Mortlock OUt of EOYT

[Jethro Tah]

A world beater at 13 and one of the great Wallaby captains. Best of luck in Japan.

 

[James Buchanan]

A world beater at 13 and one of the great Wallaby captains. Best of luck in Japan.

I dunno, he was a great 13. As a captain I wouldn't rate him up with an Eales or a Farr-Jones though. Those two within my time define what a 'great' wallaby captain is.

I don't think we've had one since Eales tbh.

 

[Calexico]

I hope he plays again (at least for the Brumbies) - if not I shall forever remember him as being rated #4 in the list of the World's 'manliest' names:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html

 

[Cutter]

Although I agree with most of what has been said, its a bit early for his obituary.

 

[Ash]

One of the things about Mortlock is the huge respect the other teams and even fans had of him (just read the references to the "Evil Wizard" on TSF). He was a legend of a player, yet unfortunately was forced to give some gracious and humble losing speaches. Mortlock deserved better.

I think he should go to Japan and get a deserved payday and give his body a rest.

 

[waratahjesus]

hangers has to get the call up, guy can play 10 or 12, leaving AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), diggers and cross to cover 13, he had a good super 14 and was outstanding as always at club level, guy deserves a break.

Stirlo will be missed, hope he comes back fast!

 

[Pfitzy]

I dunno, he was a great 13. As a captain I wouldn't rate him up with an Eales or a Farr-Jones though. Those two within my time define what a 'great' wallaby captain is.

I don't think we've had one since Eales tbh.

And why? Because they led great teams. Gregan was a bit of a knob captain. Mortlock did a good job in challenging times.

 

[Pfitzy]

I hope he plays again (at least for the Brumbies) - if not I shall forever remember him as being rated #4 in the list of the World's 'manliest' names:

http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: That is great.

 

[James Buchanan]

And why? Because they led great teams. Gregan was a bit of a knob captain. Mortlock did a good job in challenging times.

To be fair, while those teams were great, they as captains lifted them again. Which is what great captains do.

Mortlock hasn't ever seemed to be able to do that for mine.

 

[Pfitzy]

Never really had a great team. I wasn't saying that those two weren't great captains, but there was a lot of right time, right place there...