Remember that random player?

Sheldon said:
George carmont
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George had the most remarkable career of any of our "surprise" players.
He was a good league player as a kid, but gave it away aged about 16 when a friend he played with died in an accident unrelated to League.
He moved to Australia in his mid twenties and started playing League in a second grade side in the Newcastle comp, and went so well he not only made firstgrade but won the real NRL player of the year.
He got a trial with the Knights and was signed to a contract worth about 20k, making him our cheapest player by a long way.
He was just good enough to hold his spot, but got better every game and eventually got good enough to earn a decent ESL contract, where he was one of the best players till he was 34 years old, as well as making the Samoa team 10 times.

In short, he pretty much took up the game at 24 or 25 for Norths/Nelsons Bay 2nd grade and went on to score 112 tries in NRL and ESL in a 9 year career.
 
Grandpa Joe - Prev Lord said:
Time to dust this off.

Poor ole Ben Cross nearly getting knocked into a coma each week as our only forward who would take a proper hit up.
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It was his running style. I saw Ben Criss at a trial in Cessnock when Brian Smith was coach. Ben took his first hit up when he came on, flat out, leading with his chin in an upright stance and being flattened by a Cronulla fireRd(can’t remember who).
Ben stayed down and had to be assisted off the field by trainers.
As he went past the coach , Smith was into him for his stance at the line, and basically told him he got what he deserved.
 
Some days I randomly remember that we had Steve Southern play for us.

One of the more odd signings we ever made.
 
The biggest names who made that name somewhere else:

1. Robbie Ross
2. Brian Carney
3. BJ Leluai
4. Jamie Ainscough
5. Darius Boyd
6. Craig Gower
7. Brett Kimorley
8. Rodney Howe
9. Steve Walters
10. Craig Smith
11. Tariq Sims
12. Neville Costigan
13. John Morris

14. Mick Ennis
15. Chris Joynt
16. Luke Davico
17. David Fairleigh
 
Owey said:
The biggest names who made that name somewhere else:

1. Robbie Ross
2. Brian Carney
3. BJ Leluai
4. Jamie Ainscough
5. Darius Boyd
6. Craig Gower
7. Brett Kimorley
8. Rodney Howe
9. Steve Walters
10. Craig Smith
11. Tariq Sims
12. Neville Costigan
13. John Morris

14. Mick Ennis
15. Chris Joynt
16. Luke Davico
17. David Fairleigh
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Bennett brought in a couple you've missed.
 
Guys who got their start in the real NRL

1 Trent Salkeld
2 Josh Mantellato
3 George Carmont
4 Nathan Ross
5 Ashley Gordon
6 Jarrod O'Doherty
7 Dylan Pythian
8 Daniel Quinn
9 Chris Adams
10 Mark Tuafua
11 Michael Young
12 Marvin Filipo
13 Bill Peden
14 Chris Randall
15 Will Pearsall
 
All this winger talk has taken me back to Craig Hall days.

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I'd take a prime Jeremy Smith and Beau Scott over almost any other backrowers in the comp today. They were past their prime once they arrived in Newcastle and sadly didn't play all that many games together but when someone was unfortunate to be tackled by the two of them simultaneously, fmd, it was pure violence. Particularly Scott, he was un-well.
 
We used to put some strange players out on the wing back in the day. Thankfully it’s a specialist position now and not just a spot you put someone you couldn’t fit in the team elsewhere.
 
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