Terry Fearnley
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Personal information
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| Full name | Terence Colin Fearnley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 July 1933 Sydney, Australia |
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| Died | 4 March 2015 (aged 81) Sydney, Australia |
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Playing information
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Coaching information
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Source: Whiticker/Hudson, RLP
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Terence Colin "Terry" Fearnley (21 July 1933 – 4 March 2015) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach.
Fearnley was a long serving member of the NSWRFL's Eastern Suburbs team, playing 144 matches for them at a bleak period in that club's existence in two stints 1954-55 and 1957-64. Injury kept him out of the 1960 grand final, one of the few successful years the Roosters enjoyed in that period. The front rower however was selected to represent his state, New South Wales that season.
Following his retirement from the game as a player, Fearnley enjoyed a successful coaching career, taking the Parramatta Eels to their first ever Grand Final in 1976 and then again in 1977. He had also been successful coach of the New South Wales rugby league team but stood down at the start of the 1978 NSWRFL season to concentrate on club football. Fearnley moved to coach Western Suburbs Magpies in 1982, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (1983–84) and Illawarra Steelers in 1985.
Returning to representative coaching in 1985, he was the first successful New South Wales State of Origin coach, and was also selected as Australian coach for the mid-season New Zealand Tour.
It was during his 1985 tenure as Australian coach that four players - all Queenslanders in Chris Close, Mark Murray, Greg Dowling and Greg Conescu - were controversially sacked in favour of New South Wales players (Steve Ella, Des Hasler, Peter Tunks and Benny Elias), despite Australia having won the first two Tests of the three match series. Fearnley also had a frosty relationship with Australian (and Queensland) captain Wally Lewis, with Lewis claiming to close friend and fellow Maroon Paul Vautin that Fearnley seemed to be conferring on team selections with vice-captain Wayne Pearce (who was also the new NSW captain following Steve Mortimer's representative retirement) rather than Lewis himself. Lewis claimed he had found the pair privately talking over selection of the Test team in Fearnley's hotel room, though this is disputed by Pearce who claimed he was there for different reasons. Dropping the four Queenslanders backfired on Fearnley as New Zealand defeated Australia 18-0 in the final Test of the series at Carlaw Park in Auckland. It was the first time since the final Test of the 1956 Kangaroo Tour that Australia had been held scoreless in a Test match.
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