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Béziers
Coordinates: 43°20′51″N 3°13′08″E / 43.3476°N 3.219°E / 43.3476; 3.219
Béziers (French pronunciation: [be.zje]; Occitan: Besièrs) is a town in Languedoc in southern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Hérault department. Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, centred around bullfighting, every August. A million visitors are attracted to the five-day event. Béziers is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network.
The town is located on a small bluff above the river Orb, about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Mediterranean. At Béziers the Canal du Midi spans the river Orb as an aqueduct called the Pont-canal de l'Orb. claimed to be the first of its kind.
The site has been occupied since Neolithic times, before the influx of Celts. Roman Betarra was on the road that linked Provence with Iberia. The Romans refounded the city as a new colonia for veterans in 36/35 BC and called it Colonia Julia Baeterrae Septimanorum. Stones from the Roman amphitheatre were used to construct the city wall during the 3rd century.

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Canberra
Canberra ( /ˈkænbᵊrə/ or /ˈkænbɛrə/) is the capital city of Australia. With a population of 358,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), 280 km (170 mi) south-west of Sydney, and 660 km (410 mi) north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a "Canberran".
The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city. Following an international contest for the city's design, a blueprint by the Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected and construction commenced in 1913. The Griffins' plan featured geometric motifs such as circles, hexagons and triangles, and was centred around axes aligned with significant topographical landmarks in the Australian Capital Territory.

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Akuila Uate
Akuila Uate (born 6 October 1987 in Votua, Fiji) (pronounced Akwee-la You-ah-tay) is a professional rugby league footballer for the Newcastle Knights of the National Rugby League. A two time Dally M Winger of the Year, State of Origin, Fijian and Australian representative winger, he has played his whole NRL career to date with the Knights.
Uate attended Brisbane Waters Senior College and represented Australia and schoolboy level in 2005. As a junior, Uate came 3rd in the underage Australian sprinting finals.
His incredible speed and strength had seen Uate tipped as a future superstar by Andrew Johns. Johns said about Uate, "In all my years in rugby league I've never seen a better athlete than this bloke". He was also described by the talent scout who spotted him as "the next Lote Tuqiri".
Following his performances in the World Cup, Uate scored a regular starting place on the wing for the Knights in the 2009 NRL Season due to Cooper Vuna being injured. Uate has maintained his spot with the Newcastle Knights until the end of 2013.

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Alan Brady
Alan Brady (born in Australia) was a rugby league player for the Western Suburbs and Canterbury clubs, as well as the New South Wales rugby league team.
In his first professional season, 1929, Brady was the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership's top try-scorer with 11 tries.
A year later, Brady was the star of the first grand final ever played, scoring 3 tries in the match that gave the Magpies their first premiership success. Four years later, he was a member of the club's second grand final win when they defeated the Roosters 15-12. He scored 71 tries in his time with the Magpies, at the time a club record, later eclipsed by Peter Dimond.
Joining the recently-formed Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in 1936, Brady captain-coached Canterbury to victory in the 1938 grand final, giving him the rare achievement of playing in the first premiership victory for two different clubs. He was coach of the Canterbury side that lost the 1940 grand final.
Brady played 6 games for New South Wales, scoring 3 tries.

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Alan McIndoe
Alan McIndoe (born 14 May 1964) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative winger, he played club football in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the Illawarra Steelers, with whom he topped the League's try-scoring list in 1991, and the Penrith Panthers.
Coming from Emerald, Queensland, McIndoe started playing first grade football for Illawarra in 1983. He made his debut for Queensland in the 1988 State of Origin series, scoring a try in game 1 and playing in all three matches. That year he also represented Australia against a 'Rest of the World' team. The following season McIndoe moved to Penrith and also played in all three matches of the 1989 State of Origin series, scoring in games 1 and 2. In the 1990 season he was, for the third consecutive year, selected for Queensland in all three games of the State of Origin before playing for the Panthers in their Grand Final loss to Canberra. He returned to Illawarra in the 1991 NSWRL season and that year took the club record for most tries in a match with 5 against the Gold Coast and went on to be the League's top try-scorer with 19. McIndoe played his final season with the Steelers in 1993.

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Alan Ridley
Alan Ridley was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative winger, he played club football for Sydney's Western Suburbs, with whom he won the 1934 NSWRFL Premiership.
Ridley was voted in the Wests Tigers Team of the Century and the Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Century.

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Alf Blair
Alf "Smacker" Blair was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1910s and 20s. An Australian internationaal and New South Wales representative half, he played his club football career with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, with whom he won the 1925, '26, '27 and '29 premierships.
Blair played 167 first grade games for the Rabbitohs between 1917 and 1930 scoring 37 tries and 120 goals for a total of 351 points. Blair captained Souths to four premierships between 1925 and 1929.
He played one test for Australia against the touring Great Britain team in 1924 and also played seven games for New South Wales.

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Allan Langer
Allan "Alfie" Langer AM (born 30 July 1966 in Ipswich, Queensland) is an Australian former multi-award-winning rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s who works as an assistant coach for the Australian national team and Brisbane Broncos. He was one of the pre-eminent half-backs of his era, representing Australia on several occasions and taking the record for most State of Origin appearances of any player. Langer played most of his career as captain of the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1992 Clive Churchill Medal and Rothmans Medal, as well as four premierships and the club's player of the year award a record five times. The Allan Langer Medal, which is the Ipswich Jets' player of the year award was named in his honour. Alfie's Bar at the Broncos Leagues Club is also named after him.
The youngest of Queensland Rail worker, Harry Langer's four sons, Allan Langer was born and raised in Ipswich, Queensland. He grew up playing football at Ipswich's Northern Suburbs Tigers alongside brothers and future Brisbane Broncos (as well as Queensland Maroons and Australian Kangaroos) team mates Kevin and Kerrod Walters. This combination of players would become known famously as "The Ipswich Connection".

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Allan McKean
Allan McKean (born 1944) is an Australian former rugby league footballer. He played for the St George and Eastern Suburbs clubs. He made one national representative appearance for Australia
McKean for many years held the record of the most points for the Eastern Suburbs club - 903 points from 18 tries, 422 goals and 3 Field goals, established in 1973. The total wasn't eclipsed until the 2006 season when goal kicking backrower Craig Fitzgibbon, passed the mark.
The fullback spent the first year of his career playing for St George, his local club. In 1967 McKean joined the Eastern Suburbs club, playing over 100 matches for the Roosters over the next 7 years and making one representative appearance for Australia, in which he received a knee in the back from Malcolm "Mal" Reilly.
In 1975, McKean returned to the St George Club for his final season.
For the season 1972, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer when he scored 220 points.

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Amos Roberts
Amos Roberts (born 2 November 1980) is a retired Australian professional rugby league footballer that most recently played for English club Wigan Warriors of Super League. A country New South Wales representative prolific try-scoring back, he previously played in Australasia's National Rugby League for the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Penrith Panthers and Sydney Roosters.
Amos Roberts made his NRL debut in 2000 with the St. George Illawarra Dragons, scoring 22 points in that match. In 2004 he signed with the Penrith Panthers and scored 23 tries in 23 games that year to become the competition's top try scorer that year. He signed with the Sydney Roosters in 2005. He scored 17 tries in 2005 and 18 tries in 2006.
Roberts injured his knee at the start of the 2007 season and made his return in Round 3 against the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. He scored his first try of 07 in Round 13 against the North Queensland Cowboys.
Roberts was set and ready to join close friend and fellow winger/fullback Nathan Merritt at the South Sydney Rabbitohs before the deal fell through due the club announcing the signing of Panthers star Luke Lewis, however, this deal also fell through.

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Andrew Ettingshausen
Andrew Ettingshausen (born 29 October 1965) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. He played his first grade Australian club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, retiring with the record of most games at a single club, with 328. Known for not only his deceptive pace, good hands and ability to score tries but also his solid defense, "ET" as he was known, represented both New South Wales and the Australian Kangaroos. After his retirement from league in 2000, Ettingshausen went on to host and produce his own fishing television show titled Escape with ET.
Ettingshausen was originally signed to the Cronulla side as a teenager before making his debut at eighteen while still at school. He quickly cemented a place in the Sharks first grade side and ultimately played 328 first grade games with the club over eighteen seasons. From a time in the early 1990s he was seen as the face of rugby league in Australia. His rugged good looks equipped him well to be pushed to the front by the marketers of the game at that time and Ettingshausen did not disappoint with his athletic skills attracting the interest of traditional fans while his looks appealed to a growing base of female fans. ET was successfully used in marketing not only for the game but for sponsors products as well, usually in photo shoots of him posing topless leading him to be seen as the 'Male Model of Rugby League'. Despite league being seen by not only the players but the public as a rough and tumble sport, it was a tag he never had to play down as his outstanding play and standing in the game made people look past what was not normally known for rugby league players.

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Andrew Johns
Andrew Gary "Joey" Johns (born 19 May 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He captained the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League and participated in the team's first two premiership victories in 1997 and 2001, playing a club record 249 games for the Knights. Johns also represented his country at 2 World Cups, and on 1 Kangaroo tour, playing in total 21 Test matches for the national side. He played in 23 games for New South Wales in State of Origin (captaining the side to a series win in 2003), and twice played for the Country Origin side in 1995 and 1996. He is often considered as the best halfback to play the sport, and the best player of all time.
Johns announced his retirement from rugby league on 10 April 2007 at the age of 32. This followed a long run of injuries, the last of which was a bulging disc in his neck which forced his retirement due to the risk of serious spinal injury from further heavy contact. Andrew Johns is one of only two players to have won the Golden Boot Award more than once and is the only player to have won the Dally M Medal for best player in the NRL three times. He finished his career as the highest points scorer in Australian first grade premiership history with 2,176 points.

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Andy Currier
Andy S. Currier is a British former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A rangy centre, he achieved representative selection for Great Britain Lions and played most of his club football with Widnes as well as stints with Featherstone Rovers, Warrington Wolves and Australian team the Balmain Tigers. At the time of his retirement, he was co-holder of the Widnes club record for most points in a match, with 34. He played out the final years of his football career with English rugby union teams.
Son of Harry Currier, who in 1969 founded Widnes-based rugby league club, Halton Simms, Andy Currier began his professional career with Widnes. He later helped them to consecutive championships in 1988 and 1989, and then to victory in the 1989 World Club Challenge. Shortly after that he moved to Australia to play with Sydney club, the Balmain Tigers, and became the NSWRL's top point scorer for the 1989 season. Currier also played in the memorable 1989 Winfield Cup grand final loss against Canberra at the end of that season.

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Andy Farrell
Andrew D. "Andy" Farrell OBE (born 30 May 1975 in Wigan, Greater Manchester) is an English former professional dual-code international rugby footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A goal-kicking forward in rugby league, he captained the Great Britain team and his club, Wigan, with whom he won several championships and Challenge Cup titles as well as a range of individual awards between 1991 and 2004. Transferring to rugby union, he played for the Saracens club from 2005 to 2009 and was selected to represent England RFU on eight occasions.
Farrell first played rugby league at age 10 at a summer camp run by Graeme West, Wigan's captain at the time. After developing with local club Orrell St James, he made his first team debut for his home town club Wigan at the age of 16, in a 1991 Regal Trophy match against Keighley. He went on to become the youngest player to win a Challenge Cup final in 1993 when at 17 years and 11 months he came on as a substitute against Widnes. Farrell then became a full international by 18, making his debut against New Zealand later in 1993.

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Anthony Minichiello
Anthony Minichiello (born 24 May 1980) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Sydney Roosters of the NRL. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative fullback, Minichiello has played his entire career with the Roosters, winning the 2002 NRL Premiership with them. He also won the Golden Boot Award for international player of the year in 2005, and is the brother of fellow Australian international, Mark Minichiello.
Born in Liverpool in South-western Sydney, Minichiello began playing rugby league for East Valley United junior rugby league club. Minichiello attended All Saint Catholic Senior in Liverpool. At a young age, he was spotted by then Roosters recruitment officer, Arthur Beetson, who signed him up to the foundation club. In 1999 he played for Italy in the inaugural Mediterranean Cup.
After a stint in the lower grades, Minichiello made his NRL debut at the age of 19 in the Roosters' Round 4 clash on 25 February 2000 at the Sydney Football Stadium against the Bulldogs. This made him the 994th first grader to play for the Roosters.

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Arthur Beetson
Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson OAM (22 January 1945 – 1 December 2011) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He represented Australia and Queensland from 1964 to 1981. His position was at prop. Beetson became the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport. and is frequently cited as the best post-war forward in Australian rugby league history. He also had an extensive coaching career, spanning the 1970s to the 1990s, coaching Australia, Queensland, Eastern Suburbs, Redcliffe Dolphins and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. On 1 December 2011, Beetson died after a heart attack, aged 66.
Beetson's mother was a member of the Stolen Generation. His rugby league career began with Redcliffe in the Brisbane Rugby League competition between 1964 and 1965. After winning the club's player of the year award in 1965 as well as the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with them, he moved to Sydney to play in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership with the Balmain Tigers. In his first year with them, 1966, he played in the grand final against St. George and was also selected to make his representative debut for Australia against England and scored two tries. Beetson played with Balmain from then until 1970, with a spell in England with Hull Kingston Rovers in 1968. He later joined the Eastern Suburbs club where he stayed from 1971 to 1978, where he captained the side to the 1974 and 1975 premierships. During the 1976 NSWRFL season, Beetson captained Eastern Suburbs to victory in their unofficial 1976 World Club Challenge match against British champions St. Helens in Sydney. This Easts team would go down as one of the greatest club sides in rugby league history. During this period Beetson also played with distinction for Australia and in 1974 he was named as Rugby League Week's player of the year.

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Arthur Conlin
Arthur Conlin was an Australian rugby league footballer of the early 20th century. A New South Wales representative goal-kicking back, he played club football for the South Sydney and Western Suburbs clubs.
In rugby league's first season in Australia, the 1908 NSWRFL season, Conlin captained Souths in the inaugural grand final, scoring a try to help his side to premiership victory.
He was the top point-scorer for the 1909 NSWRFL season with 43 points, and that year he represented New South Wales as well. Also in 1909, Conlin's South Sydney side again won the premiership, this time in controversial circumstances as Balmain were ruled to have forefeited it.
South Sydney reached the final for the 3rd year in a row in the 1910 NSWRFL season and Conlin played in what would be a try-less draw, the premiership going to opponents Newtown by virtue of their superior ladder position.
After the 1911 NSWRFL season, Conlin moved to Western Suburbs where he played one more season.

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Arthur Halloway
Arthur 'Pony' Halloway (1885–1961), was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer and coach. Born in Sydney, New South Wales he played for the Glebe Dirty Reds (1908), Balmain Tigers (1909–1911 and 1915–1920) and Eastern Suburbs (1912–1914), in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.
He was a Half-back for the Australian national team. He played in ten Tests between 1908 and 1919, as captain on three occasions in 1919. Halloway was nicknamed 'Pony', but despite his small stature he was recognised as one of the fiercest competitors to play the game and one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century
Arthur was playing rugby union with Easts in Sydney when the defections to rugby league commenced in 1908. He was recruited by the Glebe club after taking part in the rebel series against Baskerville's New Zealand 'All Golds'. Late in the 1908 season Halloway was selected to go away on the inaugural Kangaroo Tour . He playing 29 matches on tour including the 1st Anglo-Australian Test in London.

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Arthur McCabe
Arthur John Michael McCabe (23 June 1887 – 1 May 1925) was a pioneer Australian rugby union and rugby league player. He represented for Australian in rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
He was a member of the Australian rugby union team which won the gold medal with McCabe scoring two tries in the gold medal victory. While he toured the US and England with the Wallabies in the lead-up tour prior to the Olympics his gold medal match was his sole Australian representative appearance.
On his return to Australia he joined the fledgling code of rugby league along with 13 of his Olympic teammates. He played for five seasons with the South Sydney Rabbitohs finishing his career with a premiership win in 1914. Despite representing for New South Wales in rugby league in 1910 he was unsuccessful in his bid to become a dual-code rugby international. For the season 1910, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top try scorer.

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Arthur Oxford
Arthur Oxford (1895–1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative whose club career was played with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1915 to 1929.
He won a premiership with Souths in NSWRL season 1918 and later with Easts in NSWRL season 1923.
In 1920 he kicked a then record 23 successive goals in club matches for Souths. For the season 1923, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer.
He represented for New South Wales in twenty-two matches against Queensland from 1919 - 1924. He made five Test appearances in the Australia national rugby league team touring against New Zealand in 1919 and later against Great Britain. In 1925 during a season as captain-coach of Rockhampton in Queensland he was selected as a Queensland representative, playing one match in 1925.
His son, also called Arthur Oxford, played first grade for Eastern Suburbs in the 1940s, his cousin Aub Oxford was a lower grade player who went on to become a top-grade and international level referee and his grandson Gary Stevens was a Rabbitohs star of the 1960s and an Australian Test representative.

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Ben Barba
Ben Barba (born 13 June 1989) was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays fullback for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs of the National Rugby League.
In September, 2008, Barba was named in the 2008 Toyota Cup Team of the Year. The previous season, playing for the Bulldogs in the Jersey Flegg competition, Barba scored 130 points in 11 games. In 2009, Barba was an integral member of the Bankstown City Bulls team that won the New South Wales Cup.
Barba made his NRL debut for the Bulldogs on 28 July 2008, against the St. George Illawarra Dragons, scoring one try. At the time he was called up to first-grade, Barba was working at a car wash. It was announced on July 20, 2011 that Barba had signed to the Bulldogs until the end of the 2015 season.
Barba had a great season in 2011 and scored 23 tries from 24 games. Barba's form has been so impressive it earned him a selection into the 25 man Queensland state of origin squad, however Barba did not make his origin debut.

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Ben Walker
Ben Walker is an absolute Legend (born 13 September 1976 in Toowoomba, Queensland) and Australian rugby league coach and former footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A goal-kicking five-eighth or halfback, he played in Australasia's National Rugby League for the Brisbane Broncos, Northern Eagles, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and South Sydney Rabbitohs as well as in Europe's Super League for the London Broncos and Leeds Rhinos. He currently coaches the Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup with his brother Shane.
Walker is the eldest of a trio of footballing brothers (Shane Walker and Chris Walker) who all began their careers with the Brisbane Broncos.
While attending St Mary's High School in Twitoomba in 1993, Walker was selected to play for the Australian Schoolboys team.
Ben Walker later joined his brother Shane at the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Playing for the Northern Eagles in 2001, Walker was the equal competition leading point scorer (along with Andrew Johns) with 279 points. This stands as the most ever points scored by a five-eighth in a single National Rugby League season.

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Benji Marshall
Benji Marshall (born Benjamin Quentin Marshall; 25 February 1985 in Whakatane, New Zealand) is a professional rugby league footballer with the Wests Tigers of the National Rugby League (NRL). A goal-kicking five-eighth, he is the current captain of the New Zealand national team, with whom he won the 2008 World Cup and 2010 Four Nations tournaments. Marshall has spent his whole NRL career to date with the Tigers, winning the 2005 Telstra Premiership with them. He has been noted for his flamboyant attack, including sidesteps, no-look passes and flick-passes. In 2010 won the Golden Boot Award for the World's best player.
Marshall was raised without his biological father, but has spoken of the influence of his foster-father Michael Doherty, and other men within his extended family. He has said he had, "10 or 11 fathers … which is not a bad thing." He went to school at Whakatane Intermediate. The eldest of three brothers, he was offered a scholarship to play for a high school in the Gold Coast, Queensland when he was 16. While attending Keebra Park Secondary High School, Marshall played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 2003. He also represented Australia in touch football that year. Although eligible to represent Australia, Marshall declared his allegiance to the New Zealand Kiwis early in his career. In 2003 he was approached by the NZRL while he was playing with the Australian Schoolboys.

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Benny Wearing
Benny Wearing (1901–1968) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative three-quarter, he played his club football in the NSWRFL Premiership for the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
He was a prodigious try-scoring Wing three-quarter and scored all of Souths' 12 points in their grand final lossin 1923. He played a major part in South Sydney's seven premiership victories between 1925 and 1932. He played 173 first grade games for Souths between 1921 and 1933 which stood as the club record till Jack Rayner eclipsed it in the late 1950s.
He scored 836 points for the Rabbitohs (144 tries and 202 goals) which stood as the club record for several decades. Today that achievement remains in 3rd place on the club's all-time point scoring list behind Bernie Purcell and ahead of Johnny Graves.
His 144 career tries for the Rabbitohs stills stands as the club record.
For the seasons 1925 and 1928 he was the NSW Rugby League's top point scorer and in three consecutive seasons from 1926 to 1928 he was the League's top try scorer, a feat only ever achieved by two other players - Gordon Wright in the 1920s and Nathan Blacklock 1999 to 2001.

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Bill Keato
William Keato is a retired Australian rugby league footballer who played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Western Suburbs Magpies from 1938 till 1950. A goal-kicking fullback he played over one hundred first grade games for the Magpies.
Keato made his debut in 1938 without ever having played any junior league. He has said that his "first playing bonus for the season was £13", £3 of which was spent on boots.
He scored over 770 points to become Wests' all-time top point-scorer and goal-kicker. He twice scored the most points in the League for a season, in 1949 (163 points) and 1950 (180 points, at the time a club record). In one game at the SCG he kicked 10 goals. His career totals might have been much higher had it not been for a period serving in the Australian Army. He played just four games from 1943 to 1945. His younger brother Alan also played for Wests and later died in World War II.
Keato returned to Sydney in early 1946 after being released from the services. He played in the 1948 premiership-winning side, kicking a goal. The victory denied Balmain a third straight premiership.

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Bill Mullins
William "Bill" Mullins (Sydney, Australia) was a rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, the major rugby league competition in Australia at the time.
A former professional runner, Mullins played his junior football with the Canterbury Bankstown club before joining Eastern Suburbs in 1968 where he played 190 first grade matches in the years until 1978. At the time of his retirement, he was the club's leading try-scorer with 104 tries.
A tall, powerfully built winger, Mullins played in some of the great Easts sides of the seventies, winning premierships in 1974 and 1975, and finishing runners up in 1972 Grand Final. He also won pre-season cups in 1974 and 1977, mid-week cups in 1975 and 1978.
Mullins was a representative of Sydney and New South Wales, though injuries suffered at the wrong times during his career prevented him from representing his country. In a trial for World Cup selection in 1971, Mullins suffered a broken jaw and again, in 1973 had his jaw broken at a critical time in his career.

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Bill Tyquin
Bill Tyquin OA (1919–1999) was an Australian rugby league footballer. He was a lock forward for the Australian national team. He played in 6 Tests between 1948 and 1949 as captain on 3 occasions.
Bill Tyquin was born and schooled in Brisbane and played with Souths Brisbane and the Brothers club before WWII. Stationed in Sydney with the AIF during the war he played the 1941 season with the St George Dragons and played in St George's inaugural Grand Final win in 1941. In that game he was sent off by the referee after a clash with Easts rival Jack Arnold. After the war he returned to Souths Brisbane playing five seasons from 1945–50 and from where he enjoyed representative success.
Whiticker's reference acclaims Bill as the premier lock forward of the Australian game in the five year period immediately after WWII. He asserts that Tyquin was a great cover defender who had one of the biggest punt kicks in the game at that time.
He first represented for Queensland in 1945 and then regularly over the next 5 years making 8 appearances against New South Wales as well as captaining Queensland in 1948 against a touring New Zealand side.

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Billy Johnstone
Billy Johnstone (born in Cunnamulla, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league player for the Canterbury Bulldogs, St. George Dragons and the Gold Coast Chargers. Billy also has a very strong history and family background in boxing having 27 bouts winning 21 and 6 losses.
Johnston won the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with Souths in 1981.
Johnstone played in the 1982 Brisbane Rugby League grand final for Souths against Wynnum-Manly. He played at hooker in Canterbury's 1985 Grand Final victory.
Johnstone was also appointed the inaugural captain of the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants. He later became the club's recruitment manager.
After retirement, Johnstone has become a highly regarded Strength and Conditioning Coach in the NRL. He worked with the North Queensland Cowboys from 2002 to 2006 before moving to the newly-established Gold Coast Titans. The North Queensland club however have again offered Billy a deal he couldn't turn down. In July 2008, he was granted a release from the Gold Coast Titans and has signed a three year deal with the North Queensland Cowboys, beginning in 2009. Billy Jonstone also is currently operating as a personal trainer from a local gym in Townsville, Queensland named 'The Zoo Health & Fitness, where he trains intermediate to advanced members and uses his Strength & Conditioning knowledge to good value.[1] http://www.thezoohf.com.au/zoo/staffprofiles.html

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Billy Slater
Billy Slater (born 18 June 1983 in Nambour, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League (NRL). An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative fullback, he has played his whole NRL career to date at Melbourne, with whom he set the club record for most ever tries and NRL record for most ever tries by a fullback. Slater also won two grand finals, one Dally M Medal and one Clive Churchill Medal with the Storm. With the Kangaroos he was the 2008 World Cup's top try-scorer and player of the tournament and won the 2008 Golden Boot Award as the World player of the year. Slater was also the winner of the television game show Australia's Greatest Athlete in 2009 and 2010.
Slater began playing rugby league for the Brothers club in Innisfail, Queensland at only four years old. He continued to make the Innisfail representative side every season until his final year with the club.
At sixteen years of age, Slater decided to follow his personal passion for thoroughbred racing, working initially in Sydney as a roustabout for the racehorse trainer, Gai Waterhouse.

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Bob Fulton
Robert "Bob" Fulton AM (born 1 December 1947 in Warrington, England) is an Australian rugby league football identity. Fulton played, coached, selected for and has commentated on the game with great success at the highest levels and has been named amongst Australia's greatest rugby league players of the 20th century.
As a player Fulton won three premierships with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the 1970s, the last as captain. He represented for the Australian national side on forty-seven occasions, seven times as captain. He had a long coaching career at the first grade level, taking Manly to premiership victory in 1987 and 1996. He coached the Australian national team to forty Tests and World Cup games. He was a New South Wales State selector and a national selector. He is currently a radio commentator with 2GB. In 1985 he was selected as one of the initial four post-war "Immortals" of the Australian game and in 2008 he was named in Australia's team of the century.
Fulton moved to Australia when he was four years old and at seventeen years of age made his senior football début in the Illawarra Rugby League with Western Suburbs in 1965 and went on to represent for Country Seconds.

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Bob Landers
Bob Landers was a rugby league player in Australia’s New South Wales Rugby League competition for the Eastern Suburbs and the Penrith Panthers clubs.
A long-striding winger, Landers played with the Eastern Suburbs club from (1959-1965) and played in the Roosters 1960 grand final loss to St George.
A former student of Sydney’s St Josephs’ college, Landers headed the NSWRL’s point scoring lists in the 1960 and 1961 seasons. In 1959, Landers first season at the Eastern Suburbs club, he was selected to represent NSW.
After leaving Easts at the end of the 1965 season Landers joined English club Leeds before returning to Australia where he played with Penrith in their first season in the NSWRL. Landers has recently been named as a winger in Penrith's 'Greatest Team' since its inception in 1967. While playing football, Landers also served in the New South Wales Police Force and in 2008, rugby league's centennial year in Australia, he was named on the wing in a NSW Police team of the century. Landers died in 1996.

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Bob Lindner
Bob Lindner (born 10 November 1962) is a former Australian representative rugby league player and coach. He represented his country in the sport and is one of a handful of players to be man-of-the-match in State of Origin football more than once. Fifteen years after his retirement from football in Australia, he had made the most appearances and scored the most tries of any forward in State of Origin history.
Lindner played lock with South Brisbane Magpies (1983–84) and Wynnum-Manly Seagulls (1985–86) before representing Australia on the 1986 Kangaroo Tour. He played in all six Tests (Papua New Guinea, Great Britain and France).
Lindner played at Parramatta (as a much-anticipated replacement for Ray Price) and at the Gold Coast but both stays were short-lived.
Representative honours continued, and following a stint with Castleford in England, he played against New Zealand in 1987 and Great Britain in 1988.
A broken leg in a State of Origin match in 1989 ruled Lindner out of the New Zealand tour. However after joining a young Wests side, he was named man-of-the-match in the third match of the 1990 State of Origin series and at the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.

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Bob Lulham
Bob Lulham (born 1927 - died 1986) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 50s. A quick-paced winger, he came to Sydney from Newcastle and in his first season in the NSWRFL premiership represented New South Wales in all matches. That year he was also the League's top try-scorer, breaking the record for most tries in a debut season with 28 and most tries in a season for Balmain in the club's history. At the end of the season he played in Balmain's grand final win. At the end of the following season he was selected to tour Europe with the 1948-49 Kangaroos, making his debut in the Third Test against Great Britain before going on to play two Tests against France.
In 1953, Lulham was in the headlines after his mother-in-law, Veronica Monty, with whom he was having a sexual relationship, was charged with attempting to poison him with thallium. At the time Monty was living with her daughter and son-in-law following separation from her husband. In the end, the verdict was 'not guilty'. However, Judith Lulham divorced him over his admission during the trial of "intimacies" with Monty. Lulham never played football again. He retired as the second-highest try-scorer in a single season, with 28.

