Scott Tronc (born 15 May 1965) is an Australian former
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 112 ...
footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Queensland
State of Origin representative forward, he played club football in Brisbane with Souths, winning a premiership with them in 1985, and later the Broncos, and in Sydney with Wests, Canterbury-Bankstown and Souths.
Playing career
Tronc was the winner of the
Rothmans Medal (joint with
Bryan Neibling
Bryan Niebling (born 18 July 1960) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. Niebling played in the forwards. After a successful Brisbane Rugby League premiership, and representative caree ...
) in 1986 while playing for Brisbane Souths.
Tronc played 34 games for Western Suburbs from 1987 to 1988 as a prop forward, before joining Brisbane to play 21 games from 1989 to 1990. He represented the Queensland State of Origin team in one match as a reserve in 1988. In 1991, he joined Canterbury to become a regular member of the first-grade team, playing mostly in the second row. That year, he played in one finals match against Western Suburbs as a replacement.
In 1992, Tronc started the season in the first-grade side but was relegated, with his place going to
Gavin Hill
Gavin Lyle Hill (born 11 December 1965) is a New Zealand former rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and coached rugby union the 2000s. He resided in Wellington for 10-years before moving back to Au ...
. He subsequently became a regular member of the reserve-grade team but was still often used as a first-grade replacement.
In 1993, he coached the Under 21 team but returned to playing when he joined South Sydney in 1994 to play seven games that season, his last in the league.
Coaching
Tronc spent periods as assistant coach at
Redcliffe Dolphins
The Redcliffe Dolphins are a semi-professional rugby league club based in Redcliffe, Queensland, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1947, they were accepted into the Brisbane Rugby League premiership (rugby league competition), Brisba ...
and the
Brisbane Broncos NYC team.
References
External links
Scott Tronc at bulldogs.com.auQueensland representatives at qrl.com.au*
1965 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Brisbane Broncos players
Souths Logan Magpies players
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
Queensland Rugby League State of Origin players
Rugby league players from Queensland
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league props
Western Suburbs Magpies players
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