'There's a certain scent': Honey Badger returns to old hunting ground in Perth

The Honey Badger legend lives on.

Nick Cummins was back at his old stomping ground at Perth's HBF Park on Saturday night as the Western Force celebrated their 20th anniversary as a club.

The ACT Brumbies crashed the party with a 33-14 win to dent the Force's Super Rugby Pacific finals hopes.

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But smiles quickly returned as Cameron Shepherd interviewed his former teammate for Stan Sport.

Shepherd asked Cummins about what memories the return had triggered.

"Strike me pink," the former Wallabies winger replied.

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"What I will say, when I come out here, in the warm-up, and the boys running around, you've got the sprigs, and when they cut the grass with those sprigs, there's a certain scent.

"Oh, you know the scent. It brings about a whole lot of things. It's intensity, it brings responsibility. It's all that stuff comes flooding back. And I'm just like, 'give me two hit-ups, mate'.

"Just two up the guts and then we'll swing it wide."

Cummins picked the 2014 hat-trick against the NSW Waratahs as his favourite moment from his Force career.

"Fantastic, it was good to put it up on those buggers," he said.

"Their rosters have got about $6 million bucks in the roster, and we had about $200,000 across the whole lot of us. We put on a good show and we rolled them here."

Cummins then nominated now Force assistant coach James Stannard as the best on ground from the reunion of club legends.

"On and off the field, I think he's a cultural stalwart and he makes you want to be your best," he said.

"And challenges you in various situations, which I won't go into, but he's a great man."