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Post by Electric Eel on May 29, 2020 20:56:38 GMT 10
 Brian Hambly Full name Brian Clinton Hambly Born 31 October 1937 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Died 30 August 2008 (aged 70) Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia Parramatta 1961 - 1967 Games - 105 Wikipedia |
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Post by Electric Eel on May 29, 2020 20:57:49 GMT 10
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Post by Electric Eel on May 29, 2020 20:58:07 GMT 10
Brian Clinton Hambly (31 October 1937 – 30 August 2008) was an Australian rugby league player, a representative forward for the Australia national team between 1959 and 1965. His club career was played with South Sydney and Parramatta. He was considered one of the Australia’s finest rugby league players of the twentieth century.
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In 1961 he was lured to the Parramatta club on the then record transfer fee of 2,500 pounds.
The Parramatta club had languished at the bottom of the ladder in their first fifteen seasons after admission to the top grade competition in 1947 – they finished last eight times in the ten seasons from 1952 to 1961. With St. George champion Ken Kearney appointed coach, 1962 marked a turnaround: internationals Hambly and Ron Lynch had joined the club in 1961 with Bob Bugden and Ken Thornett following in 1962. The club was particularly competitive from 1962 to 1965 making the finals in all four seasons. Hambly, then at the top of his career, gave great service to the club at that time. He played on till 1967 in which season he was named captain-coach, however suffering the effects of knee injury during the year he sacked himself in favour of young future Eel star Bob O'Reilly.
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