 alright you guys what is going on welcome back to another video today's video has to be made it has to be i mean for you guys who followed my journey it just simply has to be made i could have just gone you know gone quietly and let the date roll over and not said anything but the reality is guys is that today's date is october the 6th 2018 and today being saturday means that the nfl international combine or nfl the inaugural nfl international combine held on the gold coast of australia is on today and i'm sitting here in ellis springs and i'm not there and the reason is because i was deemed ineligible at the end of the day so let me just take you back a few weeks i went to melbourne for the first time in this little football journey of mine probably i don't know a month and a half ago whilst i was there i found out about this combine i found out about it i thought fuck what a great opportunity as far as i knew you had to go to any of the five regional testing days there was one in samoa there was one in fiji there was one in Auckland new zealand there was one in sydney and there was one in brisbane and um after the one in brisbane the the final one of the five got wrapped up they also added one in melbourne on the 15th of uh september so 15th september was the final testing day i was unable to to to make any of them because of the fact that i lived here but also because of the fact that that i received an email from the nfl or from you know from some department in the nfl basically saying to me that due to you know the success of my youtube channel due to the fact that i'm you know busting my ass putting all these videos out creating this community they thought it would be great for me to be able to bring my camera along go and test at the nfl international combine so today i would be there testing and you know make a video of it and it would be great lo and behold that person from this particular department of the nfl which is probably like a creative department you know marketing strategy things like that unfortunately you know yes it's fantastic to have ideas but the reality is is that the nfl as a as an organization is so strict with things so strict with eligibility you know they're not going to include anyone in this thing if they've got a slight chance of not being eligible to go in the draft for example and as far as i'm aware i'm actually not eligible for the draft so i don't know if that was the case if i don't know if that was the reason i couldn't get an exact reason but basically i wasn't the only one in this boat i think they might have reached out to probably four or five other people around australia who they were going to give you know automatic entry to the combine and i was one of those so they said in the email they said look we we we're going to fly you out basically the the best athletes of all of those regional testing dates now get flown and accommodated on the gold coast for this weekend there's going to be lots of media and in fact to be honest i can't wait to see what the media is like i can't wait to see some footage of it you know when i did i did actually speak to someone on the phone about this and i said you know it's fine it's all good but if i was to get to the gold coast is there any place for me to watch or possibly you know take some film and apparently there's not so it's going to be closed off there's going to be media coverage i'm not sure what we're going to be able to see of that as a viewer but basically guys at the end of the day i had six weeks of massive stress for nothing because i didn't go so you know i'm not holding anything against anyone this is all just part of this journey and if i hadn't started doing these reactions six months ago i wouldn't even be talking about this so i want to say guys if you have supported me if you wanted to see me in the combine i'm sorry but it didn't work out and it wasn't in my hands i was told that i didn't have to attend a regional testing day low and behold that wasn't true yes a creative social media type person would be able to say that to me but at the end of the day the people that sent me that email don't make the final decisions and me along with a few others weren't deemed eligible so with that being said my flights weren't booked my accommodation wasn't booked and i was told probably five or six days ago that i wasn't going to be coming so here we are what have i got left my other opportunity with pro kick i have been on the phone with them and i will make an update on that in a coming video not all is lost guys this was going to be an opportunity for me to put myself out there it was probably going to be my last chance to sort of you know at the age of 27 to um to to put my foot forward to to be to be introduced into this NFL undiscovered you know international pathway program that's what this combine is about that series i've been reacting to called NFL undiscovered that's what this combine as well as other regional combines around the world are put on for i believe to to create another series of that program so with that being said you know when this 2019 version of undiscovered comes out i can't wait to watch it if there's any Australians on there any Samoans any Fijians New Zealanders or Australians i will know that they have been at this combine that is on today putting their best foot forward meeting with the right people rubbing the right shoulders and making sure every person that they introduce themselves to remembers their fucking name make sure of it so i want to say guys good luck to all of the athletes competing anyone from New Zealand especially you know to see a Kiwi in the NFL undiscovered program next year would be fucking phenomenal so i want to say good luck smash it guys have a great day and all you guys watching me man thanks for the support i wasn't able to do it this year you know the reality is i got told you know a few things on the phone the reality is is that they only sort of announced this two months ago you know it's been such a such a stretch to even get it over the line to get this thing happening in the in the little time that they had you know i think next year will be a whole different ballgame they'll be advertising it you know way way sooner getting more and more numbers more competitors and you know hopefully if i'm in australia at that point i can be involved in some way i'll be 28 but i don't give a fuck about my age so i want to say if you have enjoyed this video if you want to support me please press like if you want to subscribe please do if you're playing football at the moment man kill it out there you never know what opportunity might be lying around the corner