What Origin Means To: Mark Geyer

Posted on: May 24, 2014 /

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Categories: General, New South Wales

Matt Encarnacion, nrl.com

It’s one of the greatest, all-time Origin mysteries: Why didn’t NSW firebrand Mark Geyer, standing toe-to-toe with Queensland icon Wally Lewis in the driving rain at the old Sydney Football Stadium, just throw the damn punch?

Almost 13 years on and Geyer still can’t tell you why. But one of league’s most intimidating big men of the ’90s at least knows one thing – that time-stopping moment would’ve been a non-event if he did.

“Everyone says to me about that run-in with Wally, ‘Why didn’t you hit him?'” Geyer, now host of Triple M Sydney’s The Grill Team, tells NRL.com.

Wally Lewis: Queensland Streak can keep going

Posted on: May 21, 2014 /

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Categories: General, Queensland

The King Wally Lewis wants to see his beloved Maroons inflict more than 10 series defeats in a row after his childhood was spent watching Queensland teams flogged by Queenslanders in blue jerseys.

Check out the video on his amazement at the streak so far.

Wally has to be your 6 in Greatest QLD Team, doesn’t he?

Posted on: May 15, 2014 /

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Categories: General, Queensland

THERE are tough choices to be made in life. Deciding who should be picked at five-eighth in the greatest Queensland Origin team is not one of them.

Wally Lewis’s 30 Origin games at five-eighth, after playing lock in the first game, will pick him automatically in the minds of most entrants in The Courier-Mail’s competition to name the best 17 the Maroons have put on an Origin field.

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Ever wonder how Wally Lewis got the nickname the King?

Posted on: May 10, 2014 /

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Categories: General, Queensland

Wally Lewis, on his thrown at Castlemaine Perkins (the XXXX Brewery) tells us how he was dubbed the King of Queensland.

What playing for Qld meant to Wally Lewis

Posted on: May 9, 2014 /

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Categories: General, Promotions, Queensland

Wally Lewis – the King of Queensland – talks to XXXX about what it meant to play for Queensland. Lewis highlighted the dark years of interstate Rugby League pre 1980 when he would see Queenslanders playing for New South Wales and often they would score the winning points for the Blues. Check out the full video

XXXX prepares for the King

Posted on: May 7, 2014 /

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Categories: General, Promotions, Queensland

In the lead up to the State of Origin series Queensland Maroons major sponsor has unleashed their advertising campaign utilising the ‘King of Queensland’ Wally Lewis.

Wally Lewis, one of the eight immortals, is well known for courageously leading Queensland in the eighties to set the platform in which State of Origin is today.

For years the King has been worshipped as he walked the sidelines of Lang Park and the new series of advertisements from XXXX plays on his following some 22 years after he hung up the boots.

The series of adverts currently doing the rounds on Facebook show Castelmaine Perkins staff preparing for the King’s arrival. This humourous series shows the stress involved with preparing for royalty in Queensland’s premier brewery.

Wally Lewis marching in the VB Regulars advertising campaign

The partnership with XXXX and Wally Lewis seems like a natural pairing but the King has been aligned with CUB’s Victoria Bitter in recent years with Lewis staring in a number of commericals.

Bottleshops and hotels throughout Queensland will see plenty of Wally Lewis merchandising highlighting the King’s arrival.

Check out the adverts from XXXX Gold here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=vb.168558019834216&type=2