LIVE: How Fatty missed out on a Tina Turner moment

Dragons are connected the committee archetypal with a punishment extremity aft Jeremy Marshall-King was judged to person tackled Jayden Sullivan aft helium kicked the ball.

Footy is backmost astatine Dolphins Stadium arsenic scores stay 0-0 aft 2 minutes.

Paul Vautin has revealed the communicative down wherefore helium ne'er appeared successful a rugby league promotion changeable with Tina Turner aft the legendary vocalist passed distant overnight.

While the Manly large explained helium did hole for 1 advertisement, his physique unluckily didn't chopped it for the directors.

"They rang maine and said we request you to spell to Maroubra Beach, we're going to sprout this advertisement with Tina Turner ... and bring immoderate sluggos - I thought good this is going to beryllium dangerous," helium laughed.

"They enactment maine successful the mediate of Wayne Pearce and Andrew Ettingshausen, I was successful my sluggos and just to accidental I'd had a reasonably large disconnected season.

"We did this tally down the formation astir 5 times and they said let's person a rest.

"I perceive the American manager and helium says to idiosyncratic 'hey antheral who's that fat, hairy feline successful the middle? - Man get him retired of my shot'."

"And they brushed me, I can't judge it."

Dolphins

1. Kodi Nikorima 2. Jamayne Isaako 3. Euan Aitken 4. Brenko Lee 5. Tesi Niu 6. Anthony Milford 7. Isaiya Katoa 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Jeremy Marshall-King 10. Herman Ese'ese 11. Kenny Bromwich 12. Connelly Lemuelu 13. Ray Stone 14. Jarrod Wallace 15. Mark Nicholls 16. Mason Teague 17. Valynce Te Whare 18. Poasa Faamausili

St George Illawarra Dragons

1. Tyrell Sloan 2. Mathew Feagai 3. Moses Suli 4. Zac Lomax 5. Mikaele Ravalawa 6. Talatau Amone 7. Jayden Sullivan 8. Francis Molo 9. Jacob Liddle 10. Michael Molo 11. Jack Bird 12. Ben Murdoch-Masila 13. Jack de Belin 14. Moses Mbye 15. Toby Couchman 16. Jaiyden Hunt 17. Josh Kerr 18. Billy Burns

As a Queensland Maroons great, Darren Lockyer was ne'er excessively disquieted astir the Blues and the players they picked erstwhile helium was portion of the side's eight-year dynasty.

However, Lockyer has pinpointed 1 presumption wherever the Blues volition beryllium astir unsafe travel adjacent Wednesday night. 

"I deliberation the biggest situation for Queensland is the centres successful presumption of keeping Latrell and Turbo (Tom Trbojevic) quiet," helium told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.

"That's not casual and I deliberation that'll spell a agelong mode to winning the crippled if our centres Val Holmes and Hammer (Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow) tin bash their job, past that springiness america a bully crack."

The Brisbane Broncos aggregate premiership-winner added the rivalry betwixt nine teammates tin spark caller feuds successful the series. 

"It's mate vs mate and you person a batch of players up against immoderate of their teammates from clubs truthful I find there's ever a spot much niggle amongst those guys," helium said.

North Sydney Bears fable Mark Soden has reflected connected his spot successful 1 of the Tina Turner NRL advertisement's aft the legendary singer's decease overnight.

Soden was a favourite of Turner's erstwhile filming for the 1995 rugby league play and the erstwhile hooker/halfback remembered her arsenic a "wonderful" idiosyncratic during the filming of those shoots.

"I don't cognize what her level of cognition of the crippled was but she was conscionable fantastic towards everyone, anybody who was there," helium told 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio.

"They hired retired a nightclub successful Brisbane and it was conscionable america shooting for the time and for the full time she was determination and was thing but wonderful, she was great."

The decease of Tina Turner overnight successful Switzerland, aged 83, sent shockwaves passim the NRL.

Turner's promotion of the athletics done the opus "What You Get Is What You See" gave the crippled a mainstream individuality successful 1989, and the celebrated vocalist has everlastingly been successful the hearts of galore rugby league fans.

Turner past sang "Simply The Best" for the 1990 advertisement. She followed that up by performing the deed astatine the 1993 expansive final, won by the Brisbane Broncos.

"Big Siro (Paul Sironen) and Brandy (Greg Alexander), they were portion of the ads (with Turner), they had each the boys shirtless and moving on the formation smiling," helium said to the group. "It wholly changed the scenery of rugby league getting women to enactment the game."

"What's happened present is you tin spot that's turned into women playing our crippled ... and 1 of the biggest maturation parts of our crippled is the women by far."

"It beauteous overmuch goes backmost to Tina Turner ... she wholly changed the game."

Welcome to Wide World of Sports' unrecorded sum of NRL's opening circular 13 fixture betwixt Dolphins and St George Illawarra Dragons astatine Dolphins Stadium.

The location broadside are coming disconnected an ill-disciplined nonaccomplishment to Melbourne portion the Dragons are connected a high, clutching a past infinitesimal triumph implicit the Roosters past Friday.

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