Lets all celebrate and salute to a great former eels player who turns 50 today.
The great Paul Cariage
Surely would have slotted into the great 80s backline anywhere
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He actually wasn't that bad a player. Bit of a show pony , he wasn't dissimilar to the younger Gutherson with the blonde dyed hair tips and the flamboyance. I've always thought he was lucky to have gotten away without a match fixing investigation. I reckon Brian Smith had his suspicions. I've seen him years ago in Angourie and asked Brian and he just did a sly smirk amd that was it.
Yep I was there for that humiliation and walked away thinking no way someone makes that many mistakes in a 10 min period - it was sus a fuck.
You're 100% right he wasn't a bad player and he was killing it that year for us so it just didn't make sense and should have been investigated.
I'll never forget his length of the field against the Bears on a sunny Saturday afternoon at Parramatta Stadium. He made speedsters like Matt Seers & Brett Dallas look like snails.
He was really great for us that year which made his performance in the last 10 of that GF qualifier all the more devastating.
Yeah I reckon there was something suss there for sure. He was a good player and there's no way that unless the NRL world was suspicious or there were whispers of a sting that he wouldn't have landed another gig. I know a few ex players that have told me that game was red hot in their opinion . And as I said Smithy's sister lives up the coast and I've bumped into Brian a couple of times and did ask him at Nat Young's cafe years ago about that game and Carige and he certainly gave me the impression he didn't believe the guy simply brain farted.
Must be an extra burn for Smithy since he brought him there from The Steelers with him.
He actually had a good season barr that brain explosion.
He was a good footballer unfortunately for him and all of us , he left his absolute worst for the 1 game before a GF
Congratulations Paul