Footy Quiz

[innsaneink]

Not confident.

They wore this late 60'searly 70's for a bit.

 

[mightybears]

war was on, material shortages etc
so i'd say the berries wore all blue

 

[madunit]

wrong and wrong

 

[innsaneink]

Another rough guess.....................

:?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

 

[madunit]

bingo!

 

[innsaneink]

Theyshould have had that jersey reintroduced as part of their cap breaching penalty! :lol:

OK easy one, which club and when sat equal 2nd last at round 10 of the comp yet went on to win the title?

 

[madunit]

was it souths in the mid 50's?

Or were they actually last and went on to win? :-k

 

[innsaneink]

Yeah close enough souths '55

at r.10 souths were on 4 points, wests and someone else were both on 6.

 

[madunit]

How many points did Canterbury conceed to Wests and Easts in 1935?

 

[innsaneink]

242

 

[madunit]

correct.

Easts 87-7 Canterbury
Wests 25-19 Canterbury
Easts 65-10 Canterbury
Wests 65-11 Canterbury

 

[innsaneink]

From the mid 40's onwards.....for many years a 'jorgo' was the slang term for what in league?

 

[*Paul*]

Had to look it up, but it referred to the mound of sand used when kicking.

 

[innsaneink]

Had to look it up, but it referred to the mound of sand used when kicking.

Damn :lol: :lol:

Thought I had one that'd last a few weeks.

Joe Jorgensen, centre/fullback for Balmain 44-53 revolutionised goalkicking by using a soil/sand mound

 

[*Paul*]

I reckoned that 'jorgo' was a reference to Jorgensen, so I was able to track it down.

Which 4 players have scored 30 pts in a game under the current scoring system?

 

[mightybears]

EL MASRI
HALLIGAN
RIDGE
JOHNS

 

[*Paul*]

2 right.

 

[mightybears]

ridge
manly v wests round 21 1996 30 points
johns
newc v canberra round 21 2001 34 points
meninga
canberra v easts round 5 1990 38 points
geyer
storm v wests round 10 1999 34 points

26, 27 or 28
kimmorley, cronin, eden, girdler, taylor, halligan, cleary, rogers

took me ages to remember geyer had one hot shot year as kicker!, so much so i even looked up ron giteau, and mike eden

 

[*Paul*]

Good work, and some further reading
http://stats.rleague.com/rl/scorers/mostingame.html

 

[innsaneink]

ridge
manly v wests round 21 1996 30 points
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6 penalty goals that game....5 tries to 3, yet he scores 30 points. #-o #-o #-o

Onya Tommy.