Michael Maguire reflects on missed opportunities with the 1994 Raiders team due to a soccer injury.
Oh, what could have been. Michael Maguire can wonder a little bit about that.
Maguire and Ricky Stuart could have been premiership-winning teammates. Throw Mal Meninga, Laurie Daley, Bradley Clyde and Jason Croker into the mix. We can keep going, because that 1994 Canberra Raiders outfit may just have been the greatest club side ever assembled.
But Maguire, convinced to play a game of social soccer after breaking into a star-studded Raiders team, can only think about what could have been. Because that social game ended with Madge undergoing ankle surgery after he was on the wrong end of a collision.