Australian Rugby Union Captains - Mark Ella, George Gregan, Nicholas Shehadie, Chris McKivat, Herbert Moran, Stirling Mortlock, Colin Windon, Sydney Mi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Mark Ella, George Gregan, Nicholas Shehadie, Chris McKivat, Herbert Moran, Stirling Mortlock, Colin Windon, Sydney Middleton, Trevor Allan, Cyril Towers, John Eales, Bill McLean, Steve Williams, Ward Prentice, John Solomon, Vay Wilson, Tom Lawton, Snr, Fred Wood, Andrew Slack, Johnnie Wallace, Dave Cowper, Tim Horan, Nick Farr-Jones, Syd Malcolm, Peter Burge, Mark Loane, Jason Little, Charlie Fox, Michael Lynagh, John Hipwell, Simon Poidevin, Dick Tooth, Alex Ross, Phil Kearns, Nathan Sharpe, Des Connor, Ken Catchpole, David Wilson, Rod McCall, Peter Sullivan, John Thornett, Alan Cameron, David Codey, Tony Shaw. Excerpt: Mark Gordon Ella (born 5 June 1959, La Perouse, New South Wales, Australia) is an Indigenous Australian former rugby union player, often considered as one of his country's all-time greats in that sport. In a relatively short career (he retired in 1984, aged 25), Mark Ella established himself as one of the all-time greats in world rugby union. He and his brothers Gary and Glen were educated at Matraville High School, where they learned to play rugby. All three went on to play for the Australia national team. Mark was generally regarded as the best of the three, earning 25 caps in a brief but brilliant career stretching from 1980 to 1984. Playing at five-eighth, Mark Ella was a proficient exponent of a style of attack often referred to as 'the flat attack' - a close-quarters game built on constant support. The style is applied in one specific area of play - open-side attack by the backline with the ball in hand. There are several obvious characteristics of this style. Firstly, rather than standing deep, the attacking backs stand flat. The philosophy being that an attacking team cannot put the opposing defence under pressure until it comes under pressure itself. (Dwyer, 1992, p. 24) In the case...