Noel Pidding
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| Full name | Noel Douglas Pidding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1927 Maitland, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Died | 17 August 2013 (aged 86) Ingleburn, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 86 kg (13 st 8 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Fullback, Wing, Halfback three-quarter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Noel Pidding (1927 – 17 August 2013) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a state and national representative, whose goal-kicking prowess enabled him to set a number of long-standing club and Australian point scoring records. His club career was with the St. George Dragons, with whom he won the 1949 premiership, and later at the Eastern Suburbs Roosters
Pidding joined St. George in 1947, immediately cementing a spot in the top-grade as the club's full-back. He made his representative debut for New South Wales that year and in 1948 was selected for Australia, making his test debut against New Zealand in the first test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He had a poor game in Australia's 19-21 loss and was unlucky enough to be starting his career at the same time as the "Immortal" Clive Churchill. Churchill replaced Pidding for the 2nd Test in Brisbane and went on to make thirty-seven national representative appearances at full-back over the next 10 years. Pidding was overlooked for the 1948-49 Kangaroo tour.
In 1949 Pidding moved to the wing and he played in that position in the Dragons' 1949 premiership victory over the South Sydney Rabbitohs, scoring two tries. The move to wing revitalised his representative career. He was selected in the 1950 City-Country match scoring an individual record 27 points (1 try and 21 goals) and regained Australian selection in that year's series against New Zealand. He was the first St George player to top 200 points in a club season (1951) and that same year represented nationally against France.
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