Bob McCarthy
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| McCarthy in 2012 | ||||||
| Personal information | ||||||
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| Born | 5 August 1946 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1963–78 | South Sydney | 211 | 100 | 0 | 1 | 301 |
| 1976–77 | Canterbury-Bankstown | 40 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 57 |
| Total | 251 | 119 | 0 | 1 | 358 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1969–74 | New South Wales | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 1969–74 | Australia | 15 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1980–83 | Souths (Brisbane) | 78 | 53 | 2 | 23 | 68 |
| 1988–90 | Gold Coast Giants | 66 | 15 | 3 | 48 | 23 |
| 1975–94 | South Sydney | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11 |
| Total | 153 | 69 | 5 | 79 | 45 | |
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| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 19??–?? | Brisbane | |||||
Bob McCarthy MBE (born 5 August 1946) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, New South Wales and for the Australian national side. He later coached in Brisbane, taking Souths Magpies to a premiership in 1981 and coaching the Gold Coast-Tweed Giants upon their entry to the Winfield Cup. in Since 2001 he has been the Chairman of both the Australian and NSW state selection panels.
A fast and strong second-row forward McCarthy played ten Tests for Australia and five matches in two World Cups. He made the 1973 Kangaroo Tour and two tours of New Zealand. He played 211 first grade games for Souths (1963–1975 and 1978), scoring 100 tries. He played in three grand final victories (1967, 1970 and 1971) and in two losing grand finals (1965 and 1969).
Born in inner city Surry Hills, New South Wales in Sydney, McCarthy was a South Sydney junior with the Moore Park Club and made his first grade debut in 1963. In 1965 he was in the team of young Rabbitohs who challenged St George in the Grand Final in front of a record breaking crowd of 78,065 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Along with McCarthy the nucleus of this side was John O'Neill, Eric Simms, Mike Cleary and John Sattler who went on to feature in Australian representative teams for the next six years and who would help create a golden period for South Sydney at the end of the 60s and in the early years of the next decade.
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