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We certainly need something after the last few days:
New NRL Star
Steve Folkes, coach of the Canterbury Bulldogs, gets wind of a potential
young recruit who lives in Iraq. The club sends new leader Malcolm Noad on a plane to war torn Baghdad to track down the young fellow.
Malcolm risks life and limb dodging bombs, bullets, landmines and grenades but finally locates the boy, convinces him to come to Australia, and signs him up. He does a full pre-season, showing great potential. He
plays in all the practise matches, and finally gets picked on the bench
in first grade for the first premiership game.
Ten minutes into the first half Braith Anasta goes down with a severe
knee injury. Coach Folkes turns to the boy and says "This is it son, go
out there and show us what you can do..." The boy goes onto the field and proceeds to play the greatest debut game in NRL history.
He scores two tries, sets up another two, tops the tackle count, and
kicks the winning goal after the siren from the sideline. All his Bulldogs team-mates cheer him off the ground, and give him three cheers back in the dressing room. Folkes gathers the team around him and tells the boys that the kid is from Iraq, what he has been through, and says he is a model lesson to all...
Folkes then pulls the kid aside and says "Go into my office son, ring
your Mother and tell her what you did today - She should be very
proud..." The kid calls his Mother and says "Mum, guess what I did today ?" "I don't care what you did today" his Mother replies, "I'll tell you
what happened here today," she goes on, "Your father has been stabbed
and robbed, the house was fire bombed, our car was stolen, your sister
has been raped, and your brother has been abducted..."
"Gee," says the boy, "I feel a bit responsible for what happened..."
His Mother replies, "So you should, if it wasn't for you we would never
have moved to Bankstown !!"
New NRL Star
Steve Folkes, coach of the Canterbury Bulldogs, gets wind of a potential
young recruit who lives in Iraq. The club sends new leader Malcolm Noad on a plane to war torn Baghdad to track down the young fellow.
Malcolm risks life and limb dodging bombs, bullets, landmines and grenades but finally locates the boy, convinces him to come to Australia, and signs him up. He does a full pre-season, showing great potential. He
plays in all the practise matches, and finally gets picked on the bench
in first grade for the first premiership game.
Ten minutes into the first half Braith Anasta goes down with a severe
knee injury. Coach Folkes turns to the boy and says "This is it son, go
out there and show us what you can do..." The boy goes onto the field and proceeds to play the greatest debut game in NRL history.
He scores two tries, sets up another two, tops the tackle count, and
kicks the winning goal after the siren from the sideline. All his Bulldogs team-mates cheer him off the ground, and give him three cheers back in the dressing room. Folkes gathers the team around him and tells the boys that the kid is from Iraq, what he has been through, and says he is a model lesson to all...
Folkes then pulls the kid aside and says "Go into my office son, ring
your Mother and tell her what you did today - She should be very
proud..." The kid calls his Mother and says "Mum, guess what I did today ?" "I don't care what you did today" his Mother replies, "I'll tell you
what happened here today," she goes on, "Your father has been stabbed
and robbed, the house was fire bombed, our car was stolen, your sister
has been raped, and your brother has been abducted..."
"Gee," says the boy, "I feel a bit responsible for what happened..."
His Mother replies, "So you should, if it wasn't for you we would never
have moved to Bankstown !!"