>> George Negus: Happy ending.
Still ahead tonight,
what's an obscene four letter word
starting with B and ending in K?
Bank.
They talk about tough footballers,
wait till you meet this bloke.
>> David Grech: Obviously I want to become a star player.
>> George Negus: In the relatively short life of this program,
6:30's Leanne West has done quite a few football stories.
League, AFL and yes the round ball as well.
But none has quite touched us quite like this one.
You're about to meet David Grech,
a part-time player but a full-time inspiration.
>> Leanne West: This is David Grech's self-made youtube video.
The video that shows all the things he can do.
They're things that doctors said he'd never do
after a medical emergency at birth left him with Cerebral Palsy.
>> David Grech's Father: I think they gave up on him to a certain degree.
It was only due to the hard work of Joanne with physio
and she dragged him all over the place
and once he started to walk there was no stopping him.
>> David Grech: You got to wipe out that you got
a disability and be hard on yourself.
>> Leanne West: A 21-year old boxer,
gym junkie and sprinter.
Every meter hard earned.
>> David Grech: Laying down is not going to get me better at running,
running's gonna get me better at running
so I just get up, keep running.
>> David Grech's Father: We always wanted to push the envelope,
you know, do things that people told him he couldn't do,
I think if you told him that he couldn't do it
he'd definitely try and do it.
>> Leanne West: Like getting his driver's license.
David's car seat covers reveal his greatest passion,
Rugby League.
His favorite player,
the Dragon's Goal-Kicking five-eigth Jamie Soward.
>> David Grech: I used to just watch it on TV and
go to bed and think about playing
and if I had the chance
how good I'd be,
how hard I'd train.
>> Leanne West: Enter George Tonna.
George also has cerebral palsy.
Like David he's been a footy fanatic with nowhere to play
so he formed the New South wales
Physical Disability Rugby League.
>> George Tonna: The first game I felt like a little kid again,
actually that contact that
I missed growing up as a kid
because I was too small, I was disabled.
>> Leanne West: David's the most physically challenged player in the League.
He's also the keenest.
>> George Tonna: When I first saw him walking down towards me
to meet me I thought oh, okay we'll give this guy a go
but after the first five minutes he sold himself.
>> Leanne West: The League has played four exhibition matches
with a view to starting a four-team competition in Sydney.
Between those games David's been improving his skills
with his local footy club.
>> David Grech: I'd train all night,
I wish it was every night.
>> Leanne West: Two nights a week he's on the park,
with the Mount Annan Currans Hill Knights.
>> Mark Lonergan: He will have a go at anything.
I mean he'll work out a way to do it,
to get it done.
>> Leanne West: David came down here at the start of the season
and asked if he could train with the team.
He hasn't looked back
and the Knights too are much richer for the experience.
>> John Trew: If some of the kids decide that they're
going to stand back and have a bit of a bludge
and everything, then they'd look around
and see that Dave's still doing it,
it tends to give them the incentive to keep going,
to say well if he can do it,
we can do it.
>> Leanne West: It's go hard
or go home.
But not before David's best
Jamie Soward impersonation.
>> Mark Lonergan: You appreciate what you got
and make the best of what you got
and to me that's what David's all about really.
>> George Negus: How about that, straight over the black.