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Randwick Rugby Union Club
Randwick District Rugby Union Football Club, also known as the Galloping Greens, is an Australian rugby union club which competes in the Sydney premier grade rugby union competition. The club was formed in 1882 and since then has won 32 first grade premierships and six Australian club championships. It is one of the traditional powerhouses of the Shute Shield competition, winning 14 titles from 1978 to 1996. Randwick's colours are myrtle green and the club's home ground is Coogee Oval. In the 1980s the club produced many Wallabies, including the Ella brothers. Its history has seen many of Australia's best players represent the club, including the likes of George Gregan and David Campese. In all, 93 Randwick players have pulled on a Wallaby jersey, and nine have had the honour of captaining their country. Club information :Club Name: Randwick District Rugby Union Football Club :Nickname: Galloping Greens, Wicks :Founded: 1882 :Home stadium: Coogee Oval :Coach: Ben McCormack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coogee, New South Wales
Coogee is a beachside suburb of local government area City of Randwick 8 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is typically associated as being part of the Eastern Suburbs region. The Tasman Sea and Coogee Bay along with Coogee Beach lie towards the eastern side of the suburb. The boundaries of Coogee are formed mainly by Clovelly Road, Carrington Road and Rainbow Street, with arbitrary lines drawn to join these thoroughfares to the coast in the north-east and south-east corners. History Aboriginal The name Coogee is said to be taken from a local Aboriginal word ''koojah'' which means "smelly place". Another version is ''koo-chai'' or ''koo-jah'', both of which mean "the smell of the seaweed drying" in the Bidigal language, or "stinking seaweed", a reference to the smell of decaying kelp washed up on the beach. Early visitors to the area, from the 1820s onwards, were never able to confirm exactl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brass
John Brass (born 7 October 1946) is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer - a dual-code international. He made twelve international representative rugby union appearances with the Wallabies from 1966 to 1968 and six representative rugby league appearances for the Kangaroos in 1970 and 1975, as national captain on one occasion. Background John Brass was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Rugby union career His junior football was with the South Coogee juniors. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School, graduating in 1963 and went on to play first grade rugby with the Randwick rugby club in their premiership winning sides of 1965 to 1967. Brass credits watching Randwick scrumhalf prodigy Ken Catchpole in action at the Sydney Sports Ground in 1959 as the early inspiration for his wanting to play rugby. He made his debut for New South Wales against Queensland in 1966 at the age of 19, and nine days later played for New South Wales against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hoiles
Stephen Hoiles is a former Australian rugby union player. He played Super Rugby for the New South Wales Waratahs and previously turned out for the . He also represented the Australia national rugby union team 16 times between 2004 and 2008. He currently is the head coach of the LA Giltinis The LA Giltinis are a former Major League Rugby team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. The team was announced in 2020 and entered the league in the 2021 season as an expansion franchise. The Giltinis, named for a yet-to-be-released ... in Major League Rugby (MLR) where he won a championship in the team's inaugural season. Career Stephen Hoiles is a former International Rugby Union player for Australia. Hoiles represented the Wallabies for the first time in 2004 at the age of 22 in the Test match against Scotland. Prior to this he had represented Australia in 7's Rugby Union at the age of 20. His professional career spanned over 13 years with some significant setbacks alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hawthorne
Phillip Francis Hawthorne (24 October 1943 – 18 September 1994) was an Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer – a dual-code international. He represented the Wallabies in twenty-one Tests and the Kangaroos in three Tests. He captained Australia in rugby league the 3rd Test of the 1970 Ashes series. His mother was killed in a car accident in Newcastle when he was 14. Rugby union career Hawthorne was born in 1943 in Newcastle, New South Wales. From the Wanderers Rugby Union Club in Newcastle, he first represented for the Wallabies age 18 as Fly-half. For the next five years he was a consistent selection for Wallaby Tests and tours and formed a formidable partnership with scrum-half Ken Catchpole. On the 1966–67 Tour of England Hawthorne played in 5 Tests and set a new tour point scoring record of 26 points (6 field goals, 2 penalties and 2 conversions). In 1967 he joined Randwick to pair with Catchpole at club level and he played further Tests that year. Rugb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Freier
Adam Freier (born 20 March 1980) is a rugby union footballer. In 2011 and 2012 he played for the in the Super Rugby competition, and retired at the end of 2012 from professional rugby. In 2015 he came out of retirement to play Shute Shield for Randwick until this day. His usual playing position is hooker. Playing career Son of Sydney rugby league footballer and coach Laurie Freier born 20 March 1980, in Paddington, NSW, Australia, he made the Australian Schoolboys in 1998 as well as the under-19s, which he captained the following year. In 2000 he signed with the and made his state debut against Queensland. He went on to play for the Australian under-21s, including captaining them at the 2001 under-21 Rugby Championships, in which they finished runner-up to New Zealand. He made his debut for the Wallabies in 2002, in a Test against Argentina. Freier left the Brumbies and signed with the for the 2003 season, and was selected to captain the Waratahs tour of Argentina in pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Flett (rugby Union)
