Tony Shaw (rugby)
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| Full name | Anthony Alexander Shaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 23 March 1953 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Brisbane, Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Gregory Terrace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Flanker | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1973–84 | Brisbane Brothers | () | |
| Provincial / State sides | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1973–82 | Queensland | 89 | () |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1973–82 | Australia | 36 | (8) |
Anthony Alexander Shaw is an Australian former rugby union player. A Queensland state and national representative flanker, Shaw captained the national side consistently from 1978 to 1981.
Tony Shaw was born 23 March 1953 in Brisbane, Queensland. His early rugby was played at St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane. He was a proficient water-polo played and represented for Queensland in that sport.
Shaw's greatest rugby success was achieved at flanker, he was a hard driving forward who lead from the front and was an outstanding rucker and mauler. Howell asserts that although the standard of Australian representative sides during the early 1970s was less than consistently world-class, Shaw would have been competitive in the best All Black packs of that and any other era. Howell regards him as a cunning line-out technician would could outwit taller and more spring-heeled opponents. Queensland packs containing Shaw and Mark Loane dominated their New South Wales rivals in the late 1970s.
Shaw was first selected for Queensland when Tonga visited in 1973. That year, aged 20 he was picked for the 1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe and he played in the second-row in five games including his debut Test appearances against Wales and England.
Early in his career Shaw played at number-eight and although he was picked in the Queensland team of 1974 against the visiting All Blacks, Mark Loane was preferred by the selectors at number 8 for the three Test matches against those visitors. Shaw set out at that point to become the first-choice flanker in the national side. In 1975 he was back in the Australian team at breakaway for two domestic Tests against England and one against Japan. He made the 1975–76 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland and played in nineteen of the total twenty-six matches. He was the only back-rower to play in all five Test matches of the tour.
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