Bulldogs legend Terry Lamb has opened up on one of the club's most successful periods.
The five-eighth played 262 times in blue and white in a career which totalled 350 first-grade appearances and a host of representative honours.
Playing in grand final victories in 1984 and 1995, Lamb is remembered as one of the club's favourite sons.
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Appearing on the latest episode of Sporting News’ original series, From Then To Now, "Baa" revealed how a late hit on Steve Mortimer led to him making the switch to Belmore from Western Suburbs.
"In '83 we played, Western Suburbs against Canterbury, 'Turvey' made a break down the sideline and I came across, he threw the ball inside, and I smacked him around the mouth," Lamb said.
"After the game, he came up to me and asked me to play for the Bulldogs, and he spat blood all over me at the same time.
"That was a big part of me coming to the Bulldogs. I'd just smacked him, the captain of the opposition, and he comes up and said, 'I want you to play for the Bulldogs.' I had no choice really."
It would prove to be a shrewd decision, with Lamb winning the Rothmans Medal and the club defeating Parramatta 6-4 in the 1984 NSWRL grand final.
"I'm very lucky just to have been in those teams, from the start [1984] to '95," Lamb added.
"We lost players from '88 to '95, consistently, only because of the salary cap system at the time."
As the club celebrates the 30th anniversary of the against-the-odds victory over Manly in the 1995 grand final victory, Lamb spoke on the development of that team.
"We had to rebuild our team and that's where '95 comes into it," he added.
"Dean Pay, [Jarrod] McCracken, Jason Smith, all these young kids coming through from the under 23s.
"Grand finals mean everything to me. You go through nine months of training, you come up to your last game in September. You get into the grand final and win it, it's the best feeling in the world."
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