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In lawsuit you missed the news, rugby league fable Terry Hill passed distant this week, aged 52.
Hill made 246 first-grade appearances during spells astatine Manly, Wests Tigers, Western Suburbs, Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney. It is understood helium passed distant aft a bosom attack.
Hill played 14 State of Origin matches for NSW and besides represented the Kangaroos connected 9 occasions.
Terry Hill playing for Manly successful his last NRL play successful 2005.Credit: Getty
Former Australian typical and Manly subordinate David Gillespie was successful the Philippines with Hill astatine a fundraiser past week.
“Only a fewer days agone helium was fine,” Gillespie said. “He was the beingness of the party. He MC’d the time and had everyone successful stitches – his accustomed aforesaid – and was rather comic and entertained everyone from the afternoon, and that’s the past memories I’ve got of him.
“I stayed a mates much days aft that and we had a fewer beers unneurotic the adjacent day.
“We some went implicit to Manly astatine the aforesaid time. Terry was tough, uncompromising, helium was a sledger but helium could instrumentality it and springiness it ... helium was a pugnacious player. He was a large footballer.”
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