Playing to win
Stepping out onto Sydney’s freshly manicured Allianz Stadium dressed in the Sydney Roosters’ iconic red, white and blue jersey is a memory few are lucky to share, but one Steve Wrightson recalls well.
“It’s electric. I just loved playing the game of rugby league,” Steve says. “I played half a dozen games as a professional rugby league player until injury forced me to retire early.”
Steve was a proud Roosters player, but his heart always stayed with his childhood team, the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Just recently, Steve visited the stadium where his sporting dream began, only this time watching in the stands donned in the Rabbitohs’ cardinal red and myrtle green colours. They didn’t win the preliminary final against their archrivals,
