Greg Brentnall
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| Born | 5 December 1956 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback, Wing, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Greg Brentnall (born 5 December 1956 in
Canterbury-Bankstown in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, winning the 1980 grand final with them.[3]
Playing career
In the 1960s and 1970s, Brentnall played
Turvey Park in the local Group 9 Country Rugby League competition, before taking up a contract with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
in the New South Wales Rugby League competition. His ability to catch the high ball made him a valuable fullback for many rugby league representative teams, and he represented Australia.
Brentnall played on the wing for New South Wales in the inaugural
Papua New Guinea which was played immediately prior to the tour.[5]
In 2004, Greg was named as a reserve in the Berries to Bulldogs 70 Year Team of Champions. On 1 April 2007, he was inducted into the Bulldogs Ring of Champions.[6]
Post-playing
Brentnall retired from playing after the
1983 NSWRL season
at the age of just 26 to take up the position of RL development officer in the Riverina for thirteen years.
[7]
Brentnall joined the newly formed
Victorian Rugby League.[8]
References
- ^ RLP
- ^ Yesterday's Hero
- ^ Greg Brentnall at Bulldogs History Database
- ^ "Museum Riverina".
- ^ Greg Brentnall at the Wagga Wagga Sporting Hall of Fame
- ^ Greg Brentnall at thebulldogs.com.au
- ^ "Victorian Rugby League - Greg Brentnall". Australia: SportingPulse. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
- Roy Masters (30 September 2009). "Mortimer is my kind of player - I'm not sure why we let him go: Bellamy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. Retrieved 7 September 2010.