Gorden James Tallis (born 27 July 1973), also known by the
nickname
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of "Raging Bull" for his on-field aggression, is an Australian former professional
rugby league
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footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A
Queensland
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State of Origin
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and
Australian international representative
second-row forward, he captained both these teams as well as the
Brisbane Broncos
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with whom he won the
1997
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,
1998
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and
2000 Grand Finals, after starting his career with the
St. George Dragons
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in Sydney. At the peak of his career Tallis was considered as the best forward in the world and in 2008 was named in an
Indigenous Australian
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rugby league team of the century. He is currently a commentator and pundit for the
Fox Sports
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network. He served as a
National Rugby League
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board member and was a member of the board of directors for the
North Queensland Cowboys
The North Queensland Cowboys is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, the largest town in North Queensland. They compete in Australia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL).
Sinc ...
. Tallis also worked on the coaching staff of the
South Sydney Rabbitohs
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Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen pla ...
.
Background
Tallis is of Torres Strait Islander and Vanuatuan descent. Tallis' father Wally played rugby league briefly for
Leigh
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in the 1960s. Gorden Tallis was born in Townsville,
North Queensland
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on 27 July 1973. There he played for the Centrals Tigers club.
Professional playing career
St George Dragons
Tallis moved to
Sydney
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to make his first grade debut in the
Winfield Cup
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premiership for
St. George
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on 29 August,
1992
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, aged . He was a reserve in St George's
1993 grand final loss to Brisbane. Tallis was used to bad effect off the interchange bench during the
1994 season and also made his representative debut for the
Queensland side in the final two
State of Origin series
The State of Origin series is an annual best-of-three rugby league series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.
Referred to as “Australian sport's greatest rivalry”, the ...
games that year. In 1995 he was included in the
Tongan squad for the
1995 World Cup but had to withdraw due to injury.
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When the proposed
Super League
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competition was put on hold in
1995
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, Tallis offered to buy out the final year of his contract with St George in order to join the
Broncos
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. The Dragons declined the offer however, and subsequent court action held him to his original contract. Having already signed a Super League contract to play with Brisbane, the fiery North Queenslander caused controversy when he was the only player who chose to sit out the
1996 season rather than play a final year with St George. After having made 54 appearances for the Dragons, he left Sydney.
Brisbane Broncos
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Tallis returned to the game with the Broncos for the
1997 Super League season and was the most dominant forward in the competition, which culminated in Brisbane's crushing 26–8 win over the
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
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in the
Telstra Cup grand final. In addition to representing
Queensland
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, subdivision_type = Country
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in the
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competition, he made his international debut in the 1997 post season's
Super League Test series
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against
Great Britain
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, playing at second-row forward in all three matches.
In
1998
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Tallis returned to St. George for the first time since his acrimonious split with the Saints and was pelted with garbage and insults and was loudly booed every time he touched the ball before his try secured a 30–18 victory. Brisbane went on to capture another premiership with Tallis scoring a try and winning the prestigious
Clive Churchill Medal
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as the best and fairest player on-field in the club's 38–12
1998 NRL grand final win over the
Canterbury Bulldogs
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. Tallis made his
Australian Kangaroos
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Test debut in the second match of the Trans-Tasman series.
He continued his great personal form when chosen for the
ANZAC Test in
1999
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and spearheaded Queensland's State of Origin campaign in a historic tied series. However, the season ended with Brisbane's failure to defend its premiership and Tallis was ruled out of October's
Tri-Nations competition because of injury.
2000 saw him score a try in Australia's 52–0 thrashing of
New Zealand
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in the ANZAC Test, but after being sent off in the opening State of Origin match for verbally abusing referee
Bill Harrigan
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, Tallis suffered the ignominy of a whitewash defeat (his public admission that the 'dead' third match of the series should be cancelled was a momentary lapse in judgment that may have indirectly contributed to the Blues' 56–16 win). If Tallis' stature as the most dominant forward in the game wasn't secure following Brisbane's 14–6 win over the Roosters in the
2000 NRL grand final, his four tries in Australia's 82–0 humiliation of
Papua New Guinea
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before the
2000 World Cup, and his selection as Australian captain for the match against
Russia
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(which resulted in a record 110–4 victory) did. In 2000, Tallis also received the
Australian Sports Medal
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. Following Australia's World Cup victory, Tallis and teammate
Shane Webcke
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wrote an open letter to players appealing for an end to scandalous behaviour amongst footballers which had been tarnishing the sport.
Captaincy
Having won the
2000 NRL Premiership
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, the Broncos traveled to England to play against 2000's
Super League V
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Champions,
St Helens R.F.C.
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They are the current Champions, having won the last 4 consecutive titles, and becom ...
for the
2001 World Club Challenge
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, with newly appointed captain Tallis playing at second-row forward in Brisbane's loss. Tallis captained a rookie Queensland team in the 34–16 win over New South Wales in the opening match of the
2001 State of Origin series
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and was named man-of-the-match. Soon after, he suffered a career-threatening neck injury in a club match against the
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
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which revealed a spinal condition that required corrective surgery. While Tallis' season was over (despite the smokescreen of his naming on the Broncos' interchange bench for the club's preliminary final) he made a strong return to football in 2002. It was in the deciding match of the
2002 State of Origin series
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that Gorden Tallis performed a famous tackle on Blues fullback,
Brett Hodgson
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A New South Wales State of Origin representative goal-kicking , he played his club football in the NRL ...