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Bob McCarthy
Bob McCarthy MBE (born 1944 Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, New South Wales and for the Australian national side. He later coached in Brisbane, taking Souths Magpies to a premiership in 1981 and coaching the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants upon their entry to the Winfield Cup. in Since 2001 he has been the Chairman of both the Australian and NSW state selection panels.
A fast and strong second-row forward McCarthy played ten Tests for Australia and five matches in two World Cups. He made the 1973 Kangaroo Tour and two tours of New Zealand. He played 211 first grade games for Souths (1963–1975 and 1978), scoring 100 tries. He played in three grand final victories (1967, 1970 and 1971) and in two losing grand finals (1965 and 1969).
Born in inner city Surry Hills, New South Wales in Sydney, McCarthy was a South Sydney junior with the Moore Park Club and made his first grade debut in 1963. In 1965 he was in the team of young Rabbitohs who challenged St George in the Grand Final in front of a record breaking crowd of 78,065 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Along with McCarthy the nucleus of this side was John O'Neill, Eric Simms, Mike Cleary and John Sattler who went on to feature in Australian representative teams for the next six years and who would help create a golden period for South Sydney at the end of the 60s and in the early years of the next decade.

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Brad Fittler
Bradley Scott "Freddie" Fittler AM (born 5 February 1972) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. The current coach of NSW City team in the City vs. Country clash, he coached in the NRL for the Sydney Roosters between 2007 and 2009. He also currently works as a presenter on NRL Daily.
As a player, Fittler captained both New South Wales and Australia, and in 2000 was awarded the Golden Boot award. He retired as the most-capped New South Wales State of Origin player and third-most-capped Australian international player. Fittler has therefore been named among the finest rugby league footballers of the first century of rugby league in Australia.
Fittler was born in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia. Fittler began playing junior rugby league for the Ashcroft Stallions and Mounties before moving to Cambridge Park. While attending Ashcroft High School, St Dominic's College then later, McCarthy Catholic Senior High School Emu Plains, Fittler played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1988 and 1989.

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Brad Mackay
Brad Mackay (born 1969 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A versatile Lock Forward for the St George Dragons, Illawarra Steelers, Western Reds and the merged St. George Illawarra Dragons, he also represented New South Wales in the State of Origin and Australia.
A St George junior, Mackay was graded by the Dragons in 1987 and then played 117 games with club over eight seasons till 1994 scoring 22 tries.
Mackay debuted for the New South Wales Blues as a reserve in game II of the 1989 State of Origin series. He went on to play 17 Origin games between 1989 and 1995, scoring three tries at that level.
At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, Mackay went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. He scored three tries on debut in 1990 against France, only the second player to do so. During the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, he helped Australia retain The Ashes. He represented the Kangaroos in 12 tests from 1990 to 1993.

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Bradley Clyde
Bradley Clyde (born 27 January 1970) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s who, at the peak of his playing career was widely acknowledged as the best lock forward in the game.^{[citation needed]}. He represented both New South Wales and played for the Australian national side, and played his club football in Australia for the Canberra Raiders and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and in England for Leeds Rhinos.
He began his football career playing in the local ACT competition for the Belconnen United Sharks and was an Australian Schoolboy Representative in 1985,1986 and 1987. While attending Hawker College, Clyde played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1986 and 1987.
In 1988 Clyde was graded by the Canberra Raiders, winning the club's rookie of the year award, and soon established himself as an indispensable player for the club. In a career spanning eleven seasons with the Raiders, Clyde scored 39 tries in a total of 178 games. He played in three Grand finals and was the recipient of the prestigious Clive Churchill Medal for the Best and Fairest Player in the Grand Final twice – the only player in history to do so. Along with Brad Mackay he is one of only two players to win the Churchill medal whilst on a losing Grand Final side. He was also a member of Canberra's premiership winning sides of 1989 (also winning the club's player of the year award that year) and 1994. At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season, he went on the 1994 Kangaroo tour.

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Brent Todd
Brent Trevor Todd (born 5 December 1964) is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer. Todd represented his country and played at prop forward.
Todd is a dual international, having represented his country in water polo while in New Zealand. Todd was one of Canberras favourite sons during their Green Machine era of the late 80s and early 90s. His excellent hands and strong running game earned the raiders masses of meters, during a period when the two lines were only 5 meters apart.
He made the Junior Kiwis in 1982 and 1983.
Originally from the Linwood club in the Canterbury Rugby League competition and a Canterbury representative, Todd joined the Canberra Raiders in 1986 when they paid a $37,200 transfer fee. Todd played 28 tests for the Kiwis between 1985 and 1993. Todd also played at prop forward for the Canberra Raiders in the Winfield Cup Grand Finals of 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991. After suffering a broken arm in 1988, he spent the off-season with Wakefield Trinity, playing nine games. He later played for the Gold Coast club before retiring from the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in 1993.

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Brett Hodgson
Brett Hodgson (born 12 February 1978 in Liverpool, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Super League. A New South Wales State of Origin representative goal-kicking fullback, he has played club football in the NRL for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers (winning the 2005 premiership with them) and in Super League for the Huddersfield Giants.
In 2009, Hodgson won Super League's Man of Steel Award.
An Eagle Vale (Campbelltown) junior, Hodgson was graded to the Western Suburbs Magpies. He made his first-grade debut under coach Tommy Raudonikis in round 11 of the 1997 ARL season, when Wests met the South Queensland Crushers at Campbelltown Stadium.
In 2008, Hodgson was the last remaining pre-2000 Western Suburbs Magpies' footballer playing in the NRL, before the return of John Skandalis in 2009, and Ray Cashmere in 2012.
In 1999, Hodgson turned down a position with the new Wests and Balmain Tigers joint venture club, Wests Tigers, and, to obtain a fullback position, he signed with Parramatta for the 2000 NRL season. Hodgson's 2000 season was cut short following a high tackle from Cronulla's Mitch Healey, breaking his jaw.

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Brett Kenny
Brett Kenny (born 16 March 1961 in Gerringong, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He was a five-eighth for the Australian national team, the New South Wales Blues representative side and the Parramatta Eels. He played in 17 Tests, made 17 State of Origin appearances and won 4 premierships with Parramatta. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
The son of a former Australian baseball representative, Brett Kenny did not turn to rugby league until well into his teenage years after baseball and athletics. Despite a lack of experience, his talent was quickly noticed by Parramatta when playing in the juniors at Guildford and he was graded in 1980. So successful was Kenny in the lower grades that he was partnering established champion Mick Cronin in the centres by the end of that year making seven first grade performances in his rookie season.
A swap with five-eighth Steve Ella in the middle of the 1981 season worked wonders for a team that had struggled during the previous season and a half and under coach Jack Gibson they developed into formidable competitors.

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Brett Morris
Brett Morris (born 23 August 1986 in Kiama, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the St. George Illawarra Dragons of the National Rugby League. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative winger, he is the son of St. George Dragons, New South Wales and Australian rugby league representative Steve Morris, and twin brother of Josh Morris who also plays NRL for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Brett has played his whole career to date with the Dragons and was the top try-scorer in the NRL for the 2009 season.
Brett was selected to play international rugby league for Australia in the 2009 Four Nations tournament, a reward for good form throughout the 2009 NRL season. He crossed six times to finish the tournament as top try-scorer. He is contracted with the Dragons until the end of 2012. said after his re-signing: "I enjoy living in Wollongong, it is where my family and friends are and the Dragons are the team I grew up supporting so I'm very happy to be staying."

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Brett Mullins
Brett Mullins (born 21 January 1972) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and early 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative back, he played his club football for Australian clubs the Canberra Raiders and Sydney Roosters, and for English club, the Leeds Rhinos. He was described as "one of the most exciting attacking weapons in rugby league."
Son of Australian international player Bill Mullins, in 1990 Brett Mullins made his first grade debut as a winger. In the 1991 NSWRFL season, he was injured for his side's Grand Final in which they were defeated 19–12 by the Penrith Panthers. He secured his position at fullback following the retirement of Gary Belcher. During the 1994 season, Mullins overcame several niggling injuries to play in his the Raiders 36–12 victory over the Canterbury Bulldogs. That season he finished with a total of 22 tries, which included four tries in one game against the Newcastle Knights, which equalled Noa Nadruku's club record and surpassed the record for a fullback in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season, he went on the 1994 Kangaroo tour.

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Brett Stewart
Brett Stewart (born 27 February 1985 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. He is an Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative fullback known for pace, sleight of hand, prolific try-scoring as well as being a solid last line of defense. He has played his entire NRL career for the Sea Eagles, with whom he won the 2008 Premiership and 2011 Premiership.
Stewart was second on the top try scorer list with 21 tries for the 2006 season, one behind the South Sydney Rabbitohs' winger Nathan Merritt. As of 2012 he has the best strike rate for tries versus games in the NRL, soring in 79% of his games. Stewart is known as the "Try scoring wizard" because of strike rate in NRL games. In his first representative match playing for the Prime Minister's XIII against Papua New Guinea, he contributed to Australia's 28–8 win with a try. He made his State of Origin debut in Game 2 of the 2007 series, replacing an injured Anthony Minichiello at the last moment, and scored a try. Stewart played in the 2007 NRL Grand Final for Manly against Melbourne Storm but he was knocked out while contesting a bomb by a fair charge in the early minutes of the 2nd half be Storm forward Michael Crocker. Despite this, Stewart was selected as fullback for the Kangaroos end of season test against New Zealand in Wellington, contributing with a try in Australia's 58–0 victory. Ironically Stewart and Crocker were Kangaroo team mates for the Trans-Tasman Test, though Stewart bore no grudge as Crocker's tackle which knocked him out was fair and just one of the perils of playing fullback.

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Brian Bevan
Brian Eyrl Bevan (1924–1991) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative winger, Bevan scored a world record 796 tries,mainly for Warrington RLFC. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908-2007).
Son of former Eastern Suburbs player Rick Bevan, Brian Bevan began his career playing for Easts in 1942. He made 8 appearances for the club, although somewhat World War II began, Brian Bevan decided to join the Navy. Brian was the brother of Owen 'Ozzy' Bevan who played for Sydney club the St George Dragons as well as Warrington, and is the great uncle of Paul Bevan who plays Australian rules football for the Sydney Swans.
He arrived on board HMAS Australia in England in 1946. He had with him a letter of recommendation which was written by former Eastern Suburbs Test winger Bill Shankland. Bevan requested a trial with Leeds, which was a suggestion from Shankland, but the club decided against signing him partially due to his frail looking appearance. Shankland also recommended he try Hunslet if Leeds refused to sign him, but once again he was turned down. He decided to try his luck with Warrington. Warrington decided to give him an 'A' team trial in November in which he scored a try. The club were impressed with his first performance and decided to play him in the first team a week later. The club then decided to sign him on a permanent basis on a £300 contract. He went home for several months to discharge from military service.

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Brian Carlson
Brian Carlson (12 February 1933 – 14 April 1987) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 60s. He was a centre & utility back for the Australia national team. He played in 17 Tests and 6 World Cup games between 1952 and 1961, as captain on 2 occasions. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Carlson was a naturally gifted athlete raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. He represented at district junior cricket, played 1st Grade cricket with the Wickham club in Newcastle and was also a surf lifesaving competitor. After playing rugby league at school he was graded by the Norths Newcastle club in 1951. At age 18 he was selected to represent Newcastle against the touring French side.
In 1952 he scored two tries on representative debut for Country Firsts. He represented for New South Wales that same season against Queensland in the 2nd game of the interstate series and then against the touring New Zealanders.
He was selected in the 1952–53 Kangaroo tour as a winger. He played in two Tests against England, one against France and in sixteen minor tour games. He was highest try-scorer on the tour returning with a tally of twenty-nine.

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Bruce Astill
Bruce Astill (born 13 June 1955) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s. A Queensland State of Origin representativethree-quarter, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with Souths Magpies whom he captained to victory in the 1981 Grand Final.
Astill first represented Queensland against New South Wales in 1979. He was selected on the bench for the first ever State of Origin match in 1980 but did not take the field.
In 1981 Astill captained the Souths Magpies to a Brisbane Rugby League premiership. He again played for Queensland in the third and deciding match of the 1983 State of Origin series.

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Cameron Smith
Cameron Smith (born 18 June 1983 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the Australian national team, the Queensland State of Origin team, as well as his National Rugby League club, the Melbourne Storm. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative hooker, he has played his whole NRL career to date with the Storm with whom he won the 2006 Dally M Medal and the 2007 and 2009 NRL grand finals. In 2007 Smith was awarded both the Wally Lewis Medal (as the State of Origin's player of the series) and the Golden Boot award (as the world's best international player). As of 2012 he is set to captain Australia and Queensland. He also shares the same birthday as fellow club, state and country teammate Billy Slater.
As a youth Smith was hooker for the Logan Brothers Junior Rugby League Club, Logan City, Queensland. There he attended Marsden State High School. After scoring 188 points for the Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup he moved up to the NRL with the Melbourne Storm club.

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Cec Blinkhorn
Cecil Blinkhorn (1892–1978) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1910s and 20s. He played in the NSWRFL premiership for the North Sydney and South Sydney clubs, and also represented New South Wales and Australia. He primarily played on the wing and has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Although born in Redfern, New South Wales, the middle of Souths territory, Blinkhorn grew up a Norths supporter after moving to Chatswood. He was graded to Norths in 1914 and for five years he was the team's leading try-scorer. Blinkhorn spent the 1919 season at Souths, where he met fellow winger, Harold Horder. In 1920, Horder and Blinkhorn moved to Norths, where they remained until 1923. Both wingers returned to Souths in 1924.
Blinkhorn was a member of the premiership winning Norths teams of 1921, where the team went through undefeated, and 1922 when Norths met Glebe in the Grand final. Blinkhorn scored two tries.
Blinkhorn was first selected to play for Australia in 1921. On that 1921–1922 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, he scored a record 39 tries in 29 matches and played in three Tests. This record record still stands as the most tries scored on a Kangaroo tour and will most likely never be beaten. He played one further Test against England in 1924.

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Cecil Aynsley
Cecil "The Red Flyer" Aynsley (1902–1975) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. A Queensland state and Australian representative winger, and talented goal-kicker he scored a try in each of his four national representative appearances.
Born in Charters Towers, Queensland, Aynsley began his rugby league career in 1921 playing for the Western Suburbs Panthers in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership. Three years later he made his debut for Australia against the touring Great Britain side playing in all three Test matches, scoring on each occasion.
During the 1925 season with he toured New Zealand with the Queensland team. He had a tremendous tour scoring 34 tries in only eleven matches. This leading to the local press proclaiming him as "the Gloaming of rugby league" after the Australian race-horse which enjoyed success in New Zealand. His aggregate of 114 for the tour was beaten only by Queensland captain Jimmy Craig with 126.
He played his fourth and final Test match for Australia in 1928 in Brisbane against Great Britain where he scored his fourth and final representative try.

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Chris Phelan
Chris Phelan (born 12 December 1955) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s. He was a state representative versatile forward for Queensland and a two-time New South Wales Rugby League premiership-winner with the Parramatta Eels.
Phelan was born in Ireland. Immensely strong for his size, the Townsville forward was playing for Brisbane's Southern Suburbs club when he first was first selected for Queensland at lock in all three games of the 1981 interstate series. Phelan was the Brisbane Rugby League premierships Rothmans Medal winner that year and also won the Grand Final with Souths.
Phelan signed to Sydney's defending premiers Parramatta in 1982. He had to sit out the start of the 1982 while Parramatta waged a battle with the Queensland Rugby League over his transfer fee.
He played at prop in the Eels' two Grand Final wins over Manly in 1982 and 1983 but moved to the second-row for the 6-4 loss in the 1984 decider against Canterbury. In 1984 he was recalled to the Queensland side for game III of the State of Origin series where he appeared at second-row.

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Cliff Lyons
Cliff Lyons (born 19 October 1961 in Narrandera, New South Wales) is an indigenous Australian former international-level rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A Clive Churchill Medallist and two-time Dally M Medallist, he made over 300 first-grade appearances with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, winning grand finals with them in 1987 and 1996, and also represented New South Wales and Australia.
Cliff Lyons, known as Napper or Cliffy to his mates, started his rugby league career playing Lock forward but was often moved into the five-eighth role which is where he was considered to be at his best. It was at five-eighth that Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles coach Bob Fulton started playing Lyons on a permanent basis and he quickly became a favourite son at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles who gave him the nickname "God". Lyons success with the Sea Eagles, winning premierships in 1987 and 1996 saw him selected to the Manly Sea Eagles 60th Anniversary Dream Team in 2006. Lyons was named on the bench of the 17 man team.

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Clive Churchill
Clive Bernard Churchill AM (21 January 1927 – 9 August 1985) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach of the mid-20th century. An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland interstate representative fullback, he played the majority of his club football with and later coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He won five premierships with the club as a player and three more as coach. Retiring as the most capped Australian Kangaroos player ever, Churchill is thus considered one of the game's greatest ever players and the prestigious Clive Churchill Medal for man-of-the-match in the NRL grand final bears his name. Churchill's attacking flair as a player is credited with having changed the role of the fullback.
Clive Churchill was born in Merewether, New South Wales, a star schoolboy five-eighth at Marist Brothers Hamilton where he won five premierships while at school. The brothers at his school banned him from playing with Central Newcastle juniors and as a result he only appeared for them a handful of times. In 1946 he was graded with Central in the Newcastle competition as a fullback.

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Craig Young
Craig Young (born 25 June 1956 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian former representative rugby league footballer for the Australia national rugby league team, the New South Wales Blues and a stalwart player over 11 seasons from 1977 to 1988 with the St. George Dragons in the NSWRL premiership competition. He played at prop-forward.
Young had a strong grounding in the sport of soccer as a youngster and might have followed in his father's footsteps and turned professional (his father Bob Young represented Australia). His brother Warwick was a goalkeeper who played state league soccer for the Wollongong Wolves and for St George. At the age of 16, Craig was playing for Bellambi in the Illawarra soccer competition while he was also competing for Corrimal in rugby league. League eventually won the battle and Young was selected to tour Great Britain as an Australian schoolboy in 1972.
Young's signature was chased by several clubs but the St. George Dragons eventually secured his services. In his 1977 debut season coach Harry Bath claimed Young was destined for a great future and in that same year Young was instrumental in helping the Dragons take the premiership title, beating the Parramatta Eels in the grand final.

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Dale Shearer
Dale Shearer (born 25 July 1965 in St George, Queensland) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative winger/fullback of Aboriginal heritage, he played club football in Queensland, New South Wales and England. His playing career included a NSWRL Premiership win with Manly-Warringah in 1987 and a Rugby League World Cup final win in 1988. Ten years after his retirement, Shearer was still the all-time top try-scorer in State of Origin and he was named on the wing of the Indigenous Australian team of the century.
At the age of 18, Dale Shearer caught the attention of many people during his time at the Queensland club, Sarina Crocodiles in the Winfield State League with some impressive performances. He was a member of Mackay's second successful Foley Shield team in 1984, as well as representing Queensland in the match against New Zealand.Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles coach Bob Fulton was quick to sign him before anyone else in 1985. He made his test debut for the Kangaroos in 1986, and later in that year went on to represent Australia on their undefeated tour of England and France. He scored a record four tries against France in the final match of the tour. Shearer was a member of the Manly premiership winning side in 1987. Following the grand final victory he travelled with Manly to England for the 1987 World Club Challenge against their champions, Wigan. In the following off season he also played 14 games in the championship-winning Widnes team in England for the 1987–88 RFL championship.

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Dally Messenger
Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger (12 April 1883 – 24 November 1959) was an Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer, recognised as one of the greatest ever players in either code. Messenger, or 'The Master' as he was dubbed, represented his country in both rugby football codes, playing two rugby union tests and seven rugby league tests.
Messenger had a stocky build, and while standing only about 172 cm (5 ft 7') in height, he was a powerful runner of the ball and solid defender. According to his peers the centre's greatest attributes were his unpredictability and astonishing physical co-ordination, coupled with a freakish ability to kick goals from almost any part of the ground. He was a teetotaller and non-smoker during his career and other than breakfast, Messenger would rarely eat before a match.
Messenger was born in the Sydney waterfront suburb of Balmain, New South Wales, and grew up in another of Sydney's waterfront suburbs, Double Bay, where his father owned a boat shed. He also spent some time living with an aunt in South Melbourne, Victoria, and he later recalled playing a game during this period which may have been "Victorian rules football".

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Darcy Russell
Darcy Russell was a rugby league footballer. He played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Eastern Suburbs and Western Suburbs clubs.
Russell, a fullback, played for the Eastern Suburbs club in Sydney. In the 1947 season Russell topped the point scoring lists for Easts in 1st grade and 3rd grade.
His brother, Barry Russell also played for Easts in the 1950s.

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Darren Lockyer
Darren Lockyer (born 24 March 1977 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league television commentator and former professional player of the 1990s and 2000s. Considered to be one of the greatest footballers of all time, after seventeen seasons he retired in 2011 as captain of the Australian national team, Queensland State of Origin team and his club, the Brisbane Broncos, having set records for most ever games with each of them. He set additional all-time records for most National Rugby League matches, most State of Origin matches, most games as captain and most tries for the Australian national team, and highest ever point-scorer for the Broncos. Named at fullback of a Queensland team of the century (1908–2007), Lockyer won three grand finals with the Broncos (including a Clive Churchill Medal), a World Cup with Australia, and the Golden Boot Award for world's best player in this position before switching to five-eighth. In the halves, Lockyer won a fourth grand final with the Broncos, a record six consecutive State of Origin series with Queensland, and a second Golden Boot Award. Lockyer has also written a column for Queensland newspaper, The Courier Mail.

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Daryl Halligan
Daryl Halligan (born 25 July 1966 in Waikato, New Zealand) is a rugby league football commentator and former professional player. A New Zealand international winger, he was the pre-eminent goal-kicker of his era, retiring as the highest point scorer in Australian premiership history. Halligan played club football in Australia for the North Sydney Bears and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, winning the 1995 ARL Premiership with the latter.
Before defecting to the professional code of rugby league, Halligan played amateur rugby union for Waikato. In rugby league Halligan was renowned as a fine goalkicker, his 855 first grade goals coming at an impressive 80% success rate.
He played on the wing for the Canterbury Bulldogs in their loss in the 1998 NRL grand final to the Brisbane Broncos.
He was the first person to score 2,000 points in the NRL. At the time of his retirement he held the competition point-scoring record at 2,034 points. He also scored 80 tries, and kicked 4 field goals.
Halligan is noted for revolutionising goal-kicking by using a plastic tee from which to kick.

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David Barnhill
David Barnhill (born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. His club career was with the Canberra Raiders, St. George Dragons, Sydney City and Leeds Rhinos. He played much of his career at Second row forward.
A Canberra junior, Barnhill made his first grade debut with the Raiders late in the 1989 season as a replacement in a match against the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He became a more regular first grader the following year, primarily used off the interchange bench and was a member of the Raiders' victorious 1990 Grand Final side. By 1991 he was first grade regular and appeared in all 26 Canberra season and finals matches that year.
Barnhill joined the St. George Dragons in 1992 and was in the run-on side in 25 of the club's 26 appearances that season. He was a member of Saints' Grand Final sides which lost to Brisbane in 1992 and 1993 and was still with the club for the ARL Grand Final of 1996 when he came on as an early replacement for Kevin Campion.

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David Campese
David Ian Campese (born 21 October 1962, Queanbeyan, New South Wales), also known as Campo, is a former Australian rugby union player. Campese was capped by the Wallabies 101 times, and held the world record for the most tries in test matches (64) until Daisuke Ohata scored his 65th try playing for Japan on 14 May 2006. He was voted player of the tournament at the 1991 Rugby World Cup after scoring nine tries in tests that season and six in the tournament. He is famous for his "goose-step" — a hitch-kick motion which left opponents stumbling to try to tackle him.
Campese played touch rugby in his late teens and early stages of his professional career. After one year playing fourth grade for the Queanbeyan Whites, he was elevated to first grade club rugby. After only three years playing rugby union for the Queanbeyan Whites, at age 19, he was selected at fullback for the Australian under 21 side.
Campese was a standout performer at fullback for the Australian under 21s side. Then Australian coach Bob Dwyer's first exposure to Campese was at an Australian under 21s game against Fiji. Dwyer recalled in his autobiography, The Winning Way, that Campese had "cut the Fijian defence to shreds". One week later against the New Zealand under 21s, Campese scored a tremendous try to the astonishment of the Sydney crowd. In the book, David Campese, former Australian coach Alan Jones recalls,

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David Furner
David Furner (born 6 February 1971 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Canberra Raiders of the NRL. Furner spent his whole Australian playing career with the Raiders as well and left the club as the greatest point-scoring forward in Australian rugby league history before enjoying a successful career in England.
David Furner is the son of former Canberra Raiders and Australian Kangaroos coach, Don Furner.
Furner attended St. Edmund's College, Canberra. Before embarking on a successful career in rugby league, Furner was a Queanbeyan Whites rugby union junior and a member of the Australian under-17 and under-21 rugby union team.
Furner switched to rugby league in 1991 when he joined the Canberra Raiders. He made his first-grade debut in round 2 of the 1992 season against Manly-Warringah.
Furner was part of the 1994 Canberra Raiders premiership team, winning the Clive Churchill Medal for Man of the Match. Furner's strong performance led to his selection for the 1994 Kangaroo tour squad. Furner's father, Don, chairman of selectors, abstained from voting.

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David Gillespie
David "Cement" Gillespie (born 22 March 1964 in Narromine, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A sturdy forward, he played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Western Suburbs Magpies, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, New South Wales and for the Australian national side. He is currently a defensive coach for both the Roosters and the Sharks, being a close friend of Ricky Stuart.
Originally form the central west town of Narromine, Gillespie joined Canterbury in their rebuilding after the 1980 premiership and was soon a success with his powerful tackling which earned him the well-known nickname "Cement". His defence was critical to Canterbury's retention of the title against a heavily favoured St. George side in 1985 after having scored a rare try in their powerful 26-nil win over Parramatta in the preliminary final.
The following year, despite not having played for New South Wales, Gillespie was favoured to tour with the Kangaroos before a horrible work injury which almost saw his finger severed ended his season. Then, 1987 saw two suspensions (in one of which he was, unusually, sent off on the first tackle of a match against Balmain) rob Gillespie of over a third of his season. He played for English side Hunslet during the 1987–88 Rugby Football League season. Returning to Australia "Cement" came back stronger in 1988 and played so well in the grand final that he was chosen for the World Cup final against New Zealand, but in 1989 he was so disappointing as to be briefly relegated to reserve grade before a four-week suspension for a dangerous tackle effectively ended his season.

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David Westley
David Westley (born 7 June 1974) is a retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A Papua New Guinea international front-rower, he played club football for the Canberra Raiders, with whom he won the 1994 Winfield Cup Premiership before spending time with the Parramatta Eels and the Northern Eagles.
Westley's junior club was the Cairns Kangaroos. He was Canberra's Rookie of the Year in 1993, and was a part of the Grand Final winning side in 1994. The following year, Westley was selected to play for Papua New Guinea in the 1995 World Cup in England.
He has since returned to Cairns to coach the senior side.

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Dean Lance
Dean Lance (born 4 April 1959) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach, and current football manager at the North Queensland Cowboys of the NRL. He played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in the 1980s for the Newtown and Canberra clubs, captaining the Raiders for almost 5 years and winning two premierships with them. After playing he coached Super League clubs in Australia (Western Reds and Adelaide Rams) and in England (Leeds Rhinos).
A centre/five-eighth hailing from Narrabri, New South Wales, Lance played representative rugby league for Newcastle in their comprehensive 29-0 victory over France in 1977 before playing in the NSWRFL. He started playing first grade in the Sydney premiership in 1982 for the Newtown Jets, eventually moving to the back row, but at the end of the following year the club exited the competition. Lance moved to the Canberra Raiders and was named captain of the club in his second year there. He played in his first Grand Final for the Raiders in 1987 and in 1989 the captaincy of the club was handed over to Mal Meninga. That year Lance played in his second grand final, this time winning the premiership. The following year was to be his last with Canberra, but he went out on a high note, with a second consecutive premiership victory.

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Denis Flannery
Denis Flannery (2 April 1928 – 12 February 2012) was an Australian former rugby league footballer. He was a regular Australian representative from 1947 to 1958, playing on the wing. A schoolboy sprint champion, he attended St. Joseph's Nudgee College.
Although prone to injury, he made his debut for Queensland in 1948 and won his first Australian cap in the second Ashes Test of 1950, when Australia beat Great Britain 15–3 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground. Flannery also played Test football in 1951 and 1952. On the 1952-53 Kangaroo tour, he scored 23 tries in 14 games, including hat-tricks against Featherstone Rovers, Doncaster and Hull Kingston Rovers. Flannery was selected for the Australian World Cup squad in 1954. He continued to represent Queensland and Australia until 1956, retiring from representative football after the 1956–1957 Kangaroo tour.^{[citation needed]}
In total, Flannery played 15 international games for Australia, including two World Cup games. He continued with Ipswich Brothers, serving as player-coach in 1957 and 1958 before retiring at the age of 30.^{[citation needed]}

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Des Hasler
Des Hasler (born 16 February 1961 in Gosford, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league player and current head coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He played in 309 matches in a first-grade career spanning 16 seasons. Most of his career was spent with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, with whom he won two premierships (1987 and 1996). He subsequently coached Manly from 2004 to 2011, winning a further two premierships (2008 and 2011). As a player he also represented Australia internationally and New South Wales in State of Origin.
Des Hasler was educated at St Dominic's College, Penrith and he trained as a primary school teacher at the Australian Catholic University. In 1981 he taught Year 1 at St Thomas Aquinas Primary School in Springwood. He also taught Year 6 students and Electronics at St Pius X College, Chatswood.
Des Hasler began his first grade career with the Penrith Panthers in 1982, but quickly transferred to the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles where he played a total of 255 games and scored 72 tries, finishing his first grade career with a season at Western Suburbs Magpies. He started playing in the half-back position for Manly, supplanting the talented but undependable Phil Blake as starting halfback during the 1987 NSWRL season and they won the premiership that year. Following the grand final victory he travelled with Manly to England for the 1987 World Club Challenge against their champions, Wigan.