John Alexander Flett (born 15 June 1963 at Manly, NSW) is a former rugby union footballer. He earned 4 international caps playing for the Wallabies A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and so .... He played as a winger. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Living people 1963 births Rugby union wings Rugby union players from Sydney {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Finegan
Owen Finegan (born 22 April 1972, in Sydney) is an Australian former rugby union player who played as a flanker or lock, for the Australian national team. Finegan is currently the CEO of The Kids' Cancer Project Australia. He was a key performer for the ACT Brumbies from their inception in 1996, joining from Randwick Rugby Club. Finegan played in 90 Super 12 matches for the Brumbies and was one of three remaining foundation players in the 2005 squad. He has helped them to two titles, including captaining them to their 2004 triumph, and scoring a Super 12 record 31 tries for a forward. He made his international debut against Wales in 1996 and went on to win 56 caps despite having ankle and knee reconstructions, plus operations on both shoulders. He was an integral part of the Wallabies’ success over following decade and was named in the Wallaby team of the first professional decade in 2005. The highlight of Finegan's career came in 1999, when he scored an injury time try as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Fairfax
Russell Lance Fairfax (born 29 March 1952, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former Rugby Union and Rugby League player. A precocious talent, he played his first rugby international while still at school. Having played eight tests for the Wallabies, he moved to Rugby League's Eastern Suburbs Roosters in 1974. Following his retirement from Rugby League, Fairfax coached in the 1989 and 1990 seasons. Early life Russell Fairfax, whose father was in the Australian Army, grew up in Sorrento, Victoria, where he played Australian football. The family moved to Ipswich, Queensland, where he played rugby league, before moving to Sydney. Fairfax attended Matraville High School and played for La Perouse and Alexandria Rovers rugby league clubs in his junior years, before joining the Randwick club to play rugby union. Playing at fullback he represented Australian Schools on their tours of South Africa (1969) and New Zealand (1970). Football career From 1971-73, Fairfax p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Fahey
Edward Joseph Fahey (7 July 1888 – 23 August 1950) was an Australian rugby union player and World War I artilleryman. He was a state and national representative lock forward who made two international rugby tours and who captained the Wallabies on the 1913 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand. School and club rugby Fahey was born in Sydney and schooled at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. He captained their GPS premiership winning XV of 1907 and the Combined GPS schoolboy representative side that same year. After school he joined the Eastern Suburbs Rugby Club in Sydney. He would go on to become a stalwart for the club making 73 first-grade appearances over a twelve-year period interrupted by World War I.Howell p53 In 1914 redrawn catchment boundaries affecting the then applicable residential club eligibility criteria, forced Fahey to switch and play for the neighbouring Randwick Rugby Club. He captained Randwick in 1914 and made 11 first-grade appearances for that club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Elsom
Rocky Elsom (born 14 February 1983) is a former Australian rugby union player. He played the positions of flanker and number eight. He was selected for 75 caps for Australia. He is the most capped Australian blindside flanker. Elsom was the 76th Australian test captain, having replaced Stirling Mortlock in 2009 for two years. He played for the Wallabies from 2005 until 2011. Elsom played professionally for New South Wales, Brumbies and Leinster. Elsom is one of Australia's most decorated players, having won Herald Super 14 player of the year in 2007, Wallaby of the Year in 2008, European Player of the Year in 2009 and having been inducted into the European Cup Hall of Fame in 2010. He also holds the record for most tries by a Wallaby forward and is one of only a handful of Australians to win a Heineken Cup medal twice. Brian O'Driscoll once lauded Elsom as the best player in the world. Elsom's post-playing rugby career started in spectacular fashion, taking over RCNM Racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Ella
Glen Joseph Ella (born 5 June 1959) is a former Australian rugby union player and coach. Ella played as a Fullback for Randwick, Manly and New South Wales. Ella also represented Australia in the 1980s, however, did not play at the first Rugby World Cup in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. Biography Born in La Perouse, New South Wales, Ella was one of 12 children. Two of his brothers, Mark (his twin) and Gary, and one of his sisters, Marcia, represented Australia in sports - his brothers in rugby union and his sister in netball. He attended school at Matraville High School. Playing career Ella took up playing at Matraville High School, soon representing New South Wales in schoolboy rugby. He made his test debut for Australia in a 7–12 loss against Scotland at Ballymore Stadium in 1982, starting at fullback. He played his second test for the Wallabies against Italy in 1983 in Rovigo, winning 7–29. Ella played his last two games for Australia in 1985 against Canada and Fiji respe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Ella
Gary Albert Ella (born 23 July 1960) is an Australian former rugby union player. Ella represented Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ... six times between 1982 and 1988. Gary recently (2022) moved to Morisset Park NSW and has joined forces with first-grade coach Seru Rainima at Lake Macquarie Rugby Club. Gary will work with Seru and mainly look after the backline coachin References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ella, Gary 1960 births People educated at Matraville Sports High School Indigenous Australian rugby union players Australian rugby union coaches Australian rugby union players Leinster Rugby non-playing staff Living people Australia international rugby union players Rugby union players from Sydney Rugby union centres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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