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5/08/2006
The Sea Eagles greatest ever team was announced this evening at a gala function at the Manly Leagues Club. The black tie event was attended by over 400 people including Sea Eagles greats from the past and present. The greatest ever Manly side was selected by an astute panel of judges and announced to enormous applause by the Sea Eagles greatest son Ken Arthurson.

During a test match asainst Great Britan, Randall
locked horns with Big Jim Mills who had a big reputation as a biffer.
This reputation was ruined as Randall hit him with a right cross that
landed right on his chin which promply decked the big pommie and duly
sat him on his ass.

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INTERVIEW WITH KING WALLY LEWIS DURING THE ABC RADIO SHOW 'CONVERSATION HOUR'.......

WALLY ON HIS FIRST RUN IN WITH TERRY RANDALL..

During the interview with Wally one the Conversation Hour on the ABC radio Wally mentioned about his first meeting with Terry Randall, the Manly hardman.

Wally stated how he had known of Randall as on the hardest hitters in League and when anyone at that particular time spoke of who the hardest tackler in the game was, all converstations ended with the name of Terry Randall. The King described him as having shoulders as wide as a picket fence.

(Randall was a second rower for Manly during the 70's)

Wally was playing League with Brothers in Brisbane at the time and was at the same location that the Manly players were at, apparently celebrating their end of season (mad Monday maybe) after being defeated in the Grand Final.

Wally said he was keen to meet this Randall guy as he had heard so much about him and he went over to where Randall was to "shake his hand" and introduce himself.

Wally was met with a "famous" Terry Randall special tackle.

The king has ever lasting memories of Terry Randall.

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"I've never seen since the like of the commitment that those guys had to one another, not to give in despite what ever happened they were never going to give in. I'll take to my grave the vision of Terry Randall getting up for the last game, needing not one but several pain killing injections to get on the field. And all for injuries to different parts of his body. If they had to replay again they would have played. It was a sheer mind over matter thing."

Frank "Buscuits" Stanton.

THE TEAM THAT PLAYED IN THE 1978 GRAND FINAL.............

1978, September 19 (Grand Final Replay).

Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground.
Crowd: 33,552.

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles:
Graham Eadie, Tom Mooney, Stephen Knight, Russel Gartner, Simon Booth, Alan Thompson, Steve Martin, Ian Martin, Terry Randall, Bruce Walker, John Harvey, Max Krilich (c), Ian Thomson.
Replacements: Ray Branighan for Simon Booth; Wayne Springall for Ian Martin.
Coach: Frank Stanton.

Result:
Manly Sea Eagles - 16 (Gartner 2, Eadie tries; Eadie 3 goals; field goal) defeated Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks - 0. Referee: Greg Hartley.

Quotes derived from:
http://www.seaeagles.com.au
The Sea Eagle Has Landed, by Robert Smith;
Arko: My Game, by Ken Arthurson;
The Moose that Roared, by Rex Mossop;
..and other miscellaneous sources.

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Alan Thompson
"We won the 1978 premiership under exceptional circumstances, but we achieved it, we didn't come up for air for two weeks, but when we did, we carried it off and that's something that will always stick in my mind. We were helping one another, we had a lot of injuries and we had blokes having a lot of needles to get on the field and we just kept geeing up each other all the time. We would come off at half-time and beg each other to jog from the field to make the other teams think we were fit. We had to drag some blokes off, but they all did it, we all stuck in there together and that was the big thing."

Quotes derived from:
http://www.seaeagles.com.au
The Sea Eagle Has Landed, by Robert Smith;
Arko: My Game, by Ken Arthurson;
The Moose that Roared, by Rex Mossop;
..and other miscellaneous sources.

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Terry Randall

"There's something more than ruthless ambition and money involved in playing for your own club. I get a great feeling out of belonging to Manly. It hasn't got anything to do with positions or grades or money. Having real mates and real friends when the going is tough on a football field means more than anything."

Quotes derived from:
http://www.seaeagles.com.au
The Sea Eagle Has Landed, by Robert Smith;
Arko: My Game, by Ken Arthurson;
The Moose that Roared, by Rex Mossop;
..and other miscellaneous sources.

