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NEVER in his wildest dreams did Anthony Watmough imagine he'd have to face off against his good mate Glenn Stewart in the NRL.
Watmough and Stewart are as close as players get, and made a pact to start and finish their careers at Manly together.
Even when the Dragons tried to lure Stewart away from the northern beaches with a huge offer at the end of 2011, Watmough was the first person he called.
"We made a decision to stay together at Manly years ago,'' Watmough said.
Anthony Watmough during a Parramatta Eels training session. Pic Brett Costello Source: News Limited
"I was in Manchester (on a Kangaroos tour) and Glenn rang me and was on the cusp of leaving, and so was I when we were younger, and he said, 'I don't want to play with anyone else, and if you're going to stay, I'll stay'.
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"I said to him, 'you know what? I'm staying', and he said, 'fine, I'll ring now and tell them I'm staying'. "That was a few years ago.
"When I spoke to him the other week, I said, 'we made that pact years ago, and now we have to go up against each other'.
"We'd been together for so long, we thought we played our best footy together. Now we have to try and rip each others heads off.''
Friday night will be the first time Watmough and Stewart square off. They'll pack down for Parramatta and South Sydney respectively.
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Despite hoping to remain at the Sea Eagles forever, the pair were part of the well-documented clear out and forced to find new their homes on the other side of the Harbour Bridge.
Hearing Watmough speak so fondly of Stewart makes it easy to understand why their teammates were so gutted when the pair were virtually squeezed out of Manly so they could do everything to keep Daly Cherry-Evans.
For Watmough, going up against 'Gifty' will be more emotional than running out against his former Manly teammates in the opening round.
"It will be tough. I told him this will be the toughest one for me personally,'' Watmough said.
"It will be weird and exciting at the same time. I told him it was fun going up against your brother (Brett) in round one, and I love him, and he's a good mate. But the conversations I've had with Glenn, it will mean more.''
Glenn Stewart and Anthony Watmough during a training session with the Sea Eagles. Source: News Limited
Watmough and Stewart spend more time together now than they did when training and playing on the northern beaches.
With a little luck, the pair will pack down in the backrow for NSW come Origin I, especially with a fit Stewart in great form for the premiers.
Watmough said a trimmed-down Stewart was hard to stop, and was preparing for the same hits he enjoyed watching his mate deliver on so many rivals.
"He's a little wombat,'' Watmough, 31, said.
"Like when a car hits a wombat, and it's the car that comes off second-best. He can hit.''
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