't think we should be celebrating Les Boyd in the Hall of Fame. Good on you, Daryl. And like I said to you privately, and I'll say it publicly, there is a hell of a lot of support for you, a lot of love and respect for what you've achieved, not only as a player, a coach, but as a media commentator as well. It's not about that. It's...

It's what's right and wrong. Yeah, I get that. And this is wrong. Yeah. Absolutely wrong. Yeah. You know, if there's no parameters to it, we'll make some parameters. He shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. He should not be in the Hall of Fame. And, you know, for those people who think he should be, well, that's your opinion. But, oh, my God, I don't think he should be.