Kings English??? This is Wests Magpies we are talking about. Tommy Raudonikis was far less intelligible at times than Terrell May. Dennis Burgess looks and talks like a cartoon pirate. It's a footy leagues club, not the Oxford Union.
May is fairly articulate young man as far as rugby league forwards go, and a native English speaker. Bit of a weird thing to say.
....Yet lo! A mighty fullback, guardian of the sacred line, doth rise to meet him. They collide, a tempest ’midst the grass, and the centre is laid low. “Hold! Play on!” the referee—stern arbiter—commands, and play resumes its mortal song....