Grey gives TSS side a nudge
WALLABIES defence coach Nathan Grey will attack a winning double on Saturday with his heart urging a GPS schools premiership for The Southport School.
The TSS old boy is a reassuring voice that captain Tom van der Schyff’s First XV can overcome Nudgee College and the Brisbane school’s vocal crowd to win the season climax.
In Grey’s final school year in 1992, he partnered Mat Rogers in the TSS upset of Elton Flatley’s Nudgee side 19-13 at the same Jack Ross Oval.
“It was the first win by TSS at Nudgee in more than 20 years so while the visit holds mystique, you can get the result there and be excited to play well,” Grey said.
Grey yesterday visited TSS for the first time in more than a decade and was impressed by the humble, motivated style of Van der Schyff, Campbell Parata, Zane Nonggorr and co.
Grey will do his bit as a supporter at a 1992 First XV reunion at Bond University before the serious business of shutting down Argentina’s dangerman at Cbus Super Stadium on the Gold Coast.
Perry Cross was an influential lock in the 1992 TSS side just two years before a traumatic rugby injury left him a quadriplegic.
His inspirational work through the Perry Cross Spinal Research Foundation to find a cure for paralysis has touched Grey and every member of the team.
“We’ve stayed a lot closer as mates because of getting around Perry to support a truly inspirational guy,” Grey said
Grey said the Argentinians posed as big a threat as the South Africans, who the Wallabies beat last weekend.