It started with a Facebook message.
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When Leesa Scott saw Travis "Jock" Small playing for Narrabri at picturesque Collins Park in May 2015, it prompted her to take a chance. With her heart on her sleeve, she contacted him on Facebook.
Sparks flew immediately, and two years later Leesa Scott was Leesa Small.
And as her 24-year-old husband scored a late runaway try in Carey's Freight Lines' 17-4 win over Shay Brennan Constructions, in the Wests Entertainment Group 9s at Scully Park on Saturday night, the couple's two-year-old daughter, Olivia, yelled: "Go, Dad!"
After the match, the second-rower joined his family on a grassy area next to the grandstand - soaking up the love, the idyllic spring weather, the exciting footy and the buzz from a capacity 500-strong crowd.
Prior to that fateful May 2015 match, the couple saw each other at a pub the previous weekend but did not speak. "Then she saw me score a try and messaged me that afternoon," he said. "She had seen me play before, as she had played league tag [for Narrabri] that year."
In the final match on Saturday night, Small scored again as the Brenton Cochrane-captained Carey's Freight Lines made it four wins from four matches by beating JT Fossey 18-15.
"It's great," Small said of his life, which includes working at Namoi Cotton in Wee Waa - his hometown. He moved to Narrabri, his wife's hometown, after they met.
The relocation "worked out well", he said. "Because I was training up at Narrabri and playing footy there. It's made it easier."
