throwing knuckles
Bronze Whaler
Hey ....what ever happened to Orcher and Selmes....where are they now???
Orcher was sacked ( has major issues) and played in the South Sydney comp for La Parouse, don't know about Selmes
djhabib
Jaws
playng union in france if i remember the article last year about our gains and losses
SharkBoy
Great White
Last I heard about Selmes was he was playing in the Mackay league for the mighty Moranbah Miners! Saw it in an article on here earlier this year.
Megashark
Jaws
sharkboy18
Great White
Ive been looking through a number a number of our past players of the 90's to this decade etc when I first started following the Sharks, the likes of Peachey, Rogers, Lang, Dykesy, that era etc. It got me wondering, whats ever happened to the likes of Healey? Is he still over in Sydney? Overseas? Just thought i'd put it out there so I know now haha
:cheers guys
:cheers guys
His name is on this year's members jersey, so I guess he's still around.
A.Snowden
Jaws
Sure I seen healey at the last game I was at. So I'm sure he is still around.
sharkboy18
Great White
I thought he may have still been around, been looking around wiki and all those sites and found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Healey
Read the "Life after Shark" section.
Read the "Life after Shark" section.
A.Snowden
Jaws
Wow glad he is ok. Could have been a really bad outcome
SF
Mako Shark
He is always at games, just around in the crowd or concourse, always refreshing to see an ex player who still enjoys the footy without expecting any special treatment
holy crap, I hope he recovers quick,
Pretty scary stuff, glad he managed to get it looked at quick.
I had him as a school teacher for a couple of years.
Always there for a chat at the footie.
Get well soon.
SF
Mako Shark
Played Adam Dykes tonight in Oztag. Definitely still got it, more skilful than some of our current Sharkies! A good sport too.
TheMexican
Tiger Shark
Lindsay Bowne is track manager for Tamworth Racing Club.
Jim See was living in Yamba recently
Jim See was living in Yamba recently
SF
Mako Shark
Phil Dotti:
www.theguardian.com
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He says he went on the stage to speak his mind because “people needed to see someone with strength and character” – qualities his mother and grandfather instilled in him when growing up on the Burnt Bridge mission in Kempsey, New South Wales.
Dotti is a former NRL player and the first Aboriginal person to play for the Cronulla Sharks.
He says he moved to Sydney in the 1980s as a young man with $20 in his wallet and a “pocketful of influences” who taught him that community comes first. He was playing rugby league for a local club and working odd jobs when Jack Gibson, “probably the greatest coach of all”, signed him to the Sharks in 1985.
Dotti says he spoke at the voice forum for his family and Aboriginal people – ‘but I did it my way’. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
“I knew, even back in those days, football was going to get me out of disadvantage and being underprivileged and poor,” he says.
Dotti played for the Sharks before moving to the Wests Tigers in 1987. Injury ended his football career but not his determination to succeed.
“A lot of people have success and then they fail. I passed failure on the way to success,” he says. “My failure was simply this: I wasn’t given the right opportunities as a kid.
“We were living on rations. I remember waking up in the early hours of the morning at the age of six or seven years old with a just a pair of shorts on, jumping in the back of a white man’s truck and going out to his farm and picking peas and beans and getting five cents or something.
An archival photo of Dotti playing rugby league. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
“That’s how it was. We lived in tin shacks. We didn’t have lights or the luxuries of a microwave and fridge. My mother and father were very, very poor. So were other Aboriginal people around us.”
He remembers his mother telling him to stand in a dish of water to get clean for when the welfare came. “If you’re dirty, they’re gonna take you,” he says. “I remember mum saying to me: Listen! The police are coming, run down and hide at the back of the creek down there. But watch out for brown snakes.”
He remembers walking with his mum to school at the age of five so she could vote in the 1967 referendum. He says his mum was a strong community person.
“Mum was a fighter,” he says. “Aboriginal people had to help Aboriginal people. We’ve had the ball and chain, all our lives, around our ankles. That’s got to change.
‘People shook my hand’: the Indigenous man who spoke his mind at Liberal MP’s voice forum
Former NRL player Phil Dotti says he ‘spoke for the Aboriginal people’ when he walked on stage at a public discussion hosted by MP Jenny Ware in Sydney
www.theguardian.com
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He says he went on the stage to speak his mind because “people needed to see someone with strength and character” – qualities his mother and grandfather instilled in him when growing up on the Burnt Bridge mission in Kempsey, New South Wales.
Dotti is a former NRL player and the first Aboriginal person to play for the Cronulla Sharks.
He says he moved to Sydney in the 1980s as a young man with $20 in his wallet and a “pocketful of influences” who taught him that community comes first. He was playing rugby league for a local club and working odd jobs when Jack Gibson, “probably the greatest coach of all”, signed him to the Sharks in 1985.
Dotti says he spoke at the voice forum for his family and Aboriginal people – ‘but I did it my way’. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
“I knew, even back in those days, football was going to get me out of disadvantage and being underprivileged and poor,” he says.
Dotti played for the Sharks before moving to the Wests Tigers in 1987. Injury ended his football career but not his determination to succeed.
“A lot of people have success and then they fail. I passed failure on the way to success,” he says. “My failure was simply this: I wasn’t given the right opportunities as a kid.
“We were living on rations. I remember waking up in the early hours of the morning at the age of six or seven years old with a just a pair of shorts on, jumping in the back of a white man’s truck and going out to his farm and picking peas and beans and getting five cents or something.
An archival photo of Dotti playing rugby league. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
“That’s how it was. We lived in tin shacks. We didn’t have lights or the luxuries of a microwave and fridge. My mother and father were very, very poor. So were other Aboriginal people around us.”
He remembers his mother telling him to stand in a dish of water to get clean for when the welfare came. “If you’re dirty, they’re gonna take you,” he says. “I remember mum saying to me: Listen! The police are coming, run down and hide at the back of the creek down there. But watch out for brown snakes.”
He remembers walking with his mum to school at the age of five so she could vote in the 1967 referendum. He says his mum was a strong community person.
“Mum was a fighter,” he says. “Aboriginal people had to help Aboriginal people. We’ve had the ball and chain, all our lives, around our ankles. That’s got to change.
