Request that had Josh Morris fighting tears

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Brett and Josh Morris were asked to sum each other's careers astatine the Roosters end-of-season awards nighttime arsenic the nine paid tribute to a big of departing legends.

"Ultimate competitor, I deliberation that's the champion mode to statement him," Brett said connected Zoom after being injured earlier successful the season and distant from the squad.

"Week in, week out, you knew precisely what you were going to get from J-Moz. He's a ceramic partition successful defence, he's a menace each clip helium touches the ball."

"He's a feline you conscionable emotion playing with.

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"As a mate, arsenic a brother, I'm ace arrogant of everything that you've achieved mate, emotion ya," helium concluded.

The brothers clasp aft the 2008 ANZAC Day game. (Getty)

Josh past held backmost tears arsenic helium was handed the microphone.

"How bash you sum up the champion winger successful the game, ever?" helium said.

"If I had to stake my beingness connected idiosyncratic to people a effort from 10 metres retired with 3 radical to beat, I'd stake B-Moz each time implicit anyone.

"What helium was capable to bash implicit the past 15 years, the mode helium evolved - I person nary uncertainty successful my caput without B-Moz successful the broadside successful 2019, they don't triumph the expansive final.

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"It's been an implicit honour and a privilege to ticker you spell astir your enactment bro."

The Morris brothers are among respective high-profile Roosters leaving the nine for either a caller squad oregon retirement, including Boyd Cordner, Jake Friend, and Isaac Liu.

"The happening you retrieve is however overmuch they near successful this place, forever," Robinson said of his departing players.

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Brett joined the Roosters successful 2019 and won a premiership, with Josh moving implicit from the Sharks the pursuing season.

"I should by rights seperate B and J, but they came retired unneurotic and they'll permission together, and that's been their full career," Robinson said.

"There was a portion of the puzzle determination some astatine centre and helping implicit the past mates of years that we needed to fill, and we got 2 planetary wingers and centres to travel to the nine astatine the extremity of their careers and decorativeness successful the jersey."

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Brett debuted successful 2006 astatine the Dragons, with Josh's archetypal NRL crippled coming the pursuing season.

"To ticker them play the game, to span the eras of 2006/07 to 2021, astir players don't last," Robinson said.

"The satellite of centres and wingers changed a batch successful that play of time, and they re-defined it again and again.

"B, we didn't get to get the send-off that we wanted, but who cares? That vocation was legendary."

Fullback James Tedesco was awarded the Jack Gibson Medal arsenic the team's champion subordinate for the fourth-consecutive season.

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