Gorden Tallis

If they would have said a 35-year-old's going to come back, he's going to play against these guys.

He wasn't playing reserve grade, but I think he went back and finished the year in reserve grade.

He did.

He was having one of those years that he'd come back and captained 20-year-old Wally Lawson, Mel Meninger and all that, that in 40 years.

Gene Moles, Mel Meninger.

In 40 years, it would have morphed into this.

They would have locked you up in a straight jacket.

But, mate, he had to show those guys, and he knew that he had one game.

He dug the well there.

And then the great Choppy Close, who's a great storyteller, and he's the most passionate Queenslander, and I know they're passionate, and he said that when he sat there and he goes, and I looked at Arthur, and he goes, and when he strapped himself, he goes, it was like an old warrior going out to his last battle.

Yeah.

Because I watched him just wrap himself up.

And he goes, and we were just in awe because he just pulled out and he goes, he's got the big boot and he just put them on and it was like a warrior getting dressed because I was so young.

Well, yeah, you know, Jimmy, like what Queensland get taught is we got beaten for 60 years.

Beaten up.

Beaten up, like beaten up.

But that's only because, for one, we weren't good enough.

We didn't have the players.

But then later on, our good players would come back.

So Rod Reddy, so Arthur Beeson probably played –