Ray Warren explains why after calling 45 NRL grand finals and 99 State of Origins, he couldn’t call just one more match.
as part of their race broadcasting team. One day, the caller doing the football, Brian Surtees, got sick and they asked me to get to the SCG as fast as I could and fill in for Brian. And so I started calling football in 1971, setting up my card table on the sidelines alongside such legends asJohnny Tapp, Ken Howard and Ray Warren at Randwick racecourse in 1971.
Ray Warren with Channel Nine colleagues Warren Ryan, Darrell Eastlake, Ken Sutcliffe and Michael Cleary in 1989. That will not be me. I’ve retired from calling football. That’s the end of commentary.Before you go though, who were the best rugby league players of your broadcasting time, the ones who will warm the cockles of your soul when you grow old?I tell everyone that the 1989 grand final won by Canberra was the greatest game ever played. Am I right?Well, it’s a funny thing.
“Mr Morrison is no longer the prime minister! I’ve told you three times now! Why do you keep asking?”“I suggest a surprise, physical removal during the night. Similar to that experience by the Biloela family. That’ll teach him empathy.”The Murugappan family is returning to their home in Biloela.
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