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NRL halfbacks are changing what it means to play as number seven – ABC News
Peter Sterling, Allan Langer and Andrew Johns taught a generation what it meant to be a halfback but today, wearing number 7 in rugby league is different.
Greats of the modern game like Peter Sterling, Allan Langer and Andrew Johns taught multiple generations how to be a brilliant rugby league halfback.
Handed the keys to their teams at first receiver, these players were the entertainers of the game in the 1980s, ’90s and early noughties.
Their dummies, grubbers, and feints were mimicked by young men and women on fields from Albury to Aurukun.
But today, wearing number 7 in rugby league means something different.
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