Ha HAAAAAA!!
Yes - yes I did!
A mate of mine - VERY good touch footy player - easily the best in our team - played NRL juniors with North Sydney up to reserve grade level - then moved to the Roosters - also at reserve grade level - which is all true, he has backed this up sufficiently - including by being friends with Mark O'Meley, Paul Stringer and Alex Chan - all Norths juniors, of course - and I have actually spoken to Mark O'Meley on my mate's mobile phone.
BUT!...He then took it one step further and reckons that due to first team squad injuries - he played
one first grade game with the Roosters in 2000 against Brisbane - and lasted 15minutes before getting crunched in a tackle with several players - including Gorden Tallis - who landed heavily on his shoulder, and shattered it to pieces, forcing major reconstruction surgery - at which point the Roosters cut him for the next season, as he was unsigned!
Now we've ALL been
very dubious of these claims...but as there was nothing confirming it or not from season 2000 on the web (And we looked - believe me!) - until now we had NO way of proving he was talking himself up a bit with some absolute BS!...Until NOW!!!
Now we were winding him up about it again several weeks ago, and he got the hump and said to me - "Ok, I BET you I played first grade for the Roosters!...But how are you gonna prove I didn't?? Haha! You can't! But I know i DID! So therefore - I win! Haha!!" Was only a friendly $20 we bet, but still....Just to see the look on his showboating face when I tell him I HAVE proven it in front everyone - and the irrefutable way in which I DID prove it - because these books have every player that even played one gae off the bench EVER - it will be worth about 100 times that amount! At least! lmao
He has been bussssssssssttttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddddd! BIG time! lol
Thankyou Southern Rooster!...And thankyou again! Can't wait till I see everyone @ the pub on Friday now...can't WAIT! ;-)