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Graham Eadie

"I was very happy at Manly, and I think Ken Arthurson had a lot to do with that. He was the man that gave the place its harmony. He kept all the good players together, many of them stayed for a lot less than they were offered from other clubs. You only have to look at the other clubs to see why Manly is so successful. The others are always chopping and changing with players and officials, whereas Manly has a whole host of blokes who played more than 200 or more first grade games. Thompson, Fulton, Randall, Vautin, Bob Batty, Freddie Jones, Max Krilich and myself - that's a lot of people in the '200' club."

Quotes derived from:
http://www.seaeagles.com.au
The Sea Eagle Has Landed, by Robert Smith;
Arko: My Game, by Ken Arthurson;
The Moose that Roared, by Rex Mossop;
..and other miscellaneous sources.

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I remember the famous Battle of Brookvale from the 1979 season. As defending premiers, Manly struggled in 1979 after so many of their players were selected in the previous year's Kangaroo Tour.

Rex Mossop took a lot of flak for selecting the game for his weekly Sunday night telecast despite there being better games available (per the standings).

Rex as always though had a great intuition.

The game was being played hard, when a scuffle broke out between Tom Mooney (Manly winger) & Les Boyd (Wests second rower). The Manly captain, max Krilich stepped in to seperate the 2 players, when this freight
train charged in from the left hand side of the screen & king hit Krilich.

It was the fastest I ever saw Donelly move.

After that it was on for 'young & old' with players fighting over the top of the unconscious Krilich.

Randall (Manly) & Donelly were both sent off with the papers calling the game the day after 'The Battle of Brookvale'.

Max Krilich appeared on the nightly news during the week & couldn't move his neck. As you guessed he was available & played for Manly the next weekend.

Some truely tough men appeared in that game.

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Terry Randall. Had the look about him that he had never cracked a smile in his entire life.

The epitome of Menace.

Also, can the website celebrate hookers. Real hookers, not todays 2nd half backs.

Most blues came from blow ups in scrums and most hookers were in the thick of it.

Some of my favourite rakes were John McMartin, John Lang, Max Krillich and Royce Simmons

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I remember watching Wests when they had their meanest pack ie.donnelly boyd,cooper,gibbs ect.

Donnelly gets the ball on the burst and randall is there waiting and just hit him that hard that donnelly, at full speed, just stopped dead.

It overshadowed the Wally Lewis hit against the kiwis player .

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Manly v Cronulla, Brookie, 1975 or thereabouts.

Cronulla had a real hot dog lock forward, Greg Pierce, an athlete of the first order and a deserved international.

Pierce was tearing Manly up on the fringe of the ruck and was nearly single-handedly turning the game towards the Sharks.

I was standing on the Eastern fence when "Igor" Randall decided that enough was enough. He stood back a bit extra from the ruck and when Pierce got the ball and was about to do his steppy, brushing stuff........ WHACK!!! a perfectly legitimate tackle under the ribs that I could hear and feel.

The crowd when "oooohh" then fell into an awed silence.

For the next twenty minutes, Pierce was a passenger, he just trotted around the field and dry retched a few times.

Then he started to recover and went looking for the ball again.

Igor shook his head in bewilderment - hadn't this bloke learned anything.

Same play - Igor hit him again with a legitimate tackle, just under the ribs that was just as hard as the earlier one.

Pierce lay on the ground for a long, long time while play went on.

I cannot recall if he went off the field then, but he played no further effective part in the game.

Manly won. Thanks to Igor

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I can remember seeing Terry Randall flatten "Dallas" Donnelly in the premiliminary Final in 1978.

Actually it was just a legitimate tackle.

The two big men clashed on half way.

You could feel the grandstands shake.

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I used to live in Sydney in the "70's & early "80's (those were the days mate).

I love the game & used to play every chance that I got.

Anyway,I'll always remember the 1978 premiers Manly.They were a team with the true & whole meaning of the word TEAM!

