The Footy Quiz

[Cronulla_Mania]

Paul McGregor or Mark Coyne?

Moffo

 

[Willow]

Is that one guess or two Moffo?nah mate, both are wrong.

You guys are gunna kick yourselves. Its really not that hard.

 

[Cronulla_Mania]

Lance Thompson captained the Australian schoolboys at one point. Him?

Moffo

 

[Willow]

I think he did Moffo but the answer isnt that obscure. We're talking about first grade / first class competition.

 

[Ramit54]

Billy Smith

 

[Willow]

Yes.

Billy Smith was an Australian World Cup captain.

 

[Ramit54]

Who were the first players to be sent off in a World Cup match?

 

[ozbash]

william smith and sydney hynes.

 

[Ramit54]

You are correct, they were both sent off two minutes from the end in the 1970 match.

 

[ozbash]

what's the total number of points mal meninga scored in soo matches?

 

[Ramit54]

161

 

[ozbash]

yes sir.
he scored a few,
32 soo matches, 161 points
42 total games for qld,239 points..
thats not even looking at his inters.
a true champ.

 

[Ramit54]

Who am I?
When I was chosen to tour NZ with the 1971 Australian Team, I became the youngest player to wear the green and gold. I was 18 years and 178 days old when I played in the first of my two games on that short tour. 12 months earlier I was captain of my club's Jersey Flegg team. I played 7 Test matches.

 

[Willow]

Sounds like Geoff Starling

 

[Ramit54]

Geoff Starling is correct

 

[Willow]

What is the official size of a soccer goal.. width x height...?

 

[Ramit54]

Width - 7.3m
Height - 2.44m

 

[Willow]

Is that 24' x 8' ?
I think it is.... well done Tigertread.

btw, re Geoff Starling. I still find myself thinking of him as being 'young Geoff Starling' - this being because that how he was repeatedly decribed at the time and the description just stuck in my mind.
I thinkyoung Geoff must be over 50 years old and a fair whack older than me.

Over to you

 

[Ramit54]

Geoff Starling was a brilliant footballer, but his career was cut short with a severe illness. At the time they said it was hepatitis. He was in his early 20s when he retired. He toured with the Kangaroos in 1973 to England and France and also played in the World Cup in 1972. He is 49.

The State Championship was a secondary competition conducted in NSW in1939, 1941, 42, 44and1945. It never achieved any real popularity among fans. Who won the State Championship in it's final year?

 

[Willow]

I think it was called Addisons disease which attacked the muscles and led to weight loss...but I don't know anything else about it and I think its pretty rare.

Newtown won the State Championship in 1945