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Message: [QUOTE="Unbreakable, post: 2915689, member: 8290"] [URL]https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/03/13/how-darren-lockyer-almost-became-an-immortal-last-year/[/URL] Darren Lockyer would already be an Immortal today, if events had unfolded a bit differently last year. Lockyer was on the cusp of being made an Immortal in 2017 before the ownership of the famous award transferred from Rugby League Week magazine to the NRL. No rugby league award in the history of the game has generated as much debate as the Immortals, and that is only set to continue now that NRL CEO Todd Greenberg has confirmed a ninth Immortal would be inducted in 2018. Former [I]Rugby League Week[/I] managing editor Martin Lenehan has told NRL.com how the magazine was moving towards naming a ninth Immortal before the magazine was closed and all its intellectual property, including the Immortals, was purchased by the NRL. Lenehan was adamant Lockyer would have been "a certainty" if that judging process had gone ahead. In 2012, a panel of 18 voted Andrew Johns as the eighth Immortal, but even then Lenehan said there was support for the former Brisbane, Queensland and Australian captain until it was made clear a player needed to have been retired for five years to be considered. [/QUOTE]

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