Like so many players, Russell Richardson promised so much but in the end injury cruelled his progression through the highest levels of rugby league. He returned to league in 2004 with Manly and still had a knack of making defenders look second-rate. Walker was known as the first dual international to switch codes from league to union, doing so two years before highly fancied recruits Wendell Sailor and Mat Rogers. In 1996, Walker played in one match for the Kangaroos against a Papua New Guinea side off the bench. In the meantime, Fittler was selected at five-eighth for NSW while playing for the Tricolours, along with the likes of Laurie Daley, Jim Dymock and Trent Barrett. Walker represented both the Kangaroos and Wallabies, however a sky-blue jumper never came his way. a shame that he didn't play Origin.' The Roosters held him in such high regard that he actually kept Brad Fittler out of his favoured No.6 jersey when 'Freddy' moved to the Roosters, forcing him to play at lock. He was one of my all-time favourites, Andrew Walker. He had a brilliant kicking game and he was a tough kid, too. 'I'd get our players to throw the ball to him in a certain time, in a certain way and he would just weave his own magic with it. He wasn't someone that we loaded up with a lot of game plans and strategies and shapes and plays,' Gould said. Gould, who coached Walker at the Roosters, said on his Six Tackles with Gus podcast that Walker was the best player to never feature in State of Origin. He was enticed back to Sydney to play for the Roosters under the guidance of coach Phil Gould a year later. After leaving rural NSW to play rugby union for Randwick in 1991, Walker switched codes to play for St George, but he returned to the south coast in 1994 because of problems adapting to city life. Hailing from Nowra, Andrew Walker was one of the most talented players to ever lace a boot.

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