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SIMON Dwyer has been described as the ''Forgotten Man of Rugby League''. Which isn't exactly right.
"Occasionally I'll be walking down the street and run into someone who remembers me,'' he says with a smile.
"Or at least they remember the tackle."
Simon Dwyer's hit on Jared Waerea-Hargreaves. Source: News Limited
Yep, the tackle. Sydney Football Stadium. September 11, 2010. Snarling Rooster Jared Waerea-Hargreaves charging towards a tiring Wests Tigers defence as, with 90 seconds remaining and his side trailing by a point, this champion enforcer looks to finish things. Then ... thwack.
Launching himself into what would, the following day, be dubbed ''Hit of the Century'' on this newspaper's back page, Dwyer not only handed JWH a ticket to Disneyland, but achieved instant cult status, announcing himself among the brightest prospects in the game.
"It was one of the best games I ever played,'' he recalls. "We eventually lost, which wasn't great, but it gave me something for the scrapbook."
Paul, Cheryl, Simon and Dale Dwyer at Simon Dwyer tribute night on Friday. Picture: Photo Jeremy Piper Source: News Corp Australia
And as for what he remembers of the tackle?
"I was trying to get back onside and, when I looked up, Jared was already charging at me,'' he grins. "I thought 'gee, I better throw everything at him' ... and the shot came off."
And so everyone went ''wow''. Now, however, ''what if?''
Almost four years after that tackle, both the NRL and Wests Tigers are on Monday donating Dwyer $10 from every ticket sold to Monday Night Football at Campbelltown Stadium.
The promising Macquarie Fields product who, a season after that tackle, would make another bell ringer on Canterbury rival Michael Hodgson — and not get up.
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Tearing five nerves from his spinal chord, the 25-year-old has had no movement in his right arm since. Nor has he received a cent in compensation. An injustice which rugby league is now trying to fix.
The Footy Show's Beau Ryan urged his old club to do the "right thing" and give Dwyer a job for life. The Channel 9 funnyman, whose network opened the evening with a $20,000 donation, revealed plans to have a similar dinner for Taniela Tuiaki, the Tigers winger who struggles to walk after a series of ankle surgeries forced him out of the game.
The NRL has donated Dwyer a new Holden while a grand final package they offered made $11,000 at auction. When counting is finished, organisers hope $250,000 will be raised.
For the game, it is a start. For Dwyer, the chance to leave rugby league with more than memories.
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