A Statistical History of Rugby League - Volume Vii

By Stephen Kane

The Greatest Game of All or Rugby League as it is known to some has given me nearly a half a century of pleasure and a little pain. In 1966 at the ripe old age of 6 I was introduced to our game when my Uncle Harry moved into the bedroom I shared with my younger brother in a 2 bedroom fibro joint in Rockdale(Dragon Territory).

Harry was playing lower grades for Jack Gibsons Roosters and went on to play for St George in the 1971 Grand Final against my other front rower mate John Sattler and his Rabbitohs. By the age of 9 I had memorized every player in the Big League magazine.

The game became my obsession. Even if I had not been lucky enough to play over 100 games in the best competition in the world(arguably in any sport) Rugby League was in my blood. As a Rothmans Medal winner (the official player of the year award in 1983 succeeded by The Dally M Medal) I have always been aware of the history of our great game and its effect on society especially in the northern states of Australia. Apart from obtaining a Law degree at Sydney University I studied the Politics in Sport while completing my Arts Degree at Macquarie University.

I believed our game was ahead of sports like baseball, gridiron and basketball that relied heavily on statistics to rate their great players. Ours is a game of passion made for the blue collar working classman relying on guts and determination not on how many yards and minutes someone makes or plays. However as we get older we all like to dig deep into history and see who had the ability and drive to play even one game in the toughest competition playing the greatest game of all. This book does what none other has attempted to dotell a story using numbers and statistics about our great game. It is something every player and fan would do well to study.

Stephen Kane the author of this book could be a reincarnation of Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba whose statue stands proudly at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Yabba was known for his knowledgeable witticisms shouted loudly from The Hill, a grassy general admissions area of the SCG. A lot like Yabba Kaney can be found every winter Sunday on the hill at Greenfield Park Albury(or away in Junee, Temora or Wagga) cheering his beloved Thunder to victory in the Group 9 Premiership loudly and clearly from 10 am to 5.30pm. In his spare time since breaking his back 7 years ago he has collected statistics on players in the NSWRL(now known as the NRL) dating back to 1908. The first words Kaney said to me was I have every Rugby League Week ever published as he showed me his EELS tattoo. You got sin binned once in your career at North Sydney Oval in 1983 or was it 1984?? I knew I was in the company of a Rugby League tragic. This study of our game will help all of us who love the game and those of us lucky enough to have played it a better insight into the players of the greatest game of all from the top to the bottom.

Written by Mike Eden, who played 110 Games for Manly, Easts, Parramatta and Gold Coast, is Gold Coast Player Number 1, and Won the Dally M award for Player of the Year in 1983

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jun 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483656984

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A Statistical History

of Rugby League

Volume 7

Stephen Kane

Copyright © 2013 by Stephen Kane.

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Rev. date: 06/21/2013

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction of the Book

ALL-TIME GOALS AT EACH CLUB

ALL-TIME GOALS AT 1 CLUB

ALL-TIME FIELD GOALS ALPHABETICAL

ALL-TIME FIELD GOALS

ALL-TIME FIELD GOALS AT EACH CLUB

ALL-TIME FIELD GOALS AT ONE CLUB

NSW ORIGIN HONOUR ROLL

QUEENSLAND ORIGIN HONOUR ROLL

ORIGIN RECORDS 1980-2012

DVD STATE OF ORIGIN RESULTS

STATE OF ORIGIN POINT SCORERS

ALL-TIME ORIGIN TRY SCORERS

ALL-TIME ORIGIN GOAL-KICKERS

ALL-TIME ORIGIN FIELD GOALS

ORIGIN REFS

AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE RECORDS

KANGAROO TOUR RECORDS AND RESULTS

KANGAROO TOURIST RECORDS

KANGAROO POINT SCORERS

KANGAROO TRY SCORERS

KANGAROO GOAL-KICKERS

KANGAROO FIELD GOALS

AUSTRALIAN TOURS TO NEW ZEALAND

BRITISH TOURS TO AUSTRALIA & NZ

SENT-OFF OR SIN-BINNED PLAYERS

CITY VS. COUNTRY RESULTS

GOLDEN BOOT AWARD WINNERS

ALL TEAMS WIN-LOSS RATIOS

100 CLUB FIRST-GRADE TRIES & GOALS

100 TRIES & GOALS AT 1 CLUB

Bibliography

Introduction About Me

Dedication

This Book is Dedicated to the Memory of my Mum (Elizabeth 1940-2009) and Dad (Denis 1930-2009), who always told me to follow ya dreams and no matter how badly I screwed up they where always there, I Love you both and miss you every day.

Acknowledgments

The NRL (National Rugby League)

David Middleton (League Historian & Journolist & Author)

Alan Whiticker (Co-Author of The Encyclopedia of Rugby League).

Glen Hudson (Co-Author of The Encyclopedia of Rugby League).

