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It's Tommy two-rrific

18/07/2008 2:03:58 AM

IT MAY look like he went he went to great lengths to get the Tommy Raudonikis look down pat, but the bloke who won the Raudonikis lookalike competition at Campbelltown Stadium on Monday night swears he did not try an inch and that he just turned up at the Wests Tigers-Melbourne game for a night out with his family. Not surprisingly, Tommy - yes, Tommy - Mainwaring won the competition by a mile, but only after his wife, Sharon, threw him out of his seat to get involved.

"I've been in hotels where blokes have yelled out 'Hey, Tommy!' to me and women have come up asking for autographs," Mainwaring said. "When Tommy first saw me, he couldn't believe how much I looked like him. We shared a laugh." Asked for his reaction to the incredible likeness, Raudonikis said: "It's incredible. He could go around robbing banks and I'll be the one getting the blame!" Tommy, the lookalike winner, said it was a great thrill to meet Raudonikis, but that he didn't want it to end there. "I'd love to sit down with Tommy and have a few beers with him," Mainwaring said. "We didn't get a chance the other night. I'm the better looking one out of the two of us, by the way." Fittingly, Tommy won a case of beer for looking like Tommy. Maybe he could become a mate of Singo's as well. Wing can't cop a break CRAIG WING was back cruising the streets of the eastern suburbs in his Saab yesterday after thieves broke into his Bronte house and stole his luxury wheels as he slept last weekend. Police found his vehicle parked at Bondi Beach. And while two pairs of sunnies, a watch and loose change had been flogged, the plaque Wing had received for being named in the Souths Juniors Team of the Century was left in the boot. "They'd opened up the boot and obviously saw it but thankfully they decided to leave it there," a relieved Wing told Sin Bin last night. "I'm very pleased I got it back. It's pretty special. To have my name next to someone like Ron Coote was a big thing for me." Wing says he doesn't hold much hope of seeing again other items stolen in the brazen robbery, including his laptop and camera. "And I better be careful where I park my car, because someone out there has the key to it." Roast still cooking AND they said they'd never make it. The Sunday Roast will celebrate its 100th episode on Channel Nine this, er, Sunday, and Phil Gould will make a stunning return after leaving the show earlier this year. Ratings have nosedived since Gould hasn't appeared, and we're told Nine suits are keen for him to return. Given his hiatus has come at a tumultuous period for the game, we can only imagine how many opinions he might have up his sleeve. Host Andrew Voss has every right to be chuffed about the milestone, too. His former show, Boots'n'All , also made it past the 100-game mark. In TV Land, this equates to an eternity. Them's fightin' words DICK CAINE has traded many verbal blows with St George Illawarra chief executive Peter Doust over the years but he revealed this week he attempted to coax the under-fire boss into a physical contest - even before centre Mark Gasnier's decision to quit the club for French rugby, for which Doust has taken much of the blame. "I challenged him to a charity fight two weeks ago, and he didn't even respond. He's six-foot-four, and I'm a dwarf!" Caine said. Now that, we'd pay to see. Board won't oust Doust STILL on Doust, Dragons chairman Warren Lockwood has backed the beleaguered chief executive, saying the board fully understood Gasnier's departure from the NRL. "There is no threat from the board in terms of Peter's future," Lockwood said. "We were of full knowledge about how complex and unusual Mark's contract was. And we were aware of the escape clause [that Gasnier exercised so he could break his contract] was there." Those comments are hardly going to appease Dragons fans as they watch their best player walk out the door. And, despite Lockwood's comments, plenty of his fellow directors remain unhappy, too. Cows' ace fullback NORTH QUEENSLAND need a bit of luck on the field, but one Cowboy wasn't short of the stuff off it on Thursday. During a round of golf, Ty Williams hit a hole-in-one. "Hopefully, he takes that into the game," coach Ian Millward said. Young Bunny steps up THE mail out of Souths is that the kid who has been promoted from junior rep football to halfback in their Toyota Cup team following Chris Sandow's elevation to first grade has just as much potential as Sandow. Malcolm Webster scored three tries when the Rabbitohs beat the Eels 38-22 last Saturday.

Greg Prichard, Andrew Websterand Glenn Jackson

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