From memory, Tommy Bishop, the great GB test half back coached the Sharks in the 70's as player coach and then non-playing coach. He brought in the English prop Cliff Watson to great effect. I remember Cliffy. Brutal bastard. Just what the Sharks needed back then. I also remember he coached Norths Devils in 1974 and now lives in Redcliff.
My god I'm old
And to you show just how old, I was at the this match in 1966 when I was 13.
Compare the game to now. No more biff but plenty of ball movement. Also Artie Beetson's 1st test. He kicked from half way for winger Johnny King to score. What a prop. Great match, and Cliff Watson got sent off for kicking Peter Dimond, Australia's centre, the guy who famously king hit Father John Cootes in a City-Country game in 1967. I was there too. Cootes was on the ground and Dimond just went in and punched him out .. and got sent off.
Here's a pic of Dimond. Opposition centres quaked in their boots with this running at them. Steel studs too.
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