Andy
First Grade
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A rather desperate Paul Langmack, coach of the South Sydney Rabbitohs,
gets wind of a potential new young recruit who lives in Iraq.
The club has inspirational leader George Piggins catch a plane to war torn
Baghdad and track down the young boy.
George risks life and limb dodging bombs, bullets and grenades but finally
finds the boy and convinces him to come to Australia. He does a full
pre-season, plays in all the practice matches and gets picked on the bench
in first grade for the first premiership game of the year.
Ten minutes into the first half, Brian Fletcher goes down with a severe
knee injury.
Langmack turns to the boy and says "This is it son, go into the second row
and show us what you can do."
The boy proceeds to play the greatest debut game in NRL history. He scores three tries, tops the tackle count (including a match saver to equal Scott Sattler's), and kicks the winning goal after the siren from on the sideline.
The Rabbitohs chair him off the ground and give him three cheers back in the rooms. Langmack tells the team what the boy from Iraq has been through and that he is a model lesson for all.
Langmack then pulls the boy aside and says "Go into my office son, ring
your Mother and tell her what you did today".
He proceeds to do so. "Mum", he says down the phone, "Guess what I did
today?
"I don't care what you did today his Mother replies. "I tell you what
happened here today", she goes on. "Your Dad was stabbed and robbed, the house was fire bombed, our car blown up, your sister raped and your
brother's been abducted."
"Gee," says the boy. "I feel a bit responsible for what happened".
His Mother replies "So you should be, if it wasn't for you we would never
have shifted to Redfern."
gets wind of a potential new young recruit who lives in Iraq.
The club has inspirational leader George Piggins catch a plane to war torn
Baghdad and track down the young boy.
George risks life and limb dodging bombs, bullets and grenades but finally
finds the boy and convinces him to come to Australia. He does a full
pre-season, plays in all the practice matches and gets picked on the bench
in first grade for the first premiership game of the year.
Ten minutes into the first half, Brian Fletcher goes down with a severe
knee injury.
Langmack turns to the boy and says "This is it son, go into the second row
and show us what you can do."
The boy proceeds to play the greatest debut game in NRL history. He scores three tries, tops the tackle count (including a match saver to equal Scott Sattler's), and kicks the winning goal after the siren from on the sideline.
The Rabbitohs chair him off the ground and give him three cheers back in the rooms. Langmack tells the team what the boy from Iraq has been through and that he is a model lesson for all.
Langmack then pulls the boy aside and says "Go into my office son, ring
your Mother and tell her what you did today".
He proceeds to do so. "Mum", he says down the phone, "Guess what I did
today?
"I don't care what you did today his Mother replies. "I tell you what
happened here today", she goes on. "Your Dad was stabbed and robbed, the house was fire bombed, our car blown up, your sister raped and your
brother's been abducted."
"Gee," says the boy. "I feel a bit responsible for what happened".
His Mother replies "So you should be, if it wasn't for you we would never
have shifted to Redfern."
