Cartwright will be given a farewell on Monday against the Roosters, bringing down the curtain on the club's only ever mentor.
Just when it looked like the Roosters were down and out, a short kickoff gifted them field position and Ferguson powered over to cut Melbourne's lead to only two points.
He may also have to take some of his beaten-up roosters down there to give them some peace.
The Sea Eagles, who have rested up nicely since the preliminary final, may try and surprise the Roosters down the left flank, where Manly have been more fruitful then you might have thought (scoring 42 tries to the 49 produced on the right).
It was a great comeback by the Roosters, down by 10 points in the second half they went on to score three consecutive tries to seal the win and their 13th premiership.
Wayne would go on to achieve cootness, and his long-deserved Oscar, as the broken-down Rooster Cogburn of "True Grit" (1969).
("I know this is crazy," he asked the secretary at Nabors, a drilling contractor, "but are you all married up?... No?... Well, when do you get off?") Soon enough, we parked at R. Rooster BBQ Co. to down some pulled pork, then stopped to check out a '98 Honda Accord.
But the players also made much use of hand cymbals in other classic pieces, "Roosters Coming Down the Hill" and "Squabbling Ducks," the ducks — pompously waddling with pinging strides and squabbling to cymbals rubbed, scraped and clapped — fondly remembered from a New York performance by Taipei Percussion in 1998.
"They ain't shut nothing down," said one rooster breeder.
In this video, Rylance discusses the challenges of performing Rooster and how he calms down after performances.
The décor will probably be familiar to most Bob Marley-listening beach bums, right down to the rooster named Pedro dozing on the bar, the shirtless Filipinos eating grilled fish, and the $10 cocktails with profanity-laced names.
