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"What about Turvey in the '85 grand final - having to JUMP up about 3 feet in the air just so's he could reach the chin of the giant Graeme Wynn to land one on it!!

That image will live with me for a LONG time - HILARIOUS!!"

CLUB SWEAT wrote:

"What about Turvey when he ran down Steve Morris on the touch line.... with out doubt the play of the year !!!!! "

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851 from LU Forum

Tommy and Mortimer........yarn

My favourite is from Tommys book, Mortimer had just replaced Tommy in the State team pre origin.

They were playing at Lang Park and Tommy was a reserve so they roomed Mortimer and Tommy together(not a good move). When they got to the room there was a double bed and a single bed,Mortimer said as he threw his bag on the double bed "I am the starting halfback I'll take the big bed".

Tommy as cool as you like picked up Mortimers bag walked out on to the balcony and dropped it down to the carpark.He then said to Mortimer "when you get back mine is white with 2 sugars".

At the game NSW were expected to win easily as they always did but things didn't pan out that way.NSW were behind in the second half and Mortimer was choking,Tommy went on and replaced him. He started a fight as soon as he hit the field,put QLD off there game scored a try and set one up in one of the best 20 minutes of his career.

Tommy proved you don't knock a champion,and you could never under estimate Tommy,"you champ."

FROM QUIGS - REPLY TO 851

Mate I remember the game and the blue.

When Tommy ran on he had sparks coming out of his bum, he was as wild as.

When the blue erupted there was an all in. Tommy spotted his counterpart Oliphant on the deck near the sideline getting treatment. Tommy ran about 15 metres pushed the trainer/ambo or what ever they were called in those days, out of the way and started into him. It was on again.

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Quigsy ~ 30 March 1980 - Round 1 - Henson Park. Newtown Jets versus Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Mate as games go this was brilliant. The Jets had signed 5 bulldogs the year before: Charlton, Noonan, Hage, Mick Ryan and I believe Mark Ogilvie. We had just signed Tommy Raudonikis from Wests and had O'Grady and Blyth in the pack along with Jensen and Mick Pittman. Well mate the jets had Noonan and Pittman sent back for early showers and were playing with 11 men for the better part of the match. But I can remember sitting at the 25 metre line on Newtowns side with my old man and a scrum went down. Tommy fed the ball, a bit of a brawl breaks out but who should be out flat cold on the other side of the scrum but Steve Mortimor. The crowd cheered and he was taken off not to be seen again for the rest of the match. Too bad we couldn't recover from being 2 blokes down and lost 38-17....oh and Mal Creevey, Mortimors replacement crossed for a try. Great, hard game.

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