The heartache and pride driving 'Mummy's boy' Martin

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'Mum would have done 1000km a week just for footy... she puts more than 50,000km on the car each year easily.'

The same"no shit" approach held the Martin family together when Liam's older brother Jarred took his own life in 2014, aged just 22.

"My grandmother passed away from breast cancer and when [Maxine] got the news she expected the worst. "It was a couple of months, fortunately she didn't have to do chemo so that was lucky. It was radiotherapy and surgery I think, we were lucky she didn't have to go through that chemo.

 

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