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Who was Robert Laurie?

Robert “Rocky” Laurie, born 1955/1956, was an Australian rugby league footballer.

He carried out for the Jap Suburbs Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs throughout the New South Wales Rugby League premiership.

Laurie together with Ian Schubert, the two from the agricultural New South Wales (NSW) township of Wauchope, arrived to the Roosters in NSWRFL season 1975, though Laurie did not make his initial-quality debut till the following yr.

All via the 1976 NSWRFL interval, he carried out throughout the forwards, serving to Jap Suburbs to victory of their unofficial 1976 Earth Membership Drawback match in path of British champions St. Helens in Sydney.

Laurie was awarded the 1980 Dally M Medal. Laurie carried out for Easts of their get on the final of the 1981 Craven Delicate Cup.

In 1983 Laurie returned to Wauchope and captained a NSW Place guide aspect in a match versus New Zealand’s South Island, Laurie starred throughout the match scoring 3 makes an try.

Within the midst of the 1988 Good Britain Lions tour, Laurie captained a Northern Division aspect to victory over the parents.

Rocky‘s youthful brother, Mark Laurie, was a 3-time premiership winner with the Parramatta membership.