Illawarra Steelers Coaches - Graham Murray, Brian Smith, Andrew Farrar, Allan McMahon, Ron Hilditch, Allan Fitzgibbon, Terry Fearnley (Paperback)

Chapters: Graham Murray, Brian Smith, Andrew Farrar, Allan Mcmahon, Ron Hilditch, Allan Fitzgibbon, Terry Fearnley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Graham Murray (born ) is an Australian rugby league player and coach. Murray is currently the coach of the Australian national women's team. Having starred for the Parramatta third-grade side in the middle 1970s, Graham Murray took over as captain of the Eels' reserve grade side in 1977 and was regarded as too skilful for reserve grade rugby league owing to his great organisational ability, which had him known as "little Artie" after Arthur Beetson. With international halfback John Kolc suffering ankle ligament damage, Murray spent some time in first grade during 1977, but returned to captain the reserve grade side to a premiership when Kolc was fit. 1978 saw Murray take over from Kolc as first grade halfback for most of the year, but the emergence of soon-to-be champion Peter Sterling caused him to flirt between the grades in 1979 and 1980, but in the former year he captained the reserves to their third premiership in five years. Murray moved to Souths in 1981 and played fairly regularly in first grade until he left at the end of 1983 to play in the country. After previous appointments as reserve grade coach at Penrith (where he won a premiership in 1987 and helped develop many of the future 1991 first-grade premiership team) and Balmain, Murray was made coach of Illawarra in 1991. He guided the club to its first finals appearance in 1992 and during his tenure, the Steelers always won more games than they lost. He was dismissed as coach in April 1995 after he facilitated negotiations between Steelers players and representatives of the rebel Super League organisation. He was the only person out of the co...http: //booksllc.net/?id=388997