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Playing mostly halfback or five-eighth, Cogger was an athletically built player about 173 cm in height. Despite his reasonably light build for a utility back, he seemed impervious to injury, due to his athleticism, until late in his career when he sustained a neck injury. Cogger said, "I had a
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Cogger made his first grade debut in 1981. In 1982, he played his third game of the year after being called to the sheds while eating a meat pie and relaxing, having just completed a lower grade game. His call up was successful leading the team to a shock win (scoring two tries). He was heralded as
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Although Wests had limited success during the eighties, Cogger scored 48 tries and amassed 190 points throughout his career. He also played and captained the
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the "Meat Pie Hero" in the Sydney Sun newspaper the following day. He later said, "It was at
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Cogger was made a life member of the
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sore neck after our first two games and went to a specialist. He took X-rays and found that I had fractured my neck a couple of months earlier in
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