'A true legend': Hundreds of 会葬者s 別れの（言葉，会） Bulldogs and Australian footy hero Steve Folkes in an emotional funeral service at his old home ground

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Canterbury football club legend and coach Steve Folkes was 別れの（言葉，会）d at a funeral service in Sydney after he died from a heart attack last Tuesday.

About 1200 people, 含むing most of Canterbury's 2004 首相の職-winning squad, 別れの（言葉，会）d?Folkes who was remembered in a moving ビデオ 尊敬の印 as a major part of the club's history.

Folkes, 59, was just one of two people to 勝利，勝つ a Bulldogs 首相の職 as both a player and coach, winning four 首相の職s over his 冒険的な career.

The emotional funeral service took place at Belmore Sports Ground, the same oval where Folkes carved out a 評判 as one of rugby league's greatest.?

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Canterbury football club legend and coach Steve Folkes was fa rewelled at a funeral service at Belmore Sportsground today

Former Bulldogs captain Steve Price?was visibly upset as he held 支援する 涙／ほころびs, remembering Folkes'?堅い and relentless training methods.??

'He was 堅い, resilient and 始める，決める a 基準. 残り／休憩（する） in Peace, Folkesy,'?Price said.??

の近くに friend and former Bulldogs 経営者／支配人 Alan Thompson remembered the Bulldogs legend as 'a 広大な／多数の／重要な mate and good bloke.'

Folkes di ed one day before the fifth 周年記念日 of his wife's death at age 55 in 2013. Folkes' wife, Karen, was the daughter of Bulldogs patriarch Peter 'Bullfrog' Moore.?

'I will 行方不明になる his advice, his smile but mostly I will 行方不明になる his love,' Folkes' daughter Hayley Folkes-Shaw said at the funeral?

Canterbury football club legend and coach Steve Folkes died 老年の 59 last week

'I will 行方不明になる his advice, his smile but mostly I will 行方不明になる his love,' Folkes' daughter Hayley?Folkes-Shaw said during the 訴訟／進行s.??

She said that after losing his wife, her dad 'had a sadness about him'.?

'We all knew he longed for mum. He 行方不明になるd their nights in, mum drinking scotch and coke, dad drinking red ワイン, their daily 5:30pm coffees on the lounge watching Hot Seat.

'And that is how I would like to think they have been spending their first week 支援する together.

'Mum and dad decided that four years and 364 days apart was more than the two of them could 扱う.

'To use the words that dad used as he 別れの（言葉，会）d mum at her funeral five years tomorrow: Life with you has been an 絶対の 特権.'

Ms Folkes-Shaw said the 'gaping 穴を開ける' left by losing her mum and dad will never be able to be filled, the?ABC 報告（する）／憶測d.???

Ms Folkes-Shaw (権利) said the 'gaping 穴を開ける' left by losing her mum and dad will never be able to be filled

About 1200 people, 含むing most of Canterbury's 2004 首相の職-winning squad, 別れの（言葉，会）d Folkes who died from a heart attack last Tuesday

Former Bulldogs chaplain Reverend Ken Clendenning began the 儀式 and said most were 'still 公正に／かなり numb' from the news of Folkes' death.

'It's still so hard for us to believe as we remain in a 明言する／公表する of shock.'?

現在の Bulldogs players formed a guard of honour for Folkes' casket before the service and 現在の and former players repeated the gesture at the end.?

INXS' Never 涙／ほころび Us Apart played during the funeral service and?Pearl Jam's?Better Man was heard as?Folkes' 棺 was driven ou t.

Steve Folkes stands dripping wet after 存在 捨てるd with Gatorade during the NRL Grand Final between the Sydney Roosters and the Bulldogs in 2004 in Sydney, Australia

現在の Bulldogs players formed a guard of honour for Folkes' casket before the service and 現在の and former players repeated the gesture at the end

Former Bulldogs player Peter Mortimer (left) spoke to hundreds of 会葬者s at Belmore Sports Ground on Monday

Former Bulldogs captain Steve Price spoke 情愛深く of his memories with Folkes.?

'He was the biggest 支持者 of all the players with what we were going through and the 推論する／理由 why that group of boys won the comp that year [2004 勝利 over the Sydney Roosters] was because of him.

'When you've got a coach who you think the world of and know he's going to have your 支援する, no 事柄 what - you'll do anything for him.

'And that particular year, you look at how the year started and finished, there wouldn't have been many teams that would've been able to 達成する that,' Price said.?

A ビデオ montage was played at the funeral service where INXS' Never 涙／ほころび Us Apart played and Pearl Jam's Better Man was heard as Folkes' 棺 was driven out

Former Bulldogs captain Steve Price spoke 情愛深く of his memories with Folkes.?'He was 堅い, resilient and 始める，決める a 基準. 残り／休憩（する） in Peace, Folkesy,' Price said

'Steve played such a major part in the history of the Bulldogs, both as a player and coach, and was without 疑問 one of the 巨大（な）s of the club,'?長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Andrew Hill said in a 声明 解放（する）d by the club.?

'Steve symbolised everything that the Bulldogs stand for. His 遺産／遺物 as a Bulldog and what he did for the club will never be forgotten'.???

首相の職 players Luke Patten, Hazem El Masri, Braith Anasta, Andrew Ryan, Willie Mason, Willie Tonga and Matt Utai …に出席するd the funeral.?

As did former Bulldogs チーム仲間s Paul Langmack, Garry Hughes and Darryl Brohman 同様に as rugby league 身元s Steve Roach and Wayne Pearce.??

NRL 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある and former Bulldogs boss Todd Greenberg was also 現在の, as were 最近の ex-Bulldogs Josh Reynolds, Trent Hodkinson and ツバメ Taupau, and former chairman Ray Dib.?

'Steve symbolised everything that the Bulldogs stand for. His 遺産／遺物 as a Bulldog and what he did for the club will never be forgotten,' 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Andrew Hill said in a 声明 解放（する）d by the club

Folkes, 59, was just one of two people to 勝利，勝つ a Bulldogs 首相の職 as both a player and coach, winning four 首相の職s over his 冒険的な career

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