Former rugby league player Robert “Rocky” Laurie, who was awarded the Dally M Medal in 1980, has died age 66 | cadenhelmers
Former rugby league player Robert “Rocky” Laurie, who was awarded the Dally M Medal in 1980, has died age 66.
Laurie made his first grade debut in 1976, and went on to play 122 games for the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs until 1982.The five-eighth won the coveted Dally M Medal, which is awarded to the NRL’s player of the year, while he was playing his final season for the Rabbitohs. Laurie played 64 matches for South Sydney, which were wedged between two stints at Eastern Suburbs in a career spanning eight seasons from 1976 to 1982.
Laurie returned to his hometown of Wauchope, near Port Macquarie on the NSW Mid-North Coast, in 1983. He captained a Northern Division rep side to a famous victory over the touring Great Britain Lions in 1988.
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