Rugby league great Johnathan Thurston has named his all-time Ingidenous squad in celebration of the NRL's Indigenous round.<\/p>\n
While Thurston may be considered one of the greatest Indigenous players of all time himself, he admits having to name a team was one of the toughest jobs he's been tasked with.<\/p>\n
"One of the hardest things I've ever had to do," he told Nine's coverage of Thursday night football.<\/p>\n
"A lot of these guys are players I've played alongside or seen growing up."<\/p>\n
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The four-time Dally M Medal winner made special mention of former Cowboys teammate Matt Bowen. The pair were teammates from 2005 until 2013.<\/p>\n
Thurston, who famously departed Canterbury at the end of the 2004 season<\/a>, said the appeal of linking up with Bowen was one of the main factors behind his move to North Queensland.<\/p>\n "<\/strong>The reason I moved to the Cowboys was to play alongside this man, Matt Bowen,"<\/p>\n "As soon as I arrived, we got a sixth sense playing alongside each other.<\/p>\n "<\/strong>All you had to do was create a little opportunity for him and he would do the rest."<\/p>\n Thurston's Indigenous XIII<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 Matt Bowen<\/p>\n 2 Matt Sing<\/p>\n 3 Greg Inglis<\/p>\n 4 Justin Hodges<\/p>\n 5 Wendell Sailor<\/p>\n 6 Laurie Daley<\/p>\n 7 Cliff Lyons<\/p>\n 8 Arthur Beetson<\/p>\n 9 Preston Campbell<\/p>\n 10 Sam Thaiday<\/p>\n 11 Gorden Tallis<\/p>\n 12 Greg Bird<\/p>\n 13 Wade Graham<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rugby league great Johnathan Thurston has named his all-time Ingidenous squad in celebration of the NRL's Indigenous round. While Thurston may be considered one of […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/76828"}],"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=76828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76830,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76828\/revisions\/76830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n