Graham Eadie

Graham Eadie
Personal information
Born (1953-11-25) 25 November 1953 (age 71)
Woy Woy, New South Wales
Playing information
Height179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight95 kg (14 st 13 lb)
PositionFullback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1971–83 Manly-Warringah 211 71 838 3 1899
1986–89 Halifax 74 29 24 0 164
Total 285 100 862 3 2063
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1974–80 New South Wales 14 3 13 0 35
1974–79 Australia 20 2 5 0 16
1974–83 NSW City 6 9 11 0 49
Source: [1][2]
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Graham "Wombat" Eadie (born 25 November 1953), is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He has been named amongst Australia's finest of the 20th century.[4] A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative fullback, he played in Australia during Manly-Warringah's dominance of the NSWRFL competition during the 1970s. He won four premierships with them and his 1,917 points in first grade and 2,070 points in all grades were both records at the time of his retirement. Eadie also played in England for Halifax, winning the Challenge Cup Final of 1987 with them. He also won World Cups with Australia and collected awards such as the Rothmans Medal and Lance Todd Trophy.

  1. ^ Rugby League Project
  2. ^ 100 Greatest Players
  3. ^ "'Wombat' leaves habitat". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. 29 August 1983. p. 31. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  4. ^ Century's Top 100 Players Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine