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Eulogies sidestep fact that today’s NRL wouldn’t have a bar of Tommy – Sydney Morning Herald
In death, as in life, Tom Raudonikis continues to personify the game’s long cultural crossroads, its permanent contradictions.
The selective memory, the inability to make peace with its own heart, is not just a case of times have changed. Some of those antics were not accepted then, let alone now. Raudonikis one-time Kangaroos teammate, Freddy Jones, who passed away last month, had a party trick when drunk of throwing up and then eating it with a knife and fork. Even in the early 1970s, that kind of thing could get you marked never to tour again. Its like Hey Hey Its Saturday: you cant excuse every atrocity of the past…
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