My special guest is Wayne Pearce . Wayne is a legend of Rugby League having played 193 first grade games for the Balmain Tigers. He played 16 origins for NSW and 19 tests for Australia. Post footy he coached the Balmain Tigers from 1994 to 1999 and was inaugural coach of the Wests Tigers in 2000.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
4:10 – Welcome Wayne Pearce
4:45 – His connection to Leichhardt Oval
7:10 – Pearce family
7:37 – Supporting the Tigers and finding Rugby League
9:03 – Lack of size and coming through the grades
10:30 – Losing his Father at an early age
11:27 – Leadership
13:58 – School teaching and sharing knowledge
15:48 – Making his way into first grade
18:00 – Missing a long period with Hepatitis B
20:30 – Detached Retina tackling Gavin Miller
21:50 – Getting through adversity
23:21 – Frank Stanton arriving in 1981
25:30 – The 1982 Invincibles Kangaroo Tour
28:50 – Rooming with Peter Sterling
38:10 – Coming back from the Tour and the new Tiger young guns coming through
40:00 – Ray Price passing on the torch
41:49 – Game preparation and self-analysis
43:52 – Meditation
46:54 – Controversially missing the 1986 Kangaroo Tour
50:20 - The medical against Martin Bella and Les Davidson
53:07 - Fired up in 1987
53:50 - Moving into coaching
56:00 - Origin clean sweep
57:15 - Alan Langer returns
58:50 - Mergers and burn outs
1:00:00 - 5 people he would invite to a private dinner party
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