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Des Morris
Des Morris (born 20 April 1948) is an Australian former rugby league footballer, coach and administrator.
He played club football in Queensland for the Booval Swifts and Eastern Suburbs club of the Brisbane Rugby League, and represented his state on fifteen occasions. As captain-coach of Easts, Morris helped the club to success in the BRL Premiership in 1971, 1977 and 1978.
In his first year after retiring as a player, Morris coached the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls to victory in the 1982 Brisbane Rugby League premiership. He did this again in 1984. In 1985 Morris was appointed coach of the Queensland State of Origin team, but lost two of the three matches that year so was dropped. That year he coached Wynnum Manly to a second consecutive Brisbane Rugby League premiership grand final, but lost to Souths.
He has since been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Eastern Suburbs Tigers, continuing an association with the club that dates back to 1968. He is also an Australian national selector.

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Dick Dunn
Richard "Dick" Dunn was born on 10 August 1920 in the front room of 5 Clovelly St. Watsons Bay to Charles Ernest Dunn, who was the first postman on horseback in Watsons Bay and a well known fight trainer at the Sydney Stadium, and his wife Blanche née Dykes known as "Totty". She was the daughter of John Dykes, former Mayor of Vaucluse. Dick's ancestor had been the convict, Thomas Dunn who had arrived on the "Hillsborough" in 1799. Thomas served his 7 year sentence and later after marrying the daughter of Thomas Bean, a freeman in the colony, became Chief Constable of New South Wales. From Convict to Chief Constable showed dedication and perseverance and a will to achieve, a family trait that would follow in the generations to come. Dick's brother Billy Dunn was also a fighter of great repute. Dick married Margaret James in 1943 and his daughter, Carolyn became the first Woman Mayor of Waverley in 1986.
Richard 'Dick' Dunn OAM (1920–2006) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership (NSWRFL).

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Dick Turner
Richard "Dick" Turner (19 August 1932 – 16 June 2008) a.k.a. "Tosser" was a rugby league manager.
Turner was born in 1932 and played in the Brisbane Rugby League competition for Brisbane Norths and Redcliffe. He also coached Redcliffe in 1968 and 1969.
Turner was the Queensland state rugby league team's manager from 1982 until 1996, when he stepped down to take a role in the "Former Origin Greats" (FOGS) organisation. He was also the Australian team manager on the 1987 Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain.
He was also chairman of the South Queensland Crushers club during its entire existence from 1995 to 1998.
In 2008, during his battle with illness he wrote a letter for the Queensland rugby league team which has been read to them for inspiration in subsequent State of Origin series.
He died as chairman of FOGS on 16 June 2008 because of long-term illness. That year he won the "Service to Sport Award" at the Queensland Sport Awards.
Actor Michael Caton inherited Turner's 'cultural ambassador role with the Queensland rugby league team.

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Don Parish
Don W. Parish is an Australian former rugby league football player and coach. A goal-kicking fullback or three-quarter, he represented Australia and New South Wales, and played club football in the NSWRFL Premiership for Western Suburbs.
Hailing from the country New South Wales town of Dubbo, Parish played for the Macquarie club, becoming their first international when he was selected to go on the 1959/60 Kangaroo tour.
In 1959 Parish scored a try and kicked three goals played in the New South Wales loss to Queensland that attracted 35,261 spectators, smashing Brisbane's previous record for an interstate match of 22,817.
Parish started playing first grade in the Sydney premiership for the Western Suburbs club in the 1961 NSWRFL season and that year toured New Zealand with the Australian side. At the end of the season he played at fullback in Wests' loss to St. George in the grand final. The following season Parish was the League's top point-scorer. In 1963 he again played fullback for Wests in another grand final defeat at the hands of St George. Parish's last season playing for Wests was 1967.

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Doug Fleming
Doug Fleming is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1950s. A goal-kicking fullback, he played in Sydney's NSWRFL for St. George, winning the 1949 and 1956 Premierships with them. Fleming also played for Dapto's rugby league club.
In 1949 Fleming started playing in the NSWRFL's first grade premiership for St. George, forcing the club's Test fullback Noel Pidding onto the wing. At the end of the 1949 NSWRFL season he played for St. George at fullback in their grand final victory.
Fleming was the 1955 NSWRFL season's top point-scorer. In 1956 he represented Sydney against the New Zealand Māori rugby league team. Fleming was also the 1956 NSWRFL season's top point scorer with a personal best 189 points, and he played at fullback in St. George's grand final victory. The 1957 NSWRFL season was the last to feature Fleming.

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Duncan Hall
Duncan Hall (24 August 1925 – 18 January 2011) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s, singled out as having been amongst the greatest of the 20th century. He played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Fortitude Valley Diehards and represented Queensland and Australia. He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. Away from football Hall worked as a hotelier and bookmaker, and in his later years worked at the Broncos Leagues Club. His son Duncan Hall, Jr. played 15 rugby union tests for the Wallabies
Hall had a successful 1948–49 tour of England and France as a second row forward and later a front row forward. This gained him the attention of Sydney clubs, who were unable to sign him due to a ban imposed on the QRL at the time preventing interstate transfers of Queensland representatives who had played against New South Wales in the past 12 months.
In 2000 Hall was awarded the Australian Sports Medal. In 2006 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame. The Duncan Hall Medal, is presented in his honour to award to the best and fairest player in the Queensland Cup.

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Duncan Thompson
Duncan Fulton Thompson MBE (born 14 March 1895 in Warwick, Queensland, died 17 May 1980 in Auchenflower, Queensland) was an Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator. He also fought in the First World War, was named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century, and is regarded as the father of modern coaching.
A banker and skillful rugby league halfback, who commenced his club career in Queensland with Ipswich, Thompson first represented for Queensland in 1915. He moved to Sydney in 1916 where he played for Norths before enlisting in the First Australian Imperial Force in 1916 during World War I. He left Sydney in 1917 on HMAS Ayrshire with the 49th Battalion (Queensland) within 13th Brigade of the Australian 4th Division and saw active service in Belgium and France. In April 1918 during the German Spring Offensive he was shot through the chest at Dernancourt on the Ancre River but survived. He was told he would not play sport again and carried a bullet fragment in his body for the rest of his life. He was discharged after demobilisation in January 1919.

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Eddie Lumsden
Eddie Lumsden (born 28 September 1935 in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league player. He was a winger with the St. George Dragons during their eleven-year premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966, playing in nine grand finals.
Lumsden moved from Kurri Kurri in 1955 to play with Manly. After just four games he was ruled ineligible on the grounds he didn’t reside in the area.
Lumsden is one of four brothers who all played for Country. Jack Lumsden played for Manly and Australia. Eddie Lumsden's twin, Richie, and his other brother, Ray, were both "bush footballers".
Lumsden played 166 games for St George between 1957 to 1966 appearing in nine Grand Final victories in each of those years except 1960. He scored 136 tries and 17 goals for 442 points for the Dragons. He was the competition's leading try scorer in 1958 (18 tries) and 1962 (21 tries). He was the second post-war player after Ian Moir to score a century of tries. He reached this milestone in his 100th game during the 1963 season.

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Ellery Hanley
Ellery Cuthwyn Hanley MBE (born 27 March 1961 in Leeds) is a British former rugby league footballer of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and former head coach of Great Britain, St. Helens and Doncaster. As a player he played most of his games at Stand-off/Five-eighth, or Loose forward/Lock. Over a period of nineteen years, he played for Bradford Northern, Wigan, Balmain, Western Suburbs and Leeds. He was capped 34 times by Great Britain and honoured by the Queen in January 1990 for his services to the game. In 2007, he was voted as the greatest British rugby league player of all time.
In 1978, Ellery Hanley signed for Bradford Northern from the junior club Corpus Christi. On 26 November 1978, he made his professional debut for Bradford against the Rochdale Hornets in a League Division One match. He helped his club to a 30-18 victory, by scoring a try on his debut. He had to wait his time before gaining a regular first team place but in the early eighties he exploded onto the scene as one of the top try scoring non-wing players in the history of the game.

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Frank Burge
Frank 'Chunky' Burge (born 14 August 1894 in Darlington, New South Wales, died 5 July 1958 in Marrickville, New South Wales) was one of the greatest forwards in the history of rugby league in Australia. Later he was one of the game's finest coaches.
His club career was with Glebe and the St. George Dragons. He represented New South Wales on eighteen occasions. He played thirteen Tests for the Kangaroos and played for Australia in a further twenty-three tour matches.
Frank was a sensation as a teenager and played 1st grade rugby union at age 14, the youngest ever to play senior football in either code. Upon switching to the professional code, Frank was playing first grade for Glebe at age 16 and was selected for the state at age 18.
He debuted for Australia in the domestic 1914 Ashes series against Great Britain appearing in all three Tests, and on the 1919 tour of New Zealand in all four tests. Again in 1920 he appeared in all three Tests of the domestic Ashes series and then was selected on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour where he played in all three tests and twenty representative tour matches scoring 33 tries in 23 matches, more than any touring forward before or since. Burge's representative record shows him appearing in every single Australian Test match played in the war-interrupted eight year period between 1914 and 1922.

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Fred Griffiths
Fred 'Punchy' Griffiths (born in Rhodesia — died Tuesday 18 April 2000 in Perth, Western Australia) was a professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s, and coach of the 1960s. A South Africa international representative back, he played his club football in England for Wigan and in Australia for North Sydney, who he also captained and coached.
A Fullback and skillful goal-kicker, Griffiths, nicknamed "Punchy", kicked six goals in Wigan's victory in the 1959–60 Northern Rugby Football League season's championship final. In his time with the club he amassed a total of 1,455 points.
Moving to Australia to captain and coach the North Sydney club, Griffiths' prolific point-scoring continued as he went on to become the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership's leading point scorer for the 1963, 1964 and 1965 seasons. His last year with North Sydney was the 1966 season. In his time with North Sydney he amassed a total of 590 points, and coached them to finals in two of his three seasons as captain-coach.

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Fred Tottey
Fred Tottey was a rugby league footballer who played in Australia's leading competition the New South Wales Rugby Football League.
Tottey, a winger, played 80 matches for Eastern Suburbs between 1930 and 1937 before joining the English club Halifax for the 1938 season.
Tottey played his junior football in New Zealand. He Joined Easts' as a 17 yeart old. A member of the great Eastern Suburbs sides of the 1930s, Tottey won consecutive premierships with club in 1935, 1936 and 1937. In those three seasons the club lost just one match.
In the 1935 season Tottey score 27 tries and he holds one of rugby league's most amazing records - scoring tries in 15 consecutive matches. The winger scored 73 tries in total during his time at Eastern Suburbs.
Tottey was a representative of both Sydney and New South Wales and was selected for the 1937/38 Kangaroo Tour but was ruled out after suffering a broken ankle while representing New South Wales. Tottey sailed with the "Kangaroo tourist" to England where he joined his new club - Haifax FC.

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Garry Jack
Garry Jack (born 14 March 1961, in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He was a representative in the Australian national team and star player with the Balmain Tigers. Jack was a Fullback for the Tigers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, under the captaincy of Wayne Pearce and the coaching of Warren Ryan. A talented defender, he also represented the New South Wales State of Origin side.
His junior football was played in Wollongong with Wests Illawarra and in 1980 he was graded with them. He trialled with the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1981 and debuted in first grade in the latter part of that season aged 20.
He was sought out by Balmain Tigers club secretary Keith Barnes and persuaded to join Balmain who were putting together a side that featured young up and comers who would later star for the club, state and country such as Wayne Pearce, Benny Elias and Jack's fellow Wests Illwarra junior Steve "Blocker" Roach.^{[citation needed]}
His association with English rugby league began at the end of the 1986 Kangaroo Tour when he stayed on to play for Salford before returning to the Tigers. He was member of the consecutive Balmain sides which fell at the final hurdle to firstly Canterbury in the 1988 Grand Final and then to Canberra in 1989.

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Garry Schofield
Garry E. Schofield OBE (born 1 July 1965 in Hunslet, Leeds) is an English retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. At the time of his retirement he was the most-capped Great Britain player of all time along with Mick Sullivan, with 46 appearances. He also won three England caps. He won the 1990 Rugby League World Golden Boot Award as the greatest player on the planet, largely due to his exceptional performances in Great Britain's backs-against-the-wall Test-series win in New Zealand and his remarkable display as Great Britain beat Australia at Wembley 19–12. The award to Schofield was made retrospectively in 2011 by Rugby League World magazine. Schofield has since coached Barrow Raiders in Rugby League's Championship.
He is also an often-controversial media pundit. He is a regular columnist for the weekly League Express newspaper as well as for the Sunday version of the national newspaper the Daily Star. He is employed as a business consultant for corporate communications giants, Wish Communications.

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Gary Belcher
Gary Belcher (born 28 May 1962) is an Australian rugby league football commentator and former player of the 1980s and '90s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative goal-kicking fullback, he played club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Souths (winning the 1982 and 1985 Grand Finals) and in the NSWRL Premiership for the Canberra Raiders (winning the 1989 and 1990 Grand Finals).
Belcher played for Souths Magpies in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership's 1982 grand final. He was part of the Souths team that won the 1985 Brisbane Rugby League premiership title. The following year he, along with Souths team-mate Mal Meninga, signed with the Canberra Raiders and this was also the year he was first called up to the Queensland State of Origin side. Belcher won the club's 1986 player of the year award as well as being selected for the 1986 Kangaroo tour. However, he was the understudy to Garry Jack and as a result he played no test matches on the tour, although he did however play in ten matches on the tour.

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Gary Coyne
Gary Coyne (born 30 September 1961) was a rugby league player for the Canberra Raiders. Originally from Ipswich, He was a part of the Raiders' competition-winning side of the 1989 and 1990 seasons. He also played in 2 Test matches for Australia in 1991 and 11 State of Origin games for Queensland between 1989 and 1992.
Coyne was named a member of the Raiders' 25-man "Dream Team" in 2007, as part of the club's 25th anniversary of entry into first-grade rugby league.
Currently, Gary Coyne is a franchisee owner of McDonalds family restaurants in Kallangur, Warner, Strathpine, Deception Bay, North Lakes and North Lakes Westfield.

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Gary French
Gary French is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s. He was a half for the Brisbane Broncos in the late 1980s and, whilst at the club, regularly understudied for both Allan Langer and Wally Lewis. He also had stints at British clubs Springfield Borough (1987–88) and Castleford (1988–90). French captained the Broncos on one occasion. He is no relation to Queensland State of Origin brothers Brett and Ian French.
While attending Beaudesert High School, French played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1981.
He played for Souths in their 1985 Brisbane Rugby League premiership grand final win over Wynnum-Manly, kicking the first points of the match.

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Gene Miles
Gene Miles (born 29 July 1959 in Townsville, Queensland) is a retired Australian rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative centre, he played his club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership before joining the Brisbane Broncos whom he captained.
A product of the North Queensland city of Townsville, where he played for Souths, Miles joined Wynnum-Manly in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership in 1980 and was playing in the State of Origin the following year.
He played for Wynnum-Manly in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership's grand final in 1982. He was then one of seven Queensland-based players to go on the 1982 Kangaroo tour (with a squad later dubbed "The invincibles") to Great Britain - the others were Wally Lewis, Rohan Hancock, Mark Murray, Rod Morris, Mal Meninga and Greg Conescu. Miles couldn't break into the Test team and played against club sides and in an international against Wales. He made his Test debut the following year.

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George Treweek
George Treweek (31 March 1905 – 28 October 1991) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s. He was a towering second-row forward for his time who formed an integral part of the champion South Sydney Rabbitohs teams of the 1920s and early 1930s. He is rated as one of the finest second-row forwards ever to play for Australia.
Treweek won six premierships with South Sydney and captained the side in the 1931 and 1932 premiership victories. All up Treweek played 120 games for Souths between 1926 to 1934.
He made 7 Test appearances for the Australian national representative side. His test debut was against the touring Great Britain team in 1928. He toured Great Britain with 1929–30 Kangaroo team playing in four tests and 22 games in all and scoring six tries. Treweek also played eighteen games for NSW.
Treweek retired quietly at the end of 1934. He never had the heart to tell the press of the day that they had spelled his name wrong throughout his entire career. The proper spelling of his surname is actually Treweeke and not Treweek though he graciously accepted Treweek throughout his life until his death in 1991.

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Glenn Lazarus
Glenn Patrick Lazarus (born on 11 December 1965 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s who has been named amongst the nation's finest of the 20th century. He primarily played at prop forward, representing Australia internationally and New South Wales in State of Origin. Lazarus played in premiership-winning teams for three different clubs during his career: the Canberra Raiders, Brisbane Broncos and Melbourne Storm. Also known as 'the brick with eyes', he was, at his peak, widely-regarded as the best front-row forward in the game - a sentiment shared by current NSW State of Origin coach Ricky Stuart who labelled him "the best front-rower ever to play the game of rugby league." His nephew Blake Lazarus plays for the Wests Tigers in the NRL.
Of Greek descent, Lazarus began his first grade career with the Canberra Raiders in 1987, and although he would be overlooked for a spot in the Raiders' losing grand final side against Manly that year, he would go on to play a starring role in the club's premiership victories over Balmain in 1989 and Penrith in 1990. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. He also played for Canberra in their grand final loss to Penrith in 1991.

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Graeme Langlands
Graeme 'Changa' Langlands, MBE, (born 1941) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach of the 1960s and 70s. He retired as the most-capped player for the Australian national team with 45 from 1963 to 1975, and captained his country in 15 Test matches and World Cup games. Langlands was the full-back and goal-kicker for the St. George Dragons in the latter half of their 11 year consecutive premiership-winning run from 1956 to 1966.
Born in Wollongong, New South Wales on 2 September 1941, he represented Combined NSW High Schools from 1955 to 1957 and was playing 1st grade with the Wollongong Club in the Illawarra competition at age 18. He was selected in Country Firsts in 1962 and that same year made the first of a record 33 interstate matches for New South Wales over 14 seasons.
With Billy Smith who also joined St George in 1963, Langlands added new firepower to the aging Dragons champion line up. On field the pair demonstrated a magical telepathy and an intuitive understanding of each other's kicking and positional game. Later in the 60s and early 1970s St George got their best value out of Smith and Langlands when all of the stars of the long reign had gone. It was largely due to their combined class that the club remained competitive up till 1975.

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Graham Eadie
Graham "Wombat" Eadie (born 25 November 1953, Lidcombe, New South Wales), is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s who has been named amongst the nation's finest of the 20th century. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative fullback, he played in Australia during Manly-Warringah's dominance of the NSWRFL competition during the 1970s. He won four premierships with them and his 1,917 points in first grade and 2,070 points in all grades were both records at the time of his retirement. Eadie also played in England for Halifax, winning the Challenge Cup final of 1987 with them. He also won World Cups with Australia and collected awards such as the Rothmans Medal and Lance Todd Trophy.
Manly 1971-1983: 237 games, 1,917 points (71 tries, 847 goals, 3 field goals) Australia 1973-1979: 20 Tests, 16 points (2 tries, 5 goals)
Eadie was graded by Manly-Warringah in 1971 and showed immediate promise in the lower grades that season. The following year with the retirement of long serving Manly fullback Bob Batty, he established himself as the team's first grade fullback and his powerful running style was already a serious danger to all Manly's opponents. Though not excessively tall at just under 180 cm, Eadie's solid build of around 97 kg (15 stone) gave him abundant pace and so much strength that once he was on the move, few opposing defenders were ever able to stop him when he ran into the backline. At the same time, Eadie was an accurate line kicker and extremely safe under the high ball in an era when the "bomb" was coming into prominence.

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Graham Lowe
Graham Lowe is a New Zealand former rugby league football coach and administrator. He previously coached in Australia and England and was the CEO of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. He is also the only non-Australian to coach a State of Origin team.
Lowe was an Otahuhu Leopards junior and played in their premier side before he retired early due to injury. He began coaching the Otahuhu under-18's in 1974 before becoming a first grade coach in 1977 at Otahuhu. The club won the Fox Memorial in his first year as coach. In 1979 he moved to the Brisbane club competition, coaching the Norths Devils.
From Norths Lowe moved to Britain where he was to coach the Wigan. Under Lowe's coaching Wigan would re-emerge to be a power in the British game. It was while Lowe was coaching that Wigan were able to secure the signatures of Great Britain players Ellery Hanley and Andy Gregory. Lowe lead Wigan to their first RFL Championship in 27 years and would go on to guide Wigan to their first ever World Club Challenge win when they defeated Manly-Warringah 8-2 in front of 36,895 fans at Central Park. He would also lead Wigan to success in both the 1988 and 1989 Challenge Cup finals.

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Greg Alexander
Gregory Peter Stephen "Greg" Alexander (born 4 March 1965) is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s who has since become a commentator. A goal-kicking half-back, in his career he played for and captained the Penrith Panthers and the Auckland Warriors clubs and also represented his country and state on several occasions. Alexander's position for the majority of his career was at half-back, however early in his career – particularly in representative sides – he was moved to fullback. It was this ability to play different positions with great success that saw Alexander make both the 1986 and the 1990 Kangaroo Tours. Other than being one of the games best halfbacks and good enough for rep football at fullback, Brandy actually played a test on the 1990 Tour against France on the wing. This was also his last test appearance.
Alexander began his career at schoolboy level where he quickly established himself as a star player for his side. He attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield he played for the Australian schoolboys team in 1983. He was later signed on as a junior to his local club side the Penrith Panthers.

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Greg Brentnall
Greg Brentnall (born 5 December 1956 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative fullback and winger, he played for Canterbury-Bankstown in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, winning the 1980 grand final with them.
Brentnall played Australian rules football in Riverina in the 1960s before turning down an offer to play in the VFL/AFL and switching to rugby league, taking up a contract with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 1972. In 1973 he also played for Turvey Park in the Group 9 Country Rugby League competition. His ability to catch the high ball made him a valuable fullback for many rugby league representative teams, and he represented Australia.
Brentnall played on the wing for New South Wales in the inaugural 1980 State of Origin game, and later that year played in the Canterbury club's Grand Final-winning side. In 1982, he became Canterbury's first Rothmans Medal winner and also toured with that year's undefeated Kangaroos, "The Invincibles".

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Greg Conescu
Greg "Turtle" Conescu (born 24 May 1960) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative hooker, he played all of his club football in Queensland with Norths Devils (with whom he won the BRL premiership in 1980) Gladstone Brothers, Redcliffe and the Brisbane Broncos.
Conescu achieved Brisbane Rugby League premiership success with the Norths Devils in 1980 and also played for Gladstone Brothers and Redcliffe Dolphins. While playing for Norths, Conescu made his debut for both the Australian Kangaroos and Queensland. In 1987 he played for Redcliffe in the BRL grand final.
In 1988, Conescu entered the New South Wales Rugby League premiership with the Brisbane Broncos, playing in the club's first ever match in 1988. He continued to represent Queensland at State of Origin level that year, and was again selected in the Australian Kangaroos side. Despite being the incumbent Australian and Queensland hooker, he was surprisingly dropped to reserve grade by coach Wayne Bennett in favour of a young Kerrod Walters.

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Greg Inglis
Greg Inglis (born 15 January 1987 in Kempsey, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the NRL. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative outside back, he previously played for the Melbourne Storm, with whom he won two grand finals, a Clive Churchill Medal and a Golden Boot Award.
Inglis is a versatile back, having played in several positions during his career. He originally played on the wing or in the centres. He even played at fullback when Billy Slater was unavailable. Between 2007 and early 2009 he played at five-eighth for the Melbourne Storm before he switched to centre when Brett Finch arrived at the Storm, where he played for the remainder of his time at the club until the end of 2010. Inglis' representative matches for Queensland and Australia have been as a winger or centre. In November 2009, Inglis won the Golden Boot Award as the world's best player – presented to him by Rugby League World magazine, becoming the third consecutive Storm player to win it, after Cameron Smith (2007) and Billy Slater (2008). His cousins are Albert Kelly of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks,Beau Champion of the Gold Coast Titans and former player Preston Campbell.

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Greg Veivers
Greg Veivers (born 22 September 1949) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who captained the Kangaroos in a World Cup match in 1977. He represented Australia in seven World Cup matches from 1975 and 1977. He was a front-rower and a regular Queensland state representative from 1970 to 1978.
Veivers was born in Beaudesert, Queensland. His father Jack Veivers played rugby league for Souths Brisbane and Queensland; his cousin Mick Veivers represented the Kangaroos in the 1960s and his cousin Tom Veivers played Test cricket for Australia.
Greg's brother Phil played 400 first grade rugby league games in England in the 1980s for St Helens RLFC and later coached Huddersfield and Bradford. Their sister Trish married Australian rugby league identity Wayne Bennett, the former national, state and multiple-premiership winning coach.
After playing rugby at school in Toowoomba, Greg Veivers was graded in rugby league by the Souths Brisbane Colts side in 1967 and made his first grade debut in 1968. He played his entire first grade career with the club.

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Harold Crocker
Harold "Mick" Crocker is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the mid-20th century. An Australian international and Queensland interstate representative back-row forward, he played his club career in Brisbane with Souths and in Sydney with Parramatta.
After a successful career as a Queensland and then Australian international representative, in the 1954 pre-season Crocker signed a then record one-season deal for an Australian to move south and play for Sydney club Parramatta in order to assist his family who had lost their home in a fire the previous year. Parramatta finished the season with the wooden spoon however.

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Harold Horder
Harold Norman Horder (23 February 1894–21 August 1978) was an Australian rugby league player a national and state representative player whose club career was with the South Sydney Rabbitohs and North Sydney Bears between 1912 and 1924. He is regarded as one of the greatest wingers to play the game.
Born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Horder played 86 games for Souths between 1912–1919 and 1924, 9 games for New South Wales, 13 Test matches for Australia.
After following his brother Clarence "Spot" Horder to South Sydney, Harold in his first game, stepped and swerved through the entire Glebe team in a 90 metre dash to score one of the greatest individual tries in rugby league history. He went on to be the NSW Rugby Football League's top try-scorer in 1913, 1914 and 1917 and for each of the four seasons 1913, 1914, 1918 and 1922 he was the League's top point scorer. Horder was selected to go on the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He also scored a double in Norths' 1922 grand final win. He scored 102 tries for South Sydney and 50 tries for North Sydney. In his final season at Souths he became the first player to score 150 tries in NSWRFL history.

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Harry Bath
Harry Bath (28 November 1924 – 4 October 2008), born Alfred Henry Bath, was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach who rose to prominence in the mid-Twentieth Century. A state and international representative who played 12 matches for Other Nationalities in the International Championship from 1949 to 1955, he played at Second-row forward and has been referred to as the best Australian rugby league player never to be picked for the Australian national team. Following his retirement, Bath coached in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for two decades, also achieving selection as the Australian national team coach.
Bath, to be known late in his career as 'the Old Fox', was graded as a sixteen year old to play for the Brisbane club Southern Suburbs in 1940. After six years with the club, including selection to represent Queensland, he moved to Sydney to play for the Balmain club in New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1946. In his first season for Balmain, Bath helped his side reach the Grand Final in which they defeated St. George 13–12. He was also selected to play for Australia against a touring England side that year but injured his leg in a club match and was prevented from playing in any of the three tests. A year later he again helped Balmain reach their second Grand Final appearance and a 13–9 victory over the Canterbury-Bankstown club.

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Hazem El Masri
Hazem El Masri (Arabic: حازم المصري‎) (born 1 April 1976) is a Lebanese-Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australia and Lebanon international, and New South Wales State of Origin representative winger, he played his entire club football career with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership. The greatest goal-kicker of all time, in 2009 (his final season in the NRL) El Masri took the record for the highest-ever point scorer in premiership history and for a record sixth time was the League's top point scorer for the season. He primarily played on the wing, but he has also played at fullback.
El Masri is a self-identified devout Muslim. He is widely respected for his community work with young people, winning the NRL's Ken Stephen Award in 2002. The award recognises players who contribute to the betterment of their community away from rugby league. For his point scoring record alone he has to be one of the greatest wingers of all time, but he also had a knack for saving tries, something that is often overlooked.

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Herb Steinohrt
Herb Steinohrt (21 October 1899 - 27 December 1985) was an Australian rugby leaguefootballer of the 1920s and '30s. He was a front row forward for the Australian national team. He played in 9 Tests between 1928 and 1932 as captain on 3 occasions.
Born in Pittsworth, Queensland he moved to Toowoomba in 1921 and forged an identity there in football and later in real estate as a man of honour and discipline.
He was graded by the Valleys club of the Toowoomba rugby League in 1922 as a centre but soon moved to the forwards. He was known throughout his career for his uncompromising heavy tackling style. Along with his 1928 Kangaroo captain Tom Gorman, Steinohrt was a member of the 1924-25 world class Toowoomba side that beat all comers including Sydney premiers Souths, Brisbane, Ipswich and representative sides including New South Wales, Victoria, Great Britain and New Zealand.
Although he did not first represent his State till age 26, from 1925 to 1933 he had an uninterrupted run as a Queensland Maroon representative, setting the then record of playing 30 consecutive interstate matches. In 1931 and 1932 he captained Queensland to series victories over NSW. In 1933 he was part of a Queensland squad that included the entire Toowoomba representative team and Steinhort lead a "Clydesdales XIII" against NSW. His brother Arch was also part of this team.

