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Watmough can now take a bow

23/1/2010 - By Andrew Webster - www.dailytelegraph.com.au

ANTHONY Watmough - hero or villain? The Manly cannonball has never attracted unbridled love from rugby league fans, yet his act of sheer courage by flopping himself on top of teammate Steve Matai after they were attacked on Sunday morning would suggest that his critics have got it all wrong. .....

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