Gosford Rugby League: The Eye of the Storm magazine - Vol 30 (August 2018)

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Issue No. 30: August 2018

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Vol 30: August, 2018

The semi finals are just over a week away and GK have five teams who remain in contention. Best of luck to all our Stormers in the final round and beyond.

Brennan Lacey has had a cracking 2018 season for our Open Grade. All his hard work was brilliantly rewarded during the teams mid July bye weekend when he was called up by Panthers head coach, Alex Moore to make his first grade debut for Berkeley Vale during their upset win over the Colts. Brennan becomes the sixth Storm junior to reach A-grade this season, following hot on the heels of; Lachie Bell, Kyle Franklin, Tyson Potger, Brayden Habkouk & Ryan Jones.

Brennan Lacey

The Eye is very pleased to welcome the RUOK? campaign into this, our 30

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edition. The tragedy of youth suicide has touched our club deeply during recent years and is a societal problem that has plagued the Central Coast for many decades. We gratefully appreciate the support of both, Anastasia Symons & Lisa Minner who helped foster this partnership.

Pedantry can be a curse and nit-picking is a pastime best practiced within the confines of ones own headspace … but … The Eye very nearly blew a cerebral gasket at Erina Oval during late July when one of our favourite sons, Shane ‘The Hammer’ McFadden was announced as an Erina junior while running out for his 200th first grade game for the Eagles. Shane played all his junior footy with Gosford! (see page 9)

Opinions expressed in this publication are derived solely from the scattered & random thoughts of the author; none of which are necessarily shared by the GKS club … nor anyone else on the planet really.

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June 2014 – August 2018

The Eye of the Storm magazine rolled off the e-presses. I t was a humble 36 page volume that featured under 13s star, Johnny Connolly on the cover and included action photographs, a series of recent results, and a brief editorial …

This year is the Gosford Kariong Storm’s 15th season following the merger of the Gosford Giants and Kariong Kookaburras back in early 2000. And in a fit of having too much spare time on my hands, I have decided to mark the club’s milestone by putting together The Eye of the Storm …

- Andrew Stark (editorial July, 2014)

Four years, 29 editions and a subtle name change later; the magazine that averages a lofty thirty likes on Facebook each month , continues its tremendous enthusiasm for all things Gosford rugby league while setting the standard for sporting publications across the globe.

The cut throat business of footy publishing has claimed many a casualty since our inception; most notably the legendary Consolidated Press broadsheet, Rugby League Week. In an ever changing market, The Eye continues to increase its readership; the bold, poverty inducing policy of publishing without profit, a key element in guaranteeing the magazines continued e-survival.

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Back during late July of 2014, the inaugural edition of

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Congratulations to Gosford junior, Shane ‘The Hammer’ McFadden on notching 200 first grade games for the Erina Eagles. Shane played for Gosford from the U10s in 1996, through to the U16s of 2002. He tasted premiership success in 1998 as a member of the Geoff Walker coached U12(2)s, a team that defeated Erina 28-17 in the grand final.

Photos (clockwise from top left): Shane McFadden (2018), Gosford Giants U12(2)s 1998, U12s Grand Final Program 1998, Shane McFadden in action during his 200th first grade game (vs. Terrigal 29th July, 2018)

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In The Press …

Gosford Kariong 14s Are Storming Home

DID SADLY END UP ON

by Andrew Stark Submitted to Coast Community News 2nd August, 2018 (not published)

The Gosford Kariong Storm under 14(2)s have kept their finals hopes alive courtesy of a gritty 14-8 victory over the second placed Umina Bunnies in round 13 action of Central Coast junior rugby league.

In a terrific competition, the Storm finds itself battling with, The Entrance, Toukley, Blue Haven and Kincumber for the final three semi final positions. The peninsula teams, Woy Woy and Umina being the only sides guaranteed of a top five finish with just a fortnight of the regular season remaining.

Gosford bounced back from a disappointing second half showing against Kincumber on the previous Saturday, to upset the well credentialed Bunnies in a Berkeley Vale Oval boil over.

