The rugby league world is set to mourn the tragic loss of star player and coach Paul Green who will be laid to rest at a funeral service on Tuesday.
The celebration of the premiership-winning coach’s life will be held at Wynnum-Manly Seagulls’ home ground — the place Green emerged as a star of the sport.
Paul Green’s family, friends and peers will say their final goodbyes in a service that begins at 11am, with a livestream available for the public to pay their respects.
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The 49-year-old took his own life earlier this month in a death that rocked the wider community with tributes pouring in for the beloved husband and father.
500 people including greats of the game are set to attend the service, with brother Rick, and close friend Mick Power expected to speak.
“It’s a truly sad day for rugby league and everyone in the rugby league community who have in some way been touched by Paul Green and what he was able to do. He was a lot of things to many people,” Broncos teammate Corey Parker said.
“To me personally, Greeny was a teammate, he was a coach, and more importantly he was a terrific and wonderful friend. My deepest condolences go to Amanda, (children) Emerson and Jed, and their extended family.
“Greeny was one of those guys – it’s really hard to put into words at the moment, the raw emotion that the whole rugby league world is feeling about Paul Green.
“For me Greeny was that witty, funny, passionate, caring individual (who) no matter the circumstance found a way to accommodate your needs, to make you feel like you were the most important person.
James Tamou, who was coached by Green during the Cowboys’ 2016 premiership-winning campaign, labelled him an “honest” and “great” person.
“He was one of the first to bring in a mind doctor to the group. He was ahead of his time,” Tamou said.
“He was very passionate. He was honest and competitive.
“I’ve only heard the things he did as a player and you could feel that passion and that competitiveness as a coach.
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“Those are very high level values of a high accomplishing human.
“It is very sad. I can only feel for his family. But it is really making me think of the good times and the great person that he was.”
Green’s most memorable rugby league moment came when he delivered North Queensland’s first-ever premiership.
That moment will forever be etched into rugby league folklore according to Fox League’s Gorden Tallis who played with the diminutive halfback at Brisbane in 2004.
“To see those scenes, Greeny will always be remembered in North Queensland. There can only be one coach to win them your first final and Paul Green (was it),” Tallis said.
“He just wanted to help people … I think playing with Greeny now I realise, you just think back, he was always coaching – like when you’d walk out, he’d always be: ‘Let’s try this, let’s do this, let’s do that, I think this will work, I think we can do this’.
“You wanted him in your trench.”
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