The Bulldogs are referred to as the ‘household membership’ – and the NRL membership is taking care of one among their very own on the subject of Sandy Campbell.
A former winger and centre, Campbell is now homeless and likewise battling throat most cancers.
After it emerged this week the 56-year-old resides tough at Tweed Heads close to the Queensland border, Canterbury officers have stepped into assist.
‘We now have begun reaching out to see how we are able to help,’ chairman John Khoury mentioned.
‘Whether or not or not it’s by means of housing, medical, monetary help or different, we are going to attempt to do what we are able to to assist our former participant in his time of want.’
Former Bulldogs winger Sandy Campbell is homeless and likewise battling throat most cancers
‘We now have begun reaching out to see how we are able to help,’ Bulldogs chairman John Khoury mentioned this week (Campbell pictured, enjoying for Canterbury in 1988)
Khoury added the membership’s stance is ‘As soon as a Bulldog, at all times a Bulldog’ and so they intend to enhance Campbell’s well being and wellbeing.
Campbell made his NRL debut with the Bulldogs in 1986 the place he chalked up 50 appearances over three seasons, earlier than additional stints with the Roosters (1989 and 1990) and the Rabbitohs (1991).
One other former Bulldogs participant – Kurt Landers – has established a GoFundMe web page to help with Campbell getting again on his toes, based on the Day by day Telegraph.
Household of League [formerly Men of League] can be stepping in to help.
When enjoying first grade in Sydney, Campbell earned the nickname ‘Dancing Sandy from Samarai’ after the island and former administrative capital in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, the place he hails from.
On the sphere, he dazzled crowds along with his velocity and switch of foot. Off it, he dazzled the women along with his film star appears to be like and sense of fashion.
Quick ahead to 2022, and Campbell is unfortunately estranged from his spouse and twin daughters.
His attractiveness have lengthy vanished. The dreadlocks he grew after retirement are gone, as are a lot of his tooth.
Together with his film star appears to be like and velocity on the sphere, Campbell was a fan favorite (pictured, on the quilt of Rugby League Week)
Face tattoos render him nearly unrecognisable.
Campbell’s good buddy Darren Smith informed Information Corp that it had been a tragic decline for the previous Bulldogs star.
‘He is obtained nothing and he has simply been identified with throat most cancers,’ he mentioned.
‘He simply began therapy however has obtained nowhere to remain, nowhere to go and no assist.
‘For the time being he’s sleeping on the seashore beneath one of many surf golf equipment at Coolangatta. I do not even know find out how to assist him. What do I do?
A heartbroken Smith additionally revealed Campbell has ‘no cash, there isn’t any housing and his mate is ‘strolling round with chemo therapy being pumped into him whereas pushing his (Coles) trolley.’
‘To have a mattress to sleep in could be all the pieces for him. It’s extremely unhappy,’ he mentioned.
‘I noticed him the opposite day and thought: ‘What the f …, are you critical?’ Take a look at him, he is linked as much as this [medical] sh*t and pushing his trolley – how do you assist?’
