‘They’ve started calling me Slats’: Trbojevic finally gets out of nervous nineties

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Manly's Tom Trbojevic has been stuck in the nervous nineties for so long his teammates have in recent weeks stopped calling him “Turbo” – but that's about to change | mrchrisnico

“I was on 89 games at the end of 2019, then only played seven games last year. I’ve been in the nineties for a while. It’s nice to finally get to 100.”

While they’ve played together for many seasons, it has only been in recent weeks – during games No.97, No.98 and No.99 for Trbojevic – that Manly skipper Daly Cherry-Evans could finally put into words what kind of influence the fullback has on the northern beaches’ club. “There was also Origin II in Perth a couple of years ago when ‘Freddy’ [Brad Fittler] picked him after just two games back from his hamstring injury and he scored a hat-trick,” Jake said.

 

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