Gorden Tallis
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15 games for New South Wales.
So Arthur Beetson would come back home and beat him.
He did both.
So, mate, like then he'd come back home and beat the young Queenslanders.
And, you know, and then like there's Rod Reddy and I don't know how many, so I don't know the history, but that's what used to happen until the great Ron McAuliffe, he was a senator, said let's get them home to come and play for us.
So they did.
So Wally Lawson used to go and watch Queensland get flogged and just hope that they'd score a couple of tries and get close.
So that was their baggage.
Mine wasn't.
I watched Wally win.
I watched Wally and Gene and Mel and Greg Dowling.
I watched us win.
So I don't have the same baggage, but I knew –
And I knew what my dad was telling me.
So then all the young guys.
So the ones playing now, they grew up watching eight in a row.
The New South Wales boys watch getting beaten eight in a row.
Filthy.
So they've got that now.
I never thought of it like that.