Rugby league history

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1966
NSWRL
Round 15, Sunday
31st July, 1966.
Western Suburbs Magpies 12 defeated St George Dragons 9.
Referee Jack Bradley.
Played at Kogarah Oval, Sydney.
Crowd: 10,880.
Official Player of the Match: Noel Kelly (Western Suburbs Magpies).

 

[Halbrowne61]

The best game's best callers, now and then ....


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I know it’s a long time ago but let’s not forget Frank “ it’s long enough and high enough” Hyde. The sound of my youth !

 

[Oldman]

I know it’s a long time ago but let’s not forget Frank “ it’s long enough and high enough” Hyde. The sound of my youth !

‘It’s straight between the posts’
Thank god for transistor radios

 

[LeichhardtTiger]

What a great team Balmain had then. Plus two of the best goalkickers ever in the same team. Poor old Golden Boots retired that year and the Tigers won the comp the next year.
Keith Barnes was my favourite player back then followed by Dennis Tutty (I was 12) and I had a jersey with a number 1 on it.
Don’t have the jersey any more but I do have the tigers logo off it somewhere.

John Peard & Kevin Junee Wow! just Wow!

 

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1967 - Aussies v Kiwis

 

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Going back a bit here, but this player was a Magpies legend even in his playing days ......
Billy Keato, Western Suburbs Magpies fullback. ⭐

 

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1966 NSWRL
Grand Final.
Saturday, 17th September, 1966.
St George Dragons 23 defeated Balmain Tigers 4.
Referee Col Pearce.
Played at SCG, Moore Park, Sydney.
Crowd: 61,129.
Official Player of the Match: (Retrospective Clive Churchill Medal) John Raper (St George Dragons).

 

[tiger_one]

When the Balmain Tigers made those Grand Finals in 1988 - '89 they produced these bumper stickers.
They were all based on quotes from the great Laurie Nichols.

 

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Phil Sigsworth, Newtown Jets fullback.
At rear are five eighth Peter Rowles, halfback Ken Wilson, lock forward John Ribot and at a distance centre Mark Wright.

 

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Warren Boland, Western Suburbs winger and captain

 

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Percy Knight, Balmain Tigers five-eighth. Balmain Tigers fullback Allan McMahon and St George Dragons five-eighth Tony Trudgett at rear.

 

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[innsaneink]

When the Balmain Tigers made those Grand Finals in 1988 - '89 they produced these bumper stickers.
They were all based on quotes from the great Laurie Nichols.




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Major cringe

 

[tiger_one]

Balmain Tigers of days gone ....... (1982 actually)
Martin, Bridge, Jack.

 

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Wests Magpies fav, Lee Crooks, running onto Lidcombe Oval
(with popular sponsor Jim Masterton holding his company's banner on the right side)

 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Brett Hodgson - one of the Wests Tigers heroes of 2005!

 

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Always popular Doug Lucas, Wests Magpies forward of times long gone - my Dad used to call him "Kojak."

 

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This infamous sledge was delivered by Bob "Bozo" Fulton, then coach of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, to referee Bill Harrigan following a match in 1987.

The outburst occurred in the tunnel of Endeavour Field after Manly suffered an 18–13 loss to Cronulla. Fulton was incensed because Harrigan had sin-binned Manly halfback Des Hasler for feeding the ball into the second row of a scrum.

The Sledge:
Waiting at the tunnel entrance, Fulton told Harrigan, “Harrigan, I hope you get run over by a truck. I hope it’s a cement truck”.

The Penalty:
Fulton was subsequently fined $6,000 by the NSWRL—a significant sum at the time—and Harrigan did not referee another Manly game for 14 weeks.

The "Reminder":
In a legendary follow-up, when Harrigan finally returned to Brookvale Oval to referee Manly months later, a fan had reportedly parked an actual cement truck in the top car park as a "reminder" of the feud.