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Herman Peters
Herman Peters was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s. An international representative centre, he played his club football with North Sydney in the NSWRFL premiership.
He played 8 games of the 1921 season in which the North Sydney team won the premiership without having to play a final. As part of Norths' champion backline, he gained selection on the 1921-1922 Kangaroo Tour, along with clubmates, Blinkhorn, Rule, Horder, Ives and Thompson. He went on to play in the following season's grand final for Norths, scoring a try to help them claim consecutive premierships. The year after that, 1923, Peters was the NSWRFL premiership's top try-scorer.

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Hugh McGahan
Hugh Joseph McGahanMBE (born 15 November 1961 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a former rugby league footballer and coach who represented New Zealand. Since retirement he has worked as a rugby league newspaper columnist and a football manager.
Educated at St Peter's College, Auckland, the tall Māori backrower was an Otahuhu Leopards junior and played in the Auckland Rugby League competition under coach Graham Lowe.
He later moved to Sydney and played in over 100 matches for the Australian club Eastern suburbs from 1985 until his retirement at the end of the 1991 season. In his final season with the Roosters McGahan took over as captain-coach following the dismissal of Russell Fairfax. In 1987 the Roosters captain was named the Dally M backrower of the year. Following his retirement from the club, McGahn was a director of both East's the leagues and football club.
McGahan represented New Zealand in 53 tests. He was the captain in 17 of those Test matches. He once scored 6 tries in a test match against Papua New Guinea. In 1988 McGahan, won the prestigious Golden Boot award, an award given to the player judged to be the best international footballer of the year.

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Ian Moir
Ian Moir (1932–1990) was an Australian rugby league player, a champion wing three-quarter of the 1950s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He made eight Test appearances for the Australian national representative side and represented in four World Cup matches in two World Cups and in 14 Kangaroo tour matches.
He was a prodiguous try scorer and played in South Sydney's three Premiership victories between 1953 and 1955. In 1953 he scored three tries in the 31–12 Grand Final against St George, capping off a season where he was Souths leading try scorer with a tally of 23. This total stands in 3rd place in the club's all-time list of most tries in a season.
He is one of six Rabbitohs players to score five tries in a match, doing so in Round 7 of 1957 against Parramatta at Redfern Oval. His 105 career tries for the Rabbitohs in 110 games stands in 2nd place behind Benny Wearing's 144 in the all-time club record list.
In 2004 he was named by Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team, consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004.

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Ian Schubert
Ian 'Shoey' Schubert (born 1957, Wauchope, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s.
Schubert had a long career which began with a sensational opening season for the Eastern Suburbs club, before fading out and re-inventing himself with Manly and Western Suburbs so well that he regained his Australian jumper after having a year ago been in reserve grade. By the time his career closed Schubert had played 269 first grade games, which stood as the third highest in the history of the NSWRL.

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Ivan Cleary
Ivan Cleary (born 1 March 1971) is an Australian rugby league football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Penrith Panthers of the National Rugby League and former head coach of the New Zealand Warriors where he achieved much success. As a player, Cleary was a goal-kicking fullback who played club football in Australia and New Zealand, setting a new record for most points scored in a season during the 1998 NRL Premiership.
Cleary grew up in the Northern Sydney suburb of Dee Why. Originally a goal-kicking fullback, he was a Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles junior before moving to play Reserve Grade with the Sea Eagles in 1992 and 1993. He started his first grade career with the Sea Eagles in 1992 playing two games before getting his chance after the teams first choice fullback Matthew Ridge suffered a season ending injury in mid-1993. Cleary filled the custodian spot well and also proved himself an accurate goal-kicker, ably filling in for Ridge on both counts and helping Many to 4th place and a finals berth where they were bundled out 4-16 by the Brisbane Broncos in the Qualifying Final. Cleary scored 8 tries and kicked 50 of 71 goals for a total of 132 points for the Sea Eagles

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Jack Beaton
John Beaton (1914–1996) was an Australian rugby league player, a national representative of the 1930s whose club career was played with Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club. He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Originally from Yass, New South Wales, Beaton moved to Sydney where he attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, enjoying a successful schoolboy rugby union career. Beaton took up a role as captain with a country side in Lismore, New South Wales, before moving back to Sydney the following season to join up with the Eastern Suburbs club.
Beaton, who was better known as a fullback or centre was an extremely versatile player who could play anywhere in the backline. From his debut with club in 1934 till his retirement at the end of the 1937 season Easts lost just 4 matches. He played in some of the Tricolours greatest teams during his brief career, winning 3 premierships with the club and was runner-up in his only other year. Beaton retired at just 24 years of age to take up a business opportunity.

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Jack Lindwall
Jack Lindwall was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 40s. He is also the older brother of Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inaugural inductee and fellow rugby league player, Ray Lindwall.
A prolific try-scoring three-quarter, Jack Lindwall played his entire New South Wales Rugby Football League career with the St. George Dragons club, for whom he set records for both most tries and points in a match. He played in St. George's Grand Final teams of 1942 and 1946 and retired as the club's all-time top try-scorer. Lindwall died at age 82 in June 2000.

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Jack Troy
Jack Troy (1927–1995), was an Australian rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL)- Australia's major rugby league competition. He also represented Australia internationally and New South Wales against Queensland.
The son of a jockey, Troy was a former professional runner, who after missing Olympic selection began his rugby league career with the Newtown club in 1949 where he played 4 seasons. In just 34 appearances for Newtown, the winger, scored 37 tries. He holds the Newtown club record for the most tries in a match, scoring 6 against Eastern Suburbs in 1950. That season he was selected to represent Australia in the first Australian test side to win the ashes in 30 years.
In 1953 Troy joined the Eastern Suburbs club, but he only played in 3 matches after a constant leg injury forced his retirement. Troy is rocognised as the Tricolours 415th player.
In his later years Troy took on selection role at the St George club.
Troy died in 1995.

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Jason Croker
Jason Croker (born 10 March 1973 in Crookwell, New South Wales) is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative utility player, he previously played club football in the NRL for the Canberra Raiders, with whom he won the 1994 Winfield Cup and set club records for both highest total games and tries. Croker saw out his career with French Super League club Catalans Dragons.

Croker was named the Canberra Raiders' rookie of the year in 1991 and he went on to play somewhat of a utility position over his long career, filling into many spots throughout his team. His 120 tries for Canberra is a club record and in 2000 he was named the Raiders' player of the year. He also gained selection in Australia's 2000 World Cup winning squad.
In 2006 Croker played his 300th game for the Raiders, becoming the first to achieve this honour for the Raiders.
In Jason Croker's last game in Canberra he was given the keys to the city by Chief Minister Jon Stanhope in front of over 21,000 fans.

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Joe Pearce
Sid 'Joe' Pearce (1910–1995) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 40s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative second-row forward, he played his club football for Eastern Suburbs with whom he won the NSWRFL Premiership in 1935, '36, 37 'and '40. Son of fellow Australian Rugby League Hall of Famer, Sandy Pearce, he is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
He was a junior Australian Rules footballer in Sydney's eastern suburbs district but converted to rugby league and first appeared as a full-back for the Tricolours in 1929 before moving into the forwards.
Joe was an outstanding ball-playing second-rower in the champion Easts' side that saw premiership success in seasons 1935, 1936 and 1937. He had captained the club in 1933 and saw further premiership success with them in 1940.
He first represented for New South Wales in 1930 and for the next twelve seasons without fail he played in the interstate series. He debuted for Australia against the touring Great Britain side in 1932. He played in all three Tests of that tour and whilst not a kicker at Easts, booted a conversion in the second Test filling in for Eric Weissel.

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Joel Caine
Joel Caine (born 18 September 1978) is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s who currently works as a presenter on NRL Daily.
Caine's position of choice was as a Fullback or on the Wing.
He played for St. George Dragons, Balmain Tigers and Wests Tigers in the NRL. In the Super League he played for London Broncos and the Salford City Reds.
Caine held the Wests Tigers' records for most points scored by a player, most points scored in a match (20 points against Brisbane, February 6, 2000), and most points scored in a season (224 in 2000). All records were later surpassed by Brett Hodgson. He remains the third highest point-scorer for the club, having scored 526 points during his 4 years with Wests
Caine currently works with 2GB as a sideline reporter and with ONE HD on Thursday Night Live and Sportsbet .
He is older brother to the Cronulla Sharks player, Tony Caine.

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John Muggleton
John Muggleton is a former rugby league player who represented Parramatta Eels in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, New South Wales in State of Origin competition and the Australian national team (1982). He initially played as a fullback with Balmain, but moved to Parramatta in 1980 and the following year, jumped suddenly into first grade just as the Eels won their first premiership. 1982 saw Muggleton become as a second rower an integral part of Parramatta’s most dominant NRL team, providing a second kicker to support Peter Sterling, who was later to become his brother-in-law, and showing abundant ball skills to create opportunities for a famous backline of Sterling, Brett Kenny, Mick Cronin, Steve Ella and Eric Grothe, Sr. Muggleton was chosen for the 1982 Kangaroo tour, which became known as “The Invincibles” as it steamrolled England and France to win all 22 games, mostly by huge margins.^{[citation needed]}

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John Ribot
John Ribot (born John Ribot de Bresac on 3 March 1955) is an Australian sports administrator and former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. Once a Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative winger, Ribot was the 1980 NSWRFL season's top try-scorer. Also a member of the 1982 "Invincibles" Kangaroo touring squad, he played club football in Brisbane for Fortitude Valley, Wests and Redcliffe, and in Sydney for Newtown, Wests and Manly-Warringah.
Following his playing career, Ribot became the foundation CEO of the Brisbane Broncos and later Super League (Australia). When the Australian Rugby League merged with Super League to form the NRL at the end of 1997, he moved south to set up the Melbourne Storm. Well known for his expansionist attitude towards professional football administration in Australia, in 2004 he switched codes, working as a soccer administrator until 2008. He has since taken up a position at the Queensland Rugby League.
After playing club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Wests and Valleys and gaining selection for Queensland as well, Ribot moved south to play in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Newtown Jets (1978 and 1979), the Western Suburbs Magpies (1980, in which he was the League's top try-scorer and 1981, in which he first gained international selection) and the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles (1982 and 1983). He later returned to the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for the Redcliffe Dolphins (1984 and 1985).

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Johnathan Thurston
Johnathan Dean Thurston (born 25 April 1983 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer in the NRL with the North Queensland Cowboys whom he co-captains (along with Matthew Scott). An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative half-back and goal-kicker, he is also a two-time Dally M Medal and one-time Wally Lewis Medal winner. Thurston started his career at the Bulldogs with whom he won the 2004 NRL premiership before moving to the North Queensland Cowboys in 2005, playing in that year's grand final. In 2008 he was named as halfback of the Australian Aboriginal rugby league team of the century. In 2011, he won the Golden Boot Award for the World's best player. Thurston is the only player to have played in all 18 games of Queensland's six-year State of Origin winning streak from 2006–2011.

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Johnny King
Johnny King (born 1943, Gilgandra, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He was a winger with the St. George Dragons for the last seven years of their eleven consecutive premiership-winning run from 1956 to 1966. He was a representative in the Australian national team from 1966–1970, earning thirteen Test caps. He has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
King's early life alternated between Sydney and north western New South Wales. His father, Cec King, was a motor mechanic who had stints working at Gulgong, Gilgandra and Gulargambone. Cec King, had played 19 matches for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in reseves and first grade in 1943 and 1944. Johnny King was an apprentice jeweller at aged 16 in Gilgandra before moving to Sydney to continue his trade. In 1958 he joined the Arncliffe Scots D grade junior rugby league side as a fullback and the following year played in the St George Dragons' Presidents Cup side. He trialled with the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1959 but was turned down by coach Bernie Purcell.

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Johnny Mayes
Johnny Mayes (born 29 April 1947) is an Australian former rugby league halfback who represented Australia in the 1975 World Series and played in three consecutive premiership-winning teams from 1973 to 1975, the first for Manly and the latter two for Eastern Suburbs. His feat of playing in three consecutive premiership sides for different clubs is comparable only with Glenn Lazarus in the early 1990s for Canberra and the Brisbane Broncos, who played in four premiership sides between 1989 and 1993.
Mayes had a slow start to his career with Eastern Suburbs owing to competition from established half Kevin Junee. He first played first grade in 1968, but was still mostly in reserve grade for several years. When Junee was injured in the years after winning the Rothmans Medal in 1970, Mayes spent a considerable amount of time in first grade and for part of 1972 actually relegated Junee to the reserves - though by finals time Junee had displaced him again.
Being a similar type of halfback to Junee, Mayes naturally sought another club to be sure of a first grade berth and Manly, with Dennis Ward dropping out, picked him up for the 1973 season. Mayes' growth as a player that year was remarkable. He scored sixteen tries - four in one match against Penrith - and won Rugby League Week's Player of the Year award. He was freely tipped to go on the Kangaroo tour but was not chosen, and was, remarkably, swapped for Junee so he could return to Easts the following year.

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Johnny Raper
John Raper, MBE (born 12 April 1939 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He was a lock forward for the Australia national team. He had a record 33 test caps between 1959 and 1968 and played in 6 World Cup games between 1960 to 1968. Raper captained Australia on 8 occasions in 1967–68 and played in eight consecutive NSWRFL grand final victories for the St. George Dragons club. He has since been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Born in Revesby, in south-western Sydney into a working class family of nine boys, he played junior football for the Camperdown Dragons before representing Newtown's President's Cup side in 1956. He joined and made his first grade debut for Newtown in 1957 at age 18. Raper represented New South Wales Colts as a lock against Great Britain in 1958. Having agreed terms to leave Newtown to join the reigning premiers St George Raper sat out most of the 1958 season to comply with residential criteria.

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Keith Barnes
William Keith Barnes AM (born 30 October 1934 in Port Talbot, Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He was a fullback for the Australian national team and for the Balmain Tigers. He played in 14 Tests between 1959 and 1966, as national captain on 12 occasions. He was known as "Golden Boots" due to his exceptional goal-kicking ability. After his playing days he became a referee and later co-commentated on the Amco Cup on Network Ten with Ray Warren in the 1970s. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Barnes' family originally emigrated at age 15 to Australia in 1948 to Wollongong where Barnes learnt the game at Wollongong High School. He was graded by the Wollongong club at age 19 as a half-back and in 1954 represented for Country and in a Southern Districts side against the touring Great Britain Lions.
In 1955 he was signed by Norm "Latchem" Robinson to join the Balmain Tigers and moved to the district and straight into first grade, never playing a single lower grade game in the following 14 seasons. The following year he played in the first of three Grand Finals against the St George Dragons at the beginning of their long premiership reign. On three occasions 1956, 1964 and 1966 Keith Barnes would experience defeat in a premiership decider – the latter two as captain.

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Keith Holman
Keith Victor Holman, MBE (11 September 1927 – 11 October 2011) was an Australian rugby league footballer, a national and state representative Halfback whose club career was played with the Western Suburbs Magpies from 1949 to 1961. He has since been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. After retiring as player, Holman was coach of Wests and later became one of the game's top-level referees.
Holman had an impoverished childhood during the Great Depression. In his earliest years he was raised in a shanty at Yarra Bay in Sydney by a man named Holman who may have been his father. He was taken in by a local family named Schofield who enabled him to be schooled by the De La Salle Brothers at Surry Hills. There he met and befriended Bernie Purcell whom he would later play against and alongside in state and Kangaroo touring sides.
Toward the end of the Second World War Holman joined the RAAF as a Leading Aircraftman. He was a chef with 82 Wing, 23 Squadron and was posted to bases in Ipswich, Queensland and later after the Japanese surrender, at Morakai and Balikpapan in Borneo. The Squadron flew B-24 Liberators in a transport role, flying ex-Prisoners of War and other Australian personnel back to Australia.

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Ken Irvine
Kenneth John Irvine (5 March 1940 – 22 December 1990) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. He holds the standing record (in Australia only) for the most number of tries in a first-grade career – 212. No other player has yet managed 200 tries in their career, apart from Steve Menzies who has scored 216 (36 in super league and 180 in nrl). He is also the 2nd all time top try-scorer for the Australian national team, behind retired Australian captain Darren Lockyer. Irvine has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Irvine played for the North Sydney and Manly-Warringah clubs of the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership, primarily as a winger.
Attending Marist College North Shore, Irvine originally excelled in both baseball and sprinting, playing in the New South Wales junior baseball side alongside future Australian team mate Reg Gasnier while also competitively running for the Randwick-Botany Club. After deciding to attend a trial at Wentworth Park for the North Sydney rugby league club as a 17-year-old, their first grade coach Ross McKinnon stated "sign that kid for life", and Ken was signed and playing for the club the following year.

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Ken Kearney
Ken "Killer" Kearney (3 May 1924 – 18 August 2006) was an Australian rugby footballer – a dual-code international player – and a rugby league coach. He represented the Wallabies in seven Tests and the Kangaroos in thirty-one Test matches and World Cup games. He captained Australia in nine rugby league Test matches in 1956 and 1957. He was a hooker and captain-coach with the St. George Dragons in the first half of their eleven year consecutive premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966. He is considered one of Australia's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Kearney was born in Penrith, New South Wales. He joined Parramatta's 1st grade rugby union side from school before serving in the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II and represented Combined Services in rugby union. After discharge he resumed playing in Australia and debuted for the Wallabies against the All Blacks playing two Tests in June 1947 then toured Europe with the 1947–48 Wallabies playing against each of the five European rugby union nations.

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Ken Nagas
Ken Nagas (born 18 June 1973) is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He played for the Canberra Raiders of the National Rugby League. Nagas primarily played on the wing. He is of Vanuatuan descent.
Nagas, a fullback or winger, started with the Raiders in 1992 with a single appearance on the wing in a loss to the Newcastle Knights. 1993 saw Nagas appear in nine games for Canberra where he scored 4 tries.
In 1994 Ken Nagas hit form and he played 18 games and scored 11 tries, many of them length of the field runs, the most famous being against Manly in Round 7 at Bruce Stadium in Canberra when he ran the length of the field to score while holding the ball in one hand, keeping his shorts up with the other and being chased the whole way by Manly winger Craig Hancock who actually lost ground to the flying Raiders' winger. Nagas went on to play on the wing in Canberra's 36-12 Grand Final win over Canterbury-Bankstown where he scored 2 of Canberra's 7 tries.
Nagas, like the rest of the Canberra Raiders players, signed with Super League in 1995 and although his great form continued, scoring 14 tries from 19 games, he along with team mates Laurie Daley, Bradley Clyde, Brett Mullins, Ricky Stuart and David Furner (other than Nagas, all were players on Australia's 1994 Kangaroo Tour), were left out of 1995 representative teams as only Australian Rugby League contracted players were selected. Canberra finished equal top on the 1995 ladder with Manly but after defeating rivals Brisbane 14-8 at Suncorp Stadium, the defending premiers were knocked out in the Preliminary Final by eventual premiers Sydney Bulldogs 8-25.

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Kerrod Walters
Kerrod Walters (born 20 October 1967 in Rockhampton, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative hooker, he played most of his club football with the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1992 and 1993 NSWRL Premierships. With twin brother Kevin and older brother Steve, Kerrod Walters holds a unique place in Australian League history.
Hailing from Ipswich (but Rockhampton-born), Kerrod Walters first showed his talent with the Ipswich Jets alongside brother Kevin and Allan Langer. This combination later became known as "the Ipswich connection". In 1988 he and Ipswich teammate Langer joined the newly-formed Brisbane Broncos to compete in the Winfield Cup premiership.
In 1989 Walters represented Queensland, being named man-of-the-match in the third game of that year's State of Origin series and was also chosen as Australian hooker over Greg Conescu. He played for Australia in the three-Test series against New Zealand that year.

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Kerry Boustead
Kerry Boustead (born 12 August 1959) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. A talented representative winger for Queensland and Australia, at the time he was picked for the Australian national rugby league team he was the youngest ever player so selected. A prolific try-scorer, he has been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
An Innisfail junior and younger brother of 1976 Queensland representative Ian Boustead, Kerry was a Queensland Schoolboy representative and made his first grade debut with Innisfail Souths in 1977. In 1978 he became the youngest Test player for Australia.
In 1979 the Queensland Rugby League tried to block Boustead's move to Sydney, although Eastern Suburbs ultimately gained his services. He broke his ankle in his first season in Sydney but recovered to play in the first ever State of Origin match in 1980. He scored Queensland's first ever try in State of Origin. Boustead then played in the centres in the club's loss to Canterbury in the NSWRL 1980 Grand Final. He stayed with the Roosters till the end of 1982 and then in 1983 followed his club and national coach Bob Fulton to Manly for four season.

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Kevin Junee
Kevin Junee is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative back, he played club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Eastern Suburbs and Manly-Warringah clubs. Kevin is the father of Australian rugby union player Darren Junee who also played rugby league for the Eastern Suburbs club.
Junee played all his junior football with Eastern Suburbs, breaking into the top grade in 1964 - the bleakest period in the clubs history, winning just 2 matches that year and just 3 more in the following two, However this didn’t stop Junee from breaking into the representative scene, in 1965, the speedy halfback was chosen for NSW and in 1967 was first selected to play for his country on a Kangaroo Tour, becoming Kangaroo No. 422. In the 1970 season Junee was awarded the Rothmans Medal – rugby league's leading player award presented annually to the year's best player. While playing for the Manly Warringah rugby league club in 1974 Junee topped the season's try-scoring list with 23 tries, a club record at the time. He rejoined Easts for his final season in 1976.

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Kevin Walters
Kevin David Walters (born 20 October 1967 in Rockhampton, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently the assistant coach for NRL club Melbourne Storm. He joined them from French club Catalans Dragons of Europe's Super League as their head coach. Before that he was head coach of the Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup. Walters is also a former Australian Kangaroos and Queensland Maroons representative player and premiership-winning captain of the Brisbane Broncos.
Along with twin Kerrod and older brother Steve, Kevin Walters started his career in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership before joining the NSWRL. He spent some time playing for the Canberra Raiders before moving to the Brisbane Broncos, where he played for the majority of his career and took over the club's captaincy. He has played in premiership-winning teams on six occasions and holds the record for most finals appearances. He later coached in the Queensland Cup competition with the Ipswich Jets club before being recruited by Catalans.

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Larry Corowa
Larry Corowa (born 5 August 1957 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales) is an Indigenous Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s, 80s and 90s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative winger, he played club football for the Balmain Tigers and the Gold Coast Seagulls in the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership. Corowa is one of a select few players to have scored more than a try a game in a season of football in Australia. In his first season with Balmain, he was the League's top try-scorer.
Nicknamed "The Black Flash", Corowa was considered during his time with Balmain to be 'the fastest player in the game' not only in Australia but the rest of the rugby league world.
After retiring from First Grade league following the 1983 season, Corowa moved to the Gold Coast and became involved with the Gold Coast Seagulls. In 1991, at the age of 34 and after nine years in retirement, he played two games for the Seagulls, scoring a single try to take his overall tally to 65 from 98 games before retiring for good.

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Laurie Daley
Laurie Daley OA (born 20 October 1969 in Junee, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league football commentator and former player of Indigenous Australian descent. He also coached the Country New South Wales rugby league team in the 2012 City vs Country Origin match. As a player he represented Australia on 26 occasions and has since been named as one of the nation's finest of the 20th century. Daley played primarily as a centre and then five-eighth for the Canberra Raiders during their most successful period in the 1990s.
Spotted playing first grade for the Junee Diesels in 1986 at the age of sixteen, and after being signed by the Raiders, he developed as a centre and was playing first grade for Canberra by 1987. Daley was playing representative rugby league before his 19th birthday in 1988. He was the second highest try-scorer the following year with sixteen tries. He tasted premiership success with the raiders the following year and in the ensuing celebrations dropped the Winfield Cup from a moving car.[1] Daley disappointed in his first State of Origin games for New South Wales that year, but in 1990 he made his Australian début against France. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season Daley also won the Raiders' player of the year award and went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. He missed Australia's opening loss to Great Britain at Wembley Stadium due to a broken hand suffered in a previous tour match, but played centre for the last four tests on tour (two against Great Britain and two against France).

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Les Boyd
Les Boyd (born in Nyngan, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He played representative football for the Australian national side in international matches as well as the New South Wales side in the State of Origin. Boyd played club football in both Australia and England and his usual position was in the second row.
While attending Nyngan High School, Boyd played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1972. From 1976 to 1984 Boyd played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Western Suburbs Magpies, then the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. In 1980, he successfully sued Mirror Newspapers Ltd for publishing an article that stated he was 'fat, slow and predictable'.
In 1982, Boyd was part of the undefeated Kangaroo Touring side who became known as "The Invincibles". While playing for the New South Wales team in 1983 he broke the jaw of Daryl Brohman with his elbow and was later suspended for 12 months. In 1984 while playing for Manly, Boyd was again suspended, this time for a record-equalling 15 months for eye-gouging of Canterbury's Billy Johnstone.

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Les Hanigan
Les Hanigan is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 70s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative wing three-quarter back, he played club football in Illawarra for Collegians, in Sydney for Manly-Warringah and in North Queensland for Proserpine.
A pro runner from Wollongong, Hanigan was selected to represent Southern New South Wales against the touring Great Britain team in 1966, scoring a try. He signed on to play in Sydney's NSWRFL competition with the Manly-Warringah club in 1967. That year he set a new club record for most tries in a match when he scored five tries in a match against competition newcomers, Cronulla-Sutherland. By the end of the 1967 NSWRFL season he had scored sixteen tries, the most in the competition. After playing for New South Wales, he scored two tries in Australia's First Test win over New Zealand before touring with the 1967-68 Kangaroos. Hanigan played in 11 games on tour but no Tests.
With Manly-Warringah he reached the 1968 NSWRFL season's grand final and played on the wing in the loss to Souths.

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Les Mead
Les Mead is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative goal-kicking half back, he played his club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League Premiership with Western Suburbs.
Son of Sydney's Western Suburbs' club pioneer Ted Mead, Les started his career in Sydney before playing as captain-coach of Wauchope on New South Wales' North Coast in 1931 but returned to Wests the following year. With Western Suburbs he formed an effective partnership in the halves with Vic Hey. Mead was the top point-scorer of the 1932 NSWRFL season with 104 points (10 tries and 37 goals). In 1933 he was selected to represent New South Wales and later that year went on the 1933-34 Kangaroo tour. In August 1933, while in England, Mead played for Australia against England in a novel 7-a-side match. He played several matches while on tour but only one Test match. The following year Mead kicked two goals in Wests' premiership final victory.

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Luke Covell
Luke Covell (born 9 November 1981 in Goondiwindi, Queensland) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks of the National Rugby League. He also previously played for the Wests Tigers. His position of choice is on the Wing. He has been described as one of the most respected players in the NRL.
Covell was raised in Murwillumbah and attended Mt St Patrick's College. Covell played early football for the Murwillumbah Colts.
Covell debuted with the Wests Tigers in 2003 at the age of 21. The wingers limited game time saw him join the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in 2004.
In 2007 Covell made his Test Debut for New Zealand against Australia, in which a young Australian side defeated the Kiwis 58-0. Covell however was injured in the early minutes of the match and it was to be his sole international appearance.
In 2008 Covell won the Dally M Pointscorer of the Year award, playing a major role in the Cronulla Sharks steller season. He went on to score over a thousand points in his career.

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Mal Meninga
Malcolm Norman Meninga AM (born 8 July 1960) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach currently in charge of the Queensland State of Origin team. A former Australian Test captain, he was a legendary goal-kicking centre, counted amongst the finest footballers of the 20th century. He went on to coach for five seasons in the NRL with the Canberra Raiders and has been coach of Queensland's State of Origin team since 2006, having not yet lost a series.
Meninga broke numerous rugby league records during his playing career. He retired with the most appearances, and most points for the Australian rugby league team, and became the top-point scorer for Queensland in State of Origin history. Meninga has since been honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia, has been inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and has also been named at centre in both Queensland's and Australia's rugby league teams of the century.
Born in Bundaberg, Queensland, Graduated from Maroochydore High School, Meninga is an Australian South Sea Islander, a descendant of plantation workers recruited or blackbirded to work in the Queensland sugar industry in the late 19th century. He is an official spokesperson for the South Sea Islander community. Before becoming a full-time professional footballer, Meninga was a police officer at West End Police Station, along with fellow Souths Magpies players Gary Belcher and Peter Jackson.^{[citation needed]}

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Mark Geyer
Mark Geyer (born 7 December 1967), is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative second-rower, he is currently a rugby league media identity. In the 1990s, he was one of the code's more controversial players in Australia due to his ability to generate headlines regarding both his on- and off-field activities and publicised comments, which gained him at least as much attention as much as for his undubitable playing talent. Geyer's club career was played primarily with Penrith, with whom he won a premiership in 1991, as well as the Balmain Tigers and the Western Reds. He is also the brother of fellow footballer Matt Geyer.
Since August 2009, Geyer has been part of the Triple M on-air team for the Sydney breakfast show called The Grill Team. Since 2012, Geyer has been a panelist on NRL on FOX for Fox Sports.
In 1987, Geyer established a regular first-grade place with the Penrith Panthers and was selected for the City Seconds team after only a handful of top grade appearances. In 1987 he was picked in the President's XIII against the touring British Lions.

