WE WANT A FAIR GO FOR OUR AREA, MORE OPPORTUNITIES AND MORE THAN 4 NRL GAMES AT CAMPBELLTOWN STADIUM
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| Old Magpie Lad | Dec 30 2011, 10:42 AM Post #1 |
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Just wanting to know with all the posters on the Group 6 forum whether they could help me out. I'm a keen reseacher of ex Sydney 1st grader players who ended their playing careers in bush footy and I'm interested in knowing who played in Group 6 - between 1973 to 1983 only - particularly the Campbelltown clubs - city, warriors & collies. So far, with the help of Warriors78 (cheers mate) have come up with - Campbelltown Warriors Col Casey, Ron Fogarty & Genaro Panzarino (all ex-Newtown) Terry Geary & Wayne Brain (both ex- Penrith) Campbelltown City Phil Charlton (ex-Canterbury & 1 game for Newtown) Also know that Tim Sheens played at City, Rod Jackson (ex-Canterbury & Manly) played at Camden while Tony Herring (ex-Norths & Canterbury) played at either The Oaks or Oakdale. Johnny Greaves (ex- St George & Canterbury) played at City as well. Can anyone else add to this? Interested to know if Ingleburn & Leumeah who played in Group 6 in the late 70's had any ex Sydney 1st graders. Also, I was talking to a former Newtown Jets player from the 70's - John Bradstock recently and he told me he played for a Campbelltown club in Group 6 in the late 70's but couldn't recall which one. Does anyone know which one? |
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| Orana87 | Dec 30 2011, 11:26 AM Post #2 |
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Old Magpie Lad, my Dad used to be the G6 journalist between these years as well as being heavily involved at City as a player and official. Group 6 attracted a lot of ex-grade stars who were all very well paid by a lot of cashed up clubs. Group 6 was probably the fifth strongest comp behind Newcastle, Illawarra, Group 8 Canberra and Group 12 Central Coast- as proven by Southern Division being heavily dominated by G6 players when they won the Country Championships in 1980 and 1983- haven't got within a bull's roar since. From my knowledge, and the research we did last year to press our G6 claims, I know of the following: City- 1960s- Robert McDonagh Captain- coach Kangaroos 1962-64 ex Eastern Suburbs played in 1960 GF alongside Jack Gibson in the FR 1969-72 Ray Corkery Captain- coach 1969-71 ex St George & Warrington Rod Smith ex- Parramatta centre John Walsh, ex- Magpies Alan Girard Ron Girard Barry Norden Dave Irvine Rod Berridge Tom Jordan 1973-76 Johnny Greaves Captain- coach 1973-76 ex Australian International Canterbury and St George Tony Da' Silva, ex- Penrith Peter Matson (also captain coached The Oaks), ex- Newtown & Parramatta Mick Hall, ex- Bulldogs Steve Dwyer, ex- Bulldogs Ray Dodd, ex- Bulldogs 1978 Johnny 'Spook' Spencer, Captain- coach 1978 ex Balmain legend, played in the 1969 GF win over Souths Don Rogers, ex- Magpies Steve Rigney, ex- Magpies & RLW cartoonist 1980-82 Phil Charlton, ex- Bulldogs frontrower Bobby Kelly Darrell Griffin, ex- Penrith halfback Mark Snuggs, ex- Easts & Newtown pivot Martin Bullock, ex- Parramatta Dennis Dobson, ex- Magpies & Bulldogs hooker Mark Massone, went to Wests in 1983 Tony Herring (captain coached warriors to comp win in 1979 but came to us after not getting $$$) Digby Murray, went to Parra and played 1st Grade 1983 Tim Sheens, ex- Penrith Greg Beale, ex- Penrith Dennis Fricot- ended up at Cronulla in 1984 Alan Hamilton, ex- Easts Steve Stonham, ex- Parramatta 1984 (Newtown- Campelltown A Grade) Kerry Hoskins, ex- Newtown |
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| Orana87 | Dec 30 2011, 11:47 AM Post #3 |
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Ingleburn Bulldogs- John Darby (Canterbury Bulldogs) Collies- Terry Hughes (1st Rothmans Medallist), Arthur Sauverein, Dennis McGarry, Norm Miller (ex- NSW & Balmain hooker), Marshall Rogers (ex- Wests), Warren Griffin (ex- Souths) Warriors- Tony Herring, Doug Page, Ray Henry plus the others listed Leumeah struggled through 1972-78? and didn't really have the money to compete. City were backed by the Leagues Club & Lacks Hotel (Court Tavern), Collies by the Catholic Club and wealthy local Catholic businessmen like the late Daryl Martin and the late Gordon Fetterplace and the Warriors had the RSL club backing them Rod Jackson captain-coached Camden to comp win in 1978 Peter Langmack captain- coached Bowral for a few years in 70s & 80s, as did Steve Kneen in I think 84-85 |
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| Old Magpie Lad | Dec 30 2011, 12:48 PM Post #4 |
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Thanks Orana87 - this is excellent stuff. If anyone else knows of any more players, please feel free to add them. |
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| Orana87 | Dec 30 2011, 06:23 PM Post #5 |
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Some other ones- Dave Applebee: Penrith- Oakdale 1974 Jeff Withers: Souths- Camden 1978 Dave Cartwright: Penrith- Oakdale 1981 Ken Kearney: St George- The Oaks 1983 Jeremy Lillis: Parra- Camden 1983 Rod Henniker Illawarra- Norths- Picton capt coach in 1985 Robert Stone St George- Picton capt coach 1986-88 Lee Oudenryn Warragamba 88-89 to Parra Olsen Filipiana: Bowral 1988 |
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| Old Magpie Lad | Jan 15 2012, 11:48 AM Post #6 |
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Can anyone confirm whether former Western Suburbs haflback Alan Neil (who also played for Easts & St George) played in Group 6 in the late 80's? I recall reading something about him playing for either The Oaks or Oakdale for a very brief time. |
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| fairgo | Sep 21 2012, 05:54 PM Post #7 |
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All of these in the late 70's. John Maxwell, half - Wests Magpies and Penrith. Captain Coach Collies. Max Anderson, prop, Wests Magpies. Captain Coach Collies Res Grade and player in 1st Grade. Steve Kovacs, second row - Parramatta and Souths? Collies. Warren Griffin, prop, Souths - Collies. |
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