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    Teenage dream

    Mar 11, 2020 3 minutes
    As told to NEIL CADIGAN

    THE season kick-off is finally here and it brings back memories of the biggest Round 1 event in the game’s history – the 1999 opening of Sydney’s Olympic Stadium with a double-header that included Manly v Newcastle and Parramatta v St George Illawarra before a then-record Australian crowd of 104,583.

    Luke Burt was just 17 when he made his debut in the most incredible circumstances that night. After progressing through 1998 from SG Ball (he scored 190 points from 24 tries and 47 goals in 13 games) to Jersey Flegg, then a reserve grade

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