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Mark McGaw
Mark McGaw is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He achieved national and state representative honours in the sport and following his retirement became one of the Gladiators in the Australian version of the TV show. McGaw's usual position was at centre.
McGaw played his club football for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Penrith Panthers and South Sydney Rabbitohs. He played for Australia in their victory over New Zealand at the 1985–1988 Rugby League World Cup Final in Auckland. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.
Mark McGaw appeared as "Hammer" on the Australian version of the TV show Gladiators from 1995 to 1997 as well as modelling for Lowes Menswear. Mark McGaw is founder of Mark McGaw Institute of Sports Science.
On 2 November 2006 the Supreme Court of New South Wales awarded McGaw $385,000 for a defamatory story Today Tonight broadcast in June 2003. The Supreme Court jury found that the story made two defamatory imputations: that McGaw was "a man of dangerous domestic violence", and that he "bashed his lover so severely that she was hospitalised with horrific injuries".

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Mark Sargent
Mark Sargent is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he played in the NSWRL premiership for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Newcastle Knights, winning the Rothmans Medal in 1989.
In 1989, Sargent won the Rothman's Medal for 'best and fairest' player of the year, along with Gavin Miller from the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.
Sargent was selected to represent New South Wales, playing from the bench in Game III of the 1990 State of Origin series. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, becoming the Knights' first international representative. Between then and 1992 Sargent played for Australia on four occasions, against Great Britain, France and Papua New Guinea.
Sargent was a member of the NRL Judiciary in 1999–2000. He was also team manager at the Knights when they won the 2001 premiership. Sargent resigned from the position in 2005 after publicly voicing his concerns over the future of the Newcastle club.

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Martin Bella
Martin Bella is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A prop forward, he achieved national and state representation and played club football for various teams in Queensland, New South Wales and England. He is of Italian descent.
He is the brother of Australian international Robert and South Queensland Crushers player Anthony.
Martin Bella's career started out in the Foley Shield. His Mackay Under-18 side defeated Herbert River in the final after representing Queensland and Australia at schoolboy level the previous two seasons. Bella left North Queensland to play with Easts Tigers in Brisbane Rugby League premiership from 1983. After three seasons in Brisbane and two off-seasons playing for Halifax in England, Bella moved to North Sydney Bears in 1986.
At the end of the 1986 NSWRL season, Bella went on the 1986 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, playing in most games on the tour, but not the Tests. In 1987 he played State of Origin and in 1988 made his first Test appearance in the third Test against the touring Great Britain side.

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Matt Bowen
Matthew Jeremy "Matt" Bowen (born 9 March 1982 in Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian rugby league player. He has spent his whole professional career with the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL), playing in over 200 matches and holding the club's record for the player with the most NRL appearances. He appeared in the club's only NRL Grand Final (2005). A dynamic fullback, he was twice the NRL's top try-scorer for a season, in 2005 and 2007. He was named the NRL's best player in his position in the 2007 season.
Bowen played in one Test match for Australia, against France in 2004. He played in ten State of Origin matches for Queensland, between 2004 and 2007.
Bowen grew up in the Cape York Aboriginal community of Hopevale. He attended Abergowrie College near Ingham where he started playing rugby league at the age of 12. His school team won the Queensland schoolboys' competition in 1999 and he was named player of the tournament. His schoolboy exploits attracted the attention of a number of NRL clubs in Sydney and Brisbane; however, he chose to pursue his professional career with his local team, the North Queensland Cowboys. In 2000, he was part of the Cowboys' reserve grade team that made the grand final of the reserve grade competition.

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Matt Geyer
Matt Geyer (born 5 September 1975 in Blacktown, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league footballer for the Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup. A New South Wales State of Origin representative winger, he played his club football primarily with the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League competition, winning premierships with them in 1999 and 2007. He also represented City Origin and played for the Western Reds, making him one of a handful of first-grade players to never have played for a New South Wales, Queensland or New Zealand club. Geyer is also the younger brother of rugby league personality Mark Geyer.
Geyer started his career in 1997 for the Western Reds in the Super League competition where his older brother Mark was captain. Upon the club's dissolution at the end of 1997 he became one of the foundation members of the Melbourne Storm when they started their first season in 1998. Since then, Geyer has become the most capped Melbourne Storm player, also holding the record for most tries for the club. Most of his career has been played at wing, but he has also played a large utility role at the club, including fullback, centre, five-eighth, halfback and hooker. While with the Storm he played for the Norths Devils in the 1998 Queensland Cup.

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Matthew Ridge
Matthew John Ridge (born 27 August 1968) is a New Zealand television presenter as well as a former All Black, and rugby league captain for the Manly Sea Eagles, New Zealand Warriors and Kiwis.
He is now best known for his mischievous antics alongside his partner Marc Ellis in various TV shows like 'Game of Two Halves' and 'Marc & Matthew's Rocky Road to ...'.
Born Matthew John Ridge in Rotorua on 27 August 1968, he at first played soccer in under-13 grades, but by the time he finished his schooling at Auckland Grammar (having also done four years at Mt Albert Grammar), he was a regular selection in Auckland age-group rugby union teams, and had been a member of the New Zealand Secondary Schools side in 1986.
In 1988, a few weeks before his 19th birthday, he made his first-class debut for the New Zealand Colts and picked up one late-season appearance for Auckland, where he made a good impression in a pressure match with Canterbury.
He became a key player in the powerful Auckland side of the time and gained a reputation as a fearless player.

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Max Krilich
Max Krilich (born 25 October 1949 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He was a hooker for the Australia national team, playing in 13 Tests from 1978 to 1983 and as captain on 10 consecutive occasions in 1982 and 1983. He was the captain of the 1982 "Invincibles" Australian touring side.
Krilich played rugby union at school before joining the Harbord United Rugby League Club. He was graded by the Manly Sea Eagles in 1969. Australian World Cup hooker Freddie Jones was the Manly captain when Krilich joined the club. Krilich had to bide his time and played in over 100 reserve grade games till 1974 before he cemented the first grade hooker position. After the departure of Bob Fulton in 1976 Krilich assumed the club captaincy.
He played 215 first grade games with the club and 119 reserve grade games up till his retirement in 1983.
Unusually Krilich was selected in the City 2nds while playing reserve grade for Manly in 1971. It would be another six years before he was selected for representative honours. In the 1978 finals series Manly played six matches in 16 days to make it through to the Grand Final and the subsequent Grand Final replay where they beat Cronulla. Krilich was selected in the Australian side that toured New Zealand weeks later. He played the first two Tests but season fatigue and injury affected his form and he was replaced by George Peponis for the 3rd Test. It would be four years later before Krilich would regain a Test spot and grab the Australian captaincy.

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Michael Eden
Mike Eden (born 27 March 1961) is an Australian former rugby league player. The slightly built Eden played for Manly, Eastern Suburbs, Parramatta and the Gold Coast. Originally appearing in the halves, he later played at fullback.
Eden was named the player of the series in the 1982 KB Cup. An accomplished goal-kicker, he was the leading point scorer in the 1983 NSWRFL season, scoring 256 points (12 tries, 103 goals and 2 field goals). He also won the competition's Best and Fairest award, the Rothmans Medal, in that year. He later joined parramatta for the 1985 season.
Eden's uncle, Harry Eden, was also an Australian Rugby League player for the St George Dragons, Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney clubs.
Eden currently works as a solicitor in Albury NSW.

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Michael Hagan
Michael Hagan (born 12 August 1964) is an Australian rugby league football coach and former player. He currently works as assistant coach under Mal Meninga for the record-breaking Queensland rugby league team. A Queensland State of Origin representative half, he played his club football in Australia with Canterbury Bankstown (with whom he won the 1988 and 1985 premierships) and Newcastle (whom he captained), and in England with Halifax. He went on to have a successful coaching career with Newcastle (winning the premiership with them in 2001) and Parramatta, and was also selected to coach the Queensland Maroons for two State of Origin series. He is currently the Queensland assistant coach. Hagan was inducted into the Newcastle Knights Hall of Fame in April, 2012.
The younger brother of former Test centre Bob Hagan, Hagan was graded with Canterbury in 1983. Although best suited to play at five-eighth or halfback, the presence of Terry Lamb and Steve Mortimer forced Hagan to play much of his career with Canterbury as a "fill in" at fullback or lock forward. Hagan played a role filling in for Lamb in Canterbury's upset win in the 1985 grand final.

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Mick Madsen
Peter "Mick" Madsen (16 September 1901 - 2 February 1979) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a front-row forward for the Australian national team. He played in 9 Tests between 1929 and 1936 as captain on 1 occasion and has since been named as one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Born in Tannymorel near Warwick, Queensland he attended Toowoomba Grammar School and played rugby league there. He was a seasonal labourer in country Queensland when at age 20 he played in a game against the visiting Toowoomba Brothers club who signed him up.
Madsen played his entire first grade career of 17 seasons with the Brothers club.
He first represented for Queensland at age 27 and then consistently for the next 9 years making a then record of 34 appearances against New South Wales as well as 5 appearances against touring international sides.
He made his Test debut against England in the first Test of the 1929 Kangaroo Tour. He played in the 2nd Test loss and 17 tour matches before a broken jaw rule him out of further appearances.

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Mick Veivers
Mick Veivers (born 12 August 1939) was the Member for Southport from 1987 to 2001 and was Minister for Emergency Services and Sport in the Borbidge Government. He had previously been a Rugby League international.
Veivers was born at Southport in Queensland, Australia. He attended St. Joseph's Nudgee College.

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Mitch Brennan
Mitch Brennan (born 30 October 1954) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. A Queensland State of Origin representative three-quarter, he played club football during the 1970s and 80s in Queensland for Souths and Redcliffe and in New South Wales for South Sydney, Canberra and St. George, with whom he won the 1978 premiership. After playing he became coach of Wakefield Trinity from 1996 to 1997.
A stylish three-quarter with a great turn of pace, Mitch Brennan trialed with the Canadian Football League side the Toronto Argonauts in 1975 and was offered a contract before visa restrictions prevented his American football career. He returned to Australia and was graded with Brisbane Souths.
His NSWRL career began controversially when in the 1977 pre-season, he was coaxed by his former coach Harry Bath to play for St George in a trial match at Grafton. Brennan played under the pseudonym 'Mickey Lane' because he was still in contract negotiations with Brisbane Souths. He was recognised and fined $500. He joined St George in 1978.

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Morrie Boyle
Morrie Boyle (New South Wales, Australia) was a rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.
Boyle was a Winger for the Eastern Suburbs club. He played 40 matches in the years (1929–32). He was a member of the Eastern Suburbs side that was beaten by South Sydney in the 1931 premiership decider. A noted try scorer Boyle scored 28 tries during his career, in the 1930 season Boyle was the leading try scorer in the NSWRL premiership. Boyle is recognised as the 196th footballer to play for the Eastern Suburbs club.

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Nathan Blacklock
Nathan Blacklock (born 4 April 1976 in Tingha, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union player who primarily played as a winger.
Blacklock's nickname Tingha is a reference to the town in which he was born. He began his professional career at the Sydney Roosters in 1995, before moving to the St George Dragons where he played between 1997 and 1998. From 1999 to 2002 he played for the newly formed joint venture St George Illawarra Dragons. He played on the wing for the Dragons in their 1999 NRL Grand Final loss to Melbourne. At the end of the 2001 NRL season, Blacklock went on the 2001 Kangaroo tour. During the 2002 NRL season Blacklock was granted a release from his contract with the Dragons in order to play rugby union. Some speculate that this move was motivated by the disappointment Blacklock felt after not being selected for State of Origin, despite being the leading try scorer three years running.^{[citation needed]}
After a short stint in rugby union with the New South Wales Waratahs, Blacklock returned to the Dragons during the latter half of the 2003 NRL season, where he again proved his worth by scoring 14 tries in 12 games. 2004 was an average year for Blacklock, where injuries kept him off the field for long periods of time. Blacklock returned to help the Dragons at the end of the year, which included scoring crucial tries in the Dragons' round 25 come from behind win against Manly, as well as their narrow loss to the Panthers during the first week of the finals.

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Nathan Merritt
Nathan Merritt (born 26 May 1983 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League. He has also previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. His position of choice is either on the wing or at fullback. Merritt is an Indigenous Australian who grew up on The Block, Redfern. He jointly holds the Souths' record for the most tries in an NRL match with 5 in a 56-6 demolition of the Parramatta Eels on 8 August 2011.
Merritt played junior football for Alexandria Rovers.
His first-grade debut was for the South Sydney Rabbitohs against the New Zealand Warriors at Ericsson Stadium in round 9 of the 2002 NRL season and scored a try.
At the end of the 2003 season Merritt agreed to terms with the Cronulla Sharks where he was to play for the next two years. In the 2005 season, Merritt endured a tough year. He played only three first grade games for the Cronulla Sharks, but was a stand-out player in the lower grade NSWRL Premier League matches for the Newtown Jets, scoring almost 300 points for the year. His outstanding showing that year was rewarded when his old club the South Sydney Rabbitohs offered him a two-year contract to play in the National Rugby League.

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Nigel Vagana
Nigel Vagana (born 7 February 1975 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A New Zealand and Samoa international representative centre, he retired as the Kiwis' all-time top try-scorer with 19. Vagana played club football in New Zealand for the Warriors, in England for Warrington and in Australia for the Bulldogs, Cronulla-Sutherland and finally South Sydney.
Vagana is also the cousin of Bradford Bulls prop-forward Joe Vagana and former Silver Ferns netball player Linda Vagana.
In April 2002, Vagana became the first Bulldogs player since 1942 to score five tries in a match. That season he was the League's top try-scorer.
He signed a two year contract with NRL club South Sydney, starting in 2007, expiring at the end of 2008.
Vagana had represented the New Zealand national team on thirty-two separate occasions between 1998 and 2006, including playing in the 2000 World Cup when he announced his retirement from international rugby league following the 2006 Tri Nations series. However he was named in the Samoa squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. and captained the side in the tournament, scoring a memorable, length-of-the-field try against Tonga.

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Noa Nadruku
Noa Nadruku (born 19 September 1967) is a Fijian former rugby footballer of the 1980s and 90s. After representing Fiji in rugby union he played rugby league in Australia for the Canberra Raiders (92 games between 1993 and 1997) and was named as one of the best 25 players for the Raiders' 25-year anniversary. His usual position was winger and in addition to winning the 1994 NSWRL Premiership, in 1993 and 1996 he was the top try-scorer in the League. The "Noa Nadruku Trophy" is awarded to the Australia Fijian Rugby League's player of the year.
Nadruku first played international rugby union for Fiji in 1988 and played a total of five games for his country between then and 1991. In 1993, while playing in the Sevens tournament, he was spotted by Canberra coach Tim Sheens and invited to train with the Canberra Raiders of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. He had a slow start, but against Cronulla in the fifth round Nadruku became a sensation with his compact build providing tremendous speed and power, and scored two tries, setting up several others. Against Manly Nadruku created even more of an impression with strong defence to complement his powerful running. By the end of the year Nadruku had scored 22 tries in just twenty games - being the first player to score more than one try per game in a full season since Larry Corowa fifteen years before.

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Norm Carr
Norm Carr is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s. A Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played his entire club career in the Brisbane Rugby League Premiership for Souths and Wests, winning grand finals with both.
Born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Carr's three game sojourn in the Maroon jumper began off the bench in 1980, but didn't play as he wasn't called upon by coach John McDonald. He actually played in 1981. He was elevated to the starting XIII for the second and third games of the 1982 series. Carr played at lock forward as Queensland wrapped up the series with victories. Carr captained Souths Magpies to victory in the 1985 Brisbane Rugby League premiership, scoring a try against Wynnum-Manly in the grand final. Carr played for Brisbane Wests in the QRL State League.

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Norm Jacobson
Norm Jacobson was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s. A New South Wales interstate representative three-quarter, he played his club football career in the NSWRFL Premiership for the Newtown club.
A centre and prolific try-scorer, Jacobson played in Newtown's grand final win in 1943. After returning from interstate Army service, he resumed playing for Newtown the following year and played in the 1944 grand final loss. In his final season at Newtown, Jacobson was the League's top try-scorer, with 27 tries from 19 appearances.
After retiring from playing football, Norm Jacobson coached the Condobolin rugby league side.

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Norm Provan
Norm "Sticks" Provan (born 1932) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. A giant of a man, he was a second-row forward with the St. George Dragons during their 11-year consecutive premiership-winning run from 1956 to 1966. Named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century, he was a representative in the Australian national team from 1954 to 1960 earning 14 Test and 2 World Cup caps.
A St George junior and Sutherland local, Provan's junior football was played with the Sutherland Woronora Juniors. He was graded by St George in 1950 after being turned down by Easts. Provan was member of the Dragons side that lost the 1953 final to South Sydney – the two clubs would battle head-to-head on many more occasions in Provan's illustrious career.
After the retirement of Ken Kearney in 1962 from the playing arena, and given the Dragons administrators' preference for a player-coach, he took over as captain-coach and the club's dominant run continued. Provan holds the club record of 284 games for St George achieved between 1951 and 1965. He played in the first ten of their run of premiership victories – as captain-coach for four - and made 30 finals appearances for the club. His last game before retirement was a victory in the 1965 Grand Final where the Dragons beat the Rabbitohs 12–8.

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Pat Devery
Pat Devery is an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s, and coach of the 1950s. An Australian international representative half, he played in Australia for the Balmain club, winning the 1944, '46 and '47 grand finals with them. He was also the 1947 season's top point-scorer.
Devery was discovered by Latchem Robinson while playing football in the Domain as a sailor in the Royal Australian Navy during the war. He made his début for Australia in 1946. At the end of the 1947 season a large number of Australians signed with English clubs, headed by Devery who signed with Huddersfield for a fee of £1,350 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £122,000 in 2009). He went on to break the club's record for most points in a season with 332, achieved in 1952–53. He also made 11-appearances for the Other Nationalities, and 1-appearance for the British Empire.
He was a teacher at Oakes Elementary school in Huddersfield in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the same time as Bon Spence the former Huddersfield Town [[Defender (association football)#Full-back|Full-back].

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Paul McCabe
Paul McCabe (born 4 August 1959 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He played for several clubs as well as representing Queensland in the State of Origin. McCabe was also a member of the 1982 "Invincibles" Kangaroos side, playing in the third Test against Great Britain. His brother John was also a Queensland representative player in the 1970s.
In 1981, McCabe was selected to play for both New South Wales and Queensland. He played the first two games of the series for the Blues and the third game, selected on state of origin rules, for the Maroons.
McCabe played for the North Sydney Bears,Eastern suburbe Roosters, Mainly Sea Eagels and Balmaim Tigers before returnign to Queensland. He is one of six players to ever represent NSW and QLD in the same origin series, He also represented Sydney City Firsts and Brisbane,McCabe also Played origin in 1983 and 1985 origin, wasn't able to play origin in 1984 due to injury. He now is a father of 3, Jacob McCabe(1991) Jessica McCabe(1992) and Emily McCabe(1995).

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Paul Osborne
Paul Osborne is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, administrator and politician. He played first-grade rugby league for the St George Dragons and Canberra Raiders before serving as a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 1995 until 2001. He was the chief executive officer of the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League from 2009 to 2011.
Osborne grew up in Hurlstone Park, New South Wales and was educated at Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham. He was formerly a police detective. He is married to Sally and they have 9 children.
He was a member of the St George rugby league team between 1986–1991 and the Canberra Raiders rugby league team between 1992 - 1994. His form for St.George Dragons between 1986-1991 was inconsistent as he was sometimes considered a future star for the club and a captaincy candidate and at other times was considered a liability, although, he starred in the victorious St George Dragons team that won the Panasonic Cup in 1988. He left the Club at the end of Brian Smith's first year of Coaching in 1991 to join the weakened Canberra club who had lost so many forwards after the 1991 salary cap investigation.

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Paul Sironen
Paul Sironen (born 23 May 1965 in North Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who was a prominent second rower for the Balmain Tigers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was part of the team that played in successive Grand Finals in 1988 and 1989, and included other representative players Steve "Blocker" Roach, Wayne Pearce, Benny Elias and Garry Jack. He made a number of appearances for both New South Wales in State of Origin and also for Australia, and has been named as part of the Wests Tigers Team of the Century.
In the early 1980s, the University of Hawaii offered Sironen a scholarship to move to Waikiki in Hawaii and play American football in the position of defensive tackle. Sironen decided that he "never got to touch the ball enough" and, after the first season ended, he moved back to Australia. Sironen joined the Balmain Tigers and, in his debut year, he was named as the Dally M Rookie of the Year.
In the 1988 season, Sironen played in the Grand Final in which Balmain where defeated by twenty four points to twelve by the Canterbury Bulldogs. The following year the club again made the Grand Final. Unfortunately for the club and Sironen, who scored a try in the match, the club again lost the Grand Final by nineteen points to fourteen against the Canberra Raiders. In the 1990 season, Sironen was named as the Dally M Second-rower of the Year. Also at the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.

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Paul Vautin
Paul Vautin (born 21 July 1959), is an Australian television presenter and former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He and has provided commentary for the Nine Network's coverage of rugby league since the early 1990s and has also hosted The Footy Show since its beginnings in 1994. An Australian Kangaroos and Queensland State of Origin representative lock or second-row forward, Vautin played club football in Brisbane with Wests before moving to Sydney and playing with Manly-Warringah, with whom he won the 1987 NSWRL premiership. He also played for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club and in England for St. Helens. After playing, Vautin became a sports commentator for Channel 9. Later, during the Super League war, he was hired to coach Queensland in the 1995 State of Origin series and took the Maroons to a 3–0 whitewash of New South Wales.
Vautin made his name in the 1970s playing for the Wests Panthers in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership, the Manly Sea Eagles in Sydney, St. Helens in England, Queensland in the State of Origin and the Australia national rugby league team. He finished his playing career with the Roosters.

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Percy Dermond
Percy Dermond (Sydney, Australia) was a rugby league player in Australia's premier competition the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL).
A Winger, Dermond played for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years (1938–39), (1941–43) and (1946–47). In the 1941 Season Dermond, with a total of 13 tries for that year, was one, of three players, to be that seasons leading try scorer.
Dermond played in two premierships deciders for Eastern Suburbs club. However, they lost both matches. In 1938 they were defeated by Canterbury Bankstown in their maiden premiership victory and in 1941 they were defeated by St George, it was also their first premiership victory.
The winger played a total of 51 matches for the club, scoring a total of 36 tries and is officially recognised as the clubs 259th player.

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Peter Frilingos
Peter Frilingos (1944-2004) was a sports journalist and commentator, best known for his work as a rugby league writer. He was affectionately known as Chippy because of his Greek background.
Peter was also a member of the Continuous Call Team on radio station 2GB and a regular on Foxtel's 'Main Game'. He died at work from a heart attack, aged 59.
Peter started his career at The Daily Mirror as a copyboy in February 1962 and wrote his first rugby league article in 1964. He became chief rugby league writer and when the paper merged with The Daily Telegraph in the early 1990s, he continued in that role with the merged newspaper.
His wife was Maureen and his children are Matt, Anna and Alison. Matt Frilingos is also a journalist.
Influential pressman dies at his desk By Peter FitzSimons May 4, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald
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Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 to 2003), adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies beginning with Bad Taste (1987) before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year.
His films also include Meet the Feebles (1989), Braindead (1992), Forgotten Silver (1995), The Frighteners (1996), King Kong (2005),The Lovely Bones (2009), and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequels The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013). He is also the producer of District 9 (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).

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Peter Sterling
Peter Maxwell John "Sterlo" Sterling OAM (born 16 June 1960) is an Australian rugby league commentator and former player. He was one of the all-time great halfbacks and a major contributor to Parramatta Eels' dominance of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in the 1980s. Sterling played nineteen Tests for the Australian national team between 1982 and 1988. He also played in thirteen State of Origins for New South Wales, winning man of the match on four occasions. He played in four premiership-winning sides with Parramatta in 1981–1983 and 1986 and has been inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame.
Sterling was born in Toowoomba, Queensland and raised in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He commenced his playing career at the age of fourteen when he joined the Wagga Wagga Kangaroo Panthers in 1974. As a teenager he spent several years living at RAAF Base Wagga, where his father was serving as a dental technician.Sterling then moved to Sydney were he attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield.

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Phil Blake
Phil Blake (born 24 November 1963 in London, England) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s who represented New South Wales on one occasion. Originally a half back, Blake developed into a utility player and played first grade matches in all the backline positions, as well as at hooker and lock. Phil Blake is the younger brother of former Manly, Canberra and South Sydney player Michael Blake.
While attending Manly Christian Brothers College, Blake played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1981.
Blake made his debut for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in 1982 and made an immediate impact. In his rookie year he played halfback was a try scorer in Manly's losing Grand Final side against Parramatta. Blake won the Dally M Rookie of the Year award and was considered unlucky to miss out on selection for the 1982 Kangaroo tour.
He continued his good form in 1983 when he broke the Sea Eagles club record for the most tries scored in a season with 27 and finished the year as the top try scorer in the league. Blakes 27 tries were scored from just 23 games played. As of 2011 this is still the Manly club record for most tries in a premiership season. Manly won through to the 1983 Grand Final, again against Parramatta, and for the second time in two seasons, were on the wrong end of the scoreline at the end losing 6-18.

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Quentin Pongia
Quentin Lee Pongia (born 9 July 1970) is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s who represented his country. He is the grandson of fellow Kiwi international Jim Calder and his sister Megan Tahapeehi has also represented the Kiwi Ferns.
Originally from the West Coast, Pongia transferred east in 1988 and played in the Canterbury Rugby League competition, representing the province in 1991 and 1992.
Pongia later played for the Canberra Raiders, Auckland Warriors and the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League before heading to France. Pongia went to France as player coach of Paris Chattilon, but it didn’t work out and he moved to Villeneuve, winning both the Championship and the Lord Derby Cup with the side.
In 2003, after the French season had finished, Pongia returned to Australia and played two matches for the St. George Illawarra Dragons. He then finished his career in England playing for the Wigan Warriors. He was forced to retire from rugby league after it was discovered that he suffered from hepatitis B.

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Ray Lindwall
Raymond Russell Lindwall MBE (3 October 1921 – 23 June 1996) was a cricketer who represented Australia in 61 Tests from 1946 to 1960. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. He also played top-flight rugby league football with St. George, appearing in two grand finals for the club before retiring to fully concentrate on Test cricket.
A right-arm fast bowler of express pace, Lindwall was widely regarded as the greatest pace bowler of his era and one of the finest of all time. Together with Keith Miller, Lindwall formed a new-ball pairing regarded as one of the greatest to have played cricket. Lindwall was known for his classical style, with a smooth and rhythmic run-up and textbook side-on bowling action, from which he generated his trademark outswinger which moved away late at high pace. Lindwall mixed his outswinger with a searing yorker, subtle changes of pace and an intimidating bouncer that skidded at the heads of opposing batsmen. Later in his career, Lindwall developed an inswinger, which together with his variety, pace and control made him the most feared paceman of his time. Lindwall was a fine all round cricketer; he was a hard-hitting batsman who scored two centuries at Test level and often improved Australia's position with his lower order batting. Lindwall's best known performance was his role in leading the Australian bowling during the 1948 tour of England under Don Bradman; the 1948 Australian team went through the tour undefeated and gained the sobriquet The Invincibles which saw it regarded as one of the finest teams in cricketing history. Lindwall's place in Australian cricket history saw him inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members. In 2000, Lindwall was named in the Australian Cricket Board's Team of the Century.

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Reg Gasnier
Reg Gasnier AM (born 12 May 1939 in Kogarah, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach, regarded as one of the 20th century's finest players. He played in the centres for the St. George Dragons from 1959 to 1967. He also represented Australia in a record 36 Tests and three World Cup games and was the Captain of the national side on eight occasions between 1962 and 1967. Gasnier is the uncle of rugby league footballer Mark Gasnier.
Gasnier was born and raised in the southern Sydney suburb of Mortdale. At Sutherland Intermediate High School Gasnier began to hone his natural sporting ability playing rugby, cricket, baseball and athletics. Reg Gasnier later attended Sydney Technical High School in the St. George area suburb of Bexley as a local student. Whilst at 'Tech', he became a champion schoolboy sportsman in both rugby and cricket.
He was selected at age 13 in a New South Wales Schoolboy side in a curtain raiser to the 1952 Australia and New Zealand Test.

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Rex Norman
Rex Norman (1891–1961) was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative player who club career was played with Annandale, the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters.
He was one of three brothers along with Roy and Ray Norman who played in the NSW Rugby Football League first-grade competition. Both Rex and Ray represented with the Australia national rugby league team becoming only the second set of brothers to do so behind Viv and Bill Farnsworth. Rex was selected on the 1921-22 Kangaroo tour he played in 21 minor tour matches but no Tests.
He was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer in 1921.
Norman also played first-class cricket for New South Wales, appearing in seven matches from 1918 to 1920. A left-arm fast-medium bowler, he took 31 wickets at 26.83.

