Geoff Richardson (rugby) explained

Geoff Richardson
Birth Name:Geoffrey Colin Richardson
Birth Date:17 April 1949
Birth Place:Taree, New South Wales
Ru Position:Fly-half
Repyears1:1971–1973
Repteam1:Australia
Repcaps1:9
Reppoints1:10
Ru Ntupdate:31 December 2007
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Embed:yes
Position:Five-eighth
Teama:Australia
Yearastart:1974
Appearancesa:2
Year1start:1974
Year1end:76
Club1:Wests Panthers

Geoffrey Colin Richardson (born 17 April 1949) is an Australian former national representative rugby league and rugby union player – a dual-code international. He played union at fly-half and league at .

Rugby union

His club rugby was played with the Army Club, Townsville before moving to Brisbane in 1972 and the Teachers club from where he continued to be selected to the Wallabies. His Test debut was against the Springboks in Sydney in July 1971. He represented in nine Tests from 1971 to 1973 and captained Australia in one minor match in 1971.[1]

New South Wales teams

Queensland teams

Rugby league

Switching to the professional code in 1974 Richardson played his club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with the Western Suburbs club. He gained representative honours for Queensland and Australia in the first and second Test of 1974 against the visiting Great Britain side. His international rugby league debut against Great Britain in Brisbane in June 1974 saw him become Australia's 37th dual code rugby international following Steve Knight and preceding Ray Price. After Australia's 16–11 loss in the second Test Richardson was replaced in the third by Tim Pickup. He did not regain Test selection.

Richardson played at five-eighth in back-to-back Brisbane Rugby League grand final victories in 1975 and 1976.

Queensland teams

• BRL 'A' Grade Premiers

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Notes and References

  1. Howell p13