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The year Melbourne won their first GF, I was playing fullback for a penrith side and we played the curtain raiser to the Sharks V Storm. Speechley was playing 5/8 for the other team. Anyway, i was so pumped to be playing before the mighties and I was a mad Martin Lang fan, I told my mates that if I caught the ball off a dropout that I would charge back at the defence just like Martin Lang, all 80 kilo's of me. what a f**king idiot I was. Speechley lined me up and hit me so hard that I actually saw my soul leave my body and it was laughing at me! All I saw after that was sky, grass, sky, grass, sky and then I heard laughter. lots and lots of laughter.
I never ran the ball like a raging f**kwit ever again, after that incident.
Good story Chewie.....nice claim to fame!