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justadragon

justadragon

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R&WTILLIDIE said:
I’m not old enough to remember that signing…from what I heard, Rogers was ok…nothing brilliant. Probably better than Benchy
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Even though his best was probably behind him by the time he came to the Dragons he was still pretty silky smooth on the field. You can catch the highlights on youtube. But the best part was really pissing the sharks fans off for their beloved son coming to the Dragons. Classic.
 
AyiosYiorgos

AyiosYiorgos

Coach
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justadragon said:
Even though his best was probably behind him by the time he came to the Dragons he was still pretty silky smooth on the field. You can catch the highlights on youtube. But the best part was really pissing the sharks fans off for their beloved son coming to the Dragons. Classic.
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100% my friend back in the day was a huge sharkie fan, idolised Rogers, he was devastated when he came, i kept rubbing it in ah the memories...
 
Dragon David

Dragon David

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justadragon said:
Even though his best was probably behind him by the time he came to the Dragons he was still pretty silky smooth on the field. You can catch the highlights on youtube. But the best part was really pissing the sharks fans off for their beloved son coming to the Dragons. Classic.
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The sad end of Steve Rogers' glittering career

One of the initial 100 players inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame, the late Steve Rogers was one of the greatest Cronulla Sharks of all time.
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and a bit more on Steve Rogers -
Rogers left the Sharks to fulfil a childhood dream of playing with St George in 1983, and starred in the Dragons' loss to Parramatta in the 1984 final. He returned to Cronulla in 1985. The first game of that season was his last for the Sharks. Rogers later recalled off-loading to his left then catching a glimpse of the Bulldogs hooker Mark Bugden coming in from his right.

When Rogers regained consciousness a club doctor had a hand inside his mouth holding together his broken jaw while a cut artery spurted blood.

Rogers's son Mat, who would go on to play for the Sharks, the Kangaroos, the Waratahs and the Wallabies, was a nine-year-old ballboy for the Sharks that day.

After snapping a groin muscle before he could play for the Sharks again that season, Rogers signed with Widnes and suffered a horrific leg break in his first game for that club in late 1985.

His old Manly adversary Bob Fulton summed him up the following year, as he retired: "Sludge was one of a very rare breed in the game - the player who could do everything. I rate him the most naturally gifted player I played with or against."

For several years after retirement Rogers abandoned rugby league.

A substantial drinker (and heavy smoker for most of his life), he ran a pub unsuccessfully for a while.

When he returned to league it was in Darwin, before joining Super League as football manager with the Western Reds in 1995.

Three years later he was general manager at Cronulla, where he was named one of the club's three immortals two years ago and was chief executive when he died.

His wife of three decades, Carol, died of breast cancer in 2001, within three years of cancer killing both his mother, Marj, and father, Donald.

Yesterday the ARL chairman, Colin Love, said of Rogers: "His death at 51 is first and foremost a human tragedy.

"But it's such a tragedy too for rugby league and for Australian sport. Players of such talent come along very rarely in any game."

Rogers as a youngster wanted to play for his beloved Dragons and he was interviewed by Frank Facer who told him to come back in a few years time. He signed to play for the Sharks and had he got signed up by Facer, he would have killed it at the Dragons in his earlier years in my opinion and won a premiership which alluded him and when he finally joined us he just was not lucky to win one even though he played great for us.
 
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