Ron O'Regan

Ron O'Regan

Personal information
Full name	Ronald Phillip O'Regan
Playing information
Position	Centre, Stand-off, Lock
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P City Newton 1981–1983 Barrow Raiders Mt Albert Lions Te Atatu Roosters Total 0 0 0 0 0 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P Auckland 60 1983 New Zealand Māori 1983–1986 New Zealand 8 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1988–1993 Te Atatu Roosters 1994–1995 Waitakere City Raiders 44 19 2 23 43 Total 44 19 2 23 43
Source: RLP

Ronald Phillip O'Regan is a New Zealand former rugby league player and coach who represented his country between 1983 and 1986. His nephew, Daniel, played for the New Zealand Warriors.

In 1981 and 1983, while playing for City Newton, O'Regan won the Rothville Trophy, awarded to the player of the year in the Auckland Rugby League competition. He toured England with the New Zealand Māori side in 1983.

Between 1983 and 1986 O'Regan represented New Zealand, playing in eight Test Matches for his country.

O'Regan spent the 1981-82 and 1982-83 off seasons in England, playing for the Barrow Raiders and also represented the Mt Albert Lions. In 1987 O'Regan toured England again, this time with the Auckland side.

In 1988 O'Regan was the player-coach of the Te Atatu Roosters and guided them to winning the Fox Memorial. He won the Hyland Memorial Cup that year as coach of the year.

O'Regan later became a full-time coach of the Roosters and in 1993 nearly repeated the feat, as the Roosters lost the Fox Memorial grand final 10-29 to the Northcote Tigers.

O'Regan was the coach of the Waitakere City Raiders in the Lion Red Cup in 1994 and 1995.

O'Regan now trains greyhounds in Paeroa. In 2006 he was involved with a doping scandal that saw a vet banned from the sport for 10 years.

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