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Rhys Wesser
Rhys Joseph "Sugar" Wesser (born 31 March 1979) is a Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the NRL. A Queensland State of Origin representative fullback, he previously played for the Penrith Panthers, with whom he won the 2003 NRL Premiership.
Wesser began his rugby league career in Rockhampton having moved there, with his junior club, the Rockhampton Brothers. At age 16, Wesser was selected for the Queensland Under 17s representative side which helped him catch the eye of several NRL clubs but none more than the Penrith Panthers.
Before making the move south Wesser finished his schooling at Emmaus College, Rockhampton, Queensland and also helped his School side take out the Mal Meninga Under 19s Cup being the fourth fastest 19-year-old in the state, running times around 11 seconds in 100 metres.^{[citation needed]}
Debuting in 1998 Wesser moved from his hometown of Rockhampton to the foot of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, to play for the Penrith Panthers but he found trouble in pushing for a first-grade spot with Peter Jorgensen holding that title. Three years later Rhys was given the opportunity to play first grade with the departure of Jorgensen. Wesser scored ten tries in his debut season despite Penrith finishing last on the premiership table.

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Ricky Stuart
Ricky Stuart (born 7 January 1967 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian rugby league football coach and former player of the 1980s and 90s. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales State of Origin team, having replaced Craig Bellamy following a fifth consecutive failure in the 2010 series. Stuart had previously been coach of the Blues, as well as the Australian national side, and has coached National Rugby League clubs, the Sydney Roosters (taking them to three consecutive grand finals from 2002–2004) and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.
A former international representative rugby league and rugby union player – a dual-code international – Stuart also played State of Origin for New South Wales in the first Gould era. At club level, Stuart was the half-back of the "Green Machine", the Canberra Raiders team that won three premierships in 1989, 1990 and 1994 and were runners-up in 1991 who were coached by Tim Sheens. As a player Stuart was noted for his ability to throw long, spiralling passes to both the left and right sides of the field.

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Ricky Walford
Ricky Walford (born 8 December 1963) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He played for the Sydney Roosters, North Sydney Bears and the St. George Dragons. He was a classy goal-kicking winger.
Walford was selected from Walgett, New South Wales as an Australian schoolboy representative and toured to New Zealand in 1981.
In 1983 Walford joined the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and made thirteen appearances for the tri-colours in 1982 and 1983. He made his first grade debut in Round 2 of the 1982 season and kicked 2 goals coming from the bench, going on to score 3 tries and 4 goals in seven appearances. Walford only played in 6 games in 1983 for the Roosters, not scoring a try or a goal. He then moved north of Sydney Harbour in 1984 and played 11 games for the North Sydney Bears, scoring 8 tries and kicking 21 goals.
Ricky Walford was one of a dying breed of goal kicker in top line rugby league. He was an old style direct 'toe poker' of the ball rather than the 'around-the-corner' style which gives the kicker greater accuracy and has proved much more popular since Englishman John Gray introduced the style to Australia when he joined The Bears in 1975.

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Rod Morris
Rod Morris is an Australian retired rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative front row forward, he played club football in the New South Wales Rugby Football League for Balmian, and in the Brisbane Rugby League for Eastern Suburbs (with whom he won the 1977 and 1978 Grand Finals) and Wynnum-Manly (with whom he won the 1984 Grand Final).
Morris was a Brisbane Easts player who first represented for Queensland in 1976 and then Australia in 1977. He signed with the Balmain Tigers in 1979 and was brought to Sydney, thus becoming eligible to play for New South Wales under the selection criterion of the time. In the 1979 interstate series he played against his Queensland resident brother Des Morris. He then played for Queensland in 1980 in the first ever Rugby League State of Origin under the new origin selection criterion.
He was a 1978 Kangaroo tourist playing in two Tests and ten minor tour matches. He played in all three Tests of the 1979 domestic Ashes series which Australia won 3-0.

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Rod Reddy
Rod "Rocket" Reddy (born 1 March 1954 in Rockhampton, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the St. George Dragons between 1972 and 1983 and the Illawarra Steelers between 1984 and 1985. He also represented Queensland in the State of Origin and Australia.
As a player, Rod Reddy is remembered as one of the St.George Dragon's most famous players from the 1970s. He was a member of premiership winning teams in 1977 and 1979. He ended his playing career at the Illawarra Steelers in 1985. Rod Reddy took on a player-coach role at Barrow in 1987. Barrow earned promotion to Division One but that campaign saw Barrow manage only one league win and suffer a club record 90-0 defeat at Leeds. Reddy was sacked and Denis Jackson took over as a caretaker coach for the rest of 1989/90
After a successful coaching stint with Cumbria, Reddy took on the reserve grade coaching duties position Brian Smith at St George. He was appointed Smith’s successor as coach in 1996 but embraced the Super League concept and walked out on his former club before a match was played. After sitting out the 1996 season while Super League successfully lodged its appeal, Reddy was the inaugural coach of the Adelaide Rams in 1997’s Super League season.

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Rohan Hancock
Rohan Hancock (born 18 June 1955 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. An Australian international and Queensland representative prop forward, he played his club football in Queensland with Toowoomba.
Hancock, a prop from Toowoomba, first represented Queensland in 1978, played against Great Britain in 1979 before touring New Zealand with Australia the following year. Hancock played in the inaugural State of Origin match in 1980 but had to wait another two years before making his Test debut.
After playing in two Tests against NZ, Hancock was selected with the Kangaroos and made his only Test appearance against Papua New Guinea (in 1982) on the way to England and France with the 1982 Invincibles. He played in nine other matches on tour.

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Ron Coote
Ron Coote AM (born 1944) is an Australian former representative rugby league player whose club career was played with the South Sydney and Eastern Suburbs, both of whom he won premierships with. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.The Ron Coote Cup, contested annually by South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Sydney Roosters is named in his honour - his entire club career having been played at these two clubs.
Born in Kingsford, New South Wales in 1944 Coote was a South Sydney junior and the son of 1930s Easts forward Jack Coote. He was a tall, rangy lock with an upright running style. He was famous for his outstanding cover defence and low, "round-the-legs" tackling technique. He was bestowed the name "Prince of Locks" acknowledging him as second greatest Australian lock ever (behind "King of Locks" Johnny Raper).
He played 151 games for South Sydney from 1964–71 and 108 games for Eastern Suburbs from 1972–1978. With both clubs enjoying success during his tenure, Coote's Grand Final record is phenomenal. He played in nine Grand Finals in 11 seasons from 1965 to 1975. He won four premierships at Souths and consecutive premierships at Easts in season 1974 and season 1975. An arm injury forced him into retirement in 1978.

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Ron Roberts
Ron Roberts (1927–2003) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a state and national representative, who is known for scoring a try in 1950 which won Australia an Ashes series. His club career was with the St. George Dragons and he was a member of their 1949 premiership-winning side.
Roberts was a giant of a man who joined St. George in 1949 and played three seasons with the club as a winger. That first year he scored two tries in the Dragons' 1949 Grand Final victory over the South Sydney Rabbitohs and was the League's season top try scorer. He made his representative debut for New South Wales that year and was selected for Australia's tour of New Zealand appearing in five minor matches and making his full representative debut in the 2nd Test in Auckland.
For the first two Tests of the 1950 domestic Ashes series against Great Britain, Roberts was overlooked by selectors for other wingers including his club teammate Noel Pidding. The series was locked at 1-all after two games.
The decider was played on a quagmire at the Sydney Cricket Ground and Roberts had regained his national wing spot after a one year absence. The rain had been consistent in the lead up week and before the match forty tonnes of sand were dumped on the SCG to save the match from abandonment. Fourteen minutes from the end in pouring rain with the scores locked 2-all, Australia executed a back-line movement from a play-the-ball. Centre Keith Middleton sent the ball out to an unmarked Roberts who ran 40 metres and crossed in the corner for the only try of the match and a 5-2 win.

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Ross Conlon
Ross Conlon (born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer. He played for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Balmain Tigers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership (NSWRL) as well as representative football for New South Wales and the Australia. He was a renowned goalkicker and described as, "One of the fastest players in the game."
Conlon, a centre, was notable for his success as a goal-kicker. He developed an 'around-the-corner' sideways shuffle before moving in to strike the ball, claiming the shuffle gave him more time. Conlon credits this habit to soccer, a game he played until the age of fifteen.
Conlon played junior football with Murwillumbah. Having scored 180 points while playing in the University Cup competition for Mount St Mary in 1980, he was noticed by Wests coach, Roy Masters.
Having only played 3 under-23s matches, Conlon debuted for Wests in round 6 of the 1981 NSWRL season, scoring a try against North Sydney. His performance in a televised match was noted, with the next days paper saying, "Tall and fast, Conlon came up with a debut match that footballers dream about. The Magpies have unearthed a dashing new find."

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Ruben Wiki
Ruben Wiki, ONZM (born 21 January 1973, South Auckland, New Zealand) is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A New Zealand international representative centre-turned-prop forward, he retired with the record for most number of international appearances of any rugby league player in history.
At club level Wiki played for the Canberra Raiders, winning the 1994 NSWRL Premiership with them before finishing his career with the New Zealand Warriors. He currently works as the NZRL's High Performance Manager and a High Performance Assistant with the New Zealand Warriors.
An Otahuhu Leopards junior, Wiki played first grade for the Canberra Raiders and New Zealand Warriors in the Australasian National Rugby League (NRL) competition. Alongside future All Black captain Tana Umaga, Wiki wreaked havoc for the Junior Kiwis in 1992. He represented the New Zealand Māori side in 1992 and 1993, playing on the wing at the 1992 Pacific Cup. In 1993 he played for Auckland.
In 1994, he teamed up with Kangaroo legend and current Queensland State of Origin coach, Mal Meninga (who was listed in the Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century), as centre to score a premiership win for the Canberra Raiders. He was then involved in controversy when both the Canberra Raiders and new Auckland Warriors tried to register him for the 1995 season. After a long dispute Wiki stayed with Canberra where he would remain until 2004 before moving to the Warriors. In 2001 Wiki was banned for two matches after pleading guilty to a dangerous throw charge on Sydney prop Scott Logan. Wiki joined the New Zealand Warriors in 2005. He became only the tenth player and first New Zealander to play 300 first grade games in the NRL when he started at prop in the Warriors 28-26 victory against the Wests Tigers on the 29 June 2008.

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Russel Gartner
Russel Gartner is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. An international representative three-quarter, He played for Manly, Balmain and Easts in the NSWRFL premiership.
Gartner came from a family with a strong rugby league background with his father Jim and uncle Clive playing for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs (and his nephew Daniel Gartner would later play for Manly-Warringah and represent Australia).
A tall three-quarter, Russel Gartner started playing first grade in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1975 with the Manly-Warringah club. The following year he was part of the Sea Eagles' premiership-winning side. In 1977 Gartner was the League's top try-scorer and at the end of the season played for Australia in the 1977 World Cup. In the final against a strong Great Britain side he scored a spectacular 65-metre solo try which was a catalyst to Australia's eventual victory.
At the end of the 1981 season, Gartner transferred to the Eastern Suburbs club where he played for two years before moving to Balmain. He played in the Tigers' losing 1988 Grand Final side and was a non-playing reserve in their dramatic extra time loss to the Canberra Raiders in the following year's decider.

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Ryan Girdler
Ryan Girdler (born 19 September 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian former rugby league Rugby player of the 1990s and 2000s. He played centre and was a successful goal-kicker. Thanks to his on-field skills and good looks he became a popular figure in rugby league.
Girdler first played in the NSWRL for the Illawarra Steelers in 1991. During his time at Illawarra, he struggled with injuries and with the likes of Paul McGregor and Brett Rodwell cemented as the Steelers centre pairing, received few chances to reach his full potential.
This prompted a move to the Penrith Panthers in 1993 where he stayed for the rest of his career.
In 1997 he three games for New South Wales. In the 1997 post season, Girdler was selected to play for Australia as a centre and goal kicker in two matches of the Super League Test series against Great Britain.
Following Super League, Girdler was then selected for New South Wales in State of Origin.
In 2000 Ryan set one of his many records at Penrith, kicking 78 goals in the season. In the 2000 State of Origin series he set records for most points in a game (32 in game 3) and most points in a series (52). Later that year Ryan was selected to play for the Kangaroos in the 2000 Rugby League World Cup. Ryan scored three tries and kicked 17 goals for a 46 points in total when the Kangaroos defeated Russia 110 to 4 at The Boulevard, Hull.

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Sandy Pearce
Sidney Charles Pearce (born 30 May 1883 at Double Bay, New South Wales, died 14 November 1930 in Double Bay, New South Wales), better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and boxer. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
A hooker, he played his whole career of 157 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club between 1908 and 1921. Pearce was a member of the Eastern Suburbs side that won three consecutive premierships from 1911–13. He was also a member of the three Easts City Cup winning sides from 1914 to 1916. He was the first Eastern Suburbs player to register 100 matches with the club and the first in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership to play in 150 matches.
Sandy Pearce was a member of the side that played against the New Zealand ‘All Golds' in 1908 helping to establish the code in Australia. He went on the inaugural Kangaroo tour of England in 1908–09 where he was one of only five players from the thirty-five strong touring party to play in all three Test matches. He also played in 30 other minor matches on that tour, he also represented Australasia.

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Scott Tronc
Scott Tronc (born 15 May 1965) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. A Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in Brisbane with Souths, winning a premiership with them in 1985, and later the Broncos, and in Sydney with Wests, Canterbury-Bankstown and Souths.
Tronc was the winner of the Rothmans Medal (joint with Bryan Neibling) in 1986 while playing for Brisbane Souths.
Scott Tronc played 34 games for Western Suburbs from 1987 to 1988 as a prop forward, before joining Brisbane to play 21 games from 1989 to 1990. He represented the Queensland State of Origin team in one match as a reserve in 1988. In 1991, he joined Canterbury to become a regular member of the first-grade team, playing mostly in the second row. That year, he played in one finals match against Western Suburbs as a replacement.
In 1992, Tronc started the season in the first-grade side but was relegated, with his place going to Gavin Hill. He subsequently became a regular member of the reserve-grade team but was still often used as a first-grade replacement.

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Sel Lisle
Sel Lisle was an Australian rugby league player, a first-grade premiership winning halfback of the 1940s who made a number of state representative appearances.
Lisle played for the Eastern Sububs club from 1940–42 and 1944-47. A halfback, Lisle was a member of Easts' premiership winning sides of 1940 and 1945 and played in the side that finished runner up in the 1941 season.
In 1946 Lisle represented NSW in the interstate series against Queensland.

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Sid Goodwin
Sid Goodwin (1915–1980), born on a Wednesday in November, was Australian rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 40s. He played on the wing for the Balmain and Newtown clubs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership and also represented New South Wales and Australia.
In 1935 Goodwin took Balmain's club record for most tries in a match with five against University on 4 April. That year he was also selected to represent Australia. In 1936 he played in his first Grand Final, scoring a try in Balmain's loss to Easts. In 1939 Goodwin was the premiership's top try-scorer and also captained the Balmain side that won that year's Grand Final. By the time he left Balmain he'd set the club's records for most tries in a season and most career tries.
After moving to Newtown, Goodwin enjoyed further premiership success in NSWRFL season 1943, scoring a double in that year's Grand Final. He was again the League's top try-scorer the following season and played in the Grand Final once more, but failed to win against his old club, Balmain.

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Stacey Jones
Stacey William Jones, ONZM (born 7 May 1976 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a professional rugby league footballer, who has been named amongst the greatest New Zealand has ever produced. He currently plays for the Point Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland Rugby League's Phelan Shield. His usual position is at halfback, but he has also briefly played at five-eighth during his distinguished career, which includes 46 Tests for New Zealand (1995–2006). Stacey Jones is the first and only life member of the New Zealand Warriors club whose records for most appearances, tries and points he held at the time of his retirement.
Jones' vision and ability to control the game when his team was on attack earned him the sobriquet "the little general", a reference also to his small stature in comparison to that of most rugby league players. Jones was often able to find players with a high bombing kick at either sides of the field or place a sneaky through ball for oncoming players to pounce on.
He's the epitome of a New Zealand champion.

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Steve Ella
Steve Ella (born July 28, 1960 in Mount Pritchard, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s. He was a utility back for the Australian national team, playing in 4 Tests between 1983 and 1985. He is a cousin of the Ella brothers who were prominent in Australian rugby union in the 1980s.
Steve Ella had a ten year career with the Parramatta Eels playing at fullback, centre, wing, halfback and five eighth.
Nicknamed "The Zipzip Man" Ella was a member of Parramatta's star studded backlines of the early 1980s playing alongside Brett Kenny, Mick Cronin, Peter Sterling and Eric Grothe.
He was a member of four Premiership winning sides at Parramatta in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1986 as well as the 1984 Grand Final loss to Canterbury. He played a season in England with Wigan in 1985-86 scoring 21 tries in 23 games and finished his career in 1989 with Wakefield Trinity. Ella did return to Parramatta for the 1989 season, but did not play a single game due to injury and announced his retirement in July two weeks shy of his twenty-ninth birthday.

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Steve Gearin
Steve Gearin is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He was a member of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs during the 'entertainers' era. He notably kicked six conversions from six attempts in the 1980 Australian Rugby League Grand Final. He was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point scorer in 1980 and 1984.
Steve Gearin was spotted by Peter Moore when he was playing in the Commenwealth Bank Cup in 1974. He joined Canterbury-Bankstown in 1975. He made his first grade début during the 1976 NSWRFL season against the Newtown Jets at Belmore Sports Ground. At the end of his first year of first grade his stat ended up playing 6 games, scoring 2 tries for 6 points. In 1977 he scored 5 tries in a Friendly against the Queanbeyan Blues. His 1977 season was interrupted by injury. He became a regular first grader in 1978. Steve played in Canterbury's Heartbreaking 22-15 loss in the 1978 NSWRFL season's Qualifying Final against the Parramatta Eels. In 1979 he broke George Taylforths 1967 goal kicking record of 204 points in the process. He played in Canterbury's 17-13 1979 Grand Final loss to the St. George Dragons where he scored 1 try and booted 2 goals. He scored 7 points on Grand Final day. In 1980 he was the New South Wales Rugby League's top point scorer. He played in Canterbury's 18-4 1980 Grand Final win against the Eastern Suburbs Roosters where he scored the greatest Australian Grand Final try in history off a Greg Brentnall Bomb. He also booted 6 goals from 6 attempts. He scored 15 points on Grand Final day a Club Record. His 1980 stat ended up playing 24 games, scoring 14 tries, booting 89 goals for 220 points. His 1981 and 1982 seasons were again interrupted by injury. In the 1981 season Gearin scored a Hat Trick 3 Tries against the Balmain Tigers at Leichhardt Oval.

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Steve Linnane
Steve Linnane is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s, and coach of the 2000s. After playing club football in the Winfield Cup for St. George and Newcastle, he moved to England where he became coach of Rochdale, Halifax and Hull Kingston Rovers.
As a young halfback, Linnane was signed to the St. George Dragons in 1985. He was named Dally M Rookie of the year and was also the season's top try scorer with 16 tries. Also playing in that year's Grand Final, he narrowly missed out on a premiership in his debut season as the Bulldogs beat the Dragons by just one point. In 1987 Linnane was suspended for 20 weeks by the NSWRL judiciary for eye gouging Penrith's Greg Alexander. He stayed with the Dragons until 1990 when he was sacked as a disciplinary action, then moved to the Newcastle Knights for the 1991 NSWRL season.
Linnane was later player-coach with Kurri Kurri from 1992 to 1996 before retiring as player in 1996. He was assistant coach at the Newcastle Knights to Mal Reilly and Warren Ryan from 1997 to 1999, and then became head coach at English club Rochdale in December 1999. He quit in June 2000 to join Super League club, Halifax Blue Sox as assistant coach to Gary Mercer. Following Mercer's resignation in 2001 he was in temporary charge but was later appointed head coach of Halifax on a two-year contract. He was sacked in August, 2002, the morning after a 64-0 loss to St. Helens which came after nine losses from ten games which put the club at risk of relegation. Linnane then became the Hull Kingston Rovers club's first overseas coach. Under him, the club came within eighty minutes of their first grand final appearance in 2002, after a largely successful end to the season. In 2004 he resigned.

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Steve Morris
Steve Morris (born 19 June 1957) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. A state and national representative, his club career was played with the St. George Dragons and the Eastern Suburbs Roosters.
Initially a halfback, Morris came to selectors' attention when playing for the Dapto club. In the 1978 season he gained selection in the New South Wales Country Rugby League side and was then chosen to represent New South Wales and Australia. He was the last player to represent Australia from a country club.
In season 1979 Morris joined the St George club and won a premiership in his debut year in the Sydney top grade. In the 1979 Grand Final he took out the Best Player award, the Dave Brown Medal (now known as the Clive Churchill Medal).
In 1984, under Dragons coach Roy Masters, the speedy halfback made a very successful transition to the Wing position, that season he was awarded the 'Dally M' medal for winger of the year. He was the NSW Rugby Football League's top try scorer in 1984.

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Steve Mortimer
Steve Mortimer OAM, (born 15 July 1956), nicknamed Turvey after Turvey Park in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, where he hailed from, is an Australian former rugby league halfback. Mortimer played a Canterbury-Bankstown club record 272 first grade games between 1976–88. Mortimer's two younger brothers Peter and Chris also played for the club. Chris played 192 first grade games between 1978–87 and Peter 190 first grade games between 1977–87.
Spotted by Peter Moore playing for Riverina in the 1975 Amco Cup, Mortimer tore his eventual club Canterbury to pieces and was Man of the Match despite Riverina losing. 'Bullfrog' Moore when asked about Mortimer's performance uttered the words "will never play against Canterbury-Bankstown ever again," and true to Bullfrog's word he never did.
Mortimer captained Canterbury to Premierships in 1984 and 1985 and was a member of the 1980 and 1988 triumphs. His performances in the 1980 and 1985 victories were vintage Mortimer. In the 1980 decider he saved three certain Eastern Suburbs tries through superb cover tackles (a great Mortimer trademark). In the 1985 Grand Final it was Mortimer's captaincy and direction that controlled Canterbury field position and possession as they buried St George into submission following a try to brother Peter Mortimer in the 29th minute. Mortimer captained Canterbury to a narrow loss in 1986 and also played in the 1979 Grand Final loss, on both occasions Mortimer was the sole reason Canterbury were in the match.

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Steve Renouf
Stephen Renouf (born 8 June 1970 in Murgon, Queensland) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. Of Aboriginal and European descent, he was known as one of the sport's greatest centres. Renouf set numerous records for the Brisbane Broncos club and is considered one of the greatest footballers to have played for them. After spending eleven years with Brisbane, which yielded four premierships, he left Australia to play for English club Wigan Warriors, where he spent two seasons before retiring. He has since been named in Australia's Indigenous team of the century (1908–2007).
Having developed his game with the Broncos since his teen years, Renouf made his debut in the first grade side in 1989. He scored his first try for the club in 1990, and the following year went on to set a new club record of four tries in a home fixture and be the Broncos' top try scorer of the 1991 Brisbane Broncos season and 1992 (along with Allan Langer) seasons. In 1992 the Broncos claimed their first premiership, winning Winfield Cup grand final against St. George. In the weeks following the grand final Renouf travelled with the Kangaroos to England for the 1992 World Cup final. At Wembley Stadium, the match set a record attendance for a rugby league international, with 73,631 seeing Renouf make his test debut. He scored the only try of the match, with Australia beating Great Britain 10–6. Also while in England Renouf played at centre for the Broncos in the 1992 World Club Challenge against British champions Wigan, helping Brisbane become the first NSWRL club to win the match in Britain.

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Steve Walters
Steve Walters (born (1965-08-28) 28 August 1965 (age 46) in Ipswich, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s, who at the peak of his career, was considered the best Hooker in the game. An Australian Kangaroos and Queensland Maroons representative, he played in the Canberra Raiders' 1st, 2nd and 3rd grand final victories. Steve is the eldest of the three Walters brothers, but was the last of them to gain Australian Test selection honours.
Steven played originally for Brisbane Norths, unlike his younger brothers Kerrod and Kevin who played in their hometown of Ipswich alongside Allan Langer.
After moving to the Raiders and achieving back-to-back grand final wins in 1989 and 1990, many believed that Test selection should have come to Walters. It did come, belatedly, in the 1991 Trans-Tasman Test series. But this was at the expense of his brother Kerrod who lost his representative position due to being suspended. Steve Walters out-pointed New South Wales captain Ben Elias on the scores of consistency and reliability in the open and was one of Australia's best players in the series win against the Kiwis. He was also named man-of-the-match in the second game of the 1991 State of Origin series. Despite Canberra's loss in that year's grand final, Walters was named the Raiders' player of the year and also earned a place on the Australian Tour of Papua New Guinea, but did not play a match as he was injured at training.

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Steven Menzies
Steven "Steve" Menzies (born 4 December 1973 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer best known for his stellar career with the Manly Sea Eagles. He currently plays for the Catalans Dragons of the European Super League after agreeing a one-year deal which will be his final season in his professional playing career. Menzies has spent the majority of his playing career in the back row but in recent years he has played in the centres, at five-eighth and as a utility player off the bench.
He joined the Bradford Bulls in the European Super League from the 2009 season.
Menzies is a noted defender, but is best known as the most prolific try scoring forward in rugby league. His total of 180 tries is second in Australian first grade rugby league, behind former North Sydney and Manly player Ken Irvine, who scored 212 tries. He is well known for wearing headgear during games.
While attending Narrabeen High School, Menzies played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1992. As a teenager he turned down an offer of $5,000 from North Sydney to later sign with Manly for $9,000 in 1993. His junior club was Harbord United.

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Terry Fahey
Terry Fahey (born 20 January 1954) is an Australian former professional rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Eastern Suburbs and Canberra Raiders clubs. He was a powerful, hard-running wing-threequarter.
Fahey was born in Wellington, New South Wales.
Nicknamed the "Redfern Express", started his football career in the New South Wales country, playing in Western Division's win in the 1974 Amco Cup final. The following year he was selected to represent Country against City as well as Australia in the 1975 World Championship series. He left his club Wellington to move to the Sydney competition in 1975 to play for Souths. He went on to play 90 first grade matches for the Rabbitohs in the years 1976-1980 scoring 46 tries and 28 goals for a total of 194 points. In 1981 he joined Easts where he would stay for two seasons. He was the season's leading try scorer in 1981 with fifteen tries. Fahey signed with Canberra in 1983 but damaged bone in his neck caused him to sit out the entire 1985 season. He was playing again in 1986 and remained with the Raiders until the end of the 1987 season, when he retired.

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Terry Hill
Terry Hill (born 22 January 1972 in Newtown, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition primarily in the centres. Hill played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs Magpies, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the Wests Tigers as well as representative football for New South Wales and Australia. He is also well known for his promotional television work with Lowes Menswear.
Hill became embroiled in the "External and Internal Draft" system in the 1991 season when, after agreeing to a playing and employment deal with the Western Suburbs Magpies, he was drafted from the Internal Draft pool by Eastern Suburbs. Hill's initial appeal was overturned and he eventually agreed to a three year contract with Easts. By the end of 1991 the High Court had overturned the draft system and in 1992 Hill was given a release and he was able to move on to Western Suburbs Magpies.

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Terry Lamb
Terry Lamb OAM, (born 15 September 1961) is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer and coach. He played 349 games, with Wests (1980–1983), and Canterbury (1984–1996). Lamb was known for his support of the ball-carrier - his ability to be in the right place at the right time netted him 164 tries. This earned him the moniker of "The Back-up Man". He also kicked 386 goals and 44 field goals, for 1,442 points in first grade. He played for New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia. Lamb holds the distinction of being the only player to appear in every match of a Kangaroo Tour.
Lamb grew up in Chester Hill, a suburb in the Bankstown area and attended Sefton High School. Lamb played all his junior football for the Chester Hill Hornets club during the years 1967–1979 where he won multiple Best and Fairest awards. He only played in one Grand Final when he filled in for a side above his age group. Lamb is the only International to come from the Chester Hill Hornets club and the ground is now named the Terry Lamb Complex in his honour. Lamb represented Canterbury in junior representative sides, but signed his first professional contract with Western Suburbs Magpies.

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The Chaser
The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste. The group's motto is "Striving for Mediocrity in a World of Excellence".
The Chaser's earliest foundations were Charles Firth, Dominic Knight, and Chas Licciardello who went to Sydney Grammar School together and produced a small satirical school magazine entitled The Tiger. Later on, Firth and Knight met Craig Reucassel and Julian Morrow at the University of Sydney. Firth, Knight, Reucassel, Morrow, Licciardello, and later Chaser members Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen all went to the University of Sydney. Firth, Knight, Reucassel and Morrow began writing for the University of Sydney student newspaper entitled Honi Soit. In 1999 the four members began The Chaser and their first newspaper project entitled The Chaser. The Chaser members are:

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Tim Brasher
Tim Brasher is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s who played primarily as fullback. He began his career for Balmain Tigers, where he played the majority of his career. He then moved to the South Sydney Rabbitohs for two seasons, before finishing his career with a season at the North Queensland Cowboys. During his career he also represented New South Wales on 21 occasions and Australia on 16 occasions.
While attending Grantham High School in Seven Hills, Sydney, Brasher played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1988. In 1989 Balmain Tigers coach Warren Ryan called up Brasher, still in high school, to make his first grade debut. Balmain reached the Grand Final that year, Brasher played in the centres, but they lost to the Canberra Raiders 19–14. During the 1992 season, Brasher played most of the season on the wing, and he was the joint top try-scorer in the premiership (along with Wests' Mark Bell) with 16 tries.
At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season, he went on the 1994 Kangaroo tour.

