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[The Wheel]

Russ Pepperell - our coach in 1965. I have to admit I have no recollection of him ever been mentioned? He was a bit before my time but does anyone recall Russ

 

[maxta]

View attachment 11534 Russ Pepperell - our coach in 1965. I have to admit I have no recollection of him ever been mentioned? He was a bit before my time but does anyone recall Russ

Well before I was born but always thought Frank Stanton was a Front rower...not a halfback

 

[Peter C]

I remember the name, but can't recall him coaching, I remember Wally O'Connell coaching the following two seasons.
Looking at that forward pack, at some stage of their career all of those guys played for Australia

 

[wombatgc]

View attachment 11534 Russ Pepperell - our coach in 1965. I have to admit I have no recollection of him ever been mentioned? He was a bit before my time but does anyone recall Russ

Good ol Russ "Peppermint" Pepperell, champion bloke and......just bullshiiting @The Wheel , no idea. But love seeing those old programs......poor ol reserves don’t get a mention

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

He was an Englishman (who had played the game) with I believe some advanced coaching ideas for that time.

The old Jack Pollard book ‘Rugby League - The Australian Way’ has a chapter about John ‘Pogo’ Morgan’s rise to the Australian team in 1965. Amongst other things, Morgan filled out considerably (from a ‘string bean’) under Pepperell’s charge.

Pepperell died in Bundaberg in 2003, aged around 85.

Always happy to help out. Ciao.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Just looking at those teams, some great names in the forwards. All the Manly forwards either were or became internationals.

Whilst the Parramatta backrow* were all internationals (Thornett a dual-international), along with Rayner, who also played for Australia.

*That is a great backrow.

 

[bob dylan]

Well before I was born but always thought Frank Stanton was a Front rower...not a halfback

Wow, no mate half or centre to the best of my knowledge.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Well before I was born but always thought Frank Stanton was a Front rower...not a halfback

As a kid when I first dioscovered rugby league, and Manly, Frank was playing inside centre with Alec Tennant outside. We had Fulton at 5/8, and Les Hannigan on a wing, George Hunter was coach, and they made the grand final (1968).
Never heard of Pepperell though.

 

[bob dylan]

Looks like nothing has changed.

That Parra team looks to be complete rubbish other than the Thornetts, Brian Hambly and Billy Raynor from Yass.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

(And so began my life-long antipathy to all things Rabbitoh..)

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Looks like nothing has changed.

That Parra team looks to be complete rubbish other than the Thornetts, Brian Hambly and Billy Raynor from Yass.

Ron Lynch was a great player too. That was the last year Parramatta made the semis until 1971.

 

[EagleGT]

According to his Wikipedia page Russell Pepperell played 350 games for Huddersfield between 1938 and 1956, scoring 300 tries. Not a bad strike rate! I assume he lost a few years of playing due to the war, so his tally could have been quite a bit higher.

Wikipedia shows he played 4 games for England but Rugby League Project shows 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Pepperell

http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/russ-pepperell/summary.html

 

[bob dylan]

Ron Lynch was a great player too. That was the last year Parramatta made the semis until 1971.

Yeah played for Australia many times, my mistake.

 

[Woodsie]

Good ol Russ "Peppermint" Pepperell, champion bloke and......just bullshiiting @The Wheel , no idea. But love seeing those old programs......poor ol reserves don’t get a mention

That is because to be a reserve for first grade you needed to have played in reserve grade ... any one of those reserve grade players then could then be called upon ... so in fact all of the reserve grade team were "reserves" ...

Pss ... I wouldn't be surprised if that is the most times reserves has been used in one sentence in the history of the English language ...

 

[wombatgc]

That is because to be a reserve for first grade you needed to have played in reserve grade ... any one of those reserve grade players then could then be called upon ... so in fact all of the reserve grade team were "reserves" ...

Pss ... I wouldn't be surprised if that is the most times reserves has been used in one sentence in the history of the English language ...

It took several reads, but the penny finally dropped.😛

 

[EagleGT]

The pictures shown at the links show Huddersfield teams containing Russ Pepperrell and Pat Devery who also later coached Manly. Pat may have been the link for Russ to have come to Manly.

http://www.huddersfieldrlheritage.c...unions/Ch_10_Pic_18_Hudd_Team_1948-single.php

http://www.huddersfieldrlheritage.c...dry/Calendars/Hudd_Team_Photo_1950-single.php

 

[tookey]

Coached Manly in 64 and 65 Finished 8th in 65 and 7th in 64 and lost to the bears 3 of our 4 times with the other game being a draw

He was obviously an early Trent Barrett style coach

He followed on from another non Manly coach in 1963 called Tony Paskins Many finished 6th in 63

 

[Peter C]

As a kid when I first dioscovered rugby league, and Manly, Frank was playing inside centre with Alec Tennant outside. We had Fulton at 5/8, and Les Hannigan on a wing, George Hunter was coach, and they made the grand final (1968).
Never heard of Pepperell though.

Fairly certain Dennis Ward was the half for us that year

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Yes he was.

 

[southsideeagle]

I started following manly about then. I can still remember hamilton at norths. I named my pet ram after him (herman). Both had big square heads.