BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Sitting down last night to watch the Immortals inductions on Fox Sports, I couldn’t help but keep playing The Rolling Stones’ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ over and over in my head. I was prepared for whomever the NRL decided to announce. All along I believed Dally Messenger, Frank […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis It is the year 2000 and Queensland captain Gorden Tallis doesn’t want to play Game III. The Maroons are already down 2-0 and facing an embarrassing whitewash and the broken raging bull has seen enough. Tallis even told the media they shouldn’t play the third match such was the lack of […]
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BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis Like sands through the hourglass, these are the rugby league contracts that didn’t quite work out. Yep, like death and taxes, it seems we can’t go a week in rugby league without a contract saga somewhere in our fair game. Check these out! Kirk Reynoldson vs. Newcastle Kirk ‘The Bushranger’ […]
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Premiership-winning Brisbane legend Gorden Tallis believes North Queensland can cause the biggest of upsets in the Grand Final against Melbourne. Speaking on Sunday Triple M, the proud Queenslander was right behind the Cowboys. “I think the momentum they’ve have gathered, you look at the Western Bulldogs in the AFL last year they came from seventh […]
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Brisbane Broncos legend Gorden Tallis says Anthony Milford is struggling at five-eigth and would be much more suited to the fullback position – currently held by captain Darius Boyd. Speaking on Triple M on Sunday, Tallis believes “I feel really sorry for Anthony Milford, he’s been thrown into the five-eighth role and he hasn’t really […]
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Former Brisbane star Steve Renouf has revealed what might just be the beginnings of the Gorden Tallis vs. Wayne Bennett feud. Renouf, speaking on Fox Sports, believes Bennett’s decision to bench Tallis in what would turn out to be his retirement match in Townsville – a match the Broncos lost to North Queensland – is […]
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Another polarising figure, Cronulla and New South Wales skipper Paul Gallen, has come to the defence of besieged Brisbane Bronco Adam Blair. Blair has been suspended for a week for his chicken wing tackle on Brisbane teammate Adam Blair in the Anzac Test last weekend. I think Andrew McCullough summed it up best – he […]
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Gorden Tallis would rather take on Andrew Fifita than New South Wales’ returning captain Paul Gallen. “I would rather play against Paul Gallen than Fifita after being out for weeks,” Tallis said on Brisbane’s Triple M Grill Team. “I think Fifita is a big body and just a handful.”
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Gorden Tallis believes Brett Morris is quickly becoming one of the most dangerous fullbacks in the game since switching to Canterbury. Writing for The Daily Telegraph Tallis says he has been surprised at Morris’ growth at the back. “Now at the Bulldogs, Morris has really found his home in that No. 1 jersey” Tallis writes. […]
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