Tom Starling reveals how close he was to giving up on his dream before a fateful phone call from the RaidersCanberra.
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Starling was a promising dummy-half who took out Newcastle's prestigious Carlson Club-Andrew Johns medal in 2015 as the club's best junior. "I debuted and was flying at the time, I thought 'How good is this?' I went back to the 20s and we got knocked out in the preliminary finals. "Maybe they didn't think I could do it week-in-week-out but I've never known anything different," Starling said.
"I had a good talk with Mick Potter who was coaching him up there in reserve grade and he said Nathan Brown wanted him tackling over the ball and you just can't do it.
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