Geoff Bugden
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| Full name | Geoff Bugden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 September 1960 Newtown, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 101 kg (15 st 13 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Geoff Bugden (born 6 September 1960[1]) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for Newtown and the Parramatta Eels in the Australian New South Wales Rugby League competition. He won two premierships with the Eels and he primarily played in the front-row.
Playing career
A Newtown junior, by 1979 Bugden had progressed to first grade. He was the first ever prop to win the NSW Rugby League's best and fairest player award, the
1986 Grand Final win over the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, in which he played against his brother Mark[3] and earned himself five-minutes in the sin-bin for tackling Steve Mortimer without the ball.[4]
After a long career that was often curtailed by serious injury, Bugden did not start any of the last thirteen games of
Peter Sterling and Mark Laurie, Budgen was sacked by the Eels alongside Paul Taylor, Michael Moseley, Mark Robinson and Jeremy Ticehurst.[5]
Bugden was not wanted by any other Winfield Cup club and retired almost immediately.
References
- ISBN 0-909558-83-3.
- ^ Adams, Tony (8 July 2009). "Legend Q&A". Rugby League Week. pp. 30–31.
- ^ "Fans turn Parra blue and gold". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. 2 October 2009. Archived from the original on 29 October 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
- ^ "Eels v Bulldogs Classic". Rleague.com. 13 September 2007. Archived from the original on 25 June 2009. Retrieved 14 November 2007.
- ^ a b 'Parramatta Axe Five Players'; The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 March 1990, p. 62
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