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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/under-water-the-origin-line-blurs/story-e6frfgbo-1225989014730
(Hindy looks like Forrest Gump running across the USA in this pic. :lol
Under water the Origin line blurs
NATHAN Hindmarsh jokes that he might have to dust off a NSW Origin training singlet and carry a slab of Tooheys.
Not that he's trying to be provocative.
But if ever the Blues-Maroons state divide is to be forgotten, it's the titanic process of rebuilding post-flood Queensland.
And as the Parramatta captain prepares to fly to Brisbane tomorrow to pitch into the flood relief effort with 50 other Eels, Tigers, Bulldogs and Panthers players, the veteran back-rower has only one thought: "To help in any way we can."
Having felt the wrath and boos of Maroons fans on so many occasions playing for NSW, Hindy and co will head to the ravaged townships of Goodna and Karalee, near Ipswich, where they will visit the dispossessed in relief centres and then pitch into the clean-up efforts at junior football clubs and sports fields.
Small steps in a rebuilding process of post-war magnitude. But as Hindmarsh, one of 20 Eels players, and Wests Tigers winger Lote Tuqiri, one of 13 Tigers heading north, put it: "We all just want to do something."
The players know cleaning up the mud-filled homes is a priority, but equally getting sports facilities in working order will be an important distraction, particularly for children, in the long months ahead.
As Hindmarsh puts it, there's no Origin lines now. "We're all Australian and that's how we do things," he said.
(Hindy looks like Forrest Gump running across the USA in this pic. :lol
Under water the Origin line blurs
NATHAN Hindmarsh jokes that he might have to dust off a NSW Origin training singlet and carry a slab of Tooheys.
Not that he's trying to be provocative.
But if ever the Blues-Maroons state divide is to be forgotten, it's the titanic process of rebuilding post-flood Queensland.
And as the Parramatta captain prepares to fly to Brisbane tomorrow to pitch into the flood relief effort with 50 other Eels, Tigers, Bulldogs and Panthers players, the veteran back-rower has only one thought: "To help in any way we can."
Having felt the wrath and boos of Maroons fans on so many occasions playing for NSW, Hindy and co will head to the ravaged townships of Goodna and Karalee, near Ipswich, where they will visit the dispossessed in relief centres and then pitch into the clean-up efforts at junior football clubs and sports fields.
Small steps in a rebuilding process of post-war magnitude. But as Hindmarsh, one of 20 Eels players, and Wests Tigers winger Lote Tuqiri, one of 13 Tigers heading north, put it: "We all just want to do something."
The players know cleaning up the mud-filled homes is a priority, but equally getting sports facilities in working order will be an important distraction, particularly for children, in the long months ahead.
As Hindmarsh puts it, there's no Origin lines now. "We're all Australian and that's how we do things," he said.
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