Tony Paskins
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Personal information
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| Full name | Anthony Heather Paskins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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Coaching information
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Tony Paskins was a rugby league footballer who played in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and English Rugby Football League (RFL) competition as well as playing rugby union for the Randwick club in Sydney.
Paskins was recruited from Sydney’s Randwick Rugby union club by English rugby league club Workington Town where he won a Challenge Cup, helping his side defeat Featherstone Rovers in the final. He was a representative of Other Nationalities against English national sides.
A goal kicking three-quarter back, Paskins returned to Australia, along with fellow Australian and Workington Town team mate Rupert Mudge in 1955. Paskin was named captain of Eastern Suburbs side, playing 54 matches for the club in the years (1955–58). After leaving Easts he enjoyed success with the local Oberon side in rural New South Wales. In 1961 he was named as the captain of the Country New South Wales rugby league team and the following year captained New South Wales gainst the touring Great Britain national rugby league team.
Paskins returned to the NSWRL in 1963 where he spent a season as joint captain and coach of the Manly-Warringah club.
Paskins moved to Forster, New South Wales in 1967 and took over as captain-coach of the Hawks in 1968. He guided the side to premierships in that year, the 1969 grand final and 1970.
Tony Paskins coached the Sydney Roosters club in the 1973 NSWRFL season.
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