The forgotten players: North Queensland Cowboys A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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This is the 20th article in the ongoing series where we remember some of the forgotten players from your favourite club. Check out the Hunter Mariners edition.
The North Queensland Cowboys entered the big time in 1995 and a total of 293 players have now represented the club since day one. Amongst them are some absolute club legends, including Johnathan Thurston, Jason Taumalolo, Matthew Bowen, Michael Morgan, Matthew Scott, Gavin Cooper, Scott Bolton and Josh Hannay, all who have played 150+ games for the club.
November 2019
November 21: Melbourne captain Cameron Smith confirms his decision to play on in 2020, declaring he is feeling really fresh now and looking forward to next year .
Wests Tigers re-sign talented rookie Tommy Talau until the end of the 2022 season.
November 22: The Sydney Roosters extend the contract of premiership-winning prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves through to the end of 2023.
Wests Tigers sneak under Parramatta’s guard to sign promising Eels’ front-rower Stefano Utoikamanu to a three-year deal, starting in 2021.
A meeting of NRL coaches hears a proposal for teams defeated in golden point to be rewarded under a revised allocation of competition points. Only half of the NRL’s 16 coaches attend the meeting where several other initiatives are discussed, including an NFL-style golden point right of reply , where both teams have an opportunity with the ball in the extra-time period.
Brian James
1943-January 10, 2020
A high-quality winger for South Sydney who represented Australia at the 1968 World Cup before retiring at the age of 26.
The son of former Cootamundra Maher Cup prop Jack Swifty James, he came to rugby league via rugby union after attending Newington College and playing a season of first grade with the St George rugby club.
He switched to rugby league with St George in 1961 where he played centre and wing but top-grade opportunities were scarce in the Dragons’ star-studded backline, so he made the decision to transfer to South Sydney in 1966.
He was quickly vindicated, playing more first-grade games in his first season with Souths (18) then he did in four years at St George (16). A winger of above average pace (he pursued professional sprinting in the off-season), James earned his first representative jersey with City Seconds in 1967 before making City Firsts the following year.
Steve Georgallis has around four decades worth of experience with rugby league.
Georgallis spent hours playing with his mates at the local park as a young boy before making his way up to the NRL playing mostly with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and Western Suburbs Magpies.
These days he holds a colourful career in coaching having looked after the Penrith Panthers, West Tigers and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs to name a few.
The newly appointed North Queensland Cowboys assistant coach talks to
Neos Kosmos about his hopes to lead Greece’s national team to victory and keeping his cool during matches.