Sattler's stirring demand in iconic grand final

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As tributes to league icon John Sattler proceed to flow, Phil Gould has shared different tidbit astir the Rabbitohs legend's celebrated 1970 expansive final.

Sattler died connected Monday aft a conflict with dementia. He was 80.

Having had his jaw breached by Manly prop John Bucknell hardly minutes into that celebrated decider, Sattler's teammates rallied astir their skipper, but not successful the mode helium wanted.

"He gets smashed and goes down, but helium gets consecutive backmost up," Gould said connected Nine's 100% Footy.

"He gets the different players astir him and said to them, 'Don't fto them spot that I'm hurt'."

But aft that rev-up and knowing their hard skipper was successful pain, they did their champion to support him.

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"These teammates were trying to support him, they were trying to instrumentality the runs alternatively than him, and they pushed him retired of the mode a mates of times.

"So astatine half-time, helium said, 'anyone does that again … you're going to beryllium successful trouble'.

"And helium said, 'just fto maine play', and helium played the full crippled with his breached jaw and became the worldly of legend."

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Sattler did yet get treatment, but lone aft accepting the WD & HO Wills Cup.

Speaking connected 2GB's Wide World of Sports vigor connected Monday evening, Souths president Nick Pappas described Sattler arsenic "the fable of legends".

"He was pugnacious and uncompromising connected the field, but helium was eloquent and measured astatine the aforesaid clip disconnected the field," helium said.

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"He was that unsocial blend, and that truly acceptable him isolated from everyone else.

"I had galore quiescent moments with John wherever helium told maine idiosyncratic stories, and I was ever impressed with his humility.

"That's a prime I deliberation we tin each bash with successful today's life, and John had it successful abundance."

Pappas said 1 of the moments helium remembered astir fondly of Sattler was his code during the celebrated march to Town Hall successful November 2000, arsenic Souths campaigned for re-admittance into top-level competition.

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"I retrieve the infinitesimal erstwhile helium was introduced and walked up the steps to instrumentality his spot with the rostrum and code the crowd.

"I was lasting up determination not acold from him, and I was looking down astatine the assemblage astatine the faces.

"When John spoke, everyone listened. There was implicit soundlessness successful George Street erstwhile John spoke that day.

"I deliberation I could spot successful the faces of the radical ... reassurance that if John was successful this combat with america we were going to beryllium OK."

Fittingly, Souths volition instrumentality connected Manly this play astatine Accor Stadium, wherever Pappas said a memorial would instrumentality spot earlier the game.

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