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There is a push right now for the NRL to have a national reserve grade competition, where each NRL club would have its own reserve grade team that would travel around the country, and to New Zealand, to play games against everyone else’s reserve grade team. A basic look at the concept makes a bit of sense, but lets look closer. Currently NRL clubs align themselves with either a NSW Cup or QLD…

Andrew Ferguson - The 1909 Rugby League Season #RugbyLeague #NRL #RFL #SuperLeague #IntRL #Rugby

Rugby League began its second year of existence having survived a busy and financially demanding opening season, culminating in a marathon pioneering Kangaroo tour to Great Britain. With the tour still ongoing at the start of 1909, reports trickling in from England were stating that the Kangaroo’s had run at a considerable financial loss. Several star players had signed with English clubs for the…

Andrew Ferguson - Dally Messenger #RugbyLeague #NRL #RFL #SuperLeague #IntRL #Rugby

Dally Messenger Born: Herbert Henry Messenger on 12/4/1883 at Balmain, New South Wales Died: 24/11/1959 at Gunnedah, New South Wales

It was just 20 hours before the first game of professional Rugby was to be played in Australia that Herbert Henry “Dally” Messenger agreed to join, making him the face of what would become Rugby League and the star attraction to lure fans and fellow players alike to…

Andrew Ferguson - Ernest Broughton: An Unenviable Task #RugbyLeague #NRL #RFL #SuperLeague #IntRL #Rugby

Very few people know of the second president of the NSWRL. Largely due to the fact he served for less than a month, however Ernest Clement Vernon Broughton was the very definition of a career politician who very much worked himself into the ground.

He was born in Kangaroo Point, Queensland on January 29, 1865. His father was a police magistrate in Drayton at the time. Ernest was the youngest of…

Andrew Ferguson - Edward Larkin: A Leader Of Men #RugbyLeague #NRL #RFL #SuperLeague #IntRL #Rugby

Edward Rennix Larkin was a man who is most remembered and revered for his leadership qualities in everything he involved himself. He was a constable in the police force, a journalist, a sergeant in the army, a captain of his Rugby Union club Endeavour, a parliamentarian and the first fulltime secretary of the NSWRL.

Born in Lambton in 1880, his family soon after relocated to Camperdown in Sydney…

Andrew Ferguson - Pat Walsh: The Natural #RugbyLeague #NRL #RFL #SuperLeague #IntRL #Rugby

Born in Cooks Hill on May 3, 1879, Patrick Bernard Walsh attended Newcastle Superior Public School where he received medals for running and in 1895 he received a medal for the best cricket all-rounder.

The following year he left school aged 17, to work as a railway porter. He joined the Norwoods Rugby Union club and was an integral member of their undefeated side who also avoided conceding a…

Andrew Ferguson - The First Boss: Henry Hoyle #RugbyLeague #NRL #RFL #SuperLeague #IntRL #Rugby

Henry Clement Hoyle’s entire life read as the perfect plan for a man to become a senior member of the Australian Labor Party and as the first presidents of the game for the working class man, Rugby League.

He was born on November 20, 1852 in Millers Point and attended a convent in Balmain before transferring to the Fort Street Public School. Aged just 10, Hoyle entered the workforce, taking on…