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9th Immortal

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Those people would truly dead and buried.

You would be only be relying on anecdotal evidence at best - hence the "big fish" story.

It’s not like that at all. It was the early 1900’s, not Ancient Rome. People that saw Churchill play, and who also saw Messenger play, thought they were comparable.

Further we also have his stats, and many descriptions of his play. Have you read much about how he dominated play? These are reports from the time, not long handed down stories.
 

King hit

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It's so annoying that people keep bringing up Johns's off field controversies. Seriously if we got rid of every player who did something out of the line even in the slightest we wouldn't have a game left.

Also Shane Warne did much more disgusting, controversial and degrading things than Joey but he was always a hero and it never bothers anyone that he is cricket royalty and has every award under the sun. Probably just salty QLD'ers
 

Zadar

Juniors
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It's so annoying that people keep bringing up Johns's off field controversies. Seriously if we got rid of every player who did something out of the line even in the slightest we wouldn't have a game left.

Also Shane Warne did much more disgusting, controversial and degrading things than Joey but he was always a hero and it never bothers anyone that he is cricket royalty and has every award under the sun. Probably just salty QLD'ers

He was never made Australian captain because of his antics.

But other than that weight loss tablet ban and acting like a bogan, what were his degrading and disgusting indiscretions?
 

King hit

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He was never made Australian captain because of his antics.

But other than that weight loss tablet ban and acting like a bogan, what were his degrading and disgusting indiscretions?

Sexual indiscretions, bringing the game into disrepute, match fines for abusuve behaviour, sending dirty texts to female nurses when he was married right from the top of my head.
 
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Paul Kent has a lengthy article on the new process in today's Daily Telegraph. Don't worry, I won't bore you all with its complete contents :)

However one interesting fact he revealed is that under the new process for determining Immortals, a player can only be considered a maximum of three time to become an Immortal. If they do not accrue enough votes on 3 occasions they cannot be considered for Immortal status ever again. So basically its "3 strikes and you're out".
 

RazorRam0n

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Paul Kent has a lengthy article on the new process in today's Daily Telegraph. Don't worry, I won't bore you all with its complete contents :)

However one interesting fact he revealed is that under the new process for determining Immortals, a player can only be considered a maximum of three time to become an Immortal. If they do not accrue enough votes on 3 occasions they cannot be considered for Immortal status ever again. So basically its "3 strikes and you're out".

so by the time messenger brown horder etc get inducted,....mal will be asking what rugby league's ever done for him again
 
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