The flying 20-year-old winger gives State of Origin legends goosebumps, but one town will be cheering loudest of all
Cobbo, a winger who turned 20 on Sunday, only made his Broncos debut in May last year. But he has scored 10 tries from 12 games in 2022 and done so in a manner that has experts describing him as “the next Greg Inglis”.
The town has long had a reputation for producing athletes whose talents were celebrated farther afield. They included the tall and barrel-chested Frank Fisher, who played against the British touring rugby league sides in 1932 and 1936 and was later named in the Australian Indigenous Team of the Century. Meanwhile, Eddie Gilbert famously dismissed Donald Bradman for a duck in a 1931 Sheffield Shield match, with cricket’s greatest player describing it as the fastest spell of bowling he ever faced.
“I get goosebumps every time I watch the kid play because it is typical of how the Cherbourg mob play. A lot of us boys from out there are pretty skinny but he loves the contact. He just loves the ball in his hand. “You need to understand that rugby league for us is not just about the kids playing and being physically active,” says Brown, whose Cherbourg Hornets cater for teams from under-6s to A-Grade. “It’s also about social inclusion and being part of something.
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