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Tim Sheens
Tim Sheens (born 30 October 1950) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He currently coaches the Wests Tigers of the National Rugby League and in 2009 was appointed coach of the Australian national team, the Kangaroos. He has won four premierships as a coach and broken the record for most top-level games in Australian rugby league history and has also served as New South Wales' State of Origin coach.
As a player, Sheens was a prop forward with Sydney's Penrith Panthers in the 1970s and 80s before he retired and became their coach. He then coached the Canberra Raiders to successive premierships before moving to the North Queensland Cowboys and later the Wests Tigers.
Born to a well known rugby league family of the Penrith area, Tim Sheens was educated at St Dominic's College in Penrith but spent his last two years of school at St Gregory's College, Campbelltown, where he was the school captain and first-grade rugby league captain in 1968.
Sheens had a lengthy playing stint with Penrith, playing 166 first grade games from 1970 to 1982 and scoring 11 tries. Starting his career as a backrower, he finished as a ball-playing prop. In 1974 he was named as the Panthers' Player of the Year, but had his jaw broken in the inaugural Amco Cup final against Western Division.

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Tom Kirk
Tom Kirk was a rugby league footballer in Australia's New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership of the 1930s and 40s. A fullback and goal-kicker, he played for the Canterbury-Bankstown, Newtown and North Sydney clubs and also played representative football for New South Wales. He became the first player to score 1,000 career points in the NSWRFL as well as the first player to be the season's top point scorer five times.
Kirk first tasted premiership success with Canterbury's 1938 Grand Final-winning team, landing four goals in the 19-6 win over Easts in the final. That year he also topped the competition's point-scorers list and the following year made his debut for NSW in the centres.
Joining Newtown, Kirk became the first player to kick 100 goals in a season in 1943, including five in the 34-7 win over Norths in the premiership decider. He was the season's leading point scorer on five occasions, the last in 1946. He twice kicked a club record 11 goals during the 1944 season and set Newtown's club record for most points in a match with 25 (1 try and 11 goals) against St George, on 26 August 1944. Kirk made a return to the New South Wales side in his final year in the Sydney competition.

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Vic Hey
Vic Hey (born Monday 18 November 1912 in Liverpool, New South Wales — died Tuesday 11 April 1995(1995-04-11) (aged 82)) was an Australian rugby league national and state representative Five-eighth/Stand-off and later a successful first-grade and national coach. His Australian club playing career commenced with the Western Suburbs Magpies and concluded with the Parramatta Eels. In between he played for a number of clubs in the English first division. He is considered one of Australia's finest footballers of the 20th century
After starring as a schoolboy and playing his junior football with Guildford in western Sydney, Vic Hey was graded with the Western Suburbs Magpies in 1933. In a spectacular rookie season he cemented a first grade club spot and made both his state and national representative débuts. In his second NSWRL season 1934, Hey was a member of Wests' premiership winning side. In September 2004 Hey was named at five-eighth in the Western Suburbs Magpies team of the century.
Moving to Queensland in 1936, Vic Hey briefly played a season for Toowoomba before moving to the UK.

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Wally Lewis
Walter James "Wally" Lewis AM (born 1 December 1959 in Hawthorne, Queensland) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. Currently a commentator of the sport, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby league players of all time. His time as a player and coach was followed by a career as a newsreader for the Nine Network.
Nicknamed The King and also The Emperor of Lang Park, Lewis represented Queensland in thirty-one State of Origin games from 1980 to 1991, and was captain for thirty of them. He also represented Australia in thirty-three international matches from 1981 to 1991 and was national team captain from 1984 to 1989. Lewis is perhaps best known for his State of Origin performances, spearheading Queensland's dominance in that competition throughout the 1980s. He has a record eight man of the match awards in Origin football and captained the side a record thirty times.
Lewis has since been inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and in 1999 he became the sixth member of 'The Immortals'. In 2000, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league.

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Wally Messenger
Wally Messenger (1891–1961) was an Australian international rugby league footballer of the 1910s. He was a state and national representative whose club career was played with Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. He was the younger brother of league great Dally Messenger
Messenger won premierships with Easts in NSWRFL season 1912 and NSWRFL season 1913 playing with his brother as captain.
For the 1915 season, he was the NSW Rugby Football League's top point-scorer.
He made two Test appearances for Australia national rugby league team in the 1914 domestic Ashes series kicking three goals on debut and scoring a try in the deciding test of the series. He represented for New South Wales in one match against Queensland in 1914.

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Wally Prigg
Wally Prigg (1908–1980) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a lock forward for the Australian national rugby league team. He played 19 Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929–38, 7 as captain and has since been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Wally Prigg was one of the greatest forwards in the history of rugby league. He spent his whole career as a Newcastle Wests and Central Charlestown player. He was the first New South Wales country based player to captain the Australian national rugby league team.
He made his first appearance for New South Wales at the age of 20. Between 1929 and 1939 he made 32 appearances for New South Wales, a record at the time. He scored 12 tries or 36 points for New South Wales. During his career he revolutionized the position of lock forward. His game was based around short passing and close support play.
He played 19 Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929–38. He scored a total of 4 tries or 12 points for Australia. He toured with the Australia on their tours of New Zealand in 1935 and 1937 and on the Kangaroo Tour of England in 1937–1938 when he was tour captain. He played in all five Tests of that tour as captain and in 24 minor matches. He was the first man to be picked for three Kangaroo tours. His leadership style and skills were respected by English fans. His final test match for Australia was the first match ever between Australia and France in 1938.

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Wayne Pearce
Wayne John Pearce OAM (born 29 March 1960 in Balmain, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. An athletic Lock Forward for the Balmain Tigers, he was affectionately known as 'Junior'. Pearce represented New South Wales in the State of Origin Series as well as the Australian national rugby league team.
Pearce was captain of the Balmain Tigers rugby league club from 1982–1990. A local junior from the Balmain Police Boys club, he made his debut in 1980 and was quickly marked as a future star. By his retirement in 1990, Pearce was credited as a player who changed the face of rugby league through a great dedication to fitness and match preparation. He is heralded as the player most responsible for Rugby Leagues evolution into the current professional era. During his career his athleticism and staying power overcame his oft-noted lack of natural ability for rugby league.
Pearce's son, Mitchell is a half-back for the Sydney Roosters and New South Wales Blues.
Not heavily framed for a league forward at only 89 kg, Pearce nonetheless became so good at lock forward with Balmain by the time of the 1982 Kangaroo tour that he was an automatic selection even with Ray Price having a monopoly on the Test lock position. On the tour, Pearce was moved into the second row to accommodate Price, but took over the lock position permanently after Price retired from international rugby league in 1984. Pearce was awarded the only official performance accolade of the tour when he was voted "players player" of the 1982 Kangaroo Touring Party. Pearce continued to excel at Representative level and in 1984 he won the Harry Sunderland Medal as Player of the Test Match Series against Great Britain.

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Willie Carne
William Carne (born 23 January 1969 in Roma, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played for the Brisbane Broncos from 1990 to 1996, as well as representing both Queensland and Australia. An attacking player with dangerous speed, his position of choice was wing.
Willie Carne attended Ipswich Grammar School, of which former Brisbane Broncos Kevin Walters, Kerrod Walters and Steve Walters are also Alumni. In his younger days, Carne played for the Roma Wattles.
During the early 1990s, Carne was considered the best rugby league winger in the world. In 1990 he played his first season with the Brisbane Broncos' and that year he was the club's rookie of the year (along with Paul Hauff) and top try-scorer. That year, he made his State of Origin debut for Queensland in the third match of the series, after only eight games in first grade. He went on to help his team win back-to-back premierships in 1992 and 1993, when he was again the club's top try-scorer. During the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, he helped Australia retain The Ashes. In the weeks following the grand final Carne travelled with the Broncos to England, where he played on the wing in the 1992 World Club Challenge against British champions Wigan, helping Brisbane become the first NSWRL club to win the match in Britain. Carne was then named man-of-the-match in the opening game of the 1994 State of Origin series. During the 1994 NSWRL season, Carne played at fullback for the defending premiers Brisbane when they hosted British champions Wigan for the 1994 World Club Challenge.

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File - Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, front, gestures during a ceremony honoring Bolivia's Independence heroines in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 18, 2012.

Argentina reasserts claim over Falklands

Al Jazeera

04 Jan 2013

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. ... The veterans delivered a letter addressed to the British Ambassador in Argentina, John Freeman, criticising the British government for refusing to discuss the sovereignty of the islands with the Argentine government ... 508 Source .. Al Jazeera and agencies. Share....(size: 19.6Kb)

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Youth Brigade of Kashmir carry out a protest demonstration in Srinagar, India, on Monday 24, December 2012. As solidarity with Delhi gang-rape case. The protesters were demanding action against people involved in rape incidents across the country.

Indian gang rape: suspects to appear in court

The Daily Telegraph

03 Jan 2013

A gang of men accused of repeatedly raping a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi in a deadly crime that repulsed the nation are to appear in court today for the first time. A British tourist join others in a candlelight vigil to mourn the death of a gang rape victim, in Kolkata, India Photo. AP. 3.52AM GMT 03 Jan 2013 ... Police have ordered a bone test to determine his age and whether he can stand trial in an adult court....(size: 11.3Kb)

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Chatraparishad Supporters participate in a Candel Light to protest against Delhi gang rape case and for reviewing “ Women Protection Law “ in kolkata on Friday 28 December 2012

Friend of Delhi gang-rape victim calls for protests to continue

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05 Jan 2013

Tweet. New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI). The male friend of the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and left unclothed and bleeding in the street and later died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on December 16 on a private bus in New Delhi, has said that things would have gone differently if someone had stopped to help ... "It would have been a very different scenario today, had even one person come to our help that day ... (ANI)....(size: 3.8Kb)

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US working hard to have support for Afghan reconciliation

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03 Jan 2013

Washington. Aiming to get cooperation through dialogue, the US said that it is working hard to create an environment within Afghanistan and also in the region to have support for Afghan-Afghan reconciliation ... Responding to questions, Nuland said the US supports an Afghan-led process of reconciliation ... Saying that Pakistan needs to engage with Afghanistan directly, Nuland said the US supports dialogue between the two ... PTI ... First Published....(size: 2.3Kb)

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Syria fights off rebel advance on Damascus

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05 Jan 2013

Syrian government forces have bombarded several rebel strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus to quell the fighters battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad from reaching the capital. Activists on Saturday said troops leveled their bombardment campaign on the districts of Hajar al-Aswad and Qaboun in southern Damascus while they continued to shell the suburbs of Daraya, Beit Hahm, Zibdeen, Maadamiya and Jisteen ... 445 Source . ... ....(size: 19.0Kb)

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Aussies snubbed in league Golden Boot (NRL - National Rugby League Ltd)

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(Source. NRL - National Rugby League Ltd). It's an argument as old as the game itself, but the naming of Englishman Kevin Sinfield as rugby league's best of 2012 is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows back in Australia ... It is an honour bestowed by Rugby League World magazine since 1984, having been taken out by some of the game's greats including Wally Lewis, Mal Meninga, Andrew Johns and Darren Lockyer ... distributed by....(size: 4.1Kb)

Raiders' split personality befuddles fans

Canberra Times

27 Dec 2012

Year in Review. Raiders players celebrate during their semi-final win against the Sharks. Photo. Karleen Minney. The Canberra Raiders are the NRL's Jekyll and Hyde team. About as predictable as next week's Lotto numbers. And the Green Machine only enhanced that reputation with a 2012 campaign full of turmoil, trauma and dramatic twists and turns ... But then the Raiders stumbled upon the solution to their inconsistency ... Mal Meninga medallist ... ....(size: 8.4Kb)

NRL: Origin shift ends poaching

NZ Herald

19 Dec 2012

New rule would also banish emerging Kiwi stars from Australia's age grade rep teams. Restricting State of Origin to players who have lived in Queensland or New South Wales prior to the age of 13 will halt the poaching of top New Zealand players ... Kemp can at least rest easy that the likes of emerging stars Jason Tuamalolo and Roger Tuivasa-Scheck can no longer be wooed by Origin coaches Mal Meninga and Laurie Daley ... By. ....(size: 2.7Kb)

Kiwi boss fears new Origin rules will prompt young talent blitz

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19 Dec 2012

NRL scouts will target New Zealand's primary schools in a bid to make Kiwi kids eligible for State of Origin, NZ Rugby League high performance director Tony Kemp fears ... Kemp was a vocal critic of ex-Blues coach Ricky Stuart for poaching Tamou this year and Maroons coach Mal Meninga for targeting Cowboys young gun Jason Taumalolo. Recommended Coverage. Kiwis welcome Origin clarity ... Rep stars the big winners ...  . ....(size: 4.5Kb)

Qld need to find room for Barba: Hagan

Canberra Times

18 Dec 2012

But Hagan - an assistant to Mal Meninga - said the Maroons could not afford to ignore Barba's claims any longer ... But this would mean a shift in policy for Meninga, who last year employed four forwards as his reserves. Prior to that Cooper Cronk was Meninga's ... "I don't know how we're going to get him in there but he'd be in Mal's plans for sure."....(size: 1.9Kb)

Qld need to find room for Barba: Hagan (NRL - National Rugby League Ltd)

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But Hagan - an assistant to Mal Meninga - said the Maroons could not afford to ignore Barba's claims any longer ... But this would mean a shift in policy for Meninga, who last year employed four forwards as his reserves. Prior to that Cooper Cronk was Meninga's utility player off the bench, but even he was used as a dummy-half or running forward before being moved into the starting side to replace Darren Lockyer....(size: 3.0Kb)

Idris aiming high for Titans in 2013 NRL

Canberra Times

17 Dec 2012

AAP. Gold Coast utility Jamal Idris says he's put his injury woes behind him and is set to start repaying the Titans after a difficult first year at the NRL club ... And Idris is hoping he can regain that sort of form in 2013 ... The Queensland squad will join Maroons coach Mal Meninga and Queensland Academy of Sport rugby league director Wayne Bennett in a camp from January 25 to 27. ....(size: 2.0Kb)

Idris sets Origin goal after disappointing season

Canberra Times

17 Dec 2012

Recovering ... Jamal Idris battled injury this year. Photo. Getty Images. GOLD COAST utility Jamal Idris says he's put his injury woes behind him and is set to start repaying the Titans after a difficult first year at the NRL club ... ''That's the pinnacle of rugby league,'' he said ... The Queensland squad will join Maroons coach Mal Meninga and Queensland Academy of Sport rugby league director Wayne Bennett in a camp from January 25 to 27. AAP....(size: 2.1Kb)

Idris aiming high for Titans

Canberra Times

17 Dec 2012

Gold Coast Titans centre Jamal Idris. Photo. Getty Images. Gold Coast utility Jamal Idris says he's put his injury woes behind him and is set to start repaying the Titans after a difficult first year at the NRL club ... And Idris is hoping he can regain that sort of form in 2013 ... The Queensland squad will join Maroons coach Mal Meninga and Queensland Academy of Sport rugby league director Wayne Bennett in a camp from January 25 to 27. AAP . ....(size: 2.1Kb)

Idris aiming high for Titans in 2013 NRL (NRL - National Rugby League Ltd)

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17 Dec 2012

(Source. NRL - National Rugby League Ltd). Gold Coast utility Jamal Idris says he's put his injury woes behind him and is set to start repaying the Titans after a difficult first year at the NRL club ... And Idris is hoping he can regain that sort of form in 2013 ... The Queensland squad will join Maroons coach Mal Meninga and Queensland Academy of Sport rugby league director Wayne Bennett in a camp from January 25 to 27. distributed by....(size: 3.1Kb)

Fensom gets chance to shine

Canberra Times

15 Dec 2012

Raiders forward Shaun Fensom. Photo. Rohan Thomson. FINALLY, after thousands of tackles and back-to-back Mal Meninga medals, Shaun Fensom is on the verge of breaking into the State of Origin arena ... It's a view shared by former Raiders captain Alan Tongue, while Queensland coach Meninga believed Fensom would have earned a start for the Maroons if he was born north of the border ... Tongue said ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)

Folau's brother in Qld Origin squad (NRL - National Rugby League Ltd)

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14 Dec 2012

Sport-hopping Folau's younger brother John has been included in the inaugural Junior Emerging Queensland Origin squad camp to be run by master coach Wayne Bennett and Maroons mentor Mal Meninga in Brisbane in January ... Keen to capitalise on Kiwi-born Josh Papalii switching allegiance to Australia, Meninga and Bennett have included the damaging ......(size: 4.0Kb)

Maroons have plans for adopted son Papalii

Canberra Times

14 Dec 2012

Josh Papalii is in the Emerging Queensland squad. Photo. Jay Cronan. Canberra Raiders enforcer Josh Papalii is firmly on Queensland's State of Origin radar, three months after the New Zealand-born second-rower switched international allegiances ... The Emerging Origin squad will work with QAS rugby league director Wayne Bennett and Maroons coach Mal Meninga from January 25-27 ... John Folau has also been included in the squad. ....(size: 2.6Kb)

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Mal Meninga
Personal information


Full name	Malcolm Norman Meninga
Nickname	Big Mal, Chicken George
Born	(1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 51) Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	116 kg (18 st 4 lb)
Position	Centre, Second-row
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1978–85	Souths (Brisbane)
1984–85	St Helens	31	28	8	0	128
1986–94	Canberra Raiders	166	74	283	2	864
	Total	197	102	291	2	992
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1979–94	Queensland	32	6	69	0	161
1982–94	Australia	46	21	96	0	272
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1997–01	Canberra Raiders	125	66	2	57	53
Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2006–	Queensland	19	14	0	5	74
Source: NRL Stats, SHS, RLP and Yesterday's Hero

Malcolm Norman Meninga AM (born 8 July 1960) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach currently in charge of the Queensland State of Origin team. A former Australian Test captain, he was a legendary goal-kicking centre, counted amongst the finest footballers of the 20th century. He went on to coach for five seasons in the NRL with the Canberra Raiders and has been coach of Queensland's State of Origin team since 2006, having not yet lost a series.

Meninga broke numerous rugby league records during his playing career. He retired with the most appearances, and most points for the Australian rugby league team, and became the top-point scorer for Queensland in State of Origin history. Meninga has since been honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia, has been inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and has also been named at centre in both Queensland's and Australia's rugby league teams of the century.

1 Early life
2 Playing career
3 Post-playing
- 3.1 Political career
- 3.2 Coaching career
  - 3.2.1 Canberra
  - 3.2.2 Queensland
4 Records
5 Honours
6 Further reading
7 References
8 External links

Early life [link]

Born in Bundaberg, Queensland, Graduated from Maroochydore High School, Meninga is an Australian South Sea Islander, a descendant of plantation workers recruited or blackbirded to work in the Queensland sugar industry in the late 19th century. He is an official spokesperson for the South Sea Islander community.^[1] Before becoming a full-time professional footballer, Meninga was a police officer at West End Police Station, along with fellow Souths Magpies players Gary Belcher and Peter Jackson.^{[citation needed]}

Playing career [link]

Brisbane [link]

Meninga made his first grade debut in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership at the age of 18 with Souths Magpies. From there he was first selected to play centre for Queensland in 1979,^[2] and the following year helped his state to a win in rugby league's first ever State of Origin match against New South Wales, converting seven goals from seven attempts (Meninga was one of the last players to use the kicking style of punting the end of the football with the toe of the boot). Later that year he played in the Magpies' BRL Premiership grand final loss, scoring a try and kicking 3 goals. He also had short stints with Valleys and Wynnum Manly. However, in 1981 Meninga again reached the grand final with Souths and won. The following year he was named man-of-the-match in Game 1 of 1982 State of Origin series and then played for Souths in the BRL Grand Final. Post season he toured Europe with the undefeated 1982 "Invincibles" Kangaroo squad, making his debut in the green & gold as Kangaroo No. 540.^[3]

St Helens [link]

Mal Meninga became a Saint for their 1984-85 season. St Helens had paid around £30,000 for his services to play in the Australian off-season^[4] and he helped the club to victory in the RFL Premiership. He was bought by Ray French while he was in Australia. St. Helens rivals Wigan were also after him and had papers trying to sign him for Wigan. French had left the St. Helens contract in his accommodation so asked the Wigan chairman if he could borrow his; the Wigan chairman foolishly agreed and French crossed out Wigan and inputted St. Helens, so Meninga was signed for Saints, Meninga didn't manage to serve a second spell at Knowsley Road, for a variety of reasons, not least being a succession of injuries that also punctuated his career for Canberra Raiders and Australia. Yet he remains a legendary figure in international rugby league, remembered for his formidable power, pace and handling ability.

Canberra [link]

After many seasons and two (1981, 1985) premierships with the Magpies in the Brisbane League, in 1986, Meninga joined Souths teammate Gary Belcher at the Canberra Raiders, where they would play all of their New South Wales Rugby League premiership games. Meninga played in Canberra's loss to Manly in the 1987 Grand Final, kicking one goal. After being given the Raiders' captaincy, he led Canberra to their first premiership in 1989 after overcoming the highly fancied Balmain Tigers in the Grand Final. The following year Meninga led the Raiders to another grand final victory against the Penrith Panthers. He was also 1990's top try-scorer (getting five in the Round 5 match against Easts) and top-point scorer, and was named as Rugby League Week's player of the year. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. Also that year, Meninga was named Britain's BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the first rugby league player to win it.

Big Mal captained Australia for 23 Test matches between 1990 and 1994,^[5] and captained the Queensland State of Origin team for three years from 1992 to 1994. He remains the only player to captain a Kangaroo Tour on two occasions, in 1990 and 1994.

On Australia Day 1994, Meninga was made a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to rugby league football". Later that year he played his last game for the Canberra Raiders in the 1994 Grand Final where he led his team to victory over the Canterbury Bulldogs and to their third premiership in six years, scoring the last try of the match.

At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season, he went on the 1994 Kangaroo tour. On 4 December 1994, at Béziers, France, he captained Australia to a 74–0 victory over the French, scoring the final try of the game, and of his career.

Post-playing [link]

Following his retirement Mal Meninga openly supported the Super League concept during the Super League war of the mid-1990s.^[6] His popularity and playing record as a domestic and international captain were valuable in raising the profile of the rebel competition. In 1995 Meninga's book Mal Meninga: My Life in Football was published. He was appointed head coach of his old club, the Canberra Raiders in Australia's Super League season in 1997.

Political career [link]

Meninga briefly campaigned for a seat in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly during the Territory's 2001 general election. On Monday, 24 September 2001, just after he declared his candidacy for the electorate of Molonglo,^[7] he pulled out mid-sentence, stating, "And the thing about that is, I guess, I was a public figure and I was put on the podium where I was just a person out there ... I'm buggered, I'm sorry, I have to resign."^[8]

Subsequently, this incident led to the satirical Chaser team instituting the 'Mal Award' for their election television shows, presented to politicians "for the greatest act of political suicide during an election campaign".^[9] In an episode, which aired on 28 November 2007, Meninga satirized himself when he was brought in to present the award but "gave up" mid-speech.^{[citation needed]}

Coaching career [link]

Canberra [link]

Meninga was appointed coach of the Raiders in 1997, succeeding three time winner Tim Sheens, but achieved only moderate success. In 2000, Meninga was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in rugby league. The following year, he received the Centenary Medal "for service as a role model and inspiration as a rugby league player of the highest standard". After Canberra failed to make the finals of the 2001 NRL season, finishing fourth-last (11th out of 14 teams), Matthew Elliott replaced Meninga as the Raiders coach.

In late 2002, Meninga expressed interest in the Queensland State of Origin team coaching job.^[10]

Meninga left Canberra and returned to Queensland in 2005, opening several successful businesses, including a fruit and vegetable wholesale business in the Brisbane Markets, and several Strathfield Car Sound outlets. In late 2005, he was announced as the new Queensland State of Origin coach, to replace Michael Hagan.

Queensland [link]

Meninga made a successful debut as the Maroons coach in the 2006 State of Origin series, guiding Queensland to a 2–1 series victory, its first outright series victory since 2001 (this despite the fact Queensland lost the first match). Also in 2006, he coached the Prime Minister's XIII side to victory over the Papua New Guinea national rugby league team.

Meninga attended the 2007 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium as a guest of honour.^[11]

On 13 October 2006, Meninga was reappointed as coach of the Maroons for the 2007 State of Origin series and 2008 State of Origin series,^[12] both of which Queensland won, taking his record with the Maroons to three wins from three series. When Meninga was given a new contract after the 2008 series, he was quoted as saying: "I want to win six [State of Origin series] in a row".^[13]

In the 2009 series, Queensland won the first two games giving them a record fourth consecutive series win with captain Darren Lockyer saying Meninga now stands among the legends in State of Origin.^[14]

In December 2009, Meninga was named coach of the year at the Queensland Sports Awards.^[15]

In 2010, Meninga coached Queensland to a record 5th straight series win, and is now regarded as one of the greatest and most successful Origin coaches in history. He also coached them to their first "Clean Sweep" since 1995. As well as this, he is the only coach in Origin history to have never lost an Origin series.

In 2011, Meninga achieved his 6th straight series as coach of Queensland honoring a promise he made in 2008.^[13]

The weekend after Queensland won its sixth straight series, Mal Meninga penned a column in Brisbane's The Sunday Mail attacking the NSW media and match review panel, and labelling them "rats and filth"^[16] after he believed that they [the NSW media] had tried to sabotage his side's attempts at winning their sixth successive series by charging Johnathan Thurston and David Taylor with on-field incidents (only the latter was suspended) and also attacking NSW coach Ricky Stuart (the last man to win an Origin series for the Blues) over his decision not to reveal the Blues line-up up to one hour before kick-off (which is when the official team lists must be released prior to a match). He was set to face legal action from the NRL's match review panel over his now controversial column, but after negotiations with them on 1 August 2011, the matter was resolved. Meninga still maintains what he has written.

Records [link]

Only player to twice captain a Kangaroo Tour (1990 and 1994).
Most points scored in Test matches for Australia (272 – 21 tries, 96 goals)
Most goals kicked in Test matches for Australia (96)
Most goals kicked in a State of Origin match for Queensland (7 in Game 1 1980), shared with Johnathan Thurston
Most State of Origins won as coach in a row. 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 (6)

Honours [link]

The main grandstand at Canberra Stadium is named the "Mal Meninga Stand" in his honour. The Canberra Raiders' player of the year receives the Mal Meninga Medal in his honour since 2008 and a statue of him has been placed behind the Mal Meninga grandstand next to the one of Laurie Daley.^[17]

In 2003, he was admitted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame.^[18]

In February 2008, Meninga was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.^[19]^[20] Meninga went on to be named as one of the centres, along with Reg Gasnier, in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panels' majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.^[21]^[22]

In June 2008, he was chosen in the Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century at centre.^[23]

References [link]

^ "Islanders' sporting prowess". Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070901113255/http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/apps/assi/history/sporting.htm. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
^ Toby Creswell and Samantha Trenoweth (2006). 1001 Australians You Should Know. Australia: Pluto Press. pp. 690. ISBN 1-86403-361-4, 9781864033618. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QqtinbjO0oEC&vq=rugby&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
^ "Kangaroos players register". australianrugbyleague.com.au. Australian Rugby League. http://www.australianrugbyleague.com.au/kangaroos/register.php. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
^ "Meninga Saints Heritage Society". http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=15983. Retrieved 13 June 2007.
^ Hagan, Stephen (2006). Australia's Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100. Ngalga Warralu Publishing Pty Ltd. pp. 288. ISBN 1-921212-00-4, 9781921212000. http://books.google.com/books?id=hfKmwE5HGI4C&printsec=frontcover.
^ Headon, David (October 1999). "Up From the Ashes: The Phoenix of a Rugby League Literature" (pdf). Football Studies Volume 2, Issue 2. Football Studies Group. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/FootballStudies/1999/FS0202i.pdf. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
^ "Mal Meninga expected to run as Molonglo Independent". ABC News online (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 24 September 2001. http://www.abc.net.au/news/politics/2001/09/item20010923091147_1.htm. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
^ "Meninga sidesteps politics". The World Today (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 24 September 2001. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s374271.htm. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
^ "The Mal Award". The Chaser Decides (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 2001. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/decides/malaward.htm. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
^ AAP Sports News (17 October 2002). "Meninga keen for Australian or Queensland coaching job". Australia. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-68793896.html. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
^ "Big Mal welcomes the squad". Saints. 23 August 2007. http://www.saintsrlfc.com/news/537. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
^ "Meninga stays with the Maroons". http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200610/s1764540.htm. Retrieved 13 October 2006. ^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-league/state-of-origin/nsw-need-look-no-further-than-queensland-plan-20100618-ymqj.html NSW need look no further than Queensland plan - Brisbane Times
^ "Meninga's Origin culture created history: Lockyer". http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/25/2607983.htm. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
^ deKroo, Karl (4 December 2009). "Wally Lewis says Maroons okay without Darren Lockyer". The Courier Mail (Australia: Queensland Newspapers). http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/sport/nrl/story/0,26746,26440752-5003409,00.html. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
^ Meninga's fury at NSW 'rats and filth' - Sports News First
^ Peter Fitzgerald (11 September 2008). "Mighty Mal makes monumental mark". The Canberra Times. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/mighty-mal-makes-monumental-mark/1269404.aspx. Retrieved 11 September 2008.
^ Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
^ Peter Cassidy (23 February 2008). "Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players". Macquarie National News. http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
^ "Centenary of Rugby League – The Players". NRL & ARL. 23 February 2008. http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
^ Todd Balym (17 April 2008). "Johns, Meninga among Immortals". Fox Sports Australia. http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23557351-23214,00.html. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
^ "Team of the Century Announced". NRL & ARL. 17 April 2008. http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/team-of-the-century-announced.aspx. Retrieved 17 April 2008.
^ Ricketts, Steve (10 June 2008). "Locky named No.1 but Wal's still King". The Courier-Mail. Archived from the original on 20 May 2009. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Fcouriermail%2Fstory%2F0%2C23739%2C23843448-10389%2C00.html&date=2009-05-20. Retrieved 20 May 2009.

