{"id":355058,"date":"2023-12-22T02:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T03:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=355058"},"modified":"2023-12-22T04:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T04:02:04","slug":"the-day-a-teen-webb-left-bennett-speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=355058","title":{"rendered":"The day a teen Webb left Bennett speechless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cocky, cheeky and fearless – that's how team-mates remembered former Queensland<\/a> State of Origin hardman Carl Webb, who died on Thursday night after fighting a brave four-year battle<\/a> with Motor Neurone Disease.<\/p>\n

Aged just 42, Webb had a fine career with the Broncos, Cowboys and Eels and played 12 State of Origin<\/a> matches for Queensland and one Test for Australia in the 2000s.<\/p>\n

Webb was diagnosed with the disease four years ago and battled the disease with the same courage he showed on the football field.<\/p>\n

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From his teenage years, Webb was a man who showed no fear – even when confronted by Wayne Bennett.<\/p>\n

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"We came through the juniors together and I remember one day at the Broncos when he was just 17 or 18, Carl was approached by Wayne at training," former team-mate Brent Tate told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"Carl just casually said to him, 'You have to talk to me through my manager' and walked off.<\/p>\n

"All our jaws dropped – no one spoke to Wayne like that. But that was the kind of guy Carl was – he didn't care about reputations on or off the field and was the player you wanted with you in the trenches as a result.<\/p>\n

"We had some tough players in the Queensland team in that era and you needed them because it was like warfare – and Carl was as tough as any of them.<\/p>\n

\"Wayne<\/p>\n

"When I was in the sheds before a big game, looking at him with that confident look in his eye always made me feel better about what was to come – he was a great team-mate."<\/p>\n

Former television commentator Jason Costigan had a lot to do with Webb throughout his career.<\/p>\n

"Queenslanders from far and wide especially loved Big Charlie," well-known commentator Costigan told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"He just had that aura to him."<\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/p>\n

The disease slowly but surely wore down the big prop's body to the stage where he couldn't even button up his shirt in recent months.<\/p>\n

He had a heavy fall at his Dalby home on Thursday night and died soon afterwards.<\/p>\n

"Everything you do is just a battle," Webb told News Corp in one of his last interviews in 2021.<\/p>\n

"Day by day, I'm on a slow decline."<\/p>\n

He is certain to be farewelled by a massive group of former team-mates and fans next week, with funeral details yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cocky, cheeky and fearless – that's how team-mates remembered former Queensland State of Origin hardman Carl Webb, who died on Thursday night after fighting a […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355063,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355058\/revisions\/355063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}