Soakimi ‘Dom’ Aho was again outstanding for the Storm. The powerful five eighth was pushed back to fullback in a bold pre-game reshuffle by coach Greg Eather; a positional switch that ultimately yielded a hefty return. Both Gosford tries were as a result of Aho high kicks and his fearsome charges and superb cover defence were undoubted features of the clash. Another prominent contributor was prop Jake Sutherland who looks to be back to his rampaging best; the former representative forward owning the mid field while also kicking three goals from as many attempts, including a booming conversion from the western sideline which nudged his side 6-4 ahead just after the break. Diminutive dummy half Jarred Higgins schemed impressively in and around the ruck, three-quarters Logan Arora and Jordan Pracy were sharp on the edges, while special mention should also be made of Umina fullback, Harley Barker who scored both of the Bunnies tries and was a threat every time he handled the ball.

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Trailing 4-0 at the break and with a player in the sin bin for ten minutes, the Storm rallied brilliantly during the second half to finish over the top of their more fancied opponents.

The final two regular season fixtures see the Storm pitted against the team at the bottom of table, Berkeley Vale (4th August) before a final round showdown with the team at the top of the table, Woy Woy (11th August).

“Dom” splits the Umina defence during round 14

Please note: this is the submitted piece in it’s entirety. The editor of the Coast Community News is responsible for the changes that ultimately appear (or don’t appear) in the newspaper.

The Lunatics Are Marshalling Picture if you will, a wholly Orwellian future in which parents are forced to fork out $80 for the right to take photographs of their own children.

A world in which the purchase of a Media Pass, obtained from ones very own junior rugby league club, becomes an accepted prerequisite to being allowed to dust of the Box Brownie and point it in the general direction of your youngster as he/she tucks the footy and charges up field on winters morning.

Well this is the madness that has recently descended upon the Canterbury Bankstown junior league. The clubs that fall within the south west Sydney district’s jurisdiction have become complicit in what appears to be a wanton grab for cash by that districts association. The photographers-levy presents as a further financial whack for parents; an impost that has been disgracefully wrapped in the guise of furthering child protection. The story was broken by Christopher Harris in the Daily Telegraph during mid July and the policy has subsequently received widespread criticism across social media. Even the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian has described the measure as, unnecessary.

It opens up a bit of a can of worms in terms of the club processes.

Who is going to police who has a media pass? Is it a volunteer?

What if it is grandma and she only comes once a year and wants to take a photo on that day?

Dr Joanne Orlando Children’s Safety Researcher: University of Western Sydney

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The Bulldogs Media Pass incorporates a Working With Children Check, with the Daily Telegraph story claiming that;

other parents act as watchdogs, demanding spectators show their credentials and asking them to stop filming if they don’t.

No mention is made of pitchforks being provided in club colours, however a dangerous policy of citizen instigated vigilance is clearly inferred.

The claim of the Canterbury Bankstown junior league, that this is a child protection measure falls miserably short of the mark when placed under any sort of scrutiny.

For the very worst of cases, the ground manager would surely call the police.

Daily Telegraph – 17th July, 2018

If for example, there are strangers who are wandering down to junior footy ovals to take pictures of children for their own, or someone else's warped gratification, then ground managers are already well within their rights to check that persons credentials. A parent who has any concerns about inappropriate behaviour should always approach the ground manager with those concerns.

This common sense course of action requires no one to fork out $80 while it is more than adequate in countering the actions of the vast majority of anti social characters who might decide to play up on a Saturday morning sideline.

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There also seems to be a crazy assumption built into the Bulldogs policy, that if a parent were to purchase a media pass, that this would somehow prevent the images from later being used inappropriately. This is of course total bunkum. The $80 protects no one; except perhaps the club treasurer when he or she attempts to balance the books at season’s end.

The Moorebank Rams club, which competes in the Canterbury Bankstown junior league makes no mention of still photographs in its on-line statement on the issue, preferring instead to focus solely on video footage.

Video cannot be posted to You Tube or any public social media platform Moorebank Rams JRLFC

Interestingly the Woy Woy club posted a note to parents back during February asking that images of other peoples children not be shared online. Unlike the Bulldogs charade, this policy does have child protection at its core and this magazine recently embraced these guidelines, when we decided to blur out the faces of all opposition players.

The Woy Woy edict is $80 cheaper than the Canterbury slug, with the added bonus that it does actually serve a purpose. Given that there are a handful of junior players involved in our competitions to which NSW Family & Community Service situations do apply, then the identities of these children need to be suppressed.

Down Moorebank way however, this genuine concern for child safety doesn’t appear to have been addressed in the slightest, as only video footage is being outlawed on social media platforms.