, dragging him several metres and eventually tossing him out of the field of play like a rag-doll. Tallis' reaction later of giving the
one-finger salute to a section of the crowd, right behind the northern try-line where
Dane Carlaw
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's series-tying try was scored, became a major after-match talking point. Tallis gained some sympathy when it was revealed that he was objecting to an offensive sign about his mother. But many again raised questions about his capacity to captain Australia with debate raging over the choice between Tallis or
Andrew Johns
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to succeed
Brad Fittler
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. Days later Johns was chosen to lead the
Kangaroos
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in the July Test against Great Britain. Tallis scored a try in Australia's 64–10 win in that match and was later named Test leader (in Johns' absence) for the one-off Test against New Zealand in October, which Australia also won 32–24.
In January 2003, Tallis' book ''Raging Bull'' was published. His ancestry and ethnicity has been the subject of many questions much to the bemusement of Tallis. In his book, Tallis addresses these questions;
''"People ask me about my ethnic background. Newspapers pick me in their "fantasy" Indigenous and Aboriginal sides. To tell the honest truth, I haven't worried too much about it. An auntie of mine did some research and she found that my great-grandfather came from North Western Ambrym in
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and my great-grandmother was from Loh Island in the
Torres Strait
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. All we were ever told in my family was that we were Australians. My dad was born in Townsville and his dad was born in Bowen, so that makes us Australian and we’re proud of it. I have played in one Indigenous side though, the
Redfern All Blacks
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History
Redfe ...
, who won the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tournament in 1992. That was some side. We had
Choc Mundine who was about 17,
Tricky Trindall who was 25, and
Wes Patten
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who was 19. People might have read a bit into me playing in that tournament but to me it was just a chance to play some footy with my mates."''
At the end of 2003, Tallis, who was expected to lead Australia on the
2003 Kangaroo tour announced his retirement from representative football, but continued playing with the Broncos. In 2004 he started to feel more affected by his neck injury and took heed of the warning signs his body was emitting. He played his last official match in the 2004 semi-final for the Brisbane Broncos, fittingly in his hometown of Townsville, against the
Cowboys
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, which the Broncos lost. At the time of his retirement, he held the Broncos' club record of most career tries for a
forward
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.
During the 2007 season at the Broncos' 20-year anniversary celebration, the club announced a list of the 20 best players to play for them to date which included Tallis.
In 2010 Tallis was inducted into the Broncos official Hall of Fame.
Career Stats
NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL
Representative
Accolades
Clive Churchill Medal
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: 1998
Dally M Second Rower Of The Year: 1999
Indigenous Team of the Century: 2008
NRL Team of the 1990s: 2003
Post-football career
In 2005 Tallis was appointed as one of
News Ltd
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's members on the NRL board, replacing
John Brass
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but stood down from the role in 2008, amid speculation that he will join the coaching staff of
Catalans Dragons
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. He was a director on the board of the
North Queensland Cowboys
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Sinc ...
, a role he had to relinquish when he joined the
South Sydney Rabbitohs
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Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen pla ...
as a forwards coach. He was brought in by
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to add his knowledge and aggression to the team. Tallis commentates games for
Fox Sports
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, as well as providing written columns for newspapers. Tallis has made his views on fighting clear on the Fox Sports broadcasts of Rugby League, stating that if a fight erupts, "he would run in, you would run in, we would all run in, because it's your mate getting bashed".
During the 2010 NRL season after it was announced that
South Sydney Rabbitohs
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head coach
John Lang would be retiring, incoming replacement coach
Michael Maguire from the
Wigan Warriors
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announced that Tallis' services as forwards coach were no longer required.
In 2016, Tallis was immortalised with a Gord-e-moji emoji keyboard, in the same vein as his contemporary Kim Kardashian's "
Kimoji
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Content
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". The app was developed for iOS by Devotion Digital in Sydney, with plans to roll out an Android version later in 2016.
In 2018, Tallis was inducted into the
Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
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.
In August 2019, Tallis called for the
NRL
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to relocate Sydney teams and called crowds at Sydney games as "Embarrassing". Tallis went on to say “Could the NRL put in some key performance indicators to move one of the Sydney teams?, It’s got to go on fans,” he said. “It’s got to go on filling a stadium. It’s got to go on people wanting to watch you, coming through the gate to pay to watch your brand, your style of football, Roosters are on top of the table and count their fans with a fork to get their numbers up, There’s nothing worse when you watch a game of footy and there’s no one there, you get embarrassed".
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
Australia national rugby league team captains
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Australian people of Tongan descent
Australian people of Vanuatuan descent
Australian rugby league administrators
Australian rugby league commentators
Australian rugby league players
Brisbane Broncos captains
Brisbane Broncos players
Clive Churchill Medal winners
Fox Sports (Australian TV network) people
Indigenous Australian rugby league players
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin captains
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin players
Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
Rugby league players from Townsville
Rugby league second-rows
St. George Dragons players