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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2743010, member: 1899"] TOP 5 Player KERROD WALTERS (Brisbane) Australian hookers being the unique breed that they are have one slowly and grudgingly handed over to their successors over the years. Almost always the heir apparent has been waiting in the wings for quite some time before the Test jumper in finally passed on. Down the line of Schubert, Kearney, Kelly, Walsh, Walters, Peponis, Krilich, Conescu, Simmons and Elias, and some others, that situation has almost always been the case. In 1989, along came Kerrod Walters from the Brisbane Broncos and threw the tradition right out the window. At the start of the year Walters, one of the five league player brothers, was second in line at the Broncos, although ready to challenge the incumbent Greg Conescu. Well, Walters not only nudged past Conescu and into Brisbane Firsts, but he then went right on with it, won Queensland State of Origin selection and then leapfrogged straight over Simmons, Elias, Fenech and co and straight into the Australian team! By the time a broken wrist had knocked him out of the game late in the season Walters had firmly established himself as Australia’s No. 1 hooker – in a position in which the quality is very high indeed. After easing into first grade in 1988 (5 games, 6 as a replacement) Walters played 17 matches with the Broncos in ’89. His State of Origin form was outstandingly good, and he picked up tries in both the second and third games, and then carried that form to New Zealand where he scored his first Test try – in the opening international at QEII Stadium, Christchurch. Walters put his own unique stamp on the job he had won. A strong scrummager and great competitor he is distinctive most of all for his style in the loose – for his scampers from dummy half, his head held high. He was certainly a star of 89. [/QUOTE]

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