Mick Pattison (born 11 December 1958) is an Australian former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 11 ...

footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for

Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

, South Sydney and

Illawarra The Illawarra is a coastal region in the Australian state of New South Wales, nestled between the mountains and the sea. It is situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the South Coast region. It encompasses the two cities of Wollongo ...

in the NSWRL competition.

Playing career

Pattison was a Parramatta junior and had been awarded the club's 1977 rookie of the year award before making his first grade debut with the side in round 4 of the

1978 NSWRFL season The 1978 NSWRFL season was the 71st season of the NSWRFL Premiership, Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, and Australia's first. Twelve clubs, including six of 1908's foundation teams and another six from around Sydney compete ...

against Balmain at

Leichhardt Oval Leichhardt Oval is a rugby league and soccer stadium in Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently one of three home grounds for the Wests Tigers National Rugby League (NRL) team, along with Campbelltown Stadium and Western Sydney ...

. In 1979, Pattison had a consistent season playing 22 games including the clubs major preliminary semi-final victory over Cronulla-Sutherland. He moved to Souths in 1981 and was chosen in the New South Wales State of Origin team but had to withdraw with an inner-ear infection on the morning of the match. In the same season, Pattison played in South Sydney's

1981 Tooth Cup The 1981 Tooth Cup was the 8th edition of the NSWRFL Midweek Cup, a NSWRFL-organised national club Rugby League tournament between the leading clubs and representative teams from the NSWRFL, the BRL, the CRL, the QRL and the NZRL. A total ...

final victory over Cronulla. Pattison capped off a successful season with Souths winning the 1981 Dally M Five-Eighth of the year award. The following year he made the NSW City team and looked set to win a place in the New South Wales side when he broke both collarbones in a freak tackle. In 1983, he returned to Parramatta but injuries meant he could only make seven appearances over two years. Pattison would later join Illawarra and was their player of the year in 1985. Pattison retired at the end of 1986 due to a chronic back injury.

References

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