Passion,bravery,loyalty,guts...you name it,they played their hearts out,like there was no tomorrow.

It was a never say die situation & they destroyed Cronulla in the grand final rematch & made us (the fans) so proud.

Terry Randall was THE MAN,but it was all about being a team and what a team they were.

I live in Greece now & I really miss rugby league especially those good ol' days.

Cheers.

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courtesy of Tony Adams great book The Hitmen - A tribute to League's tough guys.

"Touring with the"Roos was great, even though they put us in low-class hotels back then. One section of the pub we stayed in we called 'Surrey Hills'; you wouldn't go there after dark. Tim Pickup, Terry Randall, Tom Raudonikas and (journalist) Bill Mordey hung out there, and one night they had a water fight. Someone ended up bringing in a fire hose and the whole floor collapsed. The management nearly went crazy.

Bob McCarthy went up the fire escape one day just for a laugh and it disintergrated under his weight. he was lucky he didn't kill himself.

They were great days, but they went to bloody quick.

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Although this was not an on-field incident I remember reading a story about which I think sums up what a 'nutter' Terry Randall' was.

I read this in Paul Vautin's book.

Fatty and his team mates were at a Manly family BBQ in which partners and wives were present.

From Fatty's account it was a fairly dull afair until Terry 'Igor'Randall saw a large Gecko crawlig along the footpath. Without hesitation Randall proceeded to bend down, scoop up the lizard, gather everybodies attention and bite the gecko's head clean off!

Apparently that sent most of the girls packing and the rest of the lads proceeded to have a great night.

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Being a youngster growing up watching the footy on ch7 with rex, i loved hearing rex talk about terry randall.

one moment i remember is rex describing th e perfect tackle. he used a replay of igor hammering jack jefferies from wests to illustrate his technique.

twenty years on i moved down the sth coast of nsw to a village of 2500 people and who also lives there? jack jefferies.

i got talking to him and i mentioned this episode and he still vividly remembers this tackle and terry randall

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Terry Randall is quite rightly regarded as one of the games real hardmen. But he was much more than that to Manly. Igor started out as a kid with Manly playing in the centres. Not the fastest or most elusive centre in history, but more than adequate, and a 100% trier.

Don't remember which of the Manly coaches decided that Terry had the makings of a good second rower, but Rugby League fans can thank him for moving Randall in closer to the action.

My fondest memory of Randall is from Brookvale Oval many years ago when the Manly played the mighty St.George Dragons.

This match closely followed an inter-state game between NSW and Queensland (pre State of Origin, if my memory serves me correctly) Randall had been brought back as a prop to stiffen the NSW side for the second game after NSW had copped a bit of a hiding from Queensland in the first game.

Terry ripped into Queensland as only he could and was the "man of the match" with his brutal defence and no nonsense, up the guts charges with the pill. He really got stuck in and used his body as a battering ram as he got on top of the Queensland pack.

He backed up for the Manly/St George game a few days later and despite the numerous injuries he played with, he once again just about won the game for Manly on his own.

With the game won the Manly coach gave him an early mark ten minutes from the end. The whole crowd at Brookvale stood as one and applauded him from the field.

As impressive as this was, it was nothing when compared to the fact that every player from both teams stopped and clapped him off the ground as well.

Even legendary hard man Rex (the Moose) Mossop found this well deserved tribute a "moving moment", as he stated during his television commentary on the match.

To my mind it was simply an "educated" rugby league crowd, and some of the game's greatest ever players publically acknowledging what we already knew, that this bloke was special.

Terry looks as good today as he did when he played all those years ago. If he is more than a couple of pounds above his old playing weight I'd be amazed.

Lugging rocks in his landscaping business must provide the perfect training activity for Terry and you get the feeling he could run on again today and still give a good account of himself.

Hard man? You bet he was. Team man? Yep, never seen one better.

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Was at the 1978 Grand Final replay in members area.

Watched Terry Randall & Ian Martin unable to do lap of honour as a
result of exhaustion.

You don't see that happening these days.

Confirm if I'm correct.

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