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John Ribot
Personal information
Full nameJohn Ribot de Bresac
Born (1955-03-03) 3 March 1955 (age 69)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight91 kg (14 st 5 lb)
Playing information
PositionWing, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Fortitude Valley
1973–76 Wests (Brisbane)
1978–79 Newtown Jets 31 19 7 0 71
1980–81 Wests (Sydney) 36 26 11 0 100
1982–83
Manly-Warringah
 52 33 0 0 112
1984–85 Redcliffe 38 13 28 0 108
Total 157 91 46 0 391
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1977–85
Queensland
 10 3 2 0 14
1978–81 New South Wales 2 2 0 0 6
1981–85
Australia
 9 9 2 0 34
Source: [1]

John Ribot (

Manly-Warringah
.

Following his playing career, Ribot became the foundation CEO of the

NRL at the end of 1997, he moved south to set up the Melbourne Storm. Well known for his expansionist attitude towards professional football administration in Australia, in 2004 he switched codes, working as a soccer administrator until 2008. He has since taken up a position at the Queensland Rugby League
.

Playing career

Ribot played club football in the

Western Suburbs and Fortitude Valley. He played in Wests' 1976 BRL grand final victory and also gained selection for Queensland
as well.

Ribot moved south to play in the

1983). He later returned to the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for the Redcliffe Dolphins
(1984 and 1985).

It was while at Western Suburbs in 1980 that Magpies coach Roy Masters moved Ribot from his normal position of Lock forward and utilized his speed on the Wing. Due to his speed, Ribot was often among the fastest players on any team he played. One game where he showcased his pace on the wing was after his move to Manly in 1982. Playing in the mid-season KB Cup competition Final at Leichhardt Oval against Newtown, Ribot took an intercept and raced 65 metres to score leaving Newtown lock Graeme O'Grady trailing in his wake as he touched down under the posts. Manly went on to win the cup final 23–8.[3]

Before the

Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby.[4]

Ribot was the winner of the Queensland Rugby League Press Writers' Player of the Year Award in 1985. He was later named as a winger in the Western Suburbs Team of the Eighties.[5]

Rugby league administration

After his retirement from football, he became

New South Wales Rugby League Premiership in 1988. While Ribot's talents as an administrator were reflected in the club's success during the 1990s, he was continually at loggerheads with the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) administration, which he saw as leaden-footed and Sydney-centric, so detrimental to the future expansion of the game.[6]

The turning point was the decision by the NSWRL to sack him from its Premiership Policy Committee in 1993 when he proposed shifting the grand final to the Broncos new home ground, the ANZ Stadium which had a spectator capacity of almost 60,000. This compared to the NSWRL's then Grand Final venue, the 42,500 seat Sydney Football Stadium. Ribot argued that having the Grand Final in Brisbane had the potential to attract more fans to the game and bring Grand Final crowds to the same level that had previously been seen at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Although his suggestion wasn't the only reason for his sacking from the committee, the decision to remove him confirmed his view (and a general held belief at the Broncos), that the league was stuck in a "Sydney first" mentality and that the Broncos (who won their second straight NSWRL Premiership in 1993) would never be given a fair go by the league. This was despite many clubs and supporters in Sydney believing that the Broncos had advantages that Sydney clubs could only dream of having, including a monopoly on sponsorship dollars from Brisbane as well as media saturation that included Broncos games being shown on television in Brisbane every week and lead stories in the Qld-based newspapers. Many also pointed out that while the player talent pool in NSW was spread out amongst the 13 NSWRL clubs in the state (plus Canberra), the Broncos had virtually all of Queensland to draw players from (in 1993, the Broncos had 10 Australian test players and another 5 State of Origin representatives in their first grade squad. The next best was Canberra with 8 test players (Australia and New Zealand) and 2 representative players).

An exponent of national and even international expansion of rugby league,

Chris Anderson
in 2001.

Soccer administration

In 2004, Ribot extended his sports administration portfolio into football, becoming Chairman of the

Queensland Roar FC
in the Football Federation Australia's A-League competition. He resigned from this role in March 2008.

Other boards

John Ribot has also served on the board of:

  • TAB Queensland

John Ribot is a Director of:

  • Victorian Major Events Company 2004–present

John Ribot-de-Bresac is a Director of ASX listed company iSonea

Sources

  1. ^ Rugby League Project
  2. ^ Headon, David (October 1999). "Up From the Ashes: The Phoenix of a Rugby League Literature" (PDF). Football Studies Volume 2, Issue 2. Football Studies Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
  3. ^ 1982 KB Cup Final highlights
  4. ^ 1982 Papua New Guinea vs Australia
  5. ^ "VEST, KEATO, COGGER ALL HONOURED". weststigers.com.au. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. The Sunday Age
    . p. 4. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  7. ^ Dave Hadfield (8 June 1994). "Brisbane's capital investment in London: Broncos to spend big bucks on crusade to develop barren British territory". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  8. ISBN 978-0-7022-3536-8
    .

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