Wendell Sailor
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"Wendell Jermaine Sailor" is an Australian former professional rugby football player who represented his country in both rugby league and rugby union – a dual code international. He is an Indigenous Australians/indigenous Australian Torres Strait Islander.

Sailor's large frame and bullocking style changed the way Rugby league positions#Wing/wingers played rugby league in the late nineties. His big-money move from the Brisbane Broncos to the Queensland Reds in 2001 created many headlines, as did his move at the end of the 2005 Super Rugby/Super 12 season to the New South Wales Waratahs. He has often attracted public attention during his career, none more so than in 2006 after the return of a positive drug test following the Waratahs v Brumbies match at Aussie Stadium on 16 April 2006. This put an end to his rugby union career as he received a two-year suspension from all forms of professional sport. He successfully returned to rugby league in May 2008 with NRL club St George Illawarra Dragons once his ban expired, playing an additional two seasons under his old coach at Brisbane, Wayne Bennett (rugby league)/Wayne Bennett, before retiring.

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At one time five or six of them went down and I said, 'Are you guys dreaming? This is not altitude boys'.

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They certainly stalked me across the field, as I knew they would. It was an old-fashioned, roll-your-sleeves up, kick for the corners type of match.

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I've certainly put a bit of pressure on a franchise that certainly have been great to me the last seven to eight weeks, and my family. I'm feeling pretty embarrassed about what went down.

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That was banter. He's one of my best mates. People took it too seriously and I'm just disappointed people would need that to rev up a game.

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It was only a couple of hours, so it wasn't like a massive one- or two-day drinking binge.

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He should make his own decision and the people who pay him can decide what they want to pay him.

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I said to Ewen [McKenzie] I was more than happy to do whatever it took to get back into the starting line-up, and training with the younger guys was enjoyable.

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