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Grow up, administrators of the game, it is you who bring the game to a sad state with your wacko edicts Michael O’Malley Letter to the Editor, Daily Telegraph, 18th July, 2018

I might suggest that the obsession with photography at junior sporting events is wholly disproportional to the stranger-danger that is actually present for children in and around footy ovals. I wonder whether the Canterbury Bankstown junior league might like to realign its focus and consider embracing one or two of the more pressing dangers present for the modern child. Perhaps they might consider banning cars near footy ovals as motor vehicles have a long history of mixing badly with excited youngsters who are wont to charge out onto the bitumen without warning. Getting hit by a motor vehicle is the third leading cause of death for kids aged 5 to 9.

The Bulldogs hierarchy might like to consider introducing a special $80 Saturday Drivers Licence to ensure parents are well skilled in maneuvering their vehicles in and around the club’s home ground (ka-ching!). Or perhaps club canteens could be forced to purchase an $80 Healthy Harold Nutritional Licence from the Canterbury Bankstown JRLFC to help purge them of all those unhealthy lollies and sugary drinks. A concerted rugby league led campaign to ensure south western Sydney kids avoid the pitfalls of obesity (ka-ching!).

The opportunity for junior rugby league club’s to revenue raise in the name of child protection is really only limited by a lack of imagination … oh yeah, and the fact that the more draconian these lunatics become, the fewer youngsters will actually be registering to play our game.

I’m betting the Canterbury Bankstown Junior Soccer Association are rubbing their hands together and laughing themselves stupid, in anticipation of a large influx of former rugby league players for the 2019 season.

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DID SADLY END UP ON

Gosford Kariong Teams Well Placed

by Andrew Stark Submitted to Coast Community News 15th July, 2018 (not published)

A month out from this year’s Central Coast junior rugby league semi finals, a host of Gosford Kariong teams find themselves well placed for a dash at the September silverware.

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The clubs under 11 & under 15 sides sit majestically atop their respective ladders, the under 10s are in equal third position, while the under 14s & under 12s remain in the hunt to qualify for the big end of season games.

The Storm under 15(2)s have been the standout team all year, and yet Wyong and Erina sit just two points adrift on the competition table. Gosford were shocked by the Roos in round 11, suffering their only loss of the season thus far and a rematch in the finals promises to be an absorbing struggle. Back-rower Isaac Vuna has been the star turn for Gosford during the first dozen rounds, however the team has strike power right across the park. Nash Dorratt-Mavin, Jake Martin and Keegan Ropoama have impressed in the halves, while Michael Porter, Sam Bissett and Jack Turnbull out wide, and powerful forwards; Josh Stedmen, Gokhan Emeli, Hayden Doyle, Xavier Hansen, Lulu Paea and Jordi Elliot, have all left their mark in 2018.

Hooker Nathan Cahill has also caught the eye with some classy displays out of dummy half.

The Storm takes on Erina in their next fixture, while Wyong do battle with the fourth placed Ourimbah, on a super Saturday that sees all of the fancied teams engage.

The Under 11(3)s competition is also providing a tremendous battle. Heading into round thirteen, just two competition points separate the top six sides, with Gosford Kariong and The Entrance leading the way. The Storm has been beaten by the Tigers in both clashes between the two sides so far this season and the Bateau Bay lads will doubtlessly head into the semi finals with great confidence.

The Richard Simmons coached under 10(3)s will virtually guarantee themselves a finals spot if they can defeat the sixth placed Woy Woy in their next game. The Budgewoi Buff Point Bulldogs are the standout team in this division and remain undefeated after twelve rounds.

The Gosford under 14s are presently positioned one point adrift of the top five and face a difficult draw, which includes away games against the two top teams, Woy Woy & Umina in the run home. On the plus side however, gifted five eighth Soakimi Aho is in devastating form for the Storm and this team has a long history of finishing the season strongly to sneak into a finals berth.

Gosford Kariong’s sole division one side, the under 12s, will be looking to build on tremendous performances against both of last season’s grand finalists in recent weeks. An agonizing 12-10 loss to premiers, The Entrance on the last Saturday in June was followed by an exciting 10 all draw with Terrigal a week later. The Storm currently sits two points shy of the fifth placed Berkeley Vale, and must win at least three of their final four games if they are to be any chance of qualifying for the finals.

