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Wonder if this has been posted before?
Steve Folkes, coach of the Canterbury Bulldogs, gets wind of a potential new young recruit who lives in Iraq. The club has inspirational leader Steve Mortimer catch a plane to war torn Baghdad and track down the young boy. Steve 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; Braith Anasta goes down with a severe knee injury. Folkes turns to the boy and says "this is it son, go into the side and show us what you can do." The boy 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 on the sideline.
The Bulldogs cheer him off the ground and give him three cheers back in the rooms. Folkes tells the team what the boy from Iraq has been through and that he is a model lesson for all. Folkes 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 dont care what you did today, his mother replies.I'll tell you what happened here today ,she goes on. Your Dad was stabbed and robbed, the house was fire bombed and sprayed with bullets, 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 moved
to Bankstown..... :lol:
Steve Folkes, coach of the Canterbury Bulldogs, gets wind of a potential new young recruit who lives in Iraq. The club has inspirational leader Steve Mortimer catch a plane to war torn Baghdad and track down the young boy. Steve 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; Braith Anasta goes down with a severe knee injury. Folkes turns to the boy and says "this is it son, go into the side and show us what you can do." The boy 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 on the sideline.
The Bulldogs cheer him off the ground and give him three cheers back in the rooms. Folkes tells the team what the boy from Iraq has been through and that he is a model lesson for all. Folkes 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 dont care what you did today, his mother replies.I'll tell you what happened here today ,she goes on. Your Dad was stabbed and robbed, the house was fire bombed and sprayed with bullets, 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 moved
to Bankstown..... :lol:
