Tom Raudonikis

Tommy Raudonikis

Personal information
Full name	Tom Raudonikis
Nickname	Tom Terrific
Born	(1950-04-13) 13 April 1950 (age 67) Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	11 st 7 lb (73 kg)
Position	Halfback
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1969–79 Western Suburbs 202 29 0 0 87 1980–82 Newtown Jets 37 4 0 0 12 1983 Brothers (Brisbane) Total 239 33 0 0 99 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1971–80 New South Wales 24 11 0 0 33 1971–80 Australia 20 2 0 0 6
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 1983 Brothers (Brisbane) Norths (Brisbane) Ipswich Jets 1995–99 Western Suburbs Magpies 114 39 1 74 34 Total 114 39 1 74 34 Representative Years Team Gms W D L W% 1997–98 New South Wales 6 3 0 3 50
Source: RL stats RLP

Tommy Raudonikis OAM (born 13 April 1950 in Bathurst, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played over twenty-nine Tests and World Cup games as Australia representative halfback and captained his country in two Tests of the 1973 Kangarooo tour.

Raudonikis is the son of a Lithuanian immigrant father and a Swiss immigrant mother. Tommy played 202 games for the Western Suburbs Magpies between 1969 and 1979 before moving to the Newtown Jets for 37 games in three seasons between 1980 and 1982. Raudonikis played under two famous coaches, Roy Masters at Wests and Warren Ryan at Newtown. Some rate him the toughest player ever to have played in the halves and in September 2004 he was named in the Western Suburbs Magpies team of the century. Tom Raudonikis was Western Suburbs Club Captain from 1971 to 1979, and was Newtown Club Captain from 1980 to 1982.

He was first selected in an Australian squad in 1971 behind Souths halfback Bob Grant and made his run on debut in 1972 against the Kiwis (the same year he won the Rothmans Medal for best club player for the season). He was the regular Test halfback for the next six years. He made Test appearances up until 1980 by which time he was being challenged by Greg Oliphant and Steve Mortimer. He was the captain of the New South Wales State of Origin team in the inaugural 1980 contest.