Please note: this is the submitted piece in it’s entirety. The editor of the Coast Community News is responsible for the changes that ultimately appear (or don’t appear) in the newspaper.

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Dylan Kesby U12(1)s

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Under 8s Under 6s

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Isaac Vuna U15(2)s

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Tyler Townsend U13(2)s

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Shane Stollery U12(1)s

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Jake Dives Over For A Cracking First Half Try Against Erina … and the Narara crowd

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Fetineni Aho U10(3)s

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Jordi Elliott U15(2)s

Under 9s

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Dylan McKay U15(2)s

Riley Whitbread U10(3)s

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Blake Hodge & TJ Ghilardi U12(1)s

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Kirra Hodge U10(3)s

Under 6s

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Under 9s

Nash Dorratt-Mavin U15(2)s

Karaitiana Clark U11(3)s

Amalia Hansen U11(3)s

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Annabel LeMaistre U11(3)s

Ashton Matu U11(3)s

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Richard Darrell & Blakey Darrell U12(1)s

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Benji Keene-O’Keefe U13(2)s

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Dayne Sams U13(2)s

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Kartik Reddy U13(2)s

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Under 9s

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Rylee Oakes U13(2)s

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Ben Shepherd U14(2)s

Nathan Peers U14(2)s

Logan Arora U14(2)s

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Jordan Pracy U14(2)s

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Dylan Gale U14(2)s

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Tyson Pagacs & Kelis Bruderlin U14(2)s

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Ajay Marsh U14(2)s

Finn Duncan U14(2)s

Jordan Ellis U14(2)s

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Jake Sutherland U14(2)s

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The Under 14s semi final aspirations were rocked when they suffered a frustrating loss to the bottom placed Berkeley Vale in the penultimate round of the season.

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Soakimi Aho & Jordan Pracy U14(2)s

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Mitch Woodbury U16s

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OPEN GRADE ROUND 13 ROUND 14 ROUND 15 ROUND 9 ROUND 16

Wyong 68: Gosford Kariong 0 Northern Lakes 58: Gosford Kariong 4 Gosford Kariong - bye Woy Woy 84: Gosford Kariong 6 The EYE OF THE STORM MAGAZINE AUGUST 2018 St Edwards 54: Gosford Kariong 0

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Photo – Andrew Stark Brennan Lacey - pictured above, on the charge at Wyong during round 13. A fortnight later he was making his top grade debut for Berkeley Vale; becoming the first player registered with Gosford, to play up in the Ones since the good old Gosford Townies days of yesteryear.

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Round 13 … There’s really no other way of describing it; we copped a hiding up at Kanwal last Sunday. It would appear that a nasty dose of ‘Wyongitis’ did sweep through the camp in the lead up, as a number of familiar faces inexplicably missed the team bus. We began well enough and held our own for a quarter of an hour, highlighted by big Brennan Lacey crash tackling anything dressed in dark green that came his way. The next twenty minutes however saw things fall away dramatically as the proverbial flood gates swung violently off their hinges.

Band aids have been affixed in an attempt to cover the deep psychological wounds acquired during last Sunday’s Morry Breen massacre, as we regroup for Northern Lakes this morning/afternoon.

with the Nambucca Roosters for season 2019).

Round 15 … Coming off a couple of fifty point shellackings at the hands of the verdant cousins, Wyong & Northern Lakes; last weekends ‘bye’ provided us with some welcome respite.

While most of the boys caught up on a bit of R&R (reports suggest our barnstorming three-quarter Brennan Lacey was busy making his first grade debut for Berka) your trusty correspondent headed down to the Peninsula to run his eye over today’s opponents, Woy Woy. On a beautiful mid-winter’s Sunday, the chooks flew out of the coop before cock-a-doodle-dooing their way home to put a score on The Entrance. It must be said however that apart from their size, power, speed, skill, and fierce determination to succeed … they dead set had nothing.

I tip Gosford by a point.

Round 9 … Last Sunday served up yet another heavy loss and we’ve now conceded a point a minute across our last three games. The Gossy ‘D’ has leaked precisely 210 points in 210 minutes across three and a half hours of abject misery. The wheel is still spinning, yet one strongly suspects that the hamster is deceased. Signs of life have been sporadic at best and may in fact be marked down as wholly illusionary.

