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Bob Fulton: The complete footballer who became a most deserving Immortal

In the countdown to the announcement of two new Immortals in 2018, NRL.com published features on the eight all-time greats who had already achieved rugby league's highest honour. Following his death, aged 74, here is Malcolm Knox's take on the one-and-only Bob Fulton.

You don't choose your family or your rugby league gods. My team and my hero was and always will be Bob Fulton's Manly-Warringah. As a seven-year-old wearing the Manly No.4 jersey I was Bobby Fulton, and that, for me, was peak rugby league.

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