External links [link]

Sporting positions
Preceded by Dean Lance	Canberra Raiders captain 1989–94	Succeeded by Ricky Stuart
Preceded by Tim Sheens 1988–1996	Coach Canberra Raiders 1997–2001	Succeeded by Matthew Elliott 2002–2006
Preceded by Michael Hagan 2004–2005	Coach Queensland State of Origin 2006–	Succeeded by incumbent

v t e Souths Magpies squad - 1981 BRL premiers

1. Ken Spencer • 2. Gary Thompson • 3. Mal Meninga • 4. Bruce Astill (c) • 5. Mick Reardon • 6. Bruce Harry • 7. Brad Sully 8. Darryl Higgs • 9. Billy Johnstone • 10. Adrian Higgs • 11. Ash Lumby • 12. Chris Phelan • 13. Bill Argeros Coach: Bob McCarthy

v t e Souths Magpies squad - 1985 BRL premiers

1. Gary Belcher • 2. Ken Gittins • 3. Mal Meninga • 4. Peter Jackson • 5. Paul Wallace • 6. Gary French • 7. Wayne Cullen 8. Chris Phelan • 9. Eddie Muller • 10. Mark Meskell • 11. Scott Tronc • 12. John Elias • 13. Norm Carr (c) Reserve: David Bourke • Coach: Wayne Bennett

v t e Souths Magpies Team of the Century (1909-2008)

1. Gary Belcher • 2. Mitch Brennan • 3. Mal Meninga • 4. Bruce Astill • 5. John Grant • 6. Ted Verrenkamp • 7. Norm McLean 8. Jack Veivers • 9. Alan Hornery • 10. Greg Veivers • 11. Bill Tyquin • 12. Harry Bath • 13. Harold Crocker 14. Len Pegg • 15. Mick Veivers • 16. Chris Phelan • 17. Graeme Atherton Coach: Wayne Bennett

v t e Canberra Raiders squad – 1989 NSWRL Premiers (1st Title)

1 Gary Belcher 2 Matthew Wood 3 Mal Meninga (c) 4 Laurie Daley 5 John Ferguson 6 Chris O'Sullivan 7 Ricky Stuart 8 Brent Todd 9 Steve Walters 10 Glenn Lazarus 11 Dean Lance 12 Gary Coyne 13 Bradley Clyde 14 Paul Martin 15 Kevin Walters 16 Steve Jackson Coach: Tim Sheens

v t e Canberra Raiders squad – 1990 NSWRL Premiers (2nd Title)

1 Gary Belcher 2 Paul Martin 3 Mal Meninga (c) 4 Laurie Daley 5 John Ferguson 6 Chris O'Sullivan 7 Ricky Stuart 8 Brent Todd 9 Steve Walters 10 Glenn Lazarus 11 Nigel Gaffey 12 Gary Coyne 13 Dean Lance 14 Matthew Wood 15 Phil Carey 16 Craig Bellamy 17 David Barnhill Coach: Tim Sheens

v t e Canberra Raiders squad – 1994 NSWRL Premiers (3rd Title)

1 Brett Mullins 2 Ken Nagas 3 Mal Meninga (c) 4 Ruben Wiki 5 Noa Nadruku 6 Laurie Daley 7 Ricky Stuart 8 Quentin Pongia 9 Steve Walters 10 Paul Osborne 11 Jason Croker 12 David Furner 13 Bradley Clyde 14 Brett Hetherington 15 David Westley Coach: Tim Sheens

The Invincibles

Max Krilich (captain) • Wally Lewis (vice-captain) • Chris Anderson • Kerry Boustead • Les Boyd • Greg Brentnall • Ray Brown • Greg Conescu • Steve Ella • Eric Grothe, Sr. • Rohan Hancock • Brett Kenny • Paul McCabe • Don McKinnon • Mal Meninga • Gene Miles • Rod Morris • Steve Mortimer • John Muggleton • Mark Murray • Wayne Pearce • Ray Price • Rod Reddy • John Ribot • Steve Rogers • Ian Schubert • Peter Sterling • Craig Young •

Coach: Frank Stanton

1990 Kangaroo Tour squad

v t e Australia squad – 1992 World Cup final winners (7th Title)

1 Tim Brasher 2 Willie Carne 3 Steve Renouf 4 Mal Meninga (c) 5 Michael Hancock 6 Brad Fittler 7 Allan Langer 8 Glenn Lazarus 9 Steve Walters 10 Mark Sargent 11 Paul Sironen 12 Bob Lindner 13 Bradley Clyde 14 Chris Johns 15 John Cartwright 16 David Gillespie 17 Kevin Walters Coach: Bob Fulton

v t e The Australian Rugby League Team of the Century 1908–2007

1. Clive Churchill • 2. Brian Bevan • 3. Reg Gasnier • 4. Mal Meninga • 5. Ken Irvine • 6. Wally Lewis • 7. Andrew Johns 8. Arthur Beetson • 9. Noel Kelly • 10. Duncan Hall • 11. Norm Provan • 12. Ron Coote • 13. Johnny Raper 14. Graeme Langlands • 15. Dally Messenger • 16. Bob Fulton • 17. Frank Burge Coach: Jack Gibson

v t e Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame

2002	Clive Churchill Reg Gasnier Johnny Raper Graeme Langlands Bob Fulton Wally Lewis

2003	Dally Messenger Dave Brown Wally Prigg Keith Holman Arthur Beetson Mal Meninga

2004	Harry Bath Norm Provan Ken Irvine Harold Horder Frank Burge Vic Hey

2005	Jimmy Craig Chris McKivat Duncan Thompson Brian Bevan Brian Carlson Ron Coote

2006	Ken Kearney Sid "Sandy" Pearce Charles Fraser George Treweek Duncan Hall Peter Sterling

2007	Arthur Halloway Tom Gorman Joe Pearce Harry Wells Keith Barnes Mick Cronin

Golden Boot Award winners

1984 Wally Lewis
1985 Brett Kenny
1986 Garry Jack
1987 Hugh McGahan & Peter Sterling
1988 Ellery Hanley
1989 Mal Meninga
1990 Garry Schofield
1991 - 1998 No award given
1999 Andrew Johns
2000 Brad Fittler
2001 Andrew Johns
2002 Stacey Jones
2003 Darren Lockyer
2004 Andy Farrell
2005 Anthony Minichiello
2006 Darren Lockyer
2007 Cameron Smith
2008 Billy Slater
2009 Greg Inglis
2010 Benji Marshall
2011 Johnathan Thurston

v t e The Queensland Rugby League Team of the Century 1908–2007

1. Darren Lockyer • 2. Cecil Aynsley • 3. Tom Gorman • 4. Mal Meninga • 5. Denis Flannery • 6. Wally Lewis (c) • 7. Allan Langer 8. Duncan Hall • 9. Noel Kelly • 10. Peter Madsen • 11. Arthur Beetson • 12. Brian Davies • 13. Bob Lindner 14. Jimmy Craig • 15. Duncan Thompson • 16. Gene Miles • 17. Herb Steinohrt Coach: Wayne Bennett • Manager: Dick Turner

v t e Queensland State of Origin coaches

John MacDonald • Arthur Beetson • Des Morris • Wayne Bennett • Graham Lowe • Wally Lewis • Paul Vautin • Mark Murray • Michael Hagan • Mal Meninga

National Rugby League season top try scorers

National Rugby League season top points scorers

1908 Horrie Miller
1909 Arthur Conlin
1910 Dally Messenger
1911 Dally Messenger
1912 Dally Messenger
1913 Harold Horder
1914 Harold Horder
1915 Wally Messenger
1916 Charles Fraser
1917 Charles Fraser
1918 Harold Horder
1919 A McPherson
1920 Frank Burge
1921 Rex Norman
1922 Harold Horder
1923 Arthur Oxford
1924 Jack Courtney
1925 Benny Wearing
1926 Jack Courtney
1927 Alf Blair
1928 Benny Wearing
1929 Jim Craig
1930 Jim Craig
1931 Jack Lynch
1932 Les Mead
1933 Syd Christensen
1934 Dave Brown
1935 Dave Brown
1936 Syd Christensen
1937 Jack Beaton
1938 Tom Kirk
1939 Neville Smith
1940 Tom Kirk
1941 Neville Smith
1942 Ray Lindwall
1943 Tom Kirk
1944 Tom Kirk
1945 Dick Dunn
1946 Tom Kirk
1947 Pat Devery
1948 Jack Lindwall
1949 Bill Keato
1950 Bill Keato
1951 Ron Rowles
1953 Ron Rowles
1954 Ron Rowles
1955 Doug Fleming
1956 Doug Fleming
1957 Darcy Russell
1958 Harry Bath
1959 Darcy Russell
1960 Brian Graham
1961 Bob Landers
1962 Don Parish
1963 Fred Griffiths
1964 Fred Griffiths
1965 Fred Griffiths
1966 Bob Lanigan
1967 Eric Simms
1968 Eric Simms
1969 Eric Simms
1970 Eric Simms
1971 Graeme Langlands
1972 Allan McKean
1973 Graeme Langlands
1974 Graham Eadie
1975 Graham Eadie
1976 Graham Eadie
1977 Michael Cronin
1978 Michael Cronin
1979 Michael Cronin
1980 Steve Gearin
1981 Steve Rogers
1982 Michael Cronin
1983 Michael Eden
1984 Steve Gearin
1985 Michael Cronin
1986 Terry Lamb
1987 Ross Conlon
1988 Gary Belcher
1989 Andy Currier & Ricky Walford
1990 Mal Meninga
1991 Daryl Halligan
1992 Daryl Halligan
1993 Daryl Halligan
1994 Daryl Halligan
1995 Matthew Ridge
1996 Jason Taylor
1997 Jason Taylor (ARL) Ryan Girdler (SL)
1998 Ivan Cleary
1999 Matt Geyer
2000 Joel Caine
2001 Andrew Johns & Ben Walker
2002 Hazem El Masri
2003 Hazem El Masri
2004 Hazem El Masri
2005 Brett Hodgson
2006 Hazem El Masri
2007 Hazem El Masri
2008 Luke Covell
2009 Hazem El Masri
2010 Michael Gordon
2011 Benji Marshall

Persondata
Name	Meninga, Mal
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player and coach
Date of birth	8 July 1960
Place of birth	Bundaberg, Queensland
Date of death
Place of death

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Jamal Idris
Personal information

Idris training with the Indigenous Australian side in 2008
Full name	Jamal Dasuki Idris
Nickname	Mandingo
Born	(1990-07-06) 6 July 1990 (age 21) Forster, New South Wales, Australia
Height	194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	115 kg (250 lb)
Playing information
Position	Centre, Second-row
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2008–2011	Canterbury Bulldogs	68	24	0	0	96
2012–	Gold Coast Titans	9	4	0	0	16
	Total	77	28	0	0	112
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2008	Dreamtime Team	1	0	0	0	0
2010	Country NSW	1	1	0	0	4
2010	New South Wales	1	1	0	0	4
2011	Australia	1	1	0	0	4
As of 26 May 2010
Source: NRL Stats & Rugby League Project

Jamal Dasuki Idris (born 6 July 1990) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League. He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. A New South Wales State Of Origin representative, he has also played for the Indigenous Australian representative side. In the Schoolboy Championship final game he scored four tries in under twenty minutes.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Professional playing career
  - 1.1.1 Bulldogs
  - 1.1.2 Titans
2 References
3 External links

Biography [link]

The son of an Aboriginal mother and a Nigerian father,^[1] Idris spent two years growing up in an Aboriginal mission in Forster on the New South Wales Mid North Coast with his younger brother, Isaac, and mother, Alana. The family moved to Sydney, where Idris now lives, because of Jamal's interest in athletics, especially javelin throwing . Following several representative seasons in athletics, Idris took up rugby league in high school. His junior clubs were Chester Hill Hornets, Merrylands Rams, Fairfield Patrician Brothers, Bankstown Sports, Berala Bears and Forster Tuncurry Hawkes.^[2]

Due to his physical size (194 cm height, 115 kg weight), his looks and his dreadlocked hairstyle, Idris has been confused for Lote Tuqiri by even his own family.^[3]

Professional playing career [link]

Bulldogs [link]

Idris graduated from LaSalle Catholic College, Bankstown at the end of 2008. In March 2009, Idris was involved in a fight with Bulldogs teammates and was suspended for one week.^[4] In May of the same year, Idris had what seemed to be the match-winning try against the St. George Illawarra Dragons denied after it was deemed that Greg Eastwood had obstructed Dragons' five-eighth Jamie Soward on the halfway line where Idris made the line break. The Bulldogs lost this game 20-18.

His performance early in the 2009 season prompted dual international Wendell Sailor to say: "What Jamal's doing at the moment, I think it's a lot better than what Izzy (Israel Folau) was doing at the same age."^[5] On 8 September, Idris was Named Dally M Rookie of the Year.^[6]

The 2010 NRL Season began slowly for Idris, but he soon found his true potential. He scored two tries in the Bulldogs 60-14 win over the Sydney Roosters, and a month later had a man of the match performance against the Brisbane Broncos. He backed that up with an entertaining clash with Timana Tahu when the Bulldogs played the Eels. He was rewarded with a place in the Country Origin team. After a strong performance for Country, including a try, Idris was named on the bench for the New South Wales State of Origin team for Game I of the 2010 State of Origin series.^[7] He played the 2nd half of Game I of the 2010 State of Origin series, scoring a try in a loss. Idris was dropped for the second match but was named the 18th man. In 2010, Jamal was named in the training side for Australia in the Four Nations tournament^{[citation needed]}.

In September, 2010 Idris was allegedly struck on the neck with a sword by a cousin while visiting Forster. His cousin, Beau Currie, 20, apparently plead guilty to the attack two days after it happened and was sentenced to 18 months in jail with a non-parole period of 14 months. At the beginning of the 2011 season Jamal has played well for Canterbury. Jamal has been offered what he says are two offers from two clubs, the Newcastle Knights and the Gold Coast Titans. On the 12th of April 2011 Jamal signed with The Gold Coast Titans

Jamal made the Australian team in 2011, he debuted on 6 May 2011 against New Zealand. Later that year it was announced that Idris had signed with the Gold Coast Titans starting from the 2012 NRL season.

Titans [link]

In the 2012 season opener against the North Queensland Cowboys, Idris scored the opening try for the Titans for the season and put a big hit on Glenn Hall in the 26th minute.

References [link]

^ Phelps, James (17 March 2009). "Bulldog Jamal Idris an NRL sensation". The Daily Telegraph (Australia). http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/jamal-the-man-the-others-dread/story-e6frfgbo-1111119151294. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
^ Walshaw, Nick (1 June 2009). "Jamal Idris left reeling by outrageous fortunes". Fox Sports Australia. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/sport/nrl/story/0,26746,25566980-5016284,00.html. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
^ Phelps, James (17 March 2009). "Bulldog Jamal Idris an NRL sensation". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/nrl/story/0,27074,25196203-5016541,00.html.
^ Massoud, Josh (2 April 2009). "Sharks and Dogs let barbs fly ahead of their Saturday night showdown". Fox Sports News (Australia). http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25277957-23214,00.html. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
^ "Wendell Sailor rates Jamal Idris better than Israel Folau". Fox Sports News (Australia). 17 May 2009. http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25493849-5018866,00.html. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
^ "Bulldogs giant Jamal Idris wins Dally M Rookie of the Year award". Herald Sun. 09 Sep 09. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/idris-is-rookie-of-the-year/story-e6frfgbo-1225770777820. Retrieved 21 Nov 2009.
^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/17/2901970.htm?site=sport&section=all

External links [link]

Bulldogs profile

v t e Gold Coast Titans – current squad

Prince (c) Bailey Bird Champion Douglas Falloon Gordon Graham Harrison Henderson Henry Idris James Lawrence Lawton Mead Michaels Minichiello Myles Nelson O'Dwyer Page Peyroux Rankin Ridge Sezer Srama Thompson Vickery J. White M. White Zillman Coach: Cartwright

Persondata
Name	Idris, Jamal
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	6 July 1990
Place of birth	Forster, New South Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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Cameron Smith
Personal information

Smith playing for Melbourne in 2010
Full name	Cameron Smith
Nickname	Cam
Born	(1983-06-18) 18 June 1983 (age 29) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	90 kg (14 st 2 lb)
Playing information
Position	Hooker, Halfback, Five-eighth
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2002–	Melbourne Storm	221	31	551	0	1226
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2003–11	Queensland	24	4	15	0	46
2006–12	Australia	29	7	23	0	74
2010–11	NRL All Stars	2	0	1	0	2
As of 21 July 2011
Source: Rugby League Project

Cameron Smith (born 18 June 1983 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the Australian national team, the Queensland State of Origin team, as well as his National Rugby League club, the Melbourne Storm. An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative hooker, he has played his whole NRL career to date with the Storm with whom he won the 2006 Dally M Medal and the 2007 and 2009 NRL grand finals. In 2007 Smith was awarded both the Wally Lewis Medal (as the State of Origin's player of the series) and the Golden Boot award (as the world's best international player). As of 2012 he is set to captain Australia and Queensland. He also shares the same birthday as fellow club, state and country teammate Billy Slater.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Professional playing career
  - 1.1.1 2000s
  - 1.1.2 2010s
- 1.2 Personal Life
2 Achievements
3 References
4 External links

Biography [link]

As a youth Smith was hooker for the Logan Brothers Junior Rugby League Club, Logan City, Queensland. There he attended Marsden State High School.^[1] After scoring 188 points for the Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup^[2] he moved up to the NRL with the Melbourne Storm club.

Professional playing career [link]

2000s [link]

In 2003 the Queensland rugby league team were without a specialist hooker. After experimenting with different players in the position for the first two matches of the 2003 State of Origin series and losing both, Smith was named at hooker for the third match (and for the next six years no other player would wear the number 9 for the Maroons until this run of 19 consecutive Origins was cut due to injury). He was named the Melbourne Storm's rookie of the year in 2003.^[3]

In 2005 Smith was named the Melbourne Storm's player of the year. The following year he first represented Australia and won the Dally M Medal. In addition he was again named the Storm's player of the year. Smith led the storm to the 2006 NRL Grand Final. While the game was still in the balance he was forced from the field with injury, which the Storm's loss has been largely attributed to.^[4]

Cam Smith on international duty with the Kangaroos in 2006

For the 2007 State of Origin series Smith took out both the Wally Lewis Medal for player of the series and Ron Mcauliffe Medal for Queensland player of the series.^[5] He was also named the Melbourne Storm player of the year.

Smith captained the Melbourne Storm in their 34–8 victory over the Manly Sea Eagles in the 2007 NRL Grand Final. hooker he is also the first-choice goal kicker for the Melbourne Storm and is left footed.

Smith became regular captain of the Melbourne Storm in 2008. Smith captained the Maroons for the entire 2008 State of Origin series due to the absence of regular captain Darren Lockyer. The Maroons won the series with him as the skipper, despite losing the first match 18-10. In August 2008, Smith was named in the preliminary 46-man Kangaroos squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,^[6]^[7] and in October 2008 he was selected in the final 24-man Australia squad.^[8]

Cameron was controversially suspended for two weeks in the 2008 finals series after a grapple tackle on Brisbane's Sam Thaiday. The suspension would have only been one week had he not had carry over points from a previous grapple tackle in round 1 of the year's competition. This meant he was suspended for Melbourne's 2008 grand final.The suspension was blown up by the media after the game and was responsible for the Melbourne Storm CEO, Brian Waldron, and coach, Craig Bellamy, claiming the judiciary had made their minds up before Cameron's case was heard. The judiciary panel members then threatened to sue the club if the comments were not retracted. Cameron signed a four year extension to his contract in December 2008, resulting in him being a contracted player through to the end of at least the 2012 season. His contract is rumoured to be partly funded by third party sponsors who do not contribute to the standard salary cap.

In April 2009, he was named in the preliminary 25 man squad to represent Queensland in the opening State of Origin match for 2009.^[9] He was selected for Australia in the one-off test match against New Zealand on 8 May 2009.^[10]

In the preliminary final in which Melbourne thrashed Brisbane 40–10, he became Storm's highest ever point scorer, beating Matt Orford's record of 877. Smith led the Storm in their 2009 NRL Grand Final victory over the Parramatta Eels.^[11]

At the end of the season he joined the Kangaroos on their campaign to win the 2009 Four Nations tournament in England. He scored the try that saved Australia from losing in the opening match and also scored in the Kangaroos' victory against England in the final.

2010s [link]

In 2010 he played in the 2010 World Club Challenge at halfback in the absence of his usual halfback Cooper Cronk due to injury. Smith kicked 5 goals and was named man of match.

He is now the Melbourne Storm's most experienced playing player due to the retirement of Matt Geyer at the end of 2008. He is the only current Storm player in the squad who played under Mark Murray as well as the only one to have played in a season when the Storm did not make the finals due to their performance (the Storm finished 10th in 2002, the year Smith made his debut).

Smith played in the 2010 Anzac Test. For the first time since Game II of the 2003 Origin series, Smith wasn't wearing the No 9 for Queensland, after he failed to overcome the elbow injury he sustained playing in that Test. He was replaced by Matt Ballin. ^[12]

In Round 26 of the 2010 NRL season Smith became the first Melbourne Storm player to reach 1000 points after successfully converting Ryan Hinchcliffe's try.

Smith played in the 42-0 thrashing of the Papua New Guinea national rugby league team during the 2010 Four Nations. It was a game where he converted 5 tries and scored once. He was later named man of the match.

Smith was named man-of-the-match in Queensland's win in Game I and later Game III of the 2011 State of Origin series, subsequently resulting in his naming as the Wally Lewis medal winning man-of-the-series.

On 3 November 2011 The annual RLIF Awards dinner was held at the Tower of London and Smith was named Hooker of the year.^[13]

Personal Life [link]

Smith has two children with his long term partner Barbara Johnson, a daughter, Jada, who was born in 2008 and a son, Jasper, who was born the following year, ^[14] who he married in late 2011.

Achievements [link]

2005: Ron McAullife Medal
2005: Club Player of the Year
2006: Dally M Player of the Year
2006: Club Player of the Year
2007: Wally Lewis Medal (State of Origin)
2007: Golden Boot Award International Player of the Year
2007: NRL – Most points (192) scored ever by a hooker in a season
2007: Club Player of the Year
2011: Wally Lewis Medal (State of Origin)
2011: Dally M Captain of the Year
2011: Dally M Hooker of the year

References [link]

^ School days to class acts By Matt Marshall (The Daily Telegraph 23 April 2009)
^ "NORTHS DEVILS". QRL. 2010. http://www.qrl.com.au/default.aspx?s=qldcup-clubs-norths. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
^ melbournestorm.com.au. "NRL Honour Board". Club. Melbourne Storm. http://www.melbournestorm.com.au/default.aspx?s=nrl-honour-board.
^ Masters, Roy (2 October 2006). "Broncos shine on centre stage". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax digital). http://www.smh.com.au/news/league/broncos-shine-on-centre-stage/2006/10/01/1159641214513.html. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
^ Livermore, Ross (2007). "Australian Rugby Football League Annual Report 2007" (pdf). Australian Rugby League Limited. pp. 9. http://www.australianrugbyleague.com.au/files/ARL_2007_Annrep_1.pdf. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
^ Liam FitzGibbon (1 August 2008). "Surprises in Kangaroos squad". "Fox Sports News (Australia)". http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,24111780-23214,00.html. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
^ "Veteran Lockyer named in Australian squad". International Herald Tribune. 1 August 2008. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/01/sports/AS-RGL-Australia-Squad.php. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
^ "Manly six win Australia call-up". BBC. 7 October 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/7656211.stm. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
^ "Queensland name preliminary State of Origin squad". Fox Sports. 28 April 2009. http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25398645-5016947,00.html. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
^ Wald, Tom (3 May 2009). "Kangaroos selectors stick by losing World Cup team for New Zealand Test". Fox Sports. http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25422175-5016947,00.html. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
^ http://www.nrl.com/telstrapremiership/telstrapremiershipscores/tabid/10240/roundid/833/fixtureid/5801/infotabid/3/default.aspx
^ Koch, Dan (24 May 2010). "Matt Ballin proves Wayne Bennett happily wrong". http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/ballin-proves-bennett-very-wrong/story-e6frg7mf-1225870278696.
^ "Slater scoops player award". Sky Sports. 3 November 2011. http://www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/news/15313/7289077/Slater-scoops-player-award. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
^ http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/melbourne-storm-captain-cameron-smith-a-knockabout-bloke/story-e6frfgbo-1226064691200

External links [link]

v t e Melbourne Storm – current squad

Smith (c) • Blair • J. Bromwich • K. Bromwich • Chambers • Cronk • Duffie • Garbutt • Greenfield • Griffin • Hinchcliffe • Hoffman • Kelly • Kostjasyn • Lowe • Lowrie • Manu • McLean • Moylan • Nielsen • Norrie • O'Neill • Proctor • Quinn • Ryles • Slater • Vave • Waqa • Widdop • Coach: Bellamy

v t e Melbourne Storm squad - 2007 NRL premiers - stripped

1. Billy Slater • 2. Steve Turner • 3. Matt King • 4. Israel Folau • 5. Anthony Quinn • 6. Greg Inglis • 7. Cooper Cronk 8. Ben Cross • 9. Cameron Smith (c) • 10. Brett White • 11. Clint Newton • 12. Ryan Hoffman • 13. Dallas Johnson 14. Jeremy Smith • 15. Matt Geyer • 16. Michael Crocker • 17. Jeff Lima Coach: Craig Bellamy

v t e Melbourne Storm squad - 2009 NRL grand final-winners*

1. Billy Slater • 2. Steve Turner • 3. Will Chambers • 4. Greg Inglis • 5. Dane Nielsen • 6. Brett Finch • 7. Cooper Cronk 8. Aiden Tolman • 9. Cameron Smith (c) • 10. Brett White • 11. Adam Blair • 12. Ryan Hoffman • 13. Dallas Johnson 14. Ryan Hinchcliffe • 15. Jeff Lima • 16. Ryan Tandy • 17. Scott Anderson Coach: Craig Bellamy

v t e Melbourne Storm squad – 2010 World Club Challenge winners - stripped

1 Billy Slater 2 Luke MacDougall 3 Dane Nielsen 4 Greg Inglis 5 Anthony Quinn 6 Brett Finch 7 Cameron Smith (c) 8 Aiden Tolman 9 Ryan Hinchcliffe 10 Jeff Lima 11 Adam Blair 12 Ryan Hoffman 13 Todd Lowrie 14 Rory Kostjasyn 15 Kevin Proctor 16 Hep Cahill 17 Jesse Bromwich Coach: Craig Bellamy

v t e Australia squad – 2008 Rugby League World Cup Finalists

1 Lockyer (c) 2 Boyd 3 Campese 4 Civoniceva 5 Fitzgibbon 6 Folau 7 Gallen 8 Gidley 9 Hunt 10 Inglis 11 Kite 12 Laffranchi 13 Monaghan 14 Perry 15 Price 16 Prince 17 Slater 18 Smith 19 Stewart 20 Tate 21 Thurston 22 Tupou 23 Watmough 24 Williams Coach: Stuart

v t e Australia squad – 2009 Four Nations champions

Darren Lockyer (c) Justin Hodges Sam Thaiday David Shillington Ben Hannant Josh Morris Paul Gallen Anthony Watmough Cooper Cronk Ryan Hoffman Greg Inglis Billy Slater Cameron Smith (vc) Brett White Kurt Gidley Johnathan Thurston Jarryd Hayne Nathan Hindmarsh Petero Civoniceva Michael Jennings Luke Lewis Trent Waterhouse Brett Morris Robbie Farah Coach: Tim Sheens

Golden Boot Award winners

1984 Wally Lewis
1985 Brett Kenny
1986 Garry Jack
1987 Hugh McGahan & Peter Sterling
1988 Ellery Hanley
1989 Mal Meninga
1990 Garry Schofield
1991 - 1998 No award given
1999 Andrew Johns
2000 Brad Fittler
2001 Andrew Johns
2002 Stacey Jones
2003 Darren Lockyer
2004 Andy Farrell
2005 Anthony Minichiello
2006 Darren Lockyer
2007 Cameron Smith
2008 Billy Slater
2009 Greg Inglis
2010 Benji Marshall
2011 Johnathan Thurston

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Name	Smith, Cameron
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Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	18 June 1983
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date of death
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