With only a handful present on any given training night, it’s none too surprising that our recent results have torpedoed rather rapidly around the ‘S’ bend.

The un-retired Max Russell was probably our best on the day and he garnished his on field effort by delivering an impassioned halftime speech; the Storm veteran admirably resisting any urge to include the battlers mid game staple; “if they can score 38 points in a half then there’s no reason why we can’t”. The day’s fleeting highlight arrived ten minutes into the second half with us fifty to the bad. Bustling Jayden Bailey soured skyward to latch onto a Brendan Eather cross field chip kick before spearing over for a magnificent Storm try at the foot of the ever popular, “would you like onions with that sir?” Berka BBQ.

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Round 14 … Northern Lakes 58 Gosford 4 (no report – The Eye was up north, locked in contract negotiations

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Round 16 … An early August trip to Bill Sohier Oval on a beautiful winter’s morning offers the visitor an unexpected aural delight. The chime of the Crested Bellbird does echo throughout the Ourimbah valley; a sonorous treat famously highlighted by poet Henry Kendall more than a century passed. Once our round 16 clash with St Eddies kicked off, all this natural majesty was lost; totally drowned out by the incessant shrill of a middle mans whistle. From go to woe last Sunday, the ref gave it a red hot blow, but to be fair to him, our boys were hard on the chat.

We rather comically found ourselves with a bloke in the bin before the game was more than a few minutes old. Then 32-0 down at the break, before a second half that provided plenty of Storm spirit.

A late Bears flurry saw the scoreboard push out to 54 … and as the dust settled and the combatants shook hands, the high cackle of the kookaburra could be heard; its mocking tone accompanying the players as they trooped wearily back toward the sheds.

Max Russell decides to run head long into a rather solid looking Peninsula gentleman.

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Above Right: Jaxon Wilkinson congratulates Billy James on scoring a handful of tries against GK during round 9.

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2018 COMPETITION LADDERS As of 7-8-18

OPEN GRADE

Pts

Erina Wyong Woy Woy St Edwards The Entrance *Northern Lakes *Terrigal Gosford Kariong Toukley

29 26 25 22 20 10 10 10 6

U15(2)s U16(2)s

Pts

Terrigal The Entrance (B) Blue Haven Toukley Gosford/Terrigal

18 15 13 8 8

Gosford Kariong Erina Wyong Kincumber Ourimbah Berkeley Vale Terrigal Toukley The Entrance

Pts 26 26 24 17 15 14 10 9 9

*Result unknown at time of going to press

U13(2)s U14(2)s Woy Woy Umina Blue Haven Kincumber Gosford Kariong The Entrance Toukley Berkeley Vale

Pts 30 24 18 16 13 13 12 8

IMPERIAL CENTRE Player of the Month

Ourimbah Berkeley Vale Budgewoi Northern Lakes (B) Wyong (Gold) Warnervale Toukley The Entrance Wyong (Green) Gosford Kariong

Pts 28 28 22 19 19 16 14 6 4 4

- Blake Carney -

U10(3)s U12(1)s The Entrance Erina Blue Haven Terrigal Berkeley Vale Gosford Kariong Northern Lakes Kincumber

Pts 24 24 24 16 13 11 6 2

U11(3)s The Entrance Gosford Kariong Northern Lakes Berkeley Vale Wyong Budgewoi Woy Woy Umina Warnervale

Pts 23 22 20 19 19 18 13 11 10

Budgewoi Erina St Edwards Gosford Kariong Warnervale Woy Woy Northern Lakes The Entrance Wyong Terrigal

Pts 30 22 18 17 17 14 14 8 6 4

Blokes Who Never Got The Opportunity To Play For Gosford He hides his pain Photo – courtesy of the Central Coast Express Advocate

brilliantly behind the phony veneer of a successful Hollywood career. While it is true that he can; sing, dance and a little bit …

Hugh Jackman’s greatest regret must surely be that he never pulled on a Gosford jersey.

If Onl y He H ad His Ti me Ag ai n

Young Jackman was schooled at Sydney’s Knox Grammar, which famously produced rugby league immortals; Gough Whitlam & John Laws. Sadly for Hugh, he never fully grasped the mechanics of the second man play and after receiving multiple suspensions for shepherding offenses … he was de-listed.

Tis a truly tragic tale!

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