The Warriors

You've got quite a team there, coach. I'm loving the mongrel.

Oh!

You're on the same team, fellas.

Fucking footballers!

- What the fuck?! - What the fuck?!

That's my sister.

How many guys did you beat just to get here?

Yeah, well, that doesn't seem to make a difference to some, does it?

Maki? Are you serious?

I thought, "Isn't that the Warriors ruckman?"

And I wondered if maybe you tasted like gingerbread.

Gingerbread?

Monday morning I want to see you on the front page,

holding a guernsey and dancing.

Bill, you cannot make him dance.

Oh, don't take me literally. Would you dance, though?

It's just one of the perils of being a professional footballer, Mak.

I mean, every man and his dog wants to bring you down.

- Why? - They're jealous.

We're a team.

He's being a dick to our brother.

Stop bullshitting about me, bro!

Stabbed myself in the arse!

These whitefellas aren't scared of us, aren't they?

Blackness isn't just the colour of your skin, bro.

I mean, that's what they are really afraid of.

Oh! And the sex.

Boys, the positions we get in.

Seriously, this one, she calls it the Ginger Pretzel.

Leg up like this, just absolutely going to town, you know what I mean?

- Just... just giving it some. - Scottie, shut the fuck up.

Mate, I'm sure it's good but we don't need to hear the details.

Yeah, yeah. Up here. Seriously just giving it.

- Discretion. - You look like shit, brother.

- Standard night, was it? - (LAUGHS)

Mate, I'm on the wagon. I was in bed by nine.

Oh, what the fuck? How long we gotta be in here for?

Till Spinner says we can get out.

Yeah, well, why isn't... Spinner, get Maki in here!

What is he doing? Come on.

Why has he got to be out there?

Too cold for ya?

Yeah, mate.

No beaches where you come from?

No, no. Only bushes.

I'm a Spinifex man.

G'day. What's his name?

- (DOG GROWLS) - Don't touch him.

This is where I run him but I can't with you people here.

We'll be going soon.

Yeah.

Maki, get in there, mate!

It's all part of the recovery!

Too cold!

- Oi, you little bony-arsed bastard, get in here! - (LAUGHS)

- Come on, Mak. - (LAUGHS)

Get in here before I chuck you in here.

Hey, Deb, it's Spinner.

Yeah, at the beach. There's paparazzi here.

Oh, whoops.

I might have let it slip that the boys would be there.

Look, your job is to get them to play well

and my job is to get them on the front page.

And bare-chested boys bring in members.

Why didn't you tell me you needed a snap

of a good-looking bloke in his smalls, hey?

- Oh, please. - I would have done it.

- All you have to do is ask. - I'm hanging up now.

See you later.

All right, fellas! Boys! Bring it in! Come on, let's go!

Oi! I thought you said you'd be gone!

- Sorry. - Sorry?

What the fuck does that mean?

Why don't you go back to where you came from, Spinifex man?

You mean Warmun?

Speak English, mate.

- What? - You okay, Mak?

Piss off, towelhead.

Yeah, take your monkey with you!

This is my beach. Piss off back to where you came from.

Come on! Come on!

- Here! Here! - (DOG YELPS)

Water wasn't that cold, hey?

- Everything all right, boys? - Yeah, all good.

What's going on?

Nothing.

That kid.

Leave it, Mak. Don't worry about it.

With the dog?

Zane, what did he say?

Told Mak to fuck off back to where he came from.

Doesn't even make sense.

- Hey, Mak. - Just let him go.

He also called Mak a monkey.

Oh, fuck.

Scottie!

I'll see you boys back at the club. Doc!

Oh, FUCK!

Fuck! Fuck!

What happened out there?

Oh, hi, Dan.

No comment yet but I'll issue a statement very shortly. Bye.

- Oh, what? - You did involve the press?

The guy said some shit. Big fucking deal.

- It's a free country. - Come on, Bill.

You don't think I didn't have to put up with that kinda shit?

- "Poofter. Fat c... " - Oh!

Yeah, well, it happened.

People will say anything to get under a man's skin.

I know it's terrible but Maki's just gonna have to man up.

But we need to respond to that.

Why give it more oxygen? Did they make a recording?

No. So deny it. They heard wrong.

- No, no, we cannot deny it. - Oh, yes, we can.

You don't want to get mixed up with this race shit, trust me.

Oh, yes, okay. Well, thank you for your help.

We have to fix...

Deb, remember, if you don't believe it, it isn't true.

But... but... you spineless... pricks.

Oh, fuck! Oh!

Maki! You here, mate?

- Maki? - I'm here.

Deb?

Hi. Is he okay?

I don't know. I think so.

Just put me on... put me on speaker.

This has gone everywhere!

And Bill, well, he just thinks that we should deny this guy

ever said anything and make it go away,

but I'm going to organise a mediation with this kid, okay?

I'll get back to you with the details.

In the meantime, I want the whole team on lockdown.

That includes you, bumpkin.

No social media, no phone calls to Mum, no pub chats.

- Okay? - Okay.

- Scottie? - Yep.

Okay. Okay.

You know I could do some good here?

- How? - Social media.

Put the word out to my peeps.

Scottie, last time you tried a social media movement,

you got a bloody spear in your arse.

I can fix it with one post.

Fuck.

"Go back to where you came from"?

Is that really what that dude said?

If someone told me that, I'd...

... wouldn't even know where to go.

Boys, what's that thing called again...

it's like your brothers and your sisters, on a plant...

Are you talking about a family tree, Scottie?

- Sometimes I wonder, Scottie. - How does your mind work?

Mak?

Mak, you all right?

Don't take it too seriously, man.

You know, dickheads will say anything.

Mak. Up, bro?

Mak...

Ah. Um...

Maki!

Oh... (LAUGHS) Maki! What you doing, brother?

What do you reckon? Recovery.

Hey, bro, isn't that cold?

You think I'm a dumb blackfella.

It's heated, "bro".

Hey, that fuckwit was way out of line, bro.

I should've said something.

But I've grown up with it.

If you let them rattle you, they'll keep coming.

Yeah.

All right, man.

Hey, Doc, what did you mean

when you said, "Don't take it too seriously"?

You know, man, like, dickheads will be dickheads.

Yeah, man, you should hear what they say to me.

Rednuts, Ginger Meggs, Fantapants, Chutney Crotch,

Red-Headed Rat Rooter, Frecklefart from Denmark...

- (LAUGHS) - Ranga.

Short for 'orangutan', obviously. Uh, Tampon.

Yeah, tell me about it.

You know, I just don't let them get under my skin.

So what kind of things do they say to you?

The usual. You know, drugs, the women, that...

... the thing I did with the horse.

So to get under your skin, they say things you've actually done.

Well, to get under mine,

they say things like "Go back to the bush where you're from.

'Cause you're not from here."

That's fucked. You're from Melbourne, aren't ya?

Yeah, but they don't see me as a person.

They just see a black person that should be living in the bush.

Well, like you said, man, just ignore the arseholes, right?

Yeah.

I'll just ignore them for the rest of my life.

Doesn't mean it's the right way.

Stuff the lockdown.

That's the one.

Where... do I come from?

Maki, come on, mate! That's the way!

Look at this. Come on. Come on.