Queensland legend Billy Moore has revealed simply how totally different Origin camps have been again within the Nineties.
The man liable for the well-known “Queenslander” chant joined the Fox League Podcast within the lead-up to sport two and lifted the lid on his first Maroons camp.
Moore was introduced in for his Origin debut in sport two of the 1992 sequence after Queensland had misplaced the opener 14-6.
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FOX LEAGUE PODCAST – BILLY MOORE ‘WE DRANK UNTIL 4AM’
The man that got here up with the long-lasting ‘Queenslander’ chant, Billy Moore, takes the Fox League Podcast inside his first Origin camp again in 1992 — a time the place the squad “drank until 4am for the first four nights.” Listen NOW >>>
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“My first roomie was the late, great Peter Jackson,” Moore informed the Fox League Podcast.
“I’ve turned up to my room, put my bag down on my bed and gone down the corridor and I’m sitting with my heroes.
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“I’m sitting beside Allan Langer, Steve Walters and Gary Belcher. Wally Lewis had retired so Mal Meninga addressed the side. They lost game one and Wally and Mal said ‘that’s unacceptable — it’s not going to happen again’.
“I’m sitting there and had just turned 21 and I’m going ‘how good is this? I’m living the dream.
“I’ve walked back down the corridor, jumped into my room and I got my first Queensland tracksuit.
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“‘Jacko’ Walked in and put his hand on my shoulder and said ‘welcome to the Queensland family… Next Wednesday night you will belong in the Queensland family’.
“I went ‘Jacko, let’s go train for Queensland’ … and he goes ‘train? We don’t train — we go to the pub’.
“We drank until 4am for the first four nights of that camp… That’s what Origin camp looked like back then.”
“I’m not advocating it. I completed my Origin profession in ‘97 and I think Wayne Bennett came back in ‘98 and adjusted how they did things.
“The ‘80s into the ‘90s it was loose.
“But what we did do was when we took the field, you turned up. You did what you did but the next day you did your job on the training park to make sure when we turned up on game day we were wearing that Maroon jersey with the pride we expected, others expected and the coaches expected.”
Moore was lucky enough to not only debut at Suncorp Stadium, formerly known as Lang Park. But he also scored on debut — Queensland’s solely strive in that sport earlier than Alfie Langer kicked the matchwinning discipline aim.
When requested what he remembers from that night time, Moore stated: “the noise.”
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“I remember running out and I always say, you don’t run out wearing maoon at Suncorp Stadium, you float,” he added.
“To score that try was very special to me because it was the only game my mum saw me play.
“To debut, score a try, to have my mum in the stands and then to have a thrilling finish like we did — it was special.
“But the sign-off for me was that I could feel the passion and pride the Queensland public had for us on the field. To be their ambassadors wearing that jersey, I bought in — I loved it.
“That’s where the Queenslander passion started for me.
“But wow, what a place to make your debut. I scored a try after 10 minutes and thought ‘how easy is this?’ and never scored again.”
Moore went on to play 17 video games for Queensland and it was within the 1995 sequence that the ‘Queenslander’ chant was born. Listen to him re-tell the story of that iconic second plus extra on the most recent episode of the Fox League Podcast right here >>>
Source: www.foxsports.com.au