Rugby League Week Magazine

Big League Magazine

Men of League Foundation

Tarryn McLeod Photography

Foreword

The Greatest Game of All or Rugby League as it is known to some has given me nearly a half a century of pleasure and a little pain. In 1966 at the ripe old age of 6 I was introduced to our game when my Uncle Harry moved into the bedroom I shared with my younger brother in a 2 bedroom fibro joint in Rockdale(Dragon Territory). Harry was playing lower grades for Jack Gibson’s Roosters and went on to play for St George in the 1971 Grand Final against my other front rower mate John Sattler and his Rabbitoh’s. By the age of 9 I had memorized every player in the Big League magazine. The game became my obsession. Even if I had not been lucky enough to play over 100 games in the best competition in the world(arguably in any sport) Rugby League was in my blood. As a Rothmans Medal winner (the official player of the year award in 1983 succeeded by The Dally M Medal) I have always been aware of the history of our great game and its effect on society especially in the northern states of Australia. Apart from obtaining a Law degree at Sydney University I studied the Politics in Sport while completing my Arts Degree at Macquarie University.

I believed our game was ahead of sports like baseball, gridiron and basketball that relied heavily on statistics to rate their great players. Ours is a game of passion made for the blue collar working classman relying on guts and determination not on how many yards and minutes someone makes or plays. However as we get older we all like to dig deep into history and see who had the ability and drive to play even one game in the toughest competition playing the greatest game of all. This book does what none other has attempted to do- tell a story using numbers and statistics about our great game. It is something every player and fan would do well to study.

Steve Kane the author of this book could be a reincarnation of Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba whose statue stands proudly at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Yabba was known for his knowledgeable witticisms shouted loudly from The Hill, a grassy general admissions area of the SCG. A lot like Yabba Kaney can be found every winter Sunday on the hill at Greenfield Park Albury(or away in Junee, Temora or Wagga) cheering his beloved Thunder to victory in the Group 9 Premiership loudly and clearly from 10 am to 5.30pm. In his spare time since breaking his back 7 years ago he has collected statistics on players in the NSWRL(now known as the NRL) dating back to 1908. The first words Kaney said to me was I have every Rugby League Week ever published as he showed me his EELS tattoo. You got sin binned once in your career at North Sydney Oval in 1983 or was it 1984?? I knew I was in the company of a Rugby League tragic. This study of our game will help all of us who love the game and those of us lucky enough to have played it a better insight into the players of the greatest game of all from the top to the bottom.

Written by Mike Eden, who played 110 Games for Manly, Easts, Parramatta and Gold Coast, is Gold Coast Player Number 1, and Won the Dally M award for Player of the Year in 1983

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Introduction of the Book

I always wanted to produce these stats as just a way to take my mind off my back injury and help fill in my days but I also wanted them to be as accurate as I could make them, so as I found stats I had to cross check them with other books and websites and to try to be as accurate as possible and with various sites and books and microfiche films I actually went through every game ever played.

There are the players stats in alphabetical order then there is the order of Darren Lockyer on 355 games down to every player that just played 1 game, (1 game is still more than most players ever got a chance to play), then there is the list of games played at 1 club and then the lists of pointscorers from Hazam El Masri all the way down to the guys that kicked 1 field goal for a solitary point, as well as the pointscorers at 1 club, also the tryscorers lists from The Great Ken Irvine on 212 all the way to 1 and at 1 club Ken Irvine on 171 to 1 again, then goal kickers and field goal kickers.

Then with the club stats I have added in the records for more than 1 try in a game and all the Hat tricks 4’s, 5’s, 6’s 7’s and eight in a game also the most points, tries, goals f/goals in a game season and career at every club including the clubs that are no longer around, like Cumberland who where only in for 1 season.

Now with these statistics there may be people out there that are either the players or family of the players that the stats are about and corrections may be needed and I am happy for any feedback, but please remember this is as accurate as I could find with the resources I had available, and there is no opinion involved just cold hard stats, some of the sin binned players I had to go back through some 1000 hours of DVD’s and video tapes to find which particular brawl or punch having said that there is 2 of these stats where I have included my opinion the first is for the Golden Boot Award, there was a period between 1991-1998 where the award wasn’t given, so I have listed the players that I believe should have won the award, but I took into consideration the RLW player of the Year the Dally M award, the English Player of the Year and various other Awards that were on offer in those years, the other one and I hope this causes much discussion is in the State of Origin Records, in particular the 1987 Series, if you ask a Queenslander the Game in Los Angeles was an Exhibition Match, but the way I see it if it was a joke match why did they send a full strength Team, so with New South Wales winning Games 1 and 4 and Queensland winning Games 2 and 3 the series was Drawn 2 all, I know that with Queensland winning the Last 7 Series it Doesn’t mean much as they have the Series Overall lead Anyway, but as a Passionate Blues Supporter this is a Wrong that Historically should be Righted.

Anyway that all being said I hope you enjoy the read and maybe even end some arguments with these stats as much as I have enjoyed bringing them to you and I will continue to do so in the future,

ALL-TIME GOALS AT EACH CLUB