Here will do:
I didn't realise throwing cans onto the field happened way back in 1971...
write up:
MATCH 2 QLD vs NSW - Lang Park. (Saturday 29th May).
The NSW (30) - QLD (2) score-line suggests that a game of Rugby League did get played but what happened apart from the football, was the real story.
The Saturday afternoon return match between Australia's two Rugby League states turned into a near riot, with disgruntled Qld fans hurling empty bottles and cans onto the field and invading the pitch.
Page 3 of the Sunday Herald was headlined, "Can attack on Referee" as correspondent Alan Clarkson described the chaos that engulfed players and officials alike, after the sending-off of a fourth player.
Qld finished the match with 10 players, NSW with 12 and referee Keith Holman had to be escorted from the field by a cordon of Premier Joh's, ‘best police that money could buy'.
(lol)
NSW player Bob O'Reilly was sent off for a "coat-hanger" tackle that missed, while three QLD players, their fullback and Captain Ray Laird stiff armed Bob Fulton although Fulton didn't have the ball, forward Russell Hughes was marched for "kicking" an opponent - although he was laying on his back when he lashed out and Rod Tolhurst was sent for punching.
NSW scored 8 tries with Bob Fulton, Graham Langlands and Mark Harris all bagging a double. Only three goals were kicked, two by replacement Keith Campbell and one by Langlands. The score would have 40 or more if ‘Changa Langlands' was on target with his first half a dozen shots.
However no one will remember the footy, only the hundreds of cans and bottles that rained onto the pitch, will be recalled.
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I didn't realise throwing cans onto the field happened way back in 1971...
write up:
MATCH 2 QLD vs NSW - Lang Park. (Saturday 29th May).
The NSW (30) - QLD (2) score-line suggests that a game of Rugby League did get played but what happened apart from the football, was the real story.
The Saturday afternoon return match between Australia's two Rugby League states turned into a near riot, with disgruntled Qld fans hurling empty bottles and cans onto the field and invading the pitch.
Page 3 of the Sunday Herald was headlined, "Can attack on Referee" as correspondent Alan Clarkson described the chaos that engulfed players and officials alike, after the sending-off of a fourth player.
Qld finished the match with 10 players, NSW with 12 and referee Keith Holman had to be escorted from the field by a cordon of Premier Joh's, ‘best police that money could buy'.
(lol)
NSW player Bob O'Reilly was sent off for a "coat-hanger" tackle that missed, while three QLD players, their fullback and Captain Ray Laird stiff armed Bob Fulton although Fulton didn't have the ball, forward Russell Hughes was marched for "kicking" an opponent - although he was laying on his back when he lashed out and Rod Tolhurst was sent for punching.
NSW scored 8 tries with Bob Fulton, Graham Langlands and Mark Harris all bagging a double. Only three goals were kicked, two by replacement Keith Campbell and one by Langlands. The score would have 40 or more if ‘Changa Langlands' was on target with his first half a dozen shots.
However no one will remember the footy, only the hundreds of cans and bottles that rained onto the pitch, will be recalled.
Fifty Years Ago - Round 10, 1971 - plus two rep matches » League Unlimited
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