@Sabre said:
Benji Grew up not knowing his dad so Sheens is the closest thing Benji has to a father
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Way off the mark.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/man-from-uncle-how-tough-love-turned-benji-into-a-tiger-20100107-lwy5.html
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…........................''Mick'', who died in December, is the only man Benji calls Dad, but it is impossible to understate the influence of his mother's brothers, his mother's keepers.
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''There was a time I lived with four of my uncles, and they never really had any money,'' he says. ''I just used to rock up to anyone's place and sleep on the floor or sleep on the couch.''
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Says one of Marshall's men, his Uncle Phil: ''Sometimes I wouldn't even know he was there, and then I'd find out he'd been there for a week.''
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Benji roughed it with them indoors and he roughed it with them in other ways, outdoors. While Marshall says on the whole he is a bit of a softie - ''I think I slept with my mum until I was about 11'' - he was given a hard crust by those uncles.
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Before he had even left his mother's bed, he was playing touch football one day with them, the men who were intent on hardening him. One, in particular, picked on him this day, and Marshall was left on the grass crying. His uncle had no mercy, telling him: ''This is what you get when you play with men. F--- off home and come back when you're ready to play.''
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Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/man-from-uncle-how-tough-love-turned-benji-into-a-tiger-20100107-lwy5.html#ixzz1LHQNLWJI
OT, it doesnt really bother me but it is all a bit too schmaltzey......could be worse